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image by Ivan Sache, 23 August 2002 and Eugene Ipavec, 25 June
2010
The Houseflag of Mamenic Line, can be seen at Josef
Nuesse site.
Dov Gutterman, 25 June 2001
The flag is horizontally divided blue-white-blue with MAMENIC
in blue in the white stripe.
Joseph Nüsse shows on his website colour pictures of several
house flags of shipping companies. The site is a very good source
since it shows pictures of *real* flags. It is clear from his
website that Joseph served (and maybe still serves) in the
merchant navy and most probably regrets the decline in merchant
shiiping. The website disclaimer says that most of the companies
whose house flags are shown there are goneout of business.
Ivan Sache, 23 August 2002
image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 June 2010
Josef Nüsse’s page may now be found here:
http://flags.seeleute.net/28.htm
A different item (table flag) was offered on German eBay last year: no.
290374581187 (end 6 Dec 2009) put up by "freie_hansestadt", dimensions given as
approx. 15 cm x 25 cm. Photo.
Quarterly divided red (top, bottom) and white (hoist, fly), two blue concentric
rings in the centre, the inner one enclosing a yellow disk bearing a black foul
anchor and the outer one the name in black "MAMENIC / LINE" (top) and "AMERCO
CENTRAL" (bottom), the four words divided by the arms of a red slightly widening
cross emanating from the inner ring and reaching the outer one.
The company name is the short form of "Marina Mercante Nicaraguense". Founded in
1953 - and owned - by a member of the notorious Somoza family, Mamenic saw its
house flag appear on a few air mail stamps - mentioned, but not shown, on this
page:
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7803&start=0
(I saw tiny pics of these stamps and they seem to render the blue as green and
brown, respectively!)
Did the present item perhaps follow the "national" version, and when would the
firm have been wound up?
Jan Mertens, 23 June 2010
Rather "CENTRO AMERICA". I located a handbill with an image of the flag
online, and modified the font a bit.
Eugene Ipavec, 25 June 2010
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 October 2005
The flag is shown at Joseph Nüsse's website
as belonging to Linabol (Bolivia)
(so reported by António Martins-Tuválkin). Brown (1995) [Lgr95] lists the same flag as
belonging to Naviera Nicaraguense S.A., (Nanica) - only
difference is the proportions of the stripes (c. 2:3:2), the blue
stripe just blue.
Brown seems to be wrong with his Nicaragua-outplacement and this
is an erroneous attribution.
Jarig Bakker, 21 October 2005
