Fisser & van Doornum (German Shipping Company)

Last modified: 2019-08-11 by klaus-michael schneider
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House Flags of German Shipping Companies
House Flags of Shipping Companies
Germany

Fisser & Doornum

Fisser & van Doornum, Hamburg - green flag, white diamond, red circle containing three more or less upward pointing arrows, all red.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 27 Sep 2005

Dark green flag:
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 May 2009
It is a green flag with a white lozenge in its centre. In the centre of the lozenge is a red ring containing a symmetric ensemble of three arrows, two of them cracked.
Source: I spotted this table flag at E-center in Aurich on a fleemarket on 1 May 2009.
Klaus-Michael Schneider 10 May 2009

Dark green flag with name:
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Apr 2011
Like flag above but with name in white serifed capitals at the bottom edge.
Source: I spotted this table flag in the harbour area of Hamburg on 22 Apr 2011.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Apr 2011

Fisser und van Doornum

Fisser und van Doornum
The company was located in Emden and had a branch in Hamburg. It is a red flag with a green lozenge in its centre, the lozenge touching the edges. In the lozenge are white letters ?F&vD?.
Source:  ?Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen?; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.18
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2009

Hendrik Fisser

Hendrik Fisser AG
The company was located in Emden and had a branch in Bremen. It is a red flag with a green lozenge in its centre, the lozenge touching the edges. In the lozenge are white capitals ?HF?.
Source:  ?Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen?; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.18
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2009

Fisser Schiffahrt

Fisser Schiffahrt GmbH
The company was located in Emden. It is a red flag with a green lozenge in its centre, the lozenge touching the edges. In the lozenge is a white capital ?F?.
Source:  ?Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen?; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.18
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 Mar 2009

Porta, Hamburger Reederei

Porta, Hamburger Reederei GmbH
The company was located in Hamburg. It is a red flag with a green lozenge in its centre, the lozenge touching the edges. In the lozenge is a white capital ?P?.
Source:  ?Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen?; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.32
This is another Fisser & van Doornum company.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar 2009

Reunert & Co

Reunert & Co mbH
The company was located in Hamburg. It ran the MS HAFENTOR and was another Fisser & van Doornum company. It is a red flag with a green lozenge, containing a white capital "R", in the centre.
Source: "Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen", 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.18.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Apr 2009

FIDO Spedition & Logistik GmbH

The company is located in Leer (Eastern Frisia). I am not sure, but I guess it had to do something with Fisser & van Doornum (FI-DO) Neither am I sure, that the first flag is of FIDO (I just believed the seller) nor am I sure it ist he older one, which I believe due tot he design. I am also not sure whether FIDO really has to do something with Fisser & van Doornum.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 May 2009

Description of flag #1:
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 May 2009
It is a very light blue flag(B--) with a white lozenge in its centre. In the centre of the lozenge is a diamond fimbriated red with rounded points and containing a red ring formed by three arrows(looks like a recycling logo).
Source: I spotted this table flag at E-center in Aurich on a fleemarket on 1 May 2009.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 May 2009

Description of flag #2:
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 May 2009
It is a plain white flag with a celestial blue inscription "FIDO" shifted to the fly and a disc of the same colour at the hoist. The disc is carved out by four white slightly uprising lines at the fly side.
Source: I spotted this table flag at E-center in Aurich on a fleemarket on 1 May 2009.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 10 May 2009

H. G. Fisser

The company was based in Bremen. The flag was white with a red stripe on top- and bottom-edge and a bar, chequered of white and red at the hoist. In centre was a blue serifed initial "F", maybe an offspring of Fisser & van Doornum. The chequered bar is referring to Bremen.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, p.12, image no.88
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 July 2019

Transatlanta Schiffahrts-Ges.mbH

The company was located in Hamburg. The MS TRANSATLANTA was the only ship and corresponding ship owner was Fisser & Doornum (according to p.18 of source). It is a green flag with a white lozenge, containing a red capital "T"� in the centre.
Source: "Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen",; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.40
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Apr 2009

The white diamond should be bigger according to the quoted source, nearly touching the flag edges and is also shown by the 1957 and 1958 same format issues whereas Brown 1958 and US Navy 1961 do have the diamond extending to the flag edges. The company vessels were operated by Fisser & van Doornum and the livery certainly seems to be based on that of the latter. They did have a second ship "St. Michel" shown by Lloyds and they may have well been a subsidiary of Fisser. The source however connects them as "K.R." or "Korrespondent-Reeder", not as the latter being the ship owner. They look to have existed from 1953 when "Transatlanta" was built but gone by at least 1963 from Lloyds.
Neale Rosanoski, 8 Jul 2010

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