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![[J.H.D. Dabelstein]](../images/d/de~dag.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 15 Mar 2008
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of "J.H.D. Dabelstein" (#27, p. 38), a company based in Hamburg, as red with a white square diamond charged with a red letter "D".
The "The
ShipsList" website mentions SS "Fiume" as purchased by Dabelstein from
Hambourg South American Line in 1901.
The same year, Dabelstein purchased the "Europa
1879" from Witt & Busch and operated her until scrapped in 1914.
Ivan Sache, 15 Mar 2008
![[Dampfschiffahrts GmbH Hamburg]](../images/d/de~dghh.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jun 2012
It was a white flag with a red bordure. In the white field were black, dotted serifed initials "D.G." over "H.".
Source: Flaggenkarte, Hrsg.: H. Carly, Hamburg, c.1898
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jun 2012
![[Herm Dauelsberg]](../images/d/de~dauel.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Jan 2006
Herm Dauelsberg, Bremen - Israeli-style WBWBW flag; in center black "D".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 19 Jan 2006
Herm. Dauelsberg GmbH & Co. KG
![[Herm Dauelsberg#2]](../images/d/de~daue2.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 May 2009
The company is located in Bremen. In 1857 Hermann Dauelsberg obtained permission from the Chamber of Commerce and the city of Bremen to take over the licence to run an already existing shipbroker business under the name of Herm. Dauelsberg.
Mr. Christian August Bunnemann, who was an apprentice of the former existing company, was responsible for developing the success of the shipbroking and liner agency business. He became a partner and took over the remaining shares from Hermann Dauelsberg's son Carl when he died in 1887.
Herm. Dauelsberg GmbH & Co. KG. remains a family owned company to this day and four generations later it is managed by the brothers C.Andreas Bunnemann,until his retirement end 2006, and Klaus F. Bunnemann who
In April 2008 Nicolaus Bunnemann, son of Klaus F. Bunnemann joined the company.
The company did cargo shipping and passages for emigrants to North America as well. The core business was liner agency until the shipping companies ran that business directly. Until today there remained chartering broker, sale and purchase, port agency and ship owning. Liner agency business had been terminated in the 1990ies.
For further information click company's website .
Description of flag:
It was a white flag, horizontally divided by two blue stripes and a big black capital "D" between the stripes.
Source: "Flaggen, Schornsteine, Reedereien- Flaggen und Schornsteine der deutschen Reedereien und ihre Schiffe über 300 BRT"; Hamburg 1957; p.F7
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 May 2009
![[Wilhelm Dehde]](../images/d/de~dehde.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2009
Wilhelm Dehde
The company was located in Bützfleth. It is a black over white over
red horizontal tricolour, like former German merchant ensign, superimposed
by a big, yellow “D”, fimbriated black.
Title: „Flaggen, Schornsteine, Reedereien- Flaggen und Schornsteine
der deutschen Reedereien und ihre Schiffe über 300 BRT“; Hamburg 1957; p.F7.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Apr 2009
![[Peter Deilmann]](../images/d/de~pdm.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 12 Oct 2005
Peter Deilmann, Neustadt - white flag, red "D", containing a
ship's bow topped by an "F", all red.
(Guess this is Neustadt in Holstein)
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World,
compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 12 Oct 2005
![[Deppe Lines]](../images/d/de~deppe.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 5 Nov 2003
From a Google cache
(news flash from 24 Sept.) we learn that:
"Deppe Line will withdraw from liner shipping effective 31 October.
To confirm with the FMC status of vessel operator, the Hamburg-based H.
Schuldt-owned carrier formally chartered a ship (lately a 3,000 TEU
unit) from its long-standing partner Lykes Lines (CP Ships).
Deppe, which had its roots in Belgium (Armement
Deppe) used to offer space on three weekly box services between N.
Europe and the US East Coast and Gulf, including Mexico."
I do not know anything about the degree of relationship between Deppe
Lines (DE) and Armement Deppe, but anyway, here goes:
Company website: The Delta
points to "Deppe", surely, and the choice of colours may not be accidental.
A quick look did not reveal anything on withdrawing from the shipping
business... But if the flag waves on, who are we to complain?
Jan Mertens, 5 Nov 2003
![[Detjen houseflag]](../images/d/de~detje.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 6 Nov 2003
Friedrich A. Detjen G.m.b.H. & Co., Hamburg - Dov Gutterman
reported the link
of Detjen - flag: white with red bordered white diamond charged with black
capital D. At the history page of that site the black thingies at top and
bottom on a Macromedia Flash image are replaced by black shadows underlining
the flag flying. On that same history page is another houseflag: white
with a vertical chevron with in the center a capital D. It's black and
white, though...
