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T. & P. Macy operated whalers in 1831–45. Thomas Macy also operated under his own name in 1836–37.

USA, Nantucket.

The later design replaces the saltire with a blue cross on both flag and funnel band. Rosanoski’s text dates replacement towards the end of the twentieth century, although the source list includes the cross design in Lloyds 1904.

Also called Blue Cross Line, the business began as shipbuilder William Smith & Co. in 1810 and became a shipowner in 1832. In 1899 its building and repair interests merged with Harry S. Edwards as Smith’s Dock, after which shipbuilding became the main concern.

UK, Newcastle.

Also recorded as Breebot, Breejenbout and Aannemingsmaatschappij T. den Breejen van den Bout, the business is given a 1906–85 span. Its holding was sold to Koninklijke Boskalis Westminister on 19 November 1985. It owned Mico in 1939–47, interrupted by wartime requisition in 1941–46, and Carla in 1954–62. Rosanoski assumes Lloyds’ Materieel Exploitatie Mij. Breejenbout is the same business, noting that dredgers Johanna Jacoba and Flevo later appear under Boskalis.

Netherland: Aerdenhout, also given as Aardenhout or Ardenhout; Papendrecht and Bloemendaal in other sources.

Thomas Eckford bought Mohaka in 1881, though another account dates shipowning at Blenheim from 1882. His sons Alec and Sugden succeeded him after his death in 1917, and the business became T. Eckford & Co. Ltd. in 1924. Operations ended in August 1965, with the source connecting closure to the rail ferries. The last vessel, Echo, was hulked in 1967.

New Zealand, Wellington; Blenheim.

T. Hogan & Sons operated the Manhanset Line between Bristol and Swansea and New York and Baltimore.

USA, New York.

T. Hussey & Sons operated as whalers from 1820 to 1840.

USA, Nantucket.

T. Yamamoto appears in the cited Lloyd’s registers from 1963–1964 to 1978–1979.

Japan, Muroto.

Thomas A. Gibb’s concern operated tea clippers, including Spirit of the Age, built in 1864. It is recorded operating in 1865.

UK, London.

T.A. Reynolds and Captain E.T. Miles formed the company in 1890. The Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd. took it over on 1 August 1896.

Australia, Hobart.

T.C. Christensen managed Alssund of A/D Gylfe in 1921 until her breaking-up in 1923, and is recorded with Brosund in 1925 and another Alssund in 1929. Ships used Sund-suffixed names. Rosanoski assumes Gylfe and D/S Hafnia were subsidiaries from naming, management and address evidence, but Hafnia continued after Christensen disappeared from Lloyd’s, leaving any later connection unclear.

Denmark, Copenhagen.

Shareholders in East Coast Timber formed T. G. Irving to act for them. Andrew Marshall and Tom Irving operated the company for many years, carrying coal principally to the Moray Firth, Orkney and Shetland into the 1970s. The business declined with the coal trade, as did East Coast Timber’s pitwood business. The companies were closely associated with R. L. Cook Towage of Sunderland until its absorption into France Fenwick.

UK, Sunderland.

T.H. Doctor operated Havanah from the late 1960s to 1973.

Australia, Sydney.

Also called Stevenson Lines, the company is recorded from 1953–1954 to 1970–1971. Its owner bought Ward Line, prominent in the New York–Cuba trade, from the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies group shortly before the Cuban Revolution and US boycott ended that trade.

USA, New York.

U.K., Glasgow.

T.R. Brown & Sons worked as shipowners, lightermen and stevedores, operating Holms Sand & Gravel. The company incorporated on 21 December 1926 later became T.R. Brown & Sons (1985) and was dissolved on 8 April 2003. A private company incorporated on 14 March 1985 was subsequently active in property. Rosanoski presumes this transition coincided with withdrawal from earlier activities; ARC Marine acquired Holms Sand & Gravel on 18 November 1986.

UK, Bristol.

The flag is a red swallowtail with a white “B”, placed towards the hoist by Stewart and more centrally by Brown. Three grey funnel versions are described: a red “B”; a red ring enclosing a red “B”; and a panel of the flag. The source does not explicitly match each numbered funnel description to an individual illustration.

Norway, Lillesand.

Preserve the original prose, but do not illustrate or link it to the withheld GIF(s): B272. Source reference codes do not establish an image association.

Tage Berglund operated Rederi A/B Majviken and appears in registers from 1956–1957, following a 1953–1954 entry as C.A. Berglund. Rosanoski’s FOTW comment instead describes him as apparently succeeding C.H. Berglund; the differing initials are retained as a source discrepancy.

Sweden, Gothenburg.

The later T446 funnel is documented on Bitflower, Oktavius and Bit Red. Mitchell records it under Hermansson, indicating adoption before the 1995 name change. The flag has narrow white horizontal bands near the top and bottom of a blue field, with white TBS letters across the broad central blue band. Rosanoski calls its shade Swedish blue, unlike the brighter funnel blue, although Oktavius’s photograph appears to show matching shades. Some website vessel photographs show differing colours, presumed to reflect chartering.

Lloyds dates the concern to 1953 as Knut Holger Hermansson, renamed Tarbit Shipping in 1995. The company account instead describes the joint business founded by Knut Hermansson and Sture Svanström in 1962, following Hermansson’s ownership of Redön from 1956. It remained owned by the two families, with Hermansson family members managing Tarbit and Svanström heading associate TSA Tanker Shipping. The business carried bitumen, chemicals and petroleum; Rosanoski connects Tarbit, also written TarBit, with tar and bitumen.

The purchase of Vopak’s Theodora bitumen fleet was completed on 14 June 2001; its company became Tarbit Tankers B.V. on 1 January 2011. The original also records Bitumen Tanker A/B and Bituma, later appearing through Seahorse under TSA Tanker Shipping.

Sweden, Skärhamn.

The separate Target funnel reference T524 comes from Antiope and Nikolaos A. Most of Target’s container ships were chartered and therefore wore charterers’ colours, so one livery should not be assumed for all vessels.

Anthony Comninos established Target Marine in 1986 after a career in his family’s coastal-shipping business and partnership with his brother Costas. The family’s shipping involvement is traced to 1838; his own start is given as either 1960 or 1964. The brothers formed Comninos Brothers in 1972 before Anthony established Target. A separate register account dates the company to 1990 as P.M.T. Shipping and gives an incomplete rename year, 199. It took over management of Transcontinental Marine & Trading’s vessels. These accounts are not reconciled.

The group included Eurotrust Holdings, formed in 1999, and Horizon Tankers, established in 2007 at the same address to manage Target’s tankers. Omega Navigation is also listed as an associate.

Greece, Piraeus.

The original records several further group liveries. It questions the field colour of the published T6 flag and presumes turquoise or teal rings and lettering for Mitchell’s T607 drawing of Boa Power. T608 is documented on Boa Master, T609 on Boa Deep C and T610 on Boa Mighty, the latter managed by Greenway Offshore. Boa Rhino’s T611 may have black bands only half as wide as the white, but the photographs are too distant to establish that. A charter-period variation appears as K399; no connection between the vessel and the suggested Kittilsen name was found.

