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![[Naess Shipping houseflag]](../images/n/nl~naess.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 14 Oct 2003
Naess Shipping (Holland) B.V. (Diemen, NL); founded 1973.
Flag: red field, White diamond bordered black, black "N"
Source: Company website.
Dov Gutterman, 14 Oct 2003
![[Nautiek houseflag]](../images/n/nl~rn.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2003
N.V. Reederij "Nautiek", Rotterdam
Houseflag: five equally wide stripes of white and red; in the center
of the central three stripes a white diamond fimbriated black, charged
with black letter "B".
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2003
Operated by W. Böhmers Scheepvaartbedrijf. In the mid 1970s the
last vessel (they all had “Böhmer” family names) is shown in the ownership
of Zeerederij H. Nefkens and operated by Böhmer Schepen B.V.
Neale Rosanoski, 7 Jan 2004
![[Nederlandse Erts-Tankermaatschappij]](../images/n/nl~net.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2007
Nederlandse Erts-Tankermaatschappij N.V., Rotterdam (Managers Vinke
& Co., Rotterdam).
Flag: three horizontal stripes of orange and black, proportioned 2:1:2,
two white intertwined rings.
Source: Wyt's Digest of Dutch Shipping and Shipbuilding 1966.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2007
![[Nederlandse Norness Scheepvaart Mij]](../images/n/nl~nnsm.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2007
Nederlandse Norness Scheepvaart Maatschappij N.V., Amsterdam.
Flag: red field, white diamond, blue "N".
Source: Wyt's Digest of Dutch Shipping and Shipbuilding 1966.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2007
image by Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001
Houseflag of Nederlandse Tank- en Paketvaart Maatschappij, Amsterdam.
Image from Flagchart of houseflags of Dutch shipping companies, attached
to the magazine "De Blauwe Wimpel", April 1956.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Feb 2001
![[Nederlandse Vracht- en Tankvaart Maatschappij]](../images/n/nl~nvtm.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 17 Sep 2007
Nederlandse Vracht- en Tankvaart Maatschappij N.V., The Hague,
Flag: red field, white hoistdiagonal, black standing foul anchor.
Source: Wyt's Digest of Dutch Shipping and Shipbuilding 1966.
Jarig Bakker, 17 Sep 2007
![[Nederlands-Franse Scheepvaart Mij]](../images/n/nl~nfsm.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2007
N.V. Nederlands-Franse Scheepvaart Maatschappij, Rotterdam.
Flag: blue field, red cross; in center white wheel.
Source: Wyt's Digest of Dutch Shipping and Shipbuilding 1966.
Jarig Bakker, 19 Sep 2007
![[Neo Logistec Services]](../images/n/nl~nls.gif)
image by Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin, 25 Nov 2006
NLS or Neo Logistic Services is a Dutch inland shipping firm established at Moerdijk, a small place between Dordrecht and Breda on the Hollands Diep, a former sea-arm where several rivers converge, leading straight into Zealand.
See following pages from Dutch IT supplier Autena, specialized in inland navigation, concerning the dedication and christening ceremony of two container ships belonging to NLS (second page reached by clicking “Meer foto’s” end of first page): On the photos the company logo is easily spotted: orange ground, black letters NLS flanked by three white horizontal stripes on either side. On both pages we see logo flags, an extract of photo on second page, showing several flags at once.
We learn that NLS from that time on i.e. February 2002 operated eight
container transport ships which is impressive, considering that the founding
year was 2000; the fleet has expanded even more in the meantime. Both vessels,
‘ZKH de Prins van Oranje Willem-Alexander’ and ‘HKH Princess Maxima der
Nederlanden’, are featured on this Vlootschouw
page (naming Bemmel as company seat!?).
Jan Mertens, 13 Nov 2006
![[Bunkerbedrijf Neptun]](../images/n/nl~nept.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 30 Oct 2006
Dutch bunkering company 'Neptun' is based at Nijmegen on the River Waal
(which, as we know, is the name given to the Rhine as soon as it crosses
the German-Dutch border). Company website:
A family business founded in 1926 with a view to servicing inland navigation,
it is typical of its kind: fuel stock (no exclusivity), shop, and bunkering
boats (in this case, two).
Vaguely visible on the boats shown on the site, the yellow-and black
house flag is better viewed on the vessel ‘Duc in Altum’ (Vlootschouw
page); on another
Vlootschouw page, vessel ‘Vigilia’ (see drawn version lower on page),
and here, on the ‘Abel-Niels’.
Horizontally divided yellow-black-yellow, ‘NEPTUN’ company name in
yellow serifed letters on black stripe.
See also the old Nijmegen city flag
(1953-1994) which may well have been the source of above house flag, while
Neptune is the Roman sea-god.
