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![[Manasseh Angel houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfman.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Manasseh
Angel (#1847, p. 124), a Cardiff-based company, as blue with a white "A" in the
center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#89
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Manchester & Salford S.S. Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmsa.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
Sivewright, Bacon & Co. was formed in West Hartlepool in 1883 as both
Shipowners and Ship Brokers, and were based at No.76, Church Street, West
Hartlepool. When the Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1896 they saw the business
opportunities and transferred their company to Manchester in 1897.
On the
opening of the Ship Canal in 1894 the firm, appreciating the possibilities of
the new port, transferred its business from West Hartlepool to Manchester, where
it developed the Manchester - Montreal trade, now so firmly established by its
successor, Manchester Liners. During the war Sivewright, Bacon sold its fleet
with the exception of one ship, which had been captured by the Germans.
William John Sivewright (1863-1919) started his working life as a merchant's
clerk. William Charles Frederick Bacon (1854-1931) went to sea aged 15 and by
the age of 22, having obtained his master's certificate at Colchester in 1876,
became master of the sailing vessel "Esperanza" belonging to William Gray.
Retiring from the sea at the age of 29 he joined the firm of Sivewrights,
shipbrokers, agents and shipowners of West Hartlepool.
https://www.hhtandn.org/venues/4864/sivewright-bacon-and-co
Hartlepool
History Then and Now
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows
the house flag of Manchester & Salford S.S. Co., Ltd. (Sivewright, Bacon & Co.)
(#805, p. 75), as horizontally divided red-white-red, charged in the center with
the blue letters "M&S.SS.C°.".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/40/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Manchester Coasting & General Shipping Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmcs.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Manchester Coasting & General Shipping Co., Ltd. (#1857, p. 125) as
swallow-tailed, blue, charged in the respective corners with the white letters
"M", "C", "S" and "C", in the center, a white lozenge placed vertically and
charged with a blue "B".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#90
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Manchester Lines, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s1005.gif)
image
by Phil Nelson, 10 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
This company was known as Manchester Liners in the 1950's.
James Dignan, 8 October 2003
Posted as insolvent on 19 May 2004 (The
Times).
Ron Lahav, 20 May 2004
Post card collection
confirms this design.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 21 February 2007
Formed in 1897 after the
opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894 and as a partner to Furness Withy &
Co. Sailings were mainly to Canada particularly for the cattle trade, but
Galveston and New Orleans sailings were also made for the cotton trade to the
Lancashire mills. In 1901 a joint service with R. W. Leyland & Co to
Philadelphia was inaugurated and in 1906 a service to the River Plate commenced,
but these were not a success and regular sailings ceased. Services to the Great
Lakes started in 1952 and in 1970 Manchester Lines became a subsidiary of
Furness Withy & Co. The parent company was taken over by C. Y. Tung, Hong Kong
in 1980 and Manchester Liners ceased trading as a separate entity in 1988.
Although mainly a cargo company, many ships had accommodation for a limited
number of passengers.
The ShipsLists
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/manchester.htm
Most ships of
the company, unsurprisingly, were prefixed "MANCHESTER ...".
The same
house flag is shown (#1735, p. 119) in Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels
(1912).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#84
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Powell Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hffhp.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
F.H. Powell & Co. already operated a steamship on a direct line between
Liverpool and Bristol in 1860 (every Tuesday, return every Saturday), as
reported in Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, No. 318, 1
January 1860.
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the
house flag of the Powell Line (F.H. Powell & Co.) (#428, p. 57) as blue with a
yellow "P" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#22
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Manchester, Liverpool & North Wales Steam Ship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmln.gif)
image located
by Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the
Manchester, Liverpool & North Wales Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (R.R. Clark) (#434, p.
57) as blue with two white axes crossed in saltire
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#22
Jarig Bakker, 20 August 2004
![[Mardorf Peach & Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~marf.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 28 April 2009
Source: http://www.travellersintime.net/catalogue.php?action=section_search§ion=flags
Found by chance, this nice house flag belonging to Mardorf Peach & Co (third
photo, clickable
here).
Comments (the flag is on offer): “This is a flag from the Mardorf Peach
& Co. London owned by the Weston Shipping Company and the size is 4 ft x 3 ft
(122 cm x 91 cm). The company was involved in the distribution of Flour/Grain
shipments. It was used during the 1950’s – 1960’s. Some of the ships
owned by this company were: Camilla Weston, Catrina Weston, Gretchen Weston,
and Jana Weston”. The first and third ship were bought in
1971 from the Blue Star Line (http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bluestar.html). I understand both
companies were part of the important ABF Group (Associated British Foods).
