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image by Jarig Bakker, 10 February 2005
A.M. Luther, Reval - horizontal white over blue; in the center
red "AML". Reval is the old German name of Tallinn.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26].
Jarig Bakker, 10 February 2005
The Estonian Shipping Co. (AS Eesti Merelaevandus - <www.eml.ee>) is based at Tallinn
and calls itself "the oldest ship-owning company in
Estonia". From the introduction we learn that ESCO
"focuses on shipowning and management of
container/multipurpose and ro-ro vessels, providing full
commercial ship- and operational management including financial-
and accounting services."
Apparently founded – in a different form – around 1950,
the firm operated ferries, bulk carriers, trampers, and shipping
lines to Scandinavia and West Africa. By 1999, ESCO
had become fully privatized and is owned by the Tschudi, a
Norwegian shipping company. The fleet currently consists of eight
ships, four of which are managed by ESCO itself and the others by
Teco Lines which is now fully owned by Tschudi. The simply
designed house flag –
seen on a photo on all pages – is blue with the name
‘ESCO’ in white, and in a font as shown next to the
flag.
Jan Mertens, 10 December 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, 4 November 2003
Euro-Baltic Shipping Services Ltd. was established on 8th of
August 1994. Website: <www.ebss.ee>.
Dov Gutterman, 4 November 2003
The company website shows an actual
flag flying from a yardarm which has a flag upon the flag
i.e. the logo of the green flag as shown by Jarig flapping from a
pole appears above the blue legend "EURO-BALTIC" with
below this the smaller green legend "SHIPPING SERVICES"
all being on a white flag with proportions 1:2
Neale Rosanoski, 20 February 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 10 February 2005
F. Wirro, Reval - horizontal white-blue-white, proportioned
1:2:1; in center white "W". Reval is the old German
name of Tallinn.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26].
Jarig Bakker, 10 February 2005
image by JJan Mertens, 17 May 2011
Grönkvist Shipping Estonia Oü is an Estonian maritime company established at
Tallinn, maintaining a modest
website.
Services offered are port agency, freighting, chartering, and trading. From the
‘History’ section (upper menu) we learn that this family owned business, founded
in 1999, operates six ships transporting mainly building materials, timber, and
agricultural produce.
The house flag or flagoid shown on above site is blue bearing a white diamond
touching the flag’s edges; in the diamond appears a blue serifed initial "G".
Jan Mertens, 17 May 2011
Let us have a look at the homepage of Tallinn-based Lister
Shipping Estonia, Ltd (English version): <www.lister-shipping.com>.
We learn that the firm was founded in 2003 by E.H. Lasson and
named after a region in Norway. Lister Shipping charters and
operates ships, is an agent, and deals in ships and/or containers
as well. Cargoes are traditional, but special loads (project) are
taken on occasionally.
Seen waving on the site, the house flag is white bearing a narrow
red saltire and a white oval in the centre, thinly outlined in
black, with a black initial ‘L’.
The Google cache image of
the flag is above – surely the thick blue outline is without
meaning – a large ‘L’, stylized this time. The
letter is blue, but for the moment we should stick to the site, I
feel, which has it black.
Jan Mertens, 9 December 2006
image by António Martins, 20 March 2009
Surecruit office in Estonia (There is also one in Riga, Latvia) is located in Tallinn,
Estonia. A member of the German Schulte Group of companies, it
was founded in 1998 as a recruiting and shipping office. From
<www.surecruit-tallinn.com>:
“not only does the SURECRUIT network cover all states around
the Baltic and the Black Sea, our seafarers can call at any
regional group office and be employed under the same terms and
conditions of employment.”
Also shown is a Schulte house flag variant – a flagoid – and this time
its field is green (admittedly less intense than the one shown
for Schulte) with a red disk bearing a white initial
‘S’, the differencing element being a blue ring around
the disk.
Jan Mertens, 10 February 2008
image by Jarig Bakker, 10 February 2005
Reval S. Co., Ld., Reval - horizontal triband
blue-black-white; on black "T.L.U." in yellow. Reval is
the old German name of Tallinn.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26].
Jarig Bakker, 10 February 2005
Some additional information, gleaned from the Boone
Scripophily website: "Share of Kr.50. blue, yellow,
black. No 580. A pretty vignette of shipping, both a coastal
steamer and large sailing-ships. The company's flag is based on
the flag of Estonia. Border of a chain." Date of
issue was 31 December 1929.
On the share,
the company name is spelled out Tallinna Laewa- ühisus
(Tallinn Shipping Co.) and perhaps 1911, printed immediately
under that name, was the year of foundation.
Jan Mertens, 6 September 2006