Formed in 1975, Taubåtkompaniet was part of the family-owned Boa Group, providing offshore services since the 1970s. Boa Offshore is dated 2003 in Lloyds, but the company account traces it to the early 1980s as Boa Ltd. Other operations included Greenway Offshore in Singapore from 2007 and Nye Kystlink, founded as Kystlink in 1999 and renamed in 2005. Ships generally bore the Boa prefix.

Norway, Trondheim.

Website flags differ in borders, field colour and letter arrangement: the larger flag appears probably light blue and differs from the one seen at sea. The later T606 funnel on Montauk Maiden has very narrow white letter fimbriation, visible only close up. Apache Maiden shows a black funnel top. Kiowa Princess lacked letters in 2005 but had them in 2008, suggesting to Rosanoski that Arkadia-registered ships became differentiated from those registered through Roymar.

Log.Star’s funnels are green with white LogStar lettering on two levels, possibly with a star or similar mark at either end.

TBS International was formed in 2001 by amalgamating TBS Shipping International, founded in 1998, and the earlier TBS International, founded in 1997.

Roymar Ship Management, formed in 1992 and based first at Yonkers and later Scarsdale, was part of the TBS group. The registers show it earlier under B + H Maritime Services and by 2007 as TBS’s major operating company. TBS Shipping Services had been separately listed as a Yonkers concern formed in 2000.

The Brazilian Log.Star Navegacào joint venture with Log-In Logistica Intermodal operated Brazilian-built, owned and crewed ships Angara Star, Recife Star and Jari Star on coastal and Amazon cabotage trades. The cited material gives Log-In a 30 per cent interest.

Bermuda, Hamilton.

Mitchell shows a principal funnel, called S1628 in the text, but Rosanoski suggests that it and S1529 may belong to individual pool members. The S1530 flag panel may instead be a funnel band, since it occurs in a funnel collection. Blue shades are undefined. A funnel may be based on Silke Reidner, which Mitchell notes without a drawing; the vessel’s cited ownership and management period is 1981–1985.

The business was a pool of short-sea traders formed by Haren/Ems owners. Lloyds lists it as manager in 1985–86 and agent in 1992–93, including for Seawisp, which Rosanoski could not identify in the ship index.

Germany, Haren.

Mona Lisa’s dark-red L354 funnel is presumed to be an owner’s mark rather than a charterer’s, with matching port and starboard evidence. The Topaz’s P408 funnel represents the charterer: its blue lettering appears slightly darker than the funnel, supported by a close-up Sydney photograph in December 2007.

Technical Marine Planning appears as an agent in 2004–2008, apparently for or through Kyma Ship Management. Rosanoski suggests it may be an offshoot of the London naval-architecture and marine-engineering company acquired by Carnival in 1995, but does not establish the connection.

Leonardo Shipping’s Mona Lisa served Holiday Kreuzfahrten until that company’s September 2006 bankruptcy, then worked as a Dubai hotel ship before joining Royal Caribbean as Oceanic II. Refitted for The Scholar Ship, it offered sixteen-week academic voyages from September 2007 through a Royal Caribbean initiative involving universities in seven countries. It reverted to Mona Lisa before a 2008 Lord Nelson Seereisen charter and subsequently worked for Peace Boat.

Topaz International Shipping owned The Topaz, managed by Kyma and appearing through Technical Marine Planning from 2004. It was chartered to Tokyo’s Peace Boat, recorded in the historical note from 2006, although the livery evidence includes a December 2005 photograph.

USA, Miami, Florida.

Brown assigns the separate T62 livery to Teekay Shipping Ltd., but photographs indicate group-wide use. Navion Clipper confirms the funnel in April 2006. The published flag was placed under the Bahamas, reflecting that company context rather than resolving the group’s several locations.

Torben Karlshoej founded Teekay in 1973. After the West Coast move, Palm Shipping was established as a chartering affiliate, followed by Viking Star Shipping in 1979. The business restructured as Teekay Shipping Corporation in 1993, went public in 1995 and became Teekay Corporation in 2007.

Expansion brought Australian Tankships in June 1998, Bona Shipholding in March 1999, Ugland Nordic in 2001, Navion and half of Skaugen Petrotrans in 2003, and Naviera F. Tapias on 30 April 2004. These acquisitions produced Teekay-branded Australian, Norwegian, American and Spanish operations. Teekay bought a 16 per cent Torm interest in July 2003; in April 2007 the two announced an acquisition and division of OMI. The Swift Tankers pool was formed with A.P. Moller-Maersk in 2006.

Regional identities also changed over time. The Los Angeles company became Western Marine Agencies in 1990 and Teekay Shipping Canada on its November 1991 move. Teekay Bahamas, founded in 1982, became Teekay Shipping in 1990; the Japanese concern dated from 1988. IUM Shipmanagement, 51 per cent owned, became Teekay Marine Services in 2005. The Tapias gas company became Naviera Teekay Gas. Petrojarl and its production arm adopted Teekay names in 2006–2007 after acquisition: the source gives 40 per cent initially in September 2006, also described elsewhere as a majority, and the balance in December. The 2001 BHP/Teekay Marine venture was initially 30/70; BHP’s later buyout is printed with the malformed date 7/2994.

Founded in New York, USA; moved to the US West Coast in 1975 and Vancouver, Canada, in 1991. Nassau, Bahamas, appears in Lloyds 2003. The 2010 fact sheet distinguishes Bermuda corporate headquarters, Vancouver operational headquarters and Marshall Islands incorporation.

The original Texas symbol was a five-pointed red star, created in 1903 from the state flag’s star. A 1907 delivery-wagon logo added Made in Texas on white, a blue enclosing circle and The Texas Co. at its base. The green T within the red star was registered in 1909; black TEXACO lettering crossed the upper point in 1913. The 1936 banjo sign retained the green T, whose black outline became white in 1948. A hexagonal identification system followed in 1963. In 1981 a red T appeared within a white star and red circle; in 2000 the Texaco name was dropped from that streamlined symbol.

T146 is described as presumably the first flag, documented by Lloyds 1912 and later sources. The contributor dates its trademark registration to 1906, distinct from the logo chronology above. The early design gave way during the 1930s to T323.

For T324, Rosanoski considers a black T incorrect and expects green edged white. Mitchell gives arched funnel lettering and a 1926–1959 period. Jordan does not mention lettering on T322, while Talbot-Booth seems to show a black letter and assigns that flag to the Norwegian company, contrasting it with T324 for the parent. Several sources also place the livery under H.C. Mathiesen.

T323’s flag circle is outlined black, unlike the funnel rendering; the T also appears black-edged, while published versions outline TEXACO in green. The later flag is described as white with a red hexagonal frame enclosing the star-and-T and black company name. Loughran dates T323 from the 1930s to late 1968, noting that fleet-wide replacement took nearly a decade. T109’s white-edged T agrees with the 1948 emblem change. Although Stewart and Loughran make the star fill its circle, photographs of Texaco Caribbean and Texaco Rhode Island show it generously sized but short of the circumference.