The flag has a red field with a broad green border, in the centre a white disk bearing a
yellow sun of sixteen rays (straight and wavy, eight each).
The
Shipspotting page
shows Camilla Weston (sun on funnel).
Jan Mertens, 6 January 2009
![[J. Marr & Son, Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjms.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
J. Marr’s vessels first operated out of the port of Fleetwood in 1898. The
company of J Marr and Son was set up by by Ann Marr & James Herbert Marr in 1902
and was based at Fleetwood. The company offices were at the old custom house on
Dock Street before moving to 228 Dock Street. Though having originated in Hull
in the days of Joseph Marr, father of Mr James Marr, the Company’s trawlers were
not again based in Hull until 1934 when, on the acquisition of the City Steam
Fishing Company, Associated and Subsidiary companies at Fleetwood included the
Active Steam Fishing Company, Devon Steam Fishing Company, Dinas Steam Trawling
Company, The Lancashire Steam Fishing Company and, through several subsidiaries,
a widespread network of wholesale fish merchants.
Fleetwood Motor
Trailers
http://www.fleetwood-fishing-industry.co.uk/2008/09/j-marr-and-son-limited/
The company was still active in 1974. Its wet fish stern trawler "Luneda"
was chartered by the White Fish Authority on behalf o the Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for a 14 day voyage in February, 1974. The
purpose of the voyage was to make a start upon the assessment of the commercial
viability of the stocks of deep water fish, especially grandiers, which had been
found in depths between 400 and 700 fathoms in surveys in 1973.
Technical
report No. 108, White Fish Authority
http://www.seafish.org/media/Publications/SR108.pdf
Lloyd's Book of House
Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of J. Marr & Son (#1600, p. 113),
a Fleetwood-based shipping company, as red with the white letters "J.M.&S.".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#78
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021
![[Marshall & W.L. Dobbie houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmwd.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Marshall
& W.L. Dobbie (#1756, p. 120), a Glasgow-based shipping company, as triangular,
as red with a white shield charged with a blue cross coupee.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#85/
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Clanrye Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmrm.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Martin and Marquand were tug owners based at Cardiff and used their passenger
carrying vessel "Earl of Dunraven" (1888) to capitalise on the excursion trade
with Ilfracombe amongst the range of cruises offered.
http://www.paddlesteamers.info/MartinMarquand.htm
Paddle Steamers Info
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Martin & Marquand (#458, p. 58) as red with the white letters "M&M".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#23
Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Mann, MacNeal & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmmc.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache, 31 May 2006
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Mann,
Macneal & Co. (#595, p. 65), a Glasgow-based company, as white with a blue "M"
in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/30/
Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021
![[Marine Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmsf.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Marine
Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. (#1668, p. 116), a Hull-based fishing company, as
triangular, white with a red "W" near the hoist.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#81
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[Maritime Shipping & Trading Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s0309.gif)
image
by Phil Nelson, 8 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963
![[W.A. Massey & Sons, Ltd.houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmas.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of W.A.
Massey & Sons, Ltd. (#1210, p. 94) as tapered swallow-tailed, white with a blue
star.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#59
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[MATCO Tankers (U.K.) Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~matco.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 29 August 2005
MATCO Tankers (U.K.) Ltd, London - white flag, black "M".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 29 August 2005
![[J. Mathias & Sons houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjmat.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
The company began back in 1869 when John Mathias, an ambitious Aberystwyth
greengrocer, decided to venture into shipowning, buying the schooner "Miss
Evans".
In 1883 he moved from sail to steam, forming the Glanrheidol
Steamship Company Limited. By the time that the "Breconian" joined the Mathias
fleet, the business had been grandly renamed the Cambrian Steam Navigation
Company Limited, with the seven ships of the line being named, rather unusually,
after public schools. This led to seamen at Cardiff giving the company the
nickname of 'the College line'. The "Breconian", named after Christ College,
Brecon, was the only vessel named after a Welsh school; the others being "Etonian",
"Harrovian", "Rugbeian" and so on.
https://museum.wales/articles/2007-07-06/When-Welsh-ships-sailed-the-seas/
National Museum Wales
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of J. Mathias & Sons (#846, p. 77) as blue with a red
lozenge bordered in white, charged in the upper part with three white ostrich
feathers.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/42/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Arthur Mawson & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfamw.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
28 April 2021
Red ‘R’ Steamship Co, Newcastle Stephens, Sutton & Co. Daniel Stephens formed a
partnership with Roland Mawson in 1872 and took delivery of their first ship in
1874. Their original trade was coal to the Mediterranean, returning with grain
from the Black Sea. In 1877 a subsidiary company was formed in Newport as
Stephens, Mawson & Goss. After the death of Roland Mawson, Arthur Mawson & Co of
Cardiff split from the Newcastle company.
http://www.mariners-list.com/mobi/site_pages.php?section=Shipping+Companies&category=English&page_name=Stephens%2C+Sutton+%26+Co
Mariners L
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the
house flag of Arthur Mawson & Co. (#1000, p. 84) as blue with a white border
except at hoist, charged in the center with a white "M".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/49/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
![[J. Mawson & Son houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjma.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 23 March 2008
Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of "J. Mawson & Son" (#74, p. 40), a company based in
Barrow-in-Furness, as red with a white lozenge charged with a red letter "M".
