House Flags of Danish Shipping Companies (H)

Last modified: 2025-07-19 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Dampskibsselskabet "Hafnia" A/S
• Hafnia Tankers
• Skibsreder Niels Waldemar Hansen
• C.K. Hansen
• Rederiaktieselskabet Hardsyssel
• Carl Hassage & Co.
• Rederiaktieselskabet Havet
• Peter Heering
• Helle-Broe´s Bådmands Co. ApS.
• Det Helsingørske Dampskibsselskab (P.Brown Jr. & Co.)
• Per Henriksen ("Mercandia" Shipping)
• Dampskibsselskabet Hetland A/S
• A/S Hjeilen
• Holm & Wonsild

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

Dampskibsselskabet "Hafnia" A/S

The company is based in København. It is a blue flag with a white simplified coat of arms of the City of København (Copenhagen), a three-towered white castle with an open gate above three white fessy wavy lines.
Source: Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) p. 74, image no. 797
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2008

Hafnia Tankers

The company is based in Hellerup, just north of København. The flag is white with a black inscription at bottom "Hafnia (bold) Tankers". Above in a dark blue disc is a white logo consisting of a serifed "T" flanked by the vertical bars of a serifed "H" with its horizontal bar consisting of three waves.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 July 2025

Skibsreder Niels Waldemar Hansen

The company was based in Vedbæk. The flag was blue with centred rectangle parted vertically of red-white-red.
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.263, rnr.129
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

Rederiaktieselskabet Hardsyssel

The company was based in Lemvig. The flag was white with black initial "H" and Dannebrog in canton.
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.259, rnr.48
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

Carl Hassage & Co.

The company was based in Randers. The flag was parted per saltire of red and white with a 4-point star in counterchanged colour on every quarter.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, group 3, image 231
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 May 2025

Peter Heering

The flag was blue with a white initial "H" in centre and a white 7-point star between the upper horizontal bars of the initial.
Peter F. Heering is th producer of the famous Heering original Cherry Liqueur, nowadays bottled fo danisco Destillers A/S. Theonly purpose of the shipping company seemed to be the transport of liqueur.
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

Helle-Broe´s Bådmands Co. ApS.

Based in Gentofte to the North of København, family owned Helle-Broe´s Bådmands ("boatmen") company was founded in 1857 and is occupied in mooring, unmooring, and shifting vessels in København harbour round the clock. Website, in English, with house flag drawing: http://www.helle-broe.dk/
Launch "Forward III" serves as a crew change, supply, and inspection boat, photos of which are easily found on the ´net but no house flag was spotted.
So the drawing will have to do, and a striking flag it is: blue swallowtail, bearing a red Maltese cross in the centre plus white serifed initials "H" (upper hoist) and "B" (lower fly).
Jan Mertens, 14 June 2011

Per Henriksen ("Mercandia" Shipping)

The company was based in København. The flag was blue with white outlined shield and a white standing winged anchor.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 Feb 2006

Dampskibsselskabet Hetland A/S

The company was based in København. The flag wass red with white lozenge with red initial "H".
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.259, rnr.60
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

A/S Hjeilen

The company was based in Silkeborg. The name of the company means "The (European) golden plover" (Latin: Pluvialis apricaria Danish: hjeile) The pennant pennant is red with a canting bird in proper colour.
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.262 , rnr.106
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 June 2025

Holm & Wonsild

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Apr 2004

Some pre-WW2 sources show the flag without the white border but most agree with the flag shown here (see left image above), i.e. red flag with with inscription "H&W".
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Version without the white border (see right image above)
Source: Brown´s Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926) Jarig Bakker, 27 Apr 2004

The flag without the white border also belonged to Dampskibs-Aktieselskabet Myren, based in København, probably being affiliated to Holm & Wonsild.
Source: Danmarks Skibsliste 1953, p.256, rnr.1

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