T152 succeeded the earlier markings in late 1968. Brown associates it with Texaco Overseas Tankship in London, while Texaco Baltic confirms use by the Norwegian company. Mitchell’s Norwegian version arches the lettering.

Mitchell dates the T8 funnel to 1990. A contributor describes the newer red disc, white star and red T logo on black, but was unsure of flag use; Rosanoski cites Brown 1995 for its appearance on a white flag.

Texaco Canada and Regent are identified as the only subsidiaries with their own funnel variants, eventually replaced by group livery. The T150 emblem includes a small red ring enclosing a red star outline at its base.

The main account begins with Texas Fuel in March 1901 and the Texas Co., formed by J.S. Cullinan and Arnold Schlaet in 1902 to absorb its assets. Texas law allowed buying, transport, refining and marketing but prohibited production by an integrated company. A published contributor instead gives a 1897 foundation. The register’s Texas Corp. name from 1926 is questioned against company histories using Texas Co.; Mitchell records a 1926 incorporation and the Texaco Inc. name from 1 May 1959. Rosanoski considers the 1932 foundation in Merchant Ships likely to refer to the Norwegian subsidiary.

Expansion included California Petroleum in 1928, Indian Refining in 1931, Trinidad Oil and an interest in Regent in 1956, Seaboard in 1958 and Paragon in 1959. The 1941 Delaware reorganisation preceded operation throughout the 48 states and District of Columbia. The later published account adds White Fuel, Superior Oil in Venezuela, Getty Oil in 1984, Star Enterprise with Saudi Refining, Monterey Resources and Hydro Texaco with Norsk Hydro.

Overseas flagging began in 1932 through Texas Company (Norway), managed by H.C. Mathiesen, and renamed Texaco Norway in 1959. Texaco Panama originated in 1938; its rename is given as 1959 or 1960, although earlier register entries already use Texaco forms. Canadian interests initially appear through individual ship companies, later as Texaco Canada. In Britain the Regent fleet appears under Texaco Ltd., while Overseas Tankship (UK) became Texaco Overseas Tankship after acquisition in 1967.

Texaco merged with Chevron on 9 October 2001 as ChevronTexaco, although some Texaco companies continued under the group. Its former large US-flag fleet had only two US-registered vessels in the cited 2001 register. Earlier international links included Caltex, Aramco and its Casoc predecessor, Bahrain Petroleum, the Indonesian Pacific Petroleum concern and a majority interest in Deutsch Erdol. The ACT venture with Agip and Chevron later appeared as CACT with Eni, Chevron and Texaco.

USA: New York and later White Plains, New York. A contributor specifies that New York in the shipping context was a port of registry, not the headquarters.

Ahrenberg is listed as an operator in Lloyds 1917–18, serving Nornan Linien, identified with Rederi A/B Nornan, and one unnamed company. A further reference appears among the 1937–8 telegraphic addresses.

Sweden, Gothernburg, as written in the original Country field.

Norway.

Netherlands, Rotterdam.

The original black funnel has five bands, red-white-blue-white-red. Two red flag versions are recorded: one with a white-edged blue diamond and white N, the other with a white diamond and blue N.

Recorded as Th. Norbö Jr., manager only, in the account of 1939 fleets, Nordbö appears as an owner as well by 1963–64. It managed D/S A/S Falkeid.

Norway, Haugesund.

Theodoros Papangelopoulos appears as an agent in 1978–79 and as Theodoros A. Papangelopoulos, apparently trading as General Marine Enterprises, in 1980–81. By 1985–86 the name is Th. Papangelopoulos & Co., acting for General Maritime Enterprises Corporation and Marine General Transporters Corporation. Rosanoski suggests that it may have owned or acquired the former.

Greece, Piraeus.

The separate T726 funnel is documented on Orapin 3 in June 2011 and also on Orapin 1, 2 and 4. Its flag is probably the one flown by Danai 6 in February 2008.

Formed in 1995, Thai International Tankers was a joint venture between Laemthong International Lines and Thai Petrochemical Industry. Rosanoski considers that the latter’s 1997 financial difficulties and 2007 sale probably changed the holdings, but the nature of those changes is unclear. The company continued operating.

Its network included S.B. Tankers, Thai Original Tankers, Thai Oga Trading, Thai Petroleum Tankers, Thai Tankers Trading and Thai Quality Tankers, the last established on 4 August 2006. S.B. acquired Danai 1 in July 2004 and Danai 3 in February 2005; Thai Original acquired Danai 2, 4 and 5 in November 2004, September 2005 and May 2006. Thai Quality acquired Danai 6–8 in February 2007. Later registered ownership differed: the 2011–2012 register placed Danai 4, Danai 8 and Orapin 1–2 under Thai International itself and the remaining vessels under managed companies.

Thailand, Bangkok.

Charles Nelson was a steamship owner from 1888 until services ceased in 1938. Primarily a Pacific-coast operator, it also entered the intercoastal trade. In 1934 it was excluded from the rate-setting group for Pacific-to-Gulf of Mexico traffic because it was considered too small to maintain a regular schedule.

USA, San Francisco.

Documentary material — company attribution not established

In 1937 Alexandre Vlasov decided to establish two British companies: Alva as shipowner and Navigation & Coal Trade as manager and broker. Alva was registered in 1938 under the latter’s management. British Ocean Tramps records its last two steamers as transferred to a Bermuda associate in 1958; Lloyds nevertheless shows continued operation until 1971, when Alva Star passed to Alva Star Shipping under the same name.

Mitchell records a later title, Alva Shipping (Holdings). The source places the company in V Group as a Sitmar subsidiary and finds no apparent connection with the Panamanian Alva company. In 1970–1 Lloyds lists it under its own name without a manager, though Navigation & Coal Trade still cross-references it.

UK, London.

Jeff Thoresen reported purchasing an Anglo-Eastern flag on eBay from an Indian shipbreaker; his photograph is retained as source evidence without assigning it an unsupported image ID.

The source separately discusses Mineral Nippon’s T727 funnel, based on a portside photograph. Built for Toppenish Ltd. in 1986, the ship was managed by Anglo-Eastern and sold in June 1996. Rosanoski considers this funnel apparently specific to that vessel, with no connection to similarly named managed ships. T727 remains a documentary cross-reference, outside this entry’s accepted image associations.

The Anglo-Eastern Group was formed in 2001 by the merger of Denholm Ship Management (Holdings) Ltd. and Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Ltd. Only Denholm’s ship-management business was involved: Rosanoski rejects register groupings that also placed Denholm Line Steamers and Denholm Fishselling under Anglo-Eastern.

Peter Nash founded the Anglo-Eastern chartering and management business. Lloyds dates Anglo-Eastern Management Services Ltd. to 1974 and its change to Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Ltd. to 1988. Compagnie Maritime Belge (Lloyd Royal) S.A. bought it in 1985. Accounts disagree on the management buyout: Lloyds gives December 1992, while the company website dates the purchase by Peter Cremers, Marcek Liedts and Richard Wong to 1998. Konsortium Perkapalan Berhad is recorded as putting it on the market in 1998. The company remained an operating subsidiary after the 2001 merger.

