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A Dutch forwarder not easily encountered on the web (try www.sabon.nl), Sabon Logistics BV is specialized in inland shipping. Now established at Papendrecht on the Oude Maas River, quite near Dordrecht in fact.
See this Vlootschouw
page concerning the vessel ‘Kiliya’ for the company logo, middle of
page: Five green stripes, left aligned and pointed at the right side, gradually
getting smaller, bear a yellow initial each, reading from top to bottom
‘SABON’. The house flag is blue with the logo in the hoist, as seen on
‘Spes Nova’
(Binnenvaart
page).
Jan Mertens, 1 Dec 2006
Scheepvaart en Petroleum Maatschappij Salahadji, Amsterdam (Shipping
and Petrol Co Salahadji) - white flag with blue/yellow saltire; in center
white diamond, blue "FH". The Salahadji was an old ship of the Shell-group
- I have no idea what "FH" represents. Salahadji is a little port in SE
Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 30 January 2005
Salka Handels- en Transportmaatschappij BV has an unusual logo
– to say the least – shown on this Vlootschouw
page.
Almost halfway down, it appears to be a heap of variously coloured
bits reminding one of jigsaw puzzle pieces – having a black foul anchor
(brown rope) and a white scroll bearing ‘SALKA’ in black letters as the
more common elements.
Let me add that the various pieces have different forms and are coloured
bright green, fuchsia, blue-green, dark blue (purplish on Vlootschouw),
and yellow.
This is the company website, showing
a white flag with the logo and throwing in an orange pennant for good measure:
One of many similar firms located at Zwijndrecht, Salka presents itself
as your partner for waterborne transport of polluted earth, dredgings,
and various materials for recycling. In addition there is the sand
and gravel business.
Besides two owned vessels Salka can count on some forty chartered barges
of various kinds all of which are certified for the transport of above
mentioned materials
Salka is said to mean ‘surprise’ in Latin (it does?) and yes, I am surprised!
Jan Mertens, 20 May 2006
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World,
compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Sanara B.V., Rotterdam - white flag, at hoist vertical outlined "SANARA",
at bottom fly red blob, white "S".
Jarig Bakker, 15 Sep 2005
Yesterday I saw in the Oude Houtmanhaven in Amsterdam a ship with the
flag of Oranje Verzekeringen and an unknown
flag: horizontal VWV, a white hoistdiagonal reaching half flaglength, charged
with vertical aligned "SAUER" in black.
Jan Mertens assured me that it was "Sauer Bevrachtingen" (Chartering),
Rotterdam BV., Zwijndrecht. No presence on the web (yet). The colors are
the colors of
Rotterdam of course.
Jarig Bakker, 21 Jul 2006
Here is a house flag of a Dutch company in Belgian colours: Scaldis
Lijn, owned by Hudig & Pieters, Rotterdam.
Found on a Kennedy, Hunter & Co.’s
agencies list, date unknown.
Flag divided horizontally red-yellow-red, bearing the word SCALDIS
in large black letters on the middle stripe.
‘Scaldis’ is Latin for the Schelde river; when people mention the river
they usually mean the Western branch of the river leading to Antwerp, Belgium.
(Incidentally, both river mouths are Dutch territory).
Jan Mertens, 4 Feb 2006
Jan Mertens reported this link
with mainly Dutch houseflags. ScanDutch - white flag, red rotor with three
blades.
Loughran's "A Survey of Mercantile Houseflags and funnels", 1979 lists
this as Scanservice (1969-72); ScanDutch (1972- ); Consortium.
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
N.V. Scheepvaart- en Steenkolen Maatschappij, Rotterdam (Shipping- and
Coal Society).
Houseflag: seven equally wide horizontal stripes of blue and red, with
in the center of the three central stripes a white diamond charged with
S.S.M.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2003
Dutch barge operator and freight forwarder HDC Schot Scheepvaart has
no website. I did not find much information save the fact that this firm
cooperates on an equal footing with IMT, forming ‘Schelde-Maas’ (named
after two important rivers) since 1996.
Source: extract of Schuttevaer
article of 15 November 1997.
Then there is the house flag of course – see this
page: Horizontally divided VWV (1:2:1), a yellow triangle based on
the hoist and jutting far into the white field (2/3 it seems) a large black
‘S’ (no serifs) placed over the triangle and, partly, the green stripes.
This item evokes the municipal flag of Rotterdam,
the company seat, whereas ‘Schot’, a family name no doubt, is represented
by the initial (no idea what HDC means).
Jan Mertens, 22 Sep 2009
Dutch sand extractor and inland transportation company 'SEAM Oosterlee
BV' is established at Breskens on the left bank of the W. Scheldt River.