Ivan Sache,
23 March 2008
![[Mamitank London Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~mclo.jpg)
image located by Jan Mertens, 23 May 2007
This beauty appeared on Maritime Timetable Images a few days ago (http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/mcco.htm ):
“Formed in 1929 from the merger of (Captain, jm) John McCallum & Co. (Hebrides) and Martin Orme & Co. (Dunara Castle). McCallum, Orme & Co. was taken over by David MacBrayne in 1948” (1 Jan. in fact). Company seat, Glasgow.Quote from Caledonian McBrayne website, ‘Company History’:
Flag of Scotland (white saltire on blue) with a large white disk in the middle bearing a red-and-blue thistle. In the drawing, the disk is enclosed by a blue holding line.
“1948 saw the (…) acquisition of the ships and goodwill of McCallum, Orme & Co which for many years had worked cargo (and passenger, jm) sailings to the Isles from Glasgow. The sailings of the two companies gradually integrated and the services were pruned, partly by the increased use of improved roads by lorries and causeways.”Jan Mertens, 23 May 2007
John McCallum owned a single cargo/passenger
ship, "Hebrides", launched in 1898 and retired in 1955.
"Hebrides"
assisted at the evacuation of Soay and had previously taken part in that doleful
duty at St Kilda. Near the end of her steaming a Stornoway Gazette columnist
solemnly assured readers that, despite her venerable age, there was no truth in
the rumour that "Hebrides" had fought in the Battle of Lepanto, “nor was Vasco
da Gama ever captain of her.”
Ships of Calmac
http://www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk/h_hebrides1.asp
![[J. Mawson & Son houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjmc.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of John McCallum & Co. (#1637, p. 114), a Glasgow-based
shipping company, as blue, in the center, a thistle (red flower, green stem and
leaves) inscribed in a white disk.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#79/
Ivan
Sache, 3 May 2021
![[McIlwraith McEacharn & Co. Proprietory Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~mmcp.gif)
image
by Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, "the house flag of McIlwraith McEacharn & Co.
Proprietory Ltd., Melbourne and London. A rectangular yellow flag with a red
rampant lion in the centre within a border of double red lines. The flag is made
of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine
sewn. The lion in the centre is stenciled. A rope and Inglefield clip is
attached. The design is based on the Royal Standard of Scotland."
Jarig Bakker, 20 August 2004
Founded 1875, also known as the Scottish Line, operating vessels between
England, Australia and Papua New Guinea. The company was a pioneer in the
development of refrigerated shipping. Their Australian operation apparently
helped form Bulkships Pty., Ltd. in 1958 which became a partnership of the
company and Adelaide Steamship Company, which eventually became Associated
Steamships Pty. Ltd. (now ASP). Their ships appear to be run by ASP. Stewart & Styring (1963)
places this company in Melbourne.
Phil Nelson, 18 October 2003
![[Mead Son & Hussey houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmsh.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Mead
Son & Hussey (#651, p. 67), a London-based company, as white with a red saltire,
charged in the center with a blue rectangle inscribing the white letters "MS&H".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/32/
Ivan
Sache, 26 April 2021
![[McNeil, Hinde & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfmch.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
William Hinde, born in Portland, Dorset i 1877, moved to Cardiff in 1893 to
take up a job with Chellew & Co., shipowners from Truro, Cornwall, who had an
office in Cardiff. In 1903 he left Chellew & Co. to form McNeil, Hinde & Co.,
shipowners, with Robert McNeil. The new company bought the ship "Portland" and
in 1906 the "Portsmouth", followed in 1907 by the "Portreath". In 1912 the "Portloe"
was added but in 1913 the "Portland" and "Portsmouth" were sold and in 1914 the
company was dissolved, Hinde setting up on his own.
http://www.glamorganfamilyhistory.co.uk/maritime/SHIPCO.html
Short
histories of some Cardiff area shipping companies
Lloyd's Book of House
Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of McNeil, Hinde & Co. (#1187, p.
93) as swallow-tailed, white with a monogram composed of a red "M" and "H".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#58
Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021