The group’s management offices included Antwerp, Bremen, Glasgow, Mumbai and Singapore. The Glasgow company had originally been Denholm Ship Management Ltd., later Anglo-Eastern Ship Management (UK) Ltd., becoming Anglo-Eastern (UK) Ltd. in 2003. The Antwerp business was formed in 2004 and the Singapore company in 1996.

The source also records an Athens business formed in May 2001 from Mare Maritime Co. S.A. and Denholm Ship Management (Holdings) Ltd. as Mare Ltd. It became Mare International Ltd. in 2002 and Maregulf International Ltd. in 2003. A later register apparently identifies a 2004 change to Evalend Shipping Co. S.A.; Rosanoski leaves that identification qualified.

China, Hong Kong.

Documentary material — company attribution not established

The early flag is white with a red oval ring, red “THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO.” around its inside and a larger blue “OILS” in the centre. Brown shows it from 1929 to 1943, linking it in the last edition to Atlantic Oil Shipping. Talbot-Booth does not confirm this flag; Merchant Ships 1949 states that no flag was known.

Brown 1951 changes the red and blue lettering of the earlier flag to black and red respectively. Merchant Ships 1944 specifies black funnel letters.

Loughran dates the later design to the 1950s and shows equal-height blue letters on a slightly narrowing red panel, less tapered than Stewart’s version. Brown 1958 reduces the letter height slightly and appears to mix blue and white lettering. Rosanoski suspects misregistered blue printing. The livery continued until the late 1960s and the emergence of Arco Shipping.

Joe McMillan records two similar designs: A415 from Stewart 1953, rendered squatter like A412, and A416 from US Navy. Stewart also assigns the livery to Philadelphia Tankers Inc.

The business traces its roots to Atlantic Petroleum Storage Co., founded in Philadelphia in 1866, which established Atlantic Refining in 1870. Standard Oil acquired it in 1874; it became independent again with Standard Oil’s breakup in 1911. Merchant Ships gives a conflicting formation date of 1916. In 1966 Atlantic merged with Richfield Oil Corporation to form Atlantic Richfield, subsequently known as Arco.

The sources disagree over the name Atlantic Oils Refining Co. and a supposed 1950s change, since earlier accounts already use The Atlantic Refining Co. It controlled and operated Atlantic Oil Shipping Co., formed in 1927 and absorbed by the time of Talbot-Booth’s 1949 account. Atlantic Union Oil Co. was formed with Union Oil in December 1927.

USA, Philadelphia.

The original 1866 flag depicted a bee, but its colours are unknown.

Booth’s origins lay in the US importing partnership Walden & Booth, formed in 1860, followed by Booth & Co. and the Liverpool office Alfred Booth & Co. in 1863. The first steamer was ordered in 1865 and service began on 15 February 1866. Another account calls Alfred and Charles Booth the founders in 1866. Early vessels were owned in sixty-fourth shares, mainly by the Booth firm and related Holt family. Booth Steamship Co. was incorporated in 1881 and reorganised in 1901.

Booth helped establish Booth Iquitos Steamship in 1898; its ships entered Iquitos Steamship in 1901 through amalgamation with Red Cross Iquitos. Liverpool & Maranham Steamship was acquired in 1903. The Vestey Group bought Booth in 1946, linking it with Blue Star. Group ships were pooled under Blue Star Ship Management in 1975, ending Booth as a separate entity. Ships traditionally bore saints’ names.

U.K., Liverpool.

George Brown’s tug business began in 1888. Ships registered to him and his successors were actually owned by shipbuilder John Readhead & Sons. Brown converted the operation into The Brown Tug Co. Ltd. in 1923 and died in 1925. France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear took it over in 1930.

UK, South Shields.

Founded in 1759 by John Robuck, Samuel Garbett and William Cadell, Carron acquired a barge in 1760 and its first ship in 1765, receiving a Royal Charter in 1773. Samuel Garbett & Co. managed the ships from 1763 until its winding-up in 1772, when they passed to Carron Shipping Co., predominantly owned by William Elphinstone. Carron took over his interests in 1782, reportedly when he turned to privateering. It became a steamship owner in 1851, using river names from about the middle of that century. Carron became a London Scottish Lines shareholder in October 1945 and sold its last ship, Forth, in 1947. Liquidation followed in 1983.

The company’s munitions manufacture, particularly carronades, explains the gun barrels and cannonballs in its emblem. A cannonball at the mainmast head signified ownership and, from the Crimean War, carriage of munitions; an earlier origin as a privateering signal against the French is also suggested.

UK, Carron.

Formed in 1872, China Navigation was managed by Butterfield & Swire until John Swire & Sons took over on 1 January 1974. Alfred Holt acquired an interest around 1926. An Ocean S.S. offer in 1967 envisaged equal Ocean and Swire ownership with Swire continuing management; the source records the proposal rather than its completion. Later Lloyd’s lists the company within John Swire & Sons, alongside a separate Singapore-based China Navigation Co. Pte. Ltd. entry in 2011–12.

Taikoo Chinese Navigation was formed in 1930 as an intended Anglo-Chinese venture, operated until 1941 and was revived in 1975, becoming Taikoo Navigation in 1977. Australian-Oriental Line was an associate. Chief Container Lines is called a subsidiary, but another account gives a 39% Swire holding.

Container interests included Australia Japan Container Line; Asia Australia Express, formed in April 1973 and later P&O Swire Containers; Dong Young with Cho Yang from 1975; Japan/Straits Container Line from November 1978; and New Zealand Unit Express from 1969. The company also had interests in Overseas Containers (Pacific), Tasman Orient with Mistsui OSK Lines and Victorian International Container Terminal.

UK, London, and Hong Kong, China.

Jan Mertens describes Larousse Commercial Illustré 1930’s red flag with white, sans-serif SS, the letters about half the flag’s height. Above it is the elongated Ellerman pennant, one-quarter longer than the flag and half its height.

Founded in 1839, the City Line was also recorded as City S.S. Co. and became a limited company in 1892. George Smith & Sons owned and managed it; London, Liverpool & Ocean Shipping Co., later Ellerman Lines, acquired 50 per cent in 1901. Known as Ellerman’s City Line, it managed part of Ellerman’s fleet, with Ellerman also acting as agent. It was incorporated into Ellerman City Liners in 1973.

U.K.: Glasgow in Lloyd’s 1958–59 and London in 1966–67.

G.H. Watt recalled each British & Commonwealth company flying its own house flag below the group flag on the mainmast. At anchor or alongside, a smaller house flag commonly served as the jack, except where a company preferred the pilot jack. On Clan-named vessels, the red ground of the individual jack was replaced by the vessel’s name tartan. Watt dates discontinuation to 1966–67 because of cost. Evans also records tartan jacks. Watt’s account dates the merger to 1953–54, differing from the 1956 company history.