Santiago Dotor, 6 Nov 2003
![[Deutsch-Australische Dampf Gesellschaft]](../images/d/de~dadg.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias, 23 Dec 2004
I would't call this design striking, but it's definitely interesting:
a sort of red and black saltire on white, where the saltire is formed by
two overlapping diagonals, the one that runs from top hoist to bottom fly
disposed above the other one, and both divided in two halves, the hoist
half red and the fly half black. The caption is another nightmare. The
first word looks like "Olick", OSLT, the second one seems to be "Rusit",
or "Dusit", the third is completely unreadable, but seems to begin with
a D, and the third one might be the "Gem." abbreviation.
Jorge Candeias, 23 Dec 2004
It's the Deutsch-Australische Dampfschiff(ahrts)-Gesellschaft, Hamburg.
The flag can be seen on a pdf file from the 1902
Brockhaus encyclopedia. No Australian angle as far as I can see, only
the (then) German national flag colours.
Jan Mertens, 24 Dec 2004
![[Deutsche Afrika-Linien]](../images/d/de~dal.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jun 2007
Deutsche Afrika-Linien John T.Essberger - The company is located at
Palmaille 45 in Hamburg-Altona and is today member of Rantzau group. The
company is using two flags, that one of John T. Essberger
(white with a blue capital "E") and Deutsche Afrika-Linien (yellow with
a black white red lozenge, but the lozenge
is not touching the edges). I have displayed a simplified logo of the
company. See also: Deutsch Ost-Afrika Linie.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Jun 2007
![[Deutsche Conti Schifffahrt]](../images/d/de~dcs.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 13 Jan 2006
Deutsche Conti Schifffahrts G.m.b.H., Hamburg - Israeli-style
WRWRW flag, in center red "C" containing yellow "C"-like item with on top
a yellow thingy.
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World,
compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 13 Jan 2006
![[Deutsche Dampfschiffrhederei von 1889]](../images/d/de~dds89.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jun 2012
It is a red flag. In the centre is a white oval containing a black date "1889".
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 Jun 2012
![[Deutsche Dampfschiff Rhederei zu Hamburg]](../images/d/de~ddrzh.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 May 2012
The flag was quarterly divided into red and white. In the upper hoist quarter was a white Hamburg castle with closed door.
Another name of the company is Kingsin Line. The flag of Kingsin has different ratio and an open door acc. to Kludas.
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 May 2012
![[Deutsche Fanto GmbH]](../images/d/de~fanto.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 April 2009
The company was located in Hamburg. It was a white flag divided by red saltire cotized white blue. In the centre was a white ellipse fimbriated black with a black inscription "FANTO".
Source: "Flaggen, Schornsteine, Reedereien- Flaggen und Schornsteine der deutschen Reedereien und ihre Schiffe über 300 BRT"; Hamburg 1957; p.F7
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 16 April 2009
![[Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen Ges.]](../images/d/de~dhupg.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jun 2012
The flag was divided by a white bend sinister into black (hoist) and red (fly). The bend sinister contained a black inscription "D.H.&P.G.". The colours are those of German Empire.
Source: Flaggenkarte, Hrsg.: H. Carly, Hamburg, c.1898
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jun 2012
![[Deutsche Küsten Dampfschiff]](../images/d/de~dkd.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias, 11 Jan 2005
This company, the house flag of which Jorge sent on 11 Jan. 2005, was
tentatively identified as “Drak Kaut, D.A.G. (?)" – a very difficult job
as the original caption was hardly readable. No problem at all with
the gif, though.
Jorge Candeias' description: “yet another red flag with a white lozenge reaching
the edges and a black K in the middle”.
Sent along by Jörg from the original source, this particular image has
as caption: ‘Dtsch. Küst. D.A.G.’.
This must be ‘Deutsche Küsten Dampfschiff A.G.’ (i.e. German Coastal
Steam Ship Co.), a small trace of which can be found here:
see no. 133) D/S Lindborg. Above company established at Hamburg,
active in 1890.
Another slight trace is found in these
(Dutch) pages concerning Groningen local shipping: stating – on the
last page - that around 1890 ‘Deutsche Küsten
Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft’, as called there, had begun an intermittent
service between Hamburg and Groningen. Eventually this met with some
success thanks to Dutch potato exports, but came to a standstill because
of WWI.