Jan Mertens, 28 Oct 2006
![[Netherlands Government houseflag]](../images/n/nl~ng.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Jan 2005
Netherlands Government, Rotterdam - orange flag, at 1/3 flagheight three
equally wide horizontal stripes of red, white and blue.
Source: Scott, R.M., The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels, Capetown,
Caltex Africa Ltd. (1959).
Jarig Bakker, 10 Jan 2005
The flag is confirmed, though shown with the triband slightly lower
so that the red and white only are in upper half, by an article, which
is probably in De Blauwe Wimpel, by L.L. von Münching. The date of
it appears to be 1960, the pages are 236-238 and it appears that it was
used by emigrant ships to and from Indonesia post WW2.
Neale Rosanoski, 22 Jan 2005
Scheepvaart Maatschappij Trans-Oceaan 's-Gravenhage
After World War 2 the Dutch Government purchased three Victory ships which were converted into troop transport ships by the United States and renamed them WATERMAN, ZUIDERKRUIS and GROOTE BEER. The WATERMAN and ZUIDERKRUIS were managed by Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd and the GROOTE BEER was managed by Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland.
They were used on the route Holland-Netherlands East India (NEI) to
carry troops to the Dutch colony to restore the peace after the Japanese
surrender when the Archipelago was in a turmoil. After the independence
of the Republic Indonesia in 1948 all the Dutch troops were repatriated
and a repatriation started of Dutch civilians who left Indonesia for Holland.
In 1951 after this was completed, the three ships were rebuilt into emigrant
carriers because many Dutch people decided to build a new life in countries
like Australia, Canada and New Zealand and after the rebuilding the ZUIDERKRUIS
was also managed by Stoomvaart Maatschappij
Nederland. After negotiations between the Dutch Government, Koninklijke
Rotterdamsche Lloyd and Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland the shipping
company Scheepvaart Maatschappij Trans Oceaan at s’-Gravenhage was founded
in 1960 and the three ships were taken over by the new company.
In 1963 the emigrant transportation nearly came to an end and the GROOTE
BEER and WATERMAN were sold to J. Latsis, Greece and used for cruises in
the Mediterranean and the ZUIDERKRUIS went to the Dutch Navy as an accommodation
ship. The shipping company Scheepvaart Maatschappij Trans Oceaan was later
sometimes used by the Holland America Line to make student travel cruises
with passenger ships under the flag of the Scheepvaart Maatschappij Trans
Oceaan.
Source: this
webpage.
Somewhere in the 1960's the Waterman was chartered by supporters of
the Footballclub Feijenoord to transport them to Lisbon in order to watch
FC Benfica - Feijenoord, accompanied by a Tango/Rumba Orchestra - it was
the longest returnvoyage ever...
Jarig Bakker, 15 Nov 2007
![[Netherlands Maritime Agencies]](../images/n/nl~nma.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias, 14 March 1999
Netherlands Maritime Agencies (Rotterdam) / Marco Shipping Netherlands.
Flag: horizontal tricolour of greyish green - dark red - blue with
white letters shifted to the hoist in each stripe. From top to bottom:
"nfa", "nma" and "msn".
Jorge Candeias, 14 Mar 1999
Source: Company's
website.
Dov Gutterman, 21 Feb 1999
![[Nieuwe Rotterdamse Sleepdienst]](../images/n/nl~nrs.gif)
Miles Li, 28 May 2016
Briefly mentioned under ‘Piet Smit Sleepdienst’,
‘Nieuwe Rotterdamse Sleepdienst’ (i.e. “New Rotterdam Towage Service”)
was a joint effort of tug owners to provide towage in the port of Rotterdam.
The need arose in the nineteen sixties and following firms contributed:
Smit & Co., Scheepvaartmij. Tros (unknown
to me), Piet Smit Jr, Verenigde
Onafhankelijke Sleepdienst, Stoomsleepboot Cosmopoliet (ditto), Mars
Steamtugs, Stoomsleepdienst Maas, Hudig
& Veder, Maatschappij Binnenvaart and last but not least, Phs.
van Ommeren.
Above list provided by this
webpage. Exact dates are not yet known to me, however the house flag
– in the national colours – was characteristic enough. See it in
the last four photos on this
page; Josef Nüsse
shows the table flag, providing exact detail: (last photo of page). Gyronny
of twelve pieces starting from a small black
ring in the centre; counted from top centre, RWBWRWB etc. White always
separates red from blue; logically, six pieces are white whereas red and
blue have three pieces each.