Modest webpage
presenting this firm (in Dutch): The page shows a square flagoid horizontally
divided blue above yellow, a ring in counterchanged colours placed over
them. Indeed such a flag is flying on specialized vessel
‘Rio’: The thick black holding lines in the drawing may surprise and
they do not seem to appear in the - admittedly small - photo detail.
However a table flag shows them as well. Source: German eBay offer no.
290278850516 (end 12 Dec 2008) put up by “shipflag”,
dimensions given as approx. 40 [cm] x 60 [cm].
Founded by the father of current owners J. and A. Oosterlee, SEAM Oosterlee
was originally established at Maassluis and came to Breskens in 1969. Mainly
delivered to the Belgian and French markets, the extracted sand is transported
by ship, inland vessel, or truck. See this doc.file
(in Dutch) – it is said that the firm was the first to operate on a maritime
level: “SEAM” stands for ‘Scheepvaart en Agentuur Mij.’ i.e. Shipping and
Agency Co..
Jan Mertens, 22 Sep 2009
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World,
compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Seatrade Groningen B.V., Groningen - orange flag, stylized white "S", black
"G".
Jarig Bakker, 6 Jan 2006
Jan Mertens reported this link
with mainly Dutch houseflags. Shipdock, Amsterdam - Five horizontal stripes
Blue - Orange - white - Orange - blue; on white at hoist "SHIPDOCK" in
blue above "AMSTERDAM" in orange; at the hoist a drawing of a dock.
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
Scheepswerf Slob BV or “Slob Shipyard” is a venerable firm established
at Papendrecht at the Lower Merwede River, across Dordrecht in fact. Here
is the company website
(English section available).
We immediately see the circular black-on-orange logo made up of the
letters S-L-O-B and an orange flag with said logo flying on a ship,
the ‘Sarah’ which is – we learn further on – a “Container Feeder and Dry
Cargo Vessel”. This must have been a trial run, I suppose.
Quote from the introduction: “The shipyard is designing and building
a great variety of vessels of different type destined for seagoing-and
inland shipping, offshore and dredging industry. Moreover complete steel
constructions and hulls (called casco’s, jm) for custom built motor
yachts are being built. The yard also carries out refits to all kind
of vessels.”
Employing 78 people, the firm was founded in 1947 by Kommer Slob and
sold to De Vries Scheepsbouw at Aalsmeer as there was no successor.
Additional information from the on-line Binnenvaartkrant,
issue of 11 April 2006.
Jan Mertens, 22 Apr 2006
Maritiem Digitaal, a collective data base of Dutch maritime museums, has a lot to offer on flags. See for instance this item: A very long url easily avoided by pasting the ship name “beijenkorf” into the search box shown here: tick the box marked “Toon alleen...” (i.e. pictures only) and select “Zoeken” (i.e. search). When the result is displayed, switch to English by clicking the little Union Jack at upper right page (the translation appears to be machine-made.)
This aquarel made by Jacob Spin (1806-1875) shows the barque ‘Beijenkorf’
(“Beehive”) arriving near the island of Texel in 1857. (Select third
image and use the looking-glass function.) The flags flown are the name
pennant or onomast, the captain’s college flag (member of the Rotterdam
chapter), the national flag, and last but not least a red flag bearing
white serifed initials “CS” the “C” turned towards the hoist – the house
flag.
We learn that at the date of painting ‘Beijenkorf’ belonged to C. Smit’s
shipping company at Alblasserdam (located on the River Noord between Dordrecht
and Rotterdam) and that she was scrapped in 1859. One year earlier
C[ornelis?] Smit operated two ships (list of Alblasserdam’s shipping companies),
see here.
Jan Mertens, 13 Dec 2009
Piet Smit Sleepdienst BV, a Dutch towage firm, is yet another one taken
over by Smit Internationaal as explained in
Jansen & Van Heck’s “Duwvaart”, p. 89.
Shown in b/w, its triangular house flag or pennant is described as
being white having a red triangle in the upper left corner and a blue one
in the lower left corner.
Of simple design and repeating the national colours, this pennant recalls
a yachting burgee.
Some history found at this
source (it does not show a flag but a funnel and moreover every vessel
had its own initial):
Founded in 1877 by Piet Smit Jr as the ‘Slikkerveersche Sleepdienst',
starting out with five tugboats and expanding by taking over others.
Later based in Rotterdam, the firm wisely renamed itself ‘NV Nederlandsche
Stooomsleepdienst v/h Piet Smit Jr’ (i.e. Dutch Steam Towage Service
Co. Ltd formerly Piet Smit Jr) in 1913. Owned a hundred tugs in 1927.
The company took over Stoomsleepdienst ‘Maas’ in 1969 and changed
its name into ‘Piet Smit Sleepdienst’ two years later. Coming upon
hard times, the fleet now only counted 23 tugs and cooperation with ‘Nieuwe
Rotterdamse Sleepdienst’ began but only to disappear into a greater
whole, Smit Internationaal.
