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Danish Shipping Companies (P)

28:37, image by Željko Heimer and and António Martins-Tuválkin
Danish merchant ensign

Pagh & Qvist-Pedersen (Esbjerg Dampskibs Selskab)
A.N. Petersen A/S
J. Poulsen Shipping A/B
Rederiaktieselskabet Primrose
Dampskibs-Aktieselskabet "Progress"

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Dampskibsselskabet "Pacific" A/S

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 June 2025
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 June 2025

The company was based in København.
The 1st flag was red with a dark blue Greek cross on centre (see left image above).
The 2nd flag was red parted by a white horizontal stripe, in centre extended to a white disc with red initial "P" (see right image above).
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.p.262, rnr.105
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 June 2025

Pagh & Qvist-Pedersen (Esbjerg Dampskibs Selskab)

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 May 2025

The company was based in Esbjerg. The flag was blue with a blue initial "P" on a centred white diamond.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, group 3, image 795
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 May 2025

A.N. Petersen A/S

image by Ivan Sache, 2 Nov 2003
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2025
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2025

The company was based København (reported 1963), Frederiksberg (reported 1981) and finally in Holte (reported 1999). The company was founded in 1920 by Captain A.N. Petersen, who died in 1941. In the early years the company enjoyed a close association with A/S Det Dansk-Franske Dampskibsselskab, as well as being managing owners for several Danish shipping companies but in 1979 the company brokers took over the ownership and it became a shipbroking company only. The flags were divided of red and blue by white bendy lines, thin from both short edges (see left image above), thin from upper hoist corner to lower fly corner (see central image above) or broad from both short edges (see right image above),
Sources: company website and Neale Rosanoski collection
Dov Gutterman, 26 Oct 2003, Ivan Sache, 2 Nov 2003 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 July 2025

J. Poulsen Shipping A/B

image by Jarig Bakker, 21 Oct 2005

The company is based in Korsør - "J" and "P" combined into white anchor on blue (see flag on company headquarters).
Source: Loughran (1995)
Source:company website and logo on homepage.
Dov Gutterman, 17 Oct 2003

The parent company of J. Poulsen has been operating since 1930.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 Sep 2004

Dampskibs-Aktieselskabet "Progress"

image by Ivan Sache, 16 Nov 2002

White flag with a red seven-pointed star in the middle, an elongated and symmetrical Danish national flag placed along the upper edge of the flag, and a red stripe charged with "PROGRESS" in white placed along the lower edge of the flag. I guess this is an other Maersk-related company.
Ivan Sache, 16 Nov 2002

No, not Maersk. Besides, the company seems to have gone belly-up in the summer of 2000. There was talk of a management buy-out, but that seems to have failed.
Ole Andersen, 16 Nov 2002

The company was based in København. Assuming that this is the company now known as D/S Progress, it is still shown by Lloyds operating through Progress Ugland Ltd. which is a joint venture with Ugland International Holdings plc, formed around 1999. Whether the flag is used by this concern is unknown. D/S Progress is shown as being formed 1904 and again by presumption it is the company [as D/S A/S Progress] which was operated by Marius Nielsen & Søn and used their flag as shown elsewhere on this page. This association seems to have altered around 1960 when O. Amsinck are shown as the operators, from the same address. By the early 1970s Amsinck are no longer mentioned and D/S A/S Progress seems to have ceased as shipowners around the latter 1980s, next being traced as D/S Progress in the late 1990s. Nothing is known of when the flag shown here was adopted.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

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