Jan Mertens, 21 Aug 2007
![[Nieuwe Vlissingse Sleepdienst houseflag]](../images/n/nl~nvsd.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 31 Dec 2007
I stumbled over a Dutch tugboat recently – namely ‘De Ruyter’ at one
time operated by the NV. Nieuwe Vlissingse Sleepdienst (i.e. New Flushing
Towage Service) at Vlissingen, Zeeland province. See second photo of this
Tugspotter
page: showing a house flag repeating, up to a point, the funnel design:
horizontally divided blue-orange-blue, narrow white stripes edging the
central one. The funnel adds the stylized company acronym on a white disk.
The short-lived firm is presented by Nico J. Ouwehand in this on-line
pdf
file (in Dutch).
Just summarizing: founded by the well-known Smit
Internationale and Smit-Spido at Vlissingen in 1971, taking over three
tugs from SHV or Steenkolen Handelsvereeniging. First general manager was
J.D. Wilton of both NRS (Nieuwe Rotterdamse Sleepdienst) and Spido, some
tugs of NRS soon being added to help the new company. However the 1988
restructuring of Smit Internationale joined all towage operations under
the name ‘Smit Haven’ using the Smit house style.
Jan Mertens, 31 Dec 2007
![[Nile Dutch Africa Line houseflag]](../images/n/nl~nds.gif)
image by
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
Jan Mertens reported this link
with mainly Dutch houseflags. Nile Dutch Africa Line.
Flag: white field; in center blue "nds"; in bottom blue "NILE DUTCH
AFRICA LINE".
Jarig Bakker, 3 Mar 2005
![[NISHM houseflag]](../images/n/nl~nishm.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 30 Jan 2005
N.V. Nederlandsch-Indische Steenkolen Handel-Maatschappij (Dutch-Indian
Coal Trading Company), Amsterdam.
Flag: quartered green and red; white diamond, black "N.I.S.H.M."
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1951, [wed51].
Jarig Bakker, 30 Jan 2005
![[NIT houseflag]](../images/n/nl~nit.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 28 January 2005
Nederlandsch Indische Tankstoomboot Maatschappij, The Hague.
Flag: red over blue; white diamond, yellow "N.I.T.".
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
![[Werf de Noord houseflag]](../images/n/nl~deno.gif)
image by Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin, 29 Jan 2007
The following site relates how the many shipyards and ship repair companies fared at Alblasserdam, a Dutch town on the River Noord, near Dordrecht, one of which was Werf (wharf) de Noord, founded in 1904 by J.U. Smit and two namesakes. The first boom period was WWI, when the Netherlands were neutral and built ships for Scandinavian countries, also neutral; after the war, de Noord helped reconstitute the depleted merchant fleets.
Having suffered in 1940, the company thrived after WWII, building various kinds of ships such as freighters, passenger ships, and minesweepers. In 1962, de Noord merged with Van der Giessen, a wharf based at Krimpen aan de IJssel, to become ‘Van der Giessen – de Noord NV’.
The end of the Cold War around 1990 led to the terminanation of military vessel construction, while 9-11 indirectly led to a serious drop in the demand for ferry ships. In 2003, the company was wound up due to lack of orders.
Shown as a drawing on above page, the house flag – probably the one in use before the merger – can be described as horizontally striped white-blue-white and having an additional blue stripe along the staff. The caption mentions festive occasions for showing the flag explaining, I suppose, the presence of a narrow and long pennant, split, rendered in gold.
Background
information, very critical, on the end of Van der Giessen-de Noord
(in Dutch): In the middle of this
page, two Alblasserdam monuments to the company i.e. shipbuilders and
the “tulip” symbolizing the business departments, respectively.
Jan Mertens, 12 Dec 2006
![[Noord-Brabant houseflag]](../images/n/nl~nobr.jpg)
image sent by Jan Mertens, 9 Jul 2006
First seen on the Vlootschouw pages, the Rotterdam-based freighting
company Noord-Brabant BV (well, Rotterdam is not in Noord-Brabant), flies
a blue flag bearing the provincial arms of its namesake plus the company
name and place for good measure.
See the tiny drawing here,
for instance (vessel ‘Ardito’).
But then there was this nice photo seen here
(rather down the page): Christening of the ‘Century’ on 30 April 2005,
photos by René Keuvelaar.
Direct
link, also showing the Ruycontrans flag: From this photo it is clear
that the complete provincial arms are indeed in the centre with the company
name NOORD-BRABANT B.V., in white letters, placed in a bow above them and
the place name ROTTERDAM, also in white letters, below. See also FOTW-ws
for the arms, with no motto in sight even
though the house flag shows one. It just says ‘Noord-Brabant’!
Unfortunately I have found precious little information on this firm.
The German branch has a website
of sorts.
Jan Mertens, 9 Jul 2006
