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Among the Italian shipping companies in the 1940 house flag
source at <www.24flotilla.com>
is that of ‘Soc[ietà] Partenopea Anon[ima di]
Navigazione’ aka SPAN. Established at Naples
(‘Partenopean’ means ‘Neapolitan’). We see a
light blue flag, bordered
in white, bearing a horse looking towards the hoist: said horse
is prancing.
Partenopeo vessels (some of them requisitioned for Navy service)
sunk during WWII are popular diving targets. Some
examples (choice of Italian sites) are <charter.seatizen.com>,
<www.atlink.it>,
<www.marescoop.com>,
<chartervichi.it>
and <www.amicidelblu.it>.
The ‘Città di Meta’ linked Naples to the island of
Ischia 1974-1989 as reopted at <www.simplonpc.co.uk>.
Other and older ships are mentioned on the net – if only as
models – but all in all the information is hard to find.
At least we know that Partenopea was active in, or since, 1929
and also that it merged with ‘Aliscafi Compagnia Sarda’
(a firm being wound up) in 1987. Much is left unclear, except the
horse (as to its possible source) in different colours, it is
also the symbol of Naples Province.
Also, the funnel shows the city colours of Naples
as they appear in the arms: yellow above red.
Jan Mertens, 3 April 2008
image by Ivan Sache, 25 April 2008
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house
flag of "Paolo Viale" (#313, p. 51), a company based in
Genoa, as white with a the blue letters
"PV".
Ivan Sache, 25 April 2008
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2005
Peirce Bros., Naples - white flag; red shield with yellow
cross; in canton black "P".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26].
Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2005
Lloyds 1904 show the flag but without the "P" with
the firm at that point being based in Messina. They also show the
same livery for Walter F. Becker of Turin and Genoa trading as
the Creole Line. Then in Lloyds 1912 Peirce Brothers, now shown
as based Messina, Naples and Genoa has the "P" added,
Walter F. Becker still has the flag without the "P" and
this letterless version is also now given for Società di Navigazione à Vapore
Siclula Americana, apparently originally of Messina but now
of Naples.
Neale Rosanoski, 26 February 2005
The house flag of Perseveranza, as shown on a graphic on the company website, is
blue with a white anchor flanked by the white letters
"G" and "D". The company, base in Naples,
operates 17 tankers.
Perseveranza SpA di Navigzione, founded in 1969, is 96%-owned by
the D'Amato family, in the shipping business since 1870. Giuseppe
D'Amato is President and his two sons Umberto and Angelo are
members of the Boards of Directors. Their two sisters, Marilena
and Rosalia, are also involved in the management of the company.
The company operates five vessels, MN "Giuseppe
D'Amato", "Marilena D'Amato" and "Rosalia
D'Amato" and MT "Cielo Di Roma" and "Ciel Di
Milano". The meaning of "GD" on the flag is now
straightforward, for "Giuseppe D'Amato".
Ivan Sache, 8 March 2008
image by Eugene Ipavec, 23 May 2006
The houseflag of the
Società Anonima Pesca e Reti Italiana (Italian Net Fishing Ltd
(?) appears on a 1923 share at <www.hwph.de>.
According to the website of scripophily auctioneer Historisches
Wertpapierhaus, the company did not exist for
long. The share was issued in Rome on 30 Sept. 1923.
Two pages offer more information in Italian <www.guardiacostiera.it>
and <www.regione.emilia-romagna.it>.
I gather the firm was founded by the brothers Merlini and was
active, first in the Mediterranean, then by 1925 before the coast
of Morocco and Spanish Sahara, and finally in the North Sea and
arctic waters. The flag is a red swallowtail has a blue
five-pointed star in the upper hoist and the firm’s acronym
SAPRI, also in blue, along the lower edge. I wonder if
the lower tail is really longer than the upper one.
Jan Mertens, 22 May 2006
I think that the lower tail may have been lengthened so as to
not fold over the name.
Eugene Ipavec, 23 May 2006
image by Miles Li, 18 June
2016
Source: Colin Stewart, Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours [ste63]
Miles Li, 18 June 2016
image by Miles Li, 24 June
2016
Source: Colin Stewart, Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours [ste63]
Miles Li, 18 June 2016
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 September 2005
I located an image that looks like this company flag at <www.premuda.it>.
Dov Gutterman, 13 February 1999
A dubious flag: could be simply the logo.
Black-white-red-black stripes disposed vaguely horizontally,
forming a sort of V. The colours and design remind the German
Poseidon company.
Jorge Candeias, 6 March 1999
Premuda S.p.A. According to Brown 1995 the website logo is the
flag except Brown shows a narrower chevron and it is not
staggered beginning and ending at a similar point towards upper
hoist and fly. Lloyds states that the company was formed 1975 as
Premuda Società di Navigazione per Azioni changing name in
1996. However it appears from website comments that this company
probably originated with Giovanni L. Premuda who was operating by
at least 1904 and appears to have formed [Società Anonima di]
Navigazione a Vapore G.L. Premuda in 1907 (sources vary with the
name) which operated up to WW2 and had a quartered flag of red
and green.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 April 2003
Premuda Societa di Navigazione per Azioni, Genoa - black with
a white and red chevron.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of
the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 19 September 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 18 December 2004
Societį Anonyma di Navigazione a Vapore G.L. Premuda, Trieste
- quartered green and red
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 18 December 2004
This would presumably have some relation to the company Premuda from Lussinpicolo. I do
not think that it is just conicidentally the same family name.
Željko Heimer, 18 December 2004
by Ivan Sache, 13 February 2005
Lloyds 1904 and 1912 show a reverse arrangement of the
quarters i.e. red and green rather that than green and red.
Neale Rosanoski, 9 January 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2005
At home I have a stout "Larousse Commercial
Illustré" (a kind of trade encyclopedia) published in
Paris, 1930. It has four pages in colour illustrating house
flags; a note identifies it as the work of Sandy Hook.
In this book, I found "Puglia" S.A. di Navigazione
(Bari): red with large white P (funnel: black, bearing the flag
in the form of a band)
Jan Mertens, 26 October 2003
'P' is very well now and almost as Sandy Hook drew it, only
there's a very small serif at the letter's foot and the 'bow'
reaches not so far. In all, a letter 'P' much as it is used
in the Groups Messages font.
Jan Mertens, 20 December 2003
Soc. di Nav. a Vap. "Puglia", Bari - red flag, white
"P".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign
Steamship Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26].
Jarig Bakker, 14 January 2005