Jan Mertens, 6 May 2007
![[Deutsche Orient Linie]](../images/d/de~dol.gif)
image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Feb 2005
Deutsche Orient Linie, Stettin - white flag, white saltire bordered
red and black; in center black diamond contoured white; white "DOL".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, compiled by F.J.N. Wedge, Glasgow, 1926 [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 10 Feb 2005
![[Deutsche Tank-Reederei]](../images/d/de~detare.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 May 2009
The company was located in Hamburg and a subsidiary of Schiffahrts-und Sped.Kontor'Elbe'.In the 1950ies it owned two tankers transporting edible oil.
Description of flag:
It was a blue flag, cotized red and white. In its centre was a white lozenge containing black capitals "DTR".
Source: "Deutsche Reedereien und ihre Erkennungszeichen"; 2nd ed.; Hamburg; 1956; p.15
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 May 2009
![[Deutsch-Russische Naphta Import]](../images/d/de~drni.gif)
image by António MARTINS-Tuválkin, 13 Jan 2007
Jorge Candeias wrote: The flag is horizontally stripped of black-white-red-white-blue-white-red with a narrow yellow lozenge in the center that contains the company's sigla, DRNIG, in black capitals disposed in the shape of a cross.
The name of the company explains the colours: ‘Deutsch-Russische Naphta Import Ges.’ i.e. German-Russian Petroleum Import Co. and as the source must have been published in 1912 we understand why we find the pre-WWI colours of both countries.
So: six horizontal stripes, the German ones, NWR, above the Russian ones, WBR.
This flag does not represent a firm with a similar name, founded 1927
and again 1946, but the one named above ending in ‘…Gesellschaft zu Berlin’
probably found in 1883 according to this
text in Russian (near the end)…
As stated, Germany and the Soviet Union continued to trade oil after
WWI; after WWII, Soviet oil played an important role in the East German
economic build-up. But that is a long time after the peaceful co-existence
of the former national colours on a house flag...
Jan Mertens, 24 Dec 2006
![[Deutscher Schulschiff Verein]](../images/d/de~dssv.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 May 2012
The association is still located in Bremen.
Description of flag:
It is a white, converging swallow tail pennant with athin black stripe at the top edge and a red one at the bottom edge. Shifted to the hoist in the white field was the coat of arms of the dukes of Oldenburg. Black, white and red had been the colours of (2nd) German Empire after 1871 and the first chairman of the association was a duke of Oldenburg.
Source: Lloyds F&F 1912; p.136, flag no.2111
Klaus-Michael Schneider,9 May 2012
![[DFDS Prinzenlinie]](../images/d/de~dfdsp.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Apr 2012
It is the wellknown blue DFDS flag with a white cross patty in the centre. The cross is superimposed by the logo of Prinzenlinie in red. The logo was a "P" with one wavy line.
The company seems to have run the same lines as HADAG Prinzenlinie. The company was located in Hamburg.
Source: Josef Nüsse's webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Apr 2012
![[J. & H. Dieckmann]](../images/d/de~diehj.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2012
The blue flag has white stripes at the top- and bottom-edge. In the centre is a white 5-point star.
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 24 Apr 2012
![[H. Diederichsen & Co.]](../images/d/de~hd.gif)
image by Jorge Candeias, 30 Dec 2004
The flag is blue with a white border in three sides, leaving the hoist
side out, and a white initial "D" in the center. The caption has an initial,
H. and a long word, which I guess is "Dlederidars".
Jorge Candeias, 30 Dec 2004
It's No. 28 in the on-line 1912
Lloyds Flags & Funnels, i.e. 'H. Diederichsen & Co., Kiel'.
(In this picture, the 'D' is slightly more elaborate.)
Jan Mertens, 31 Dec 2004
![[P. Diederichsen]](../images/d/de~diedp.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Apr 2012
It is a blue flag with a white capital "D". Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897 /Klaus-Michael Schneider/, 14 Apr 2012
![[Discoverer Reederei]](../images/d/de~disco.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Apr 2009
Discoverer Reederei
The company was located in Bremen. It is a white flag with a blue capital
„D“, surrounding a globe in white with blue meridians. Beneath the “D”
is a red line upward bound.