Almanacco Marine Mercantili assigns a Clan flag and a black funnel with two white bands to Asiatic Steam Navigation Co.; Rosanoski finds that attribution inexplicable.

The Clan Line Association of Steamers was formed in 1881, with new ships built and managed by Cayzer, Irvine while Cayzer retained the original six Clan ships. The business moved to Glasgow and became The Clan Line of Steamers Limited on 25 June 1890, with Cayzer holding a majority interest. Steamers distinguished it from Thomas & Dunlop & Sons’ Clan sailing ships. Also called the Scots Navy, it merged with Union Castle in 1956 to form British & Commonwealth Shipping, with the component companies retaining separate identities for a time. Clan Macgregor made the final Clan Line sailing in 1981, when trading ceased.

The group acquired Houston Line and a controlling interest in Scottish Shire Line in 1918, and controlled Thesen’s Steamship Co. from 1935. It acquired the Hector Whaling name in June 1961 and reconstructed that company. Clan participated in the Dolphin Line consortium and managed King Line.

U.K.: Glasgow, moving to London after the First World War.

The register sequence begins with G.D. Claridge as manager in 1953–54, uses Colne Fishing Co. in 1978–79, and The Colne Shipping Co. by 1985–86. By 1992–93 the previously managed fleets had been incorporated, and the company remained listed in 1996–97. Management interests included Clan Steam Fishing (Grimsby), Claridge Trawlers, Colne Fishing, Huxley Fishing Cop., Drifter Trawlers and Dragon Fishing. Sir John D. Mardsen Bt. managed part of the fleet in 1978–79.

U.K., Lowestoft and London Colney.

John Coulson, involved in tug ownership from about 1866, absorbed John White’s business, which dated from 1852. The Coulson Tug Co. was formed in 1918 and taken over by France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear in 1925. Coulson is recorded as owning Star of Hope from 1892.

UK, Newcastle.

CSL traces its history to St. Lawrence riverboat operations and antecedents dating to 1845. Canada Transportation Lines was incorporated on 17 June 1913 and became Canada Steamship Lines on 4 December. The merger included Northern Navigation, Richelieu & Ontario, Compagnie du Richelieu, Canada Interlake Lines, Ontario & Quebec Navigation, Lake Ontario & Bay of Quinte Steamboat, Quebec Steamship and related subsidiaries; another account also names Niagara Navigation. A later note gives 1917, illustrating the source’s inconsistent corporate chronology.

Sir James Dunn gained control in 1951; after his death in 1956 Paul Desmarais took a major position. Power Corporation acquired a holding in 1963, control in 1969 and the remaining shares in 1971. Reorganisation in 1976 produced Canada Steamship Lines (1975) Ltd.; The CSL Group name followed in 1981. Paul Martin and Lawrence Pathy announced their purchase in August 1981. The accounts date the later buyout to 1988 or, for Fednav’s half interest, 1989. Martin’s holdings passed to his sons in 2003. The source records a merger of Canada Steamship Lines Inc. with the parent group in March 2007.

The major divisions included Canada Steamship Lines, CSL International, CSL Australia, CSL Asia and CSL Europe. CSL International managed non-domestic interests and international self-unloading bulk carriers; its formation is dated April 1992 or 1994, with Montreal and Beverly, Massachusetts appearing as locations. The 2001 acquisition of Asia Pacific Marine Container Lines is presumed to have become CSL Asia. CSL Australia was formed in Sydney in 2000. CSL Europe’s Norwegian subsidiary handled European commercial and operational work. Les Remorqueurs du Quebec appears among the operating companies and was apparently later sold.

Australian interests included Auscan Self Unloaders, formed in 1998 with Intercontinental Ship Management. When CSR Shipping ceased in 2007, CSL Australia took over its gypsum shipments and acquired Cementco Shipping from Cement Australia.

Ocean Lines operated Coverdale from 1961 until 1971 or 1972 and Gleneagles from 1964 until 1973, before their transfer to Pipe Line Tankers and Canadian registry. Pipe Line Tankers also operated Nipigon Bay from 1959; its fleet appeared under CSL Group by 1985–86.

Other interests included the Great Lakes Bulk Carriers consortium with Misener and Pioneer, operating from 1991 to 1994 and dissolved after Misener’s failure; a half share in Marbulk acquired in 2000; and Provmar Fuels, formed jointly with Upper Lakes in 1984. CSL was a founding member of St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation and acquired 49% of Atlantic Freight Lines. The relationship with Labrador Steamship is not clear.

Canada, Montreal.

Formed in 1970 as K.K. Diamond Ferry, the company amalgamated with Blue Highway Line West Japan on 1 July 2007 and continued as The Diamond Ferry Co. Ltd. Lloyds places it under Mitsui OSK Lines. Earlier vessel names began with Ferry, later replaced by names ending in Diamond.

Japan, Kobe; later Oita.

ENC began in 1958 as Societe Generale pour la Navigation Maritime, became United Arab Maritime in 1961 and Egyptian Navigation in 1972. Its website instead gives establishment as an association company in 1961. Government-controlled, it was affiliated first to Maritime Transport and later National Navigation, which acquired 90% in 2005. ENC held 40% of MISR Shipping.

Egypt, Alexandria.

The company was formed in 1966. Olie Scheepsvaart managed part of its fleet in the early 1970s.

Ethiopia, Addis Ababa; Rotterdam, Netherlands, is recorded in 1978–79 before the return to Addis Ababa.

Earlier livery versions also appear under Tarakohe Shipping.

The business traces origins to Northland ventures of the 1870s. Sources date the Tarakohe works’ operation to 1908 or establishment to 1910, with acquisition by Golden Bay Cement Co. in 1919. Wilson’s New Zealand Portland Cement was acquired in 1982, and the Tarakohe plant closed in 1988 as the business became known as Golden Bay Cement. The companies register separately records incorporation on 21 May 1920, a 1992 change adding The to the name, and striking-off on 15 August 2000. Lloyds gives formation in 1982; these dates refer to differently described stages and are not fully reconciled.

Cement shipping initially passed through Tarakohe Shipping, formed in 1954 as a joint venture with Anchor Shipping & Foundry; vessels operated under Golden Bay’s own name from about 1980. Blue Circle sold 70.4% to Winstone, and Fletcher took full ownership in April 1988 following its Winstone takeover. Rosanoski notes that Lloyds continued to list Blue Circle control until correcting the entry in August 2004.

New Zealand: Wellington, later Auckland.

Great Eastern, also called GE Shipping and GESCO, was formed on 13 August 1948. Promoters included Ardeshir Hormusji Bhiwandiwalla of A.H. Bhiwandiwalla & Co. and Manekal Ujamshi Mulji, Jagjivan Ujamshi Maulji and Vasant J. Sheth. The source describes the latter as apparently of the Sheth family, involved from incorporation. In 1956 it became, in the company account, the first Indian private-sector owner and operator of oil tankers. Its maritime business comprised bulk carriers, tankers and offshore oil-and-gas services.

