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Houseflags of the shipping companies from Lloyd's Flags and
Funnels, 1912 with headquarters in cities today in Croatia. I
based them on very helpful information kindly provided by Ian
Sumner and scans of the 1912 book at <www.mysticseaport.org>.
Numbers refer to the figures in the Lloyd's.
Zeljko Heimer, 1 January 2004
by Zeljko Heimer, 1 January 2004
316. Navigazione a Vapore "Unione" - Dubrovnik - Red
over blue bicolour with a white cypher of ligatured letters UR.
(they stand presumably for Unione Ragusa).
Zeljko Heimer, 1 January 2004
by Zeljko Heimer, 1 January 2004
697. Societ`a Anonima Ungherese de Armamento Marittimo
"Oriente" - Fiume- Red flag with yellow 14-rayed sun.
Zeljko Heimer, 1 January 2004
by Zeljko Heimer, 1 January 2004
996. Grünhut & Co. - Fiume - Ian reported (or I have
misunderstood it that way) the flag with red letter G and stars,
while the scanned source show the flag all blue, i.e. the flag is
white bordered blue with a blue cross throughout, in the first
quarter letter G and in each other quarter a sixpointed star.
Zeljko Heimer, 1 January 2004
Browsing the net recently I discovered the site "Ships
and Flags" by Josef Nusse at <home.t-online.de/home/josef.nuesse>
. The flags article is interesting since it show the changes in
house flags that were influenced by the political situation in
former Yugoslavia. The article is named "From Socialist
Republic of Yugoslavia to the Federal Republic of Croatia -
Development of House Flags" . Textually the article is
rather short, so I quote it in full:
"In 1991 Croatia within a part of the Socialist Republic of
Yugoslavia proclaimed independence and became the Federative
[sic!] Republic of Croatia. A result was the change of logos from
shipping companies with residence in Croatia. Especially the 'Red
Star' as the symbol of Socialism was removed. Some examples below
may give you a short impresson.
- logo changed
- traditional logo (without change)
- new formed company
- quit service."
[The word Federative above is errornous.]
Though the article and it's title mention Croatia only, some
companies (so flags too) are actually from Slovenia or Montenegro
(FR Yugoslavia, that is), and I'll indicate that as appropriate.
Each of the four cathegoris is give one or more examples,
illustrated with photos of real flags (not flying!). The first
group is by far most interesting, showing the change of
flags of the same company (that in the same time in some cases
changed the name more or less).
Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
As in most other cases the companies were state- (or society-) owned until the end of socialism and then privatized and became "share society" indicated by abbreviation "d.d." after the name.
by Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
Blue flag with two thin horizontal white stripes and white
disk containing a red five-pointed star. Josef shows the star
pointing down, but I think that it must be mistake - in all cases
the star should be upwards IMHO though I don't have any firm
evidence but my "feeling" - the downpointing star was
not an usual sight.
Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
I agree that Josef appears to display his flag upside
down and all other sources agree with this portrayal.
Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
by Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
After 1990 the star was dropped and in its stead were set
tricolour initials of the company LP. Both flags apear to be in
ratio 3:5~.
Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
Note: No. 2. Splosna plovba Portoroz (Splosna plovba Portoroz) from Slovenia.
by Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
The flag was five-striped blue-white-red-white-blue with
virtual white square roatated 45 degress with diagonal equal to
three stripes cut from the red stripe containing five-pointed red
star. The flag is in ratio 3:5~. Here the star is, as expected,
pointing upwards.
The company rejected Yugoslav attribute from the name and changed
the flag entirely in early 1990's. (See: Tankerska
Plovidba).
Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
by Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
Blue flag with white lozenge (a la Brazilian flag) with red five-pointed star in the middle.
by Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
The company changed name in 1992 (says Josef, I think it must
have been before) to Croatia Line and adopted a logo-like flag -
white with blue slanted rectangle with white stylized ship (maybe
a lymphad or galley would be best heraldical term, if any). First
flag seems to be 1:2, while the modern version is close to 3:5~.
Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
The date of 1992 as the name change is also given by Lloyds
who also give this date as the change of the country name from
Yugoslavia.
Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
The next group of is titled "Traditional logos" that is, here are the house flags that were "ideologically neutral" and continued to be used after 1990's without change. Josef gives three examples (though I am not sure if all three still do exists).
by Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
Red flag with blue bordered white lozenge containing golden
company initials MP. Ratio 3:5~.
Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
by Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
Red over blue bicolour, overall an anchor between comany
initials AP all white. Ratio 3:5~.
Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
by Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
Blue flag with white stylized letter S (with hatchek).
Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
This company appears to have ceased by 2000.
Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
Third kind of house flags are those of newly formed companies. Only one example here with Josef:
by Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
I would not be surprised to find out that even if maybe it is
not direct heir of it, it might be in some other way connected
with Jadranska linijska plovidba Split, that
is covered in next part. But, maybe I am wrong. Yellow flag with
blue emblem. It is hard to say is this is a vertical hoisting
flag (e.g. a table flag) or if the actual flags used is higher
then long. It may even be that the scan is "wrongly"
turned, as maybe the spiral part of the emblem might suggest the
letter J.
Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
This was originally the Jugoslav company Jadranska Slobodna
Plovidba [also known as Adriatic Tramp Shipping , JSP Line and
Jadroslobodna] using a black flag
with a white diamond throughout bearing a red star. In 1992 it
changed name on coming under Croatia. Josef's collection of table
flags normally equate to the actual houseflags but sometimes
there are variances [usually the addition of wording] and this
would appear to be one such. Brown 1995 show a normal rectangular
version as the houseflag.
Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
And, finally the last part are those companies that quit service. Actually I am not sure that it is quite correct - they might have changed names (and owners etc.) in the mean time and maybe it is not easy to see the direct sucessors. For one I have already suggested a possibility, while the other two are from Montenegro, and even maybe they are not much present in international shipping (no doubt, due to the international sactions imposted to Yugoslavia) they, or then sucessor companies might well emerge sooner or latter. But, I would guess that they would be dropping their stars, too.
1. Jugoslavenska oceanska plovidba Kotor (also known as Jugooceanija) (Montenegro).
by Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
White flag with red bordered voided lozenge with red
five-pointed star. Ratio 3:5~. Josef show this flag with star
pointing downwards, but as I discussed earlier, I believe that it
is wrong.
Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
Also known as the Adriatic Line, officially changed name 1991
to Jadrolinija (by which it had previously been known) according
to Lloyds although initially they showed it as first Jadrolinja
P.O. and then as Javno Poduzece "Jadrolinja" P.O..
Again the original source image appears to have been upside down
but even more interesting is that other sources (Stewart and
Brown) show the diamond frame as being wholly throughtout the
flag and coloured blue, not red.
Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
by Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
It seems that all those companies had some
"shorthand" name for informal use beside the official
long name, and this one probably used name Jadrolinija (unless it
was Jadroplov and the modern company of this name above is the
sucessor). Today there is a very vivid shipping company situated
in Rijeka named Jadrolinija. The flag I saw hoisted at the
company headquarter in the center of Rijeka, as well as on
several ships in harbour in summer 1999: White flag with the
company emblem in the middle consisting of red vertical lines
forming a lozenge-like shape and blue initial J, and in hoist
upper corner a red bend and a blue bend in lower fly corner.
Ratio 2:3~.
Zeljko Heimer, 16 June 2001
The 2nd flag is presumably the one adopted upon becoming
Croatian. Brown 1995 shows a version in the name of their
subsidiary Jadrolinija Cruises Ltd. with the diamond being shown
as wholly red but this can be put down to the impossiblilty of
showing the design of 19 red and white vertical stripes in small
images.
Rosanoski, 3 January 2004
Note: No 3 is Prekookeanska plovidba Bar (Montenegro).
by Jorge Candeias, 16 March 1999
Swallowtail vertically divided in a plain white filed in the
hoist side charged with some saint riding a horse and with a
spear, all in light blue and a horizontally striped field in the
fly with red-white-light blue stripes from top to bottom. Sorry
for the poor riding saint, but that was the best I could do from
the original drawing in <www.seanet.co.uk>
which was located by Dov Gutterman on 26 Febuary 1999.
Jorge Candeias, 16 March 1999
Tankerska Plovidba is situated in Zadar, and if that is so the
saint is most probably St. Grisogono (St. Krs<evan in
Croatian), the patron saint of Zadar.
Zeljko Heimer, 18 March 1999
In Louda's 'European Civic Coats of Arms', 1966 the saint is
called Chrysogonus (somehow he reminds me of St. George)
Jarig Bakker, 18 March 1999
The flag is swallow-tailed, ratio 1:2, with hoist square being
white with blue picture of a haloed horseman riding to hoist
holding a spear (St. Grisogon, patron of Zadar) and the fly part
being divided horizontally in red-white-blue. See also: Jugoslavenska Tankerska Plovidba Zadar.
Zeljko Heimer, 15 June 2001
by Zeljko Heimer, 4 November 2003
Vodomar d.o.o. - The company is established in 2001
headquartered in Rijeka. The flag is blue with a yellow lozenge
containing a blue leter V.
"Vodomar" is the Croatian name of a bird known in
English as kingfisher, tough I would say hat the name was
established as combiation od the prefix "vodo" - having
to do with water and sufix "mar" as in
"maritime". At least, certainly there is intentional
assocation to this words.
Source: <www.vodomar.com>,
located by Dov Gutterman.
Zeljko Heimer, 4 November 2003
