Danish Shipping Companies (B)

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• Dampskibsselskabet Baltic A/S
• Baltimar ApS Ltd.
• Baltic Shipping Co. A/S
• Baltship
• Hjalmar Bang & Co.
• Basse & Co.
• Bech Rederierne
• Bewa Line A/S
• I/S Rederiet "Birte"
• Rederiet Bjarke A/S
• Blaesbjerg Marine
• P. Bork Shipping A/S
• Bornholmstrafikken A/S
incl.
• Dampskibsselskabet paa Bornholm af 1866
• C. Breinholt A/S
• Rederiaktieselskabet Britannia
• British Petroleum A/S (BP)
• Nordic Tank Ships I/S
• A/S Tankskibsrederiet
• Broen Shipping A/S
• Peter Brown
• P. Brown jun. & Co.

• Denmark
• Joseph Nüsse website
• House flags of shipping companies

Baltimar ApS Ltd.

The company was based in Vedbæk from 1985 at least until 1993, in Humlebæk since at least since 1998. It was founded in 1982. The current legal form was formed in 1988. The flag is white. The "B" in centre is green edged black and there are four green wavy horizontal lines with the top and bottom respectively of the outer bands being edged black and which in the latter case is a straight line. The upper three of these green bands are narrower than the bottom green and the intervening white bands, all above of some kind of chess board.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 July 2025

Baltic Shipping Co. A/S

The company was based in København. The pennant was white edged red except at hoist and bearing a blue 6-pointed star with the blue letters "BSC" arranged in upper arc above the star. The image is based on a description given by Neale Rosanoski.
Sources: Loughran 1979, p.87,image 78(c) and Brown 1982, no.869
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 July 2025

Baltship

Baltship, a Danish based freight forwarding company, maintains a website (in English) at http://www.baltship.dk. Founded in 1997 and based at Aarhus, this company has subsidiaries at København, Riga (Latvia), and - as Graziosi-Baltship, partly owned - at Sydney (Australia), plus supplementary offices elsewhere. Baltship specialises in international freighting, maritime chartering (containers or bulk), project handling, and other logistic activities.
The blue company logo is placed on a white flag, seen here (actually the charges look almost black):http://www.baltship.dk/index.php?id=7. We see the globe in Mollweide projection above the firm´s name; in the flag, there is a thick horizontal stripe between the two.
Jan Mertens, 1 Dec 2009

Hjalmar Bang & Co.

The company was based in København and according to Neale Rosanoski probably active between 1958 and 1976. The flag was green with yellow incorporating 2 reverse "C"s in a traditional anchor which formed a logo of Bang´ s initials without the left horizontal bars, appearing to be based on the formed company whereas the subsequent set up and livery based on Bang. Involved in charter work there was a variety of funnels.
Source: Loughran 1979, p.124,image 69 and Brown 1982, no.539
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 July 2025

Basse & Co.

Basse & Co. Prior to WW2 shown as T. Basse, afterwards as Basse & Co. and finally A.H Basse being liquidated in 1978. The "H" probably relates to D/S Hetland A/S under which they seem to have originally operated. The flag is red with a red initial "H" on a white lozenge.
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Bech Rederierne

The company was based in Horsens. It was a white flag with blue disk having a white stripe, with blue inscription "BECH".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 Feb 2006

Bewa Line A/S

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 July 2025

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 July 2025

The company was based in Hellerup, north of København. The flag was a triband with orange stripes at top and bottom and a green inscription "BEWA" on the central stripe, being either white (see left image above) or light grey (see right image above)
Source: Brown 1982, no.833
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 July 2025

I/S Rederiet "Birte"

The company was based in Hellerup. The flag was red with white lozenge with red initial "B".
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.259, rnr.57
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

Blaesbjerg Marine

The company was based in Aarhus. It was a white flag with a blue cursive "b" letter divided by a blue horizontal line.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

Must be inspired by the "Plimsoll line"
Ole Andersen, 15 Sep 2002

P. Bork Shipping A/S

The company was based in København. The flag was horizontally divided of white and blue, at top hoist is a black initial "P", at bottom hoist a white initial "B"
Source: Stewart and Styring"s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963, image 881
Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

Bornholmstrafikken A/S

Originated 1866 as A/S D/S paa Bornholm af 1866 and previously trading as Statsvirksomsheden Bornholmstrafikken (= Government of the Kingdom of Denmark). The fleet acquired from A/S D/S paa Bornholm af 1866 in 1974 but given as a takeover in 1973 under Act No. 272 with the ferry company being a department subordinate to the Danish Ministry of Transport with from 1 May 2005 becoming a state owned stock company website dated 20 June 2008. The current company dates from January 2004, when transformed into shareholding company (Source: e-mail from Ole B. Larsen on 12 July 2008).
In January 2011 Danske Færger A/S was established by Clipper Group by the merger between Bornholmstrafikken A/S, Sydfy(e)nske A/S and Nordic Ferry Services A/S, website dated 23 May 2012
It was from 1978 until 1979 as Bornholmnstrafikken, from 1985 until 1986 as Statsvirksomsheden Bornholmstrafikken and from 1992 until 1993 as Bornholmstrafikken A/S. Owner was Danish Government presumably being privatised by 1988 and dissolved or renamed in 2011. Today it is a part of Mols Linien A/S as Bornholmslinjen.
Source: Neale Rosanoski referring to obsolete company website data.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 July 2025

First Flag of Bornholmstrafikken A/S

The company was based in Rønne, the capital of the island.The flag was red with two parallel diagonal white dashes near the fly. Bornholm is the easternmost Danish island. The dashes allude to the shape of the island: a parallelogram
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Ivan Sache and Ole Andersen, 15 Sep 2002

Dampskibsselskabet paa Bornholm af 1866

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2025

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2025

The company was established on 4 February 1866 as "Dampskibsselskabet paa Bornholm af 1866", but commonly called "66" by the people of Bornholm. The seat had been Rønne, the capital of the island. On 3 November 1866 the first steamship was delivered in Rønne. The line was acquired by the Danish state on 1 June 1973 and renamed to Bornholmstrafikken on 15 June 1973.
The flag was according to Netnoord a white square flag with red border. On the white field was a yellow post horn surmounted by a yellow crown. According to
Sources:Netnoord (in Dutch) and US Navy 1961, p.3-17/row 2/column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 May 2025

C. Breinholt A/S

The company was based in Esbjerg. The company was founded in 1904 by Captain Christen Breinholt. The flag is red with a thin white border and a white "B" in the middle.
Source: company website
Ivan Sache, 27 Nov 2003

British Petroleum A/S (BP)

Nordic Tank Ships I/S

The company was based in København.The flag was white white with green fowl anchor in bend and green dotted inscription "N.T." in lower fly.
The funnel is yellow with old shield logo of BP (British Petroleum), thus the company belonged to BP or its partners were operating exclusively for that petrol company.
Source: US Navy 1961, p.3-16/row 1/column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider,, 30 May 2025

A/S Tankskibsrederiet

The company was based in Fredericia. The flag is white with old BP logo, but the shield is orange with green edge and green script. The company probably is the predecessor of Nordic Tank Ships I/S
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.260, rnr.71
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

Broen Shipping A/S

The company was based in Assens. The pennant was white with a black circle bearing a red square throughout.
Source: Brown´s Flags and Funnels, edition 1978, image no.633
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 July 2025

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