House Flags of Danish Shipping Companies (G)

Last modified: 2025-07-19 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Gedser-Travemünde Ruten
• Gefion Shipping ApS
• Bugserbolaget Goliath
• A/S D/S Gorm
• V. Greibe
• A/S Grenaa-Hundested Færgefart
• Danish American Gulf Oil Transport Company A/S (Alfred Olsen Transport Comp. A/S)

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

Gedser-Travemünde Ruten

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 July 2025

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 July 2025

The company was based in Gedser on Falster Island. The 1st flag was white with white "GT" in bend in a red shield (see left image above). The 2nd flag was white with white "GT" in bend in a shield vertically parted per fess of blue and red (see right image above). The line stopped business in the 1990s due to the rise of Warnemünde, which made the distance shorter.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Klaus-Michael Schneider,

Gefion Shipping ApS

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 Feb 2006

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 July 2025

The company is based in Næstved. The 1st flag is white with horizontal blue wave, interrupted by a slightly wavy blue "G" (see left image above). The 2nd flag is the same but the blue wave was replaced by two thinner light blue waves (see right image above).
Sources: Loughran (1995) and

Bugserbolaget Goliath

The company was based in Aalborg. The flag was red parted by white bend sinister with black inscription "GOLIATH".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 Feb 2006

A/S Grenaa-Hundested Færgefart

The company was based in Grenaa and ran a ferry service between Grenaa and Hundested and across the mouth of the Ise Fjord existed between 1934 and 1996. The flag was parted per bend sinister of red over white with white initial "G" in upper hoist and red initial "H" in lower fly.
Sources: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.263, rnr.124 and this website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

Danish American Gulf Oil Transport Company A/S (Alfred Olsen Transport Comp. A/S)

28:37, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2025

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2025

The company was based in København.
The 1st flag was green parted by an off-centred white cross with black inscription "VERITAS" on horizontal bar and "OIL" on vertical bar. The ratio is the same as that one of the Danish national flag (see left image above).
The 2nd flag was white with a centred orange disc with blue inscription "GULF" with shadow lines, all surrounded by two thin blue annulets (see right image above).
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.264, rnr.157
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

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