The offshore division began in 1982 through GAL Offshore Services, merged into GESCO from April 1995. London operations began in 1975, with a London shipowning subsidiary incorporated in 1985; Singapore followed in 1994 and Jujairah in 1999, retaining that source spelling. The London company disappeared from Lloyds after 2006 and from the later website but apparently still existed in 2013.

Greatship (India) was formed on 26 June 2002, with Greatship Group operations beginning in 2006. Singapore concerns included Greatship Global Offshore Services, formed in 2007, and Greatship Global Offshore Management Services. Ship names commonly began with Jag, which the source translates as World.

India: Bombay, later Mumbai.

Incorporated in New Jersey on 7 July 1899, the concern was popularly called The Towing Company and maintained its headquarters at Cleveland throughout the century described in its website history. Affiliates included Admiral Towing & Barge, Puerto Rico Towing & Barge and Tugz International.

USA, Cleveland, Ohio.

A contributor traces a varied early sequence: Cepolis, Corato and Cerinthuus carried red and black funnels, while Bassethound, Jamaica Planter and Daxhound also lacked Hadley’s yellow and black. Cerinthus (II) carried Houlder colours throughout its time charter. Corato (II), delivered in March 1952, appears to have been the first with the proper yellow Hadley funnel and diamond, although the house flag may have been used from the start.

W.J. Harvey’s Hadley history, quoted by Dave Edge, gives Immingham Agency a yellow funnel with black top and a yellow pennant bearing black IAC on a white diamond. Coastal Tankers had a red funnel with black top and a yellow flag with black CT on a white diamond; Iranian Tankers had a plain red funnel and a similar flag with ITC. Esplen Trust had a black funnel with a quartered yellow-and-black band or panel, its form unclear, and a yellow flag with black E on a white diamond. Leadenhall Shipping had either red with a white band and blue top, or a white cross on a red disc within a white square on black.

The source separately assigns C1401 to Coastal Tankers, giving formation in 1927 but also an establishment date of 1926 as steamship owner.

The Hadley Shipping Co., or HSC, was founded on 18 December 1926, with Houlder Brothers holding 5%. Its name came from Walter Warwick’s home at Hadley Wood. It was founded by Immingham Agency, which Lloyds says became Warwick & Esplen in 1965; another account describes Warwick & Esplen as a separate agency created soon after Hadley, naming Mr Lewis [?] Warwick and Graham Esplen as the founders. These accounts do not coincide. Hadley shared Houlder’s London offices until moving to Wapping in 1987.

The business began by buying a tanker from Anglo-Saxon Petroleum and chartering it back. Further tankers were mainly chartered out; coastal tanker operations began in 1934, and a refrigerated banana carrier bought in 1935 was chartered to Jamaica Banana Producers. Two ships were lost in the Second World War. A Liberty ship bought in 1947 was chartered to Houlder Brothers, followed by new tankers in the 1950s. Hadley withdrew from coastal tankers in 1956, returning to dry cargo in 1967 with bulk carriers and short-sea traders. The family-owned concern later had a 9% Denholm interest. Its Foreland Shipping holding was recorded as 25%, subsequently amended to 75%.

United Kingdom, London.

Edward Hain founded the concern in 1878 according to Loughran; another account dates the Cardiff company to 1901 with roots in 1881. It appeared as E. Hain & Co., then E. Hain & Son trading as Hain Steamship Co. P&O took over in 1917, when the head office moved to London. Tramp ships used Cornish Tre names, with B names also recorded. The merger into Hain-Nourse is dated 1964 or 1 October 1965; a further account records incorporation into P&O’s General Cargo Division in 1972.

United Kingdom: St. Ives, with the head office in London from 1917. Cardiff is also recorded, probably as an operating port.

The sources give incorporations on 6 March 1924 and 14 March 1985. ARC Marine acquired the company on 18 November 1986. It apparently remained active but dormant and was included in Hanson’s acquisition of ARC Marine. Earlier registers place it under T.R. Brown & Sons as operator.

UK, Bristol; Maidenhead is also given.

The funnel changed in January 1982 to the Jardine Ship Management livery, referenced separately as J27, though the note does not mention a black top.

Formed in 1882 by combining the Jardine group’s river, coastal and cargo interests, Indo-China Steam Navigation was owned by Jardine, Matheson. In 1951 it took over Common Brothers’ interest in Australia China Line, for which it had supplied ships, presumably also operating Jardine’s share. Ocean and coastal ships used sang or shing suffixes and Yangtze vessels wo; Eastern became a common first name after the war. Later register names include Indo-China Steam Navigation (Hong Kong), and the business became Jardine Ship Management in 1985.

Hong Kong.

Pickands, Mather organised four vessel companies into Interlake in 1913. It was incorporated on 1 April as successor to Lackawanna Steamship, formed in 1906. The source records purchases of Cleveland Steamship and Youngstown Steamship in 1929, with separate earlier disposal dates for Cleveland. Interlake reincorporated in Delaware in 1931 and merged with Pickands, Mather on 31 August 1966.

Moore McCormack Resources acquired Pickands, Mather in 1973. Following the failure of its shipping activities, Interlake was sold in 1987 to former chairman James Rex Barker and appears as a Mormac Marine Group operating company. The former Ford/Rouge Steel fleet was acquired in 1989 through Lakes Shipping, formed that year.

USA, Cleveland, Ohio.

The Earls of Durham owned collieries and, from 1858, tugs. In 1896 the Earl sold his collieries to Sir James Joicey, who named the business The Lambton Collieries Ltd. and kept it separate from his original concern. Hetton Coal’s operations were added in 1911 as The Lambton & Hetton Collieries Ltd.; Joicey’s original company joined in 1924 to form The Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Ltd.

France, Fenwick Tyne & Wear acquired the business in November 1945, apparently only its towage operation. The coasting fleet, originally managed by H.T. Morton, had mostly been sold in the early 1920s, with remaining vessels placed under Tanfield Steamship, which built larger ships and was sold to Stephenson Clarke in 1952. Rosanoski questions Tanfield’s ownership before that sale, especially after 1945, and whether its formation relates to the 1924 consolidation.

UK, Newcastle.

The blue flag has a white saltire surmounted by a white, red-edged shield bearing a green thistle with a reddish top. Funnel variants retain the King’s Own Scottish Borderers tartan: a red-and-green chequered band between white-and-red chequered bands. The first funnel is black without a BP shield; a later black version adds a yellow-edged green shield with yellow BP; a third is red with a black top and the same band and shield. The tartan apparently came from Border Regiment, one of the original ships, and the fleet used Border names.

Rosanoski assumes the original shieldless funnel was black and places the addition of the BP device from 1955, when it originated. The source itself calls the addition “latterly”.

Common Bros. managed Lowland’s fleet in the 1963–64 and 1970–71 registers, followed by BP Tanker in 1978–79. BP also held an interest, but the source’s percentage is transcribed as 505 and is not silently interpreted.

UK, Newcastle.

USA, New York.

NSCSA is dated by Lloyds to 1981 as Saudi National Shipping Co., with Government ownership of 25%. The cited company website instead gives October 1999 and Government ownership of 29%, the balance being privately held. That same account says its wholly owned NSCSA Asia subsidiary was established in Hong Kong in 1993 and opened a Singapore subsidiary office in 1997. These dates and percentages are retained as conflicting source statements.

Its fleet was held directly and through subsidiaries, with much of it under outside management. Maritime interests included National Chemical Carriers, formed in 1990; Arabian Chemical Carriers, formed jointly with United Arab Shipping in 1984; and Mideast Ship Management, jointly formed with V. Ships (UK) in 1996 at Dubai. A 30.3% interest in Petredec was acquired in 2005.

Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.

Lloyds lists the organisation as National Shipping Co. in 1978–79 and The National Shipping Corporation in 1980–81. Vessels also appear under Aden Coasters and, in the latter edition, The Yemen Ports & Shipping Organisation.

Yemen, Aden.

George W. Pasha Jr. founded the family-owned logistics and transportation business, serving customers since 1947. Maritime Services International was formed in 1972 for vehicle stevedoring and terminal services, later becoming Pasha Maritime Services and, in 1987, Pasha Stevedoring & Terminals. Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines was formed in 1999, or 2000 according to Lloyd’s, to operate a roll-on/roll-off ship between San Diego and Hawaii. Lloyd’s 2005 account identifies it as a joint venture with Strong Vessel Operators, formerly Van Ommeren Shipping (USA), previously shown as the manager.

USA, Corte Madera CA.

The 1877 flag had a dark saltire on a light field, with colours unknown. By the 1890s a red flag with white cross and white PJSCo letters in the quarters was used, referenced as P117. Its cross appears smaller than P116’s and no stop appears below the o. In 1896 a red C was placed on the white cross, the source-only P423.

The business began on 23 January 1877 as Port Jackson Steam Boat Co., described as Sydney’s first limited-liability company. It was reincorporated as Port Jackson Steamship Co. in 1881, became Port Jackson Co-operative Steamship Co. in 1896 after absorbing Manly Co-operative Steam Ferry, and was reincorporated under the Port Jackson & Manly name in 1907. Government records use Steamship as one word, unlike the two-word form in Lloyd’s; a further registration is dated 28 June 1920.

The source records transfer of vessels and plant to Sydney Harbour Ferries in 1951, with Port Jackson continuing to operate them. Brambles acquired the company in 1972. Its withdrawal from ferries led to Government management effective 1 July 1974 in one account, while The Log dates the New South Wales takeover to 1975.

Australia, Sydney.

The separately referenced P310 funnel was at one time an alternative for Great Lakes vessels.

The Pure Oil name originated in 1895, with the company itself dating to 1917. Established in Pennsylvania before moving its headquarters to Chicago, it marketed mainly in the Midwest, so tanker operations centred on the Great Lakes and Midwestern rivers. Pure Transportation was formed by 1935 to manage shipping. Pure Oil amalgamated with Union Oil of California in 1965, but David D Irwin continued to appear under it in later registers. The 1960s entries show operations mainly through Delnor Corporation.

USA: New York, later Chicago and Palatine, Illinois, in successive sources.

Coral appears to have a plain funnel, but the photograph’s angle makes this uncertain.

QCL was formed on 2 June 1914 and began shipowning in October 1932, the date Lloyds gives as formation. It became Queensland Cement Ltd. on 8 February 1988, although a separate delisting account uses that name in April 1987, and later Queensland Cement Pty. Ltd. In its later shipping years the vessel operated through subsidiary Cementco Shipping. The company merged into Cement Australia in 2003, while later register evidence continued to show the legal company.

Holderbank Financiere Glaris and Queensland’s State Government Insurance Office became major shareholders in 1979. Adelaide Steamship announced a 10% holding in July 1986.

Australia, Darra, Brisbane; later Brisbane.

The company was formed in 1897 and appears in the older registers as Sarawak Steamship Co. Ltd. By the 2005 website account it had diversified into travel and tours, advertising, gallery and air-cargo services.

It is described as a Straits Steamship subsidiary by the late 1930s and again in 1965. Rosanoski considers it apparently part of the Keppel Group’s 1983 takeover of Straits Steamship, although the company website supplies no such association.

Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching.

Scottish Tanker’s vessels appear under Huntley, Cook and later Cayzer, Irvine or Cayzer Irvine Shipping. The register evidence overlaps with Thompson Steamshipping: Scottish Lion and Scottish Eagle were separately attributed in 1953–54, while four Scottish-named tankers appeared under Thompson in 1958–59 and Scottish Tanker was omitted. Scottish Hawk and Scottish Ptarmigan reappear under Scottish Tanker in 1963–64. The source does not establish a fuller corporate explanation.

Ship names originally began with Scottish and later with King.

U.K., London; Mitchell gives Glasgow.

Documentary material — company attribution not established

The first two ships, NZ Waitangi and NZ Aorangi, bought in 1974 for the UK run, used this livery until sale in 1978 and replacement by New Zealand Pacific. The funnel top was chocolate-brown, easily mistaken for black. The flag was remembered as light blue, with four red Southern Cross stars edged white at the hoist and slightly slanted white NZL at the fly. Rosanoski qualifies his memory of the shade and notes that his original written account gives white star edging which The Log does not mention.

Loughran varies the positions of the charges, gives six-pointed stars and assigns the flag to the Shipping Corporation; Rosanoski regards the star points and attribution as errors. Mitchell’s funnel rendering is red, in line with this version.

The corporation’s original white flag bears a blue-and-red stylised koru, an unfurling fern frond. On 1 January 1984 it was replaced by a horizontal light-blue–red–dark-blue triband, the red narrower, with a white disc bearing the koru in darker blue. Both flag renderings are based on actual examples held. The funnels were air/sea-rescue orange-red, matching the hull, with rich dark-chocolate tops, as documented on New Zealand Pacific in April 1985.

The state-owned Shipping Corporation of New Zealand, known as SCNZ or SCONZ, was established in 1973, following a Labour election commitment in 1972, to operate New Zealand Line and a coastal service. Coastal Ranger replaced the withdrawn Union vessel Wanaka on the Auckland–Lyttelton–Dunedin run. New Zealand Line originated in 1974 and became the corporation’s trading name on 1 September 1985. The company-register account gives registration on 7 February 1974.

Former shore employee Diana Mexsom describes New Zealand Line as formed and managed by SCNZ. Shaw Savill initially acted as agent, but withdrew its New Zealand branches; on 1 December 1974 SCNZ took over the staff and became Shaw Savill’s agent. She stresses that the corporation had no connection with New Zealand Shipping Co.

The corporation announced purchase of Bank & Savill Line in March 1984, using Eckington for Weka and Fuday for Tui. Australia–New Zealand Container Line, formed in March 1984, merged with Transatlantic’s Australia/New Zealand/West Coast North America service as Australia–New Zealand Direct Line, effective 1 January 1988; SCNZ sold its half-share to Sofrana in April. The Tranztaz venture with Australian National Line ended on 28 February 1989, ANL retaining the name.

The unprofitable corporation was privatised in 1989. Its UK subsidiary and sole vessel New Zealand Caribbean were sold that January, and sale to ACT (New Zealand) was announced in March. Associated Container Transportation (Australia) assumed operations and marketing on 1 January 1990.

UK, London; later New Zealand, Wellington.

Also called Arab Line, the company is dated to 1966 by its agent’s website and to 1974 by Lloyds.

Saudi Arabia, Jeddah.

Also called Thai Steam Navigation, the company was owned and managed by A/S Det Östasiatiske Kompagni, which sold a majority of its shares to the Thai government in 1941. It appears to have become Thai Navigiation Co. Ltd.: Rosanoski traced one vessel between the two in the 1953–54 register.

Denmark; Thailand [Siam], Bangkok.

Photographs of St. Arvans and St. Helena suggest a couped funnel saltire. St. Essylt and St. Thomas instead appear to have tapering, unequal arms, with the crossing displaced forward on both sides; all panels lie near the funnel top. St. Merriel later used the Houlder funnel.

The company is recorded as a May 1939 renaming of Barry Shipping, although another source says Barry became B. & S. Shipping, a version Rosanoski doubts. Ships were disposed of and operations ceased in July 1966, with sale to Houlder Bros. Later registers refer the company to Houlder, suggesting absorption.

Operators included B. & S. Shipping and later South American Saint Line (Management) with King Line. Subsidiaries included B. & S., Shakespeare and St. Quentin Shipping. Vessels were named after saints.

UK, Cardiff.

The film shows the British & Commonwealth group flag in use from at least Pendennis Castle’s time in 1958. Rosanoski saw two flags on Transvaal Castle and considered the second possibly the group or commodore’s flag. Former deck officer George Watt replied that each constituent company retained its house flag and always flew it below the group flag on the mainmast. He disputed Transvaal Castle’s supposed flagship status: Pendennis Castle was flagship, and although Windsor Castle was built for that role in 1960, the commodore preferred Pendennis, which retained it well into the 1960s. Watt also recalled Transvaal Castle’s transfer to Safmarine as S.A.Vaal after two or three years, remaining on the mail service to its end.

The Union Castle Line resulted from the merger of Union Steamship Co. and Castle Mail Packet Co. Ltd., the Castle Line of Donald Currie & Co., registered on 8 March 1900. Their joint South African mail contract, dating from 1876, had prohibited amalgamation. When the late-1899 tender proposed awarding the contract to one company, neither bid, since their fleets had been built for complementary sailings. A joint contract was eventually awarded, but Donald Currie proposed the merger. The combined fleet adopted the Castle Line’s lavender-grey hulls and vermilion funnels.

Royal Mail took control in April 1912, with Sir Owen Philipps, later Lord Kylsant, on the board. Bullard King & Co.’s Natal Direct Line was acquired in 1919. The Royal Mail collapse left Union-Castle with heavy financial commitments: the Ships List account dates the collapse to 1931, while the other account describes Royal Mail in liquidation and Kylsant’s resignation by 1934. Government involvement helped separate Union-Castle from its parent and supported a five-year rebuilding programme. King Line was acquired in 1949.

The proposed merger with the Cayzer family’s Clan Line was announced on 4 October 1955, and the history describes British & Commonwealth as formed early in 1956, consolidating Union-Castle, Clan Line and Bullard King. Management, routes and colours remained unchanged, while internal competition was removed and cargoes interchanged. Other passages instead date the group relationship to 1953 or 1953–1954; these dates are not reconciled. Cayzer, Irvine & Co. Ltd. appear as managers in the 1966–1974 listings.

Pacific Steam Navigation Co.’s Reina del Mar received Union-Castle colours in 1964 and was managed by the company until purchase in 1973. A joint mail service with South African Marine Service began in 1966. Air competition, containerisation and rising fuel costs brought the traditional service to an end; Southampton Castle rang “finished with engines” on 24 October 1977. Fleet names ended in “Castle”, referring to British and South African castles.

The name was briefly revived for P&O’s millennium “Round Africa” cruise. Victoria, the former Kungsholm, sailed from Southampton on 11 December 1999 with her funnel painted Union-Castle vermilion, celebrated New Year at Cape Town and returned in February 2000.

U.K., London and Southampton.

Formed in New Jersey in 1896, Union Sulphur operated along the US east coast, principally mining sulphur deposits on the Louisiana and Texas coasts. It later extracted sulphur from sour crude, selling both sulphur and oil, and operated its own ships by 1920. It became Union Sulphur and Oil in 1950, Union Oil and Gas in 1955 and Union Texas Natural Gas in 1960, before merging with Allied Chemical Company in 1962.

USA, New York.

The company operated the single vessel River City from 1952 according to The Log, or 1951 according to the Compendium and Marine News, until voluntary liquidation in 1964.

New Zealand, Wanganui; Wellington is also given.

A black-and-white photograph of Robert C. Clowry appears to show a plain funnel with an emblem.

The registers use The Wholesale Society in 1963–1964 and the fuller Betio, Tarawa, Gilbert & Ellice Islands name by 1970–1971, continuing in 1973–1974.

Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Tarawa.

Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala began the Kowloon Ferry service across Victoria Harbour in 1880. Sir Catchick Paul Chater subsequently bought the fleet, and Star Ferry became a public company in May 1898. Its name derives from the ferries’ Star names.

China, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

The early T509 livery combined Greek blue and white with the founder’s M; the funnel and flag blues are shown in different shades. Mitchell also gives a black-funnel version, not separately drawn by Rosanoski because no line drawing supports it, although Loughran mentions black with a white band. As control passed to the sons, the initial disappeared from the funnel and a modern flag replaced it. The M became two light-blue triangles above dark-blue reflections, separated by white waves. Whether the funnel and flag changes coincided is unknown; the suggestion that the triangles symbolise the two remaining brothers is tentative, and Rosanoski remarks that the narrower shape scarcely qualifies as a triangle.

T46 is described as blue with a broad white band, whose width varies in photographs but is not as deep as T510. Seapromise and Mitchell show a narrow black top; most examples, including Seaboxer II, lack it. Nüsse supplies table-flag evidence.

Founded by J.A. Martinos in 1970 as Thenamaris Corporation, the concern became Thenamaris Maritime in 1972 and Thenamaris (Ships Management) in 1982. It began with two Greek-flag vessels registered to Panamanian companies. After Martinos retired, his sons Athanasios, Andreas and Constantinos succeeded him. Athanasios left in 1990 to form Eastern Mediterranean Maritime, and Andreas in 1996 to form Minerva Marine.

Greece: Piraeus, later Athens.

Rendtorff operated Beth, listed in 1963–64 as a 1908 vessel of 225 tons. Mitchell gives a 1957 vessel of 300 tons, matching the later Lloyds entries. Rosanoski did not locate either in Miramar.

Denmark, Svendborg; later Vindeby.

Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co. Ltd. took over Thomas Cowan in the 1920s.

U.K., Leith.

Thomas Dixon began as timber merchant and ironmonger, joined by sons Thomas S. and Daniel, the latter in 1864. Shipowning began with the Lord Line in 1879, initially a steamship