There was a related
shipyard which went broke in 1988 - and that is the way the world goes.
Jan Mertens, 1 Mar 2006
Jan Mertens reported this link
with mainly Dutch houseflags. Smits - yellow flag; in center a shield with
red, white and blue horizontal bars; on red white "M", on blue white "S"..
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
Solleveld van der Meer & van Hattum, Rotterdam - white flag, blue
saltire; in center red shield, charged with the firm's initials in white
(I think...).
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 28 January 2005
This small company, the Dutch ‘Sophia Tankvaart’ (‘vaart’ meaning shipping)
is located at Tholen, one of Zealand’s islands; it operates the motor tanker
‘Sophia’ built in 2003.
Specialized in mineral oil and chemical transport, this vessel is chartered
by the German firm Stetra - which we already know - and plies the waterways
of the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, and Switzerland.
Neat company
website, showing the house flag on the first page (and incidentally
doing a nice job of presenting the ‘Sophia’): White field with logo also
seen on the webpage: SOPHIA in white letters – no serifs – with light blue
contours in front of a light blue rectangle and above four dark blue waves;
under the waves is the word TANKVAART in smaller, light blue letters.
Jan Mertens, 27 Sep 2006
Houseflag of Spliethoff's Bevrachtingskantoor BV (Amsterdam).
Quartered per saltire in orange, dark blue, white and red with a black
"S" centered.
Jorge Candeias, 12 March 1999
Source: Company's
website.
Dov Gutterman, 26 February 1999
This company’s website
says it all (url followed by quote): “Stemat is a service company for the
maritime sector, based in Rotterdam. Stemat started with a couple of vessels
in 1986 and has now expanded to a current fleet holding of over 40 vessels.
The considerable experience amassed over this time allows Stemat to offer
expert advice to a large number of companies specialising in a wide field
ranging from maritime construction to the dredging and offshore industry.”
As befits such a firm there is a huge variety of vessels, listed in
the ‘Fleet’ section: “crane barges, multipurpose vessels, anchor-handling
vessels, tugboats, transport pontoons (…)” but check out the ‘Pontoons’
and ‘Equipment’ headings as well.
To give an idea of the various projects under way, here is a small
selection: beach reclamation, depositing mud, tunnel building, windfarm
construction, cable repair, dredging, transporting an entire sailing ship,
towing a derrick, etc. etc. (see ‘Projects’ with nice little flags!).
The image is an extract of a photo showing ‘Ingrid B’, a multipurpose
vessel (‘Fleet’). The house flag is white with the orange company
logo in the upper hoist corner and the company name ‘Stemat’ beneath it
in black letters, apparently filling up the lower part of the flag. Said
logo is all over the site, being a very stylized initial ‘S’; the company
name on the site’s “letterhead” has the same font as the flag’s.
Jan Mertens, 13 Sep 2006
Established at Hansweert, on the River Schelde (Dutch side), Van der
Straaten Aannemingsmaatschappij BV is a 100 year old contractor: building
bridges, locks and quays, roads, conduits, etc. In addition there
is an engineering and study department, and existing constructions are
maintained or restored.
Company homepage, showing
the logo: stylized initials `VDS', the `S' extra large to the right of
much smaller `V' and `D' in vertical position; two small horizontal
stripes contain the initials; all within a cartouche (square with rounded
corners) – colours: yellow elements on a dark background which looks black
but is, I think, dark brown.
In 2006 a tug was bought and named `Tuimelaar': We see small yellow
pennants with the company logo near the hoist. Following
photo, copyright "heja" shows Van der Straaten at work on a Vlissingen
(Flushing) lock. This photo is clickable – very large in fact – and details
can be examined at leisure. On the floating crane we see a rectangular
flag bearing the company logo.
I cannot help thinking that the colours are yellow and brown, not black!
Jan Mertens, 9 Jun 2007
Another one of those laid-back Dutch shipping company flags! Seen
on Marktplaats (Dutch auction site) as offer no. 197430988, accessed 30
Sep 2008, put up by “Skipvlag”, giving dimensions as 0.98 [m] x 1.45 [m].
Horizontally divided (evenly, it appears) yellow-black-yellow, company
name “SWINTANK” in white, without serifs, on the central stripe.
The little information I could find: Swintank BV is an inland tanker
shipping company established at Zwijndrecht which is opposite Dordrecht
on the Nieuwe Maas River. Its namesake freighting office, possibly
the same firm, was taken over by Plouvier (Belgium) in 1997.
I could not help noticing the similarity with the Zwijndrecht
municipal flag.
Jan Mertens, 6 Jul 2009