Source: Arnold KLUDAS: Die Geschichte der deutschen Passagierschiffahrt
(5 Bde.) Hamburg 1986; Reprint Laibach Slovenia-Buch Nr. 03617-8 Flagchart
p.224.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Apr 2009
![[Robert Dobermann Cuxhaven]](../images/d/de~dobrc.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 May 2012
It was a flag quarterly divided into red and white. In the red quarters were a white Hamburg castle (hoist) and a white tower (fly), probably of HAPAG halls in Cuxhaven. In the white quarters were black inscriptions "RD" (top) and "Cuxhaven" (bottom).
Source: Gratis Beilage zu Deicken und Behrmann's Neuen Monatsheften Neue Ausgabe Sommer 1897
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 May 2012
![[Dormien & Paap]](../images/d/de~dorpa.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jun 2012
It was a red flag. In the centre was a white cross patty.
Source: Flaggenkarte, Hrsg.: H. Carly, Hamburg, c.1898
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Jun 2012
![[dotrans]](../images/d/de~dotr.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 19 Jul 2006
This is not so nice – a flag picture but almost nothing on the firm! From various commercial information services on the internet we learn that a firm called ‘dotrans’ (lower case), also known as Christian Donner KG, is located at Hannover and engaged in shipping. That is all, really.
Found last year on French eBay (item no. 6535951661, offer finished
8 June 2005), a ‘dotrans’ flag: orange with the company name spared out
of a lowered black stripe fitted between two thin black stripes. As the
flag was part of a substantial offer of inland navigation flags and pennants
(some of them quite horrible), I suppose we may interpret the ‘shipping’
as being restricted to inland waterways, German or otherwise.
Jan Mertens, 30 Jun 2006
![[Bootsverleih Lucia Dreessen]](../images/d/de~dlgbv.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Nov 2010
This small tourist ship and boat rental company is located in Greetsiel. The flag shows the colours of Eastern Frisia, a black over red over blue horizontal tricolour with light grey shadowed capitals "LD" in the red stripe.
Source: I spotted this flag on 14 September 2009 in Greetsiel.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 14 Nov 2010
![[Reederei Drevin]](../images/d/de~drev.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 7 Sep 2008
"Reederei Drevin" is based at Cuxhaven. The company was founded in 1983
by Rainer Drevin, who had commanded ships for the big "Reederei Heinrich"
in 1966-1983. Specialized in container transportation, the company got
rid of its old ships and purchased two brand new ones , MS "Maike D" (November
2001) and MS "OOCL Nevskiy" (May 2002). The only manager of the company
until 2003, Rainer Drevin then appointed his son, Mark Drevin, manager
of the nautical and technical operations, remaining himself the managing
director of the company.
The flag of "Reederei Drevin", as shown as a graphic on the company
website, is red with a thin white border and a white diamond charged
with a black "D".
Ivan Sache, 7 Sep 2008
![[DR Hansa]](../images/d/de~drh.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Apr 2009
DR Hansa
The company was located in Hamburg. It is a red flag with a white lozenge
containing a red cross patty.
Source: Arnold KLUDAS: Die Geschichte der deutschen Passagierschiffahrt
(5 Bde.) Hamburg 1986; Reprint Laibach Slovenia-Buch Nr. 03617-8 Flagchart
p.223.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Apr 2009
![[Dujardin & Co houseflag]](../images/d/de~dujar.gif)
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Apr 2009
Dujardin & Co (formerly Gebrüder Melcher Verkaufs-GmbH) - The company
was located in Uerdingen (today borough of the city of Krefeld). The company
is still
existing today in Krefeld-Uerdingen, renamed into Melcher GmbH &
Co KG. It is a distillery.
Dujardin was the trademark of a German brandy, which also (fortunately)
still exists today.
The flag is divided per saltire into red and blue. There are black
inscriptions: “D” (hoist) “&” (bottom) and “Co” (fly). In the centre
of the flag is a shield, two white keys in a red field, which is a modified
coat of arms of the former city of Uerdingen. Though source shows black
keys in a white field within a image really tiny, I chose different tinctures,
which were used by the company.
Source: „Flaggen, Schornsteine, Reedereien- Flaggen und Schornsteine
der deutschen Reedereien und ihre Schiffe über 300 BRT“; Hamburg 1957;
p.F7.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Apr 2009
Dujardin GmbH & Co KK still exists and is in business in Krefeld
Uerding. Our wonderful brandy brand Dujardin Imperial ist very alive and
is sold in Germany,
Canada, and meny other countries around the world. Our ship, the MS
Imperial, today lies in the Duisburg harnour and is currently remodeled
into a hotel.
Matthias Melcher, 28 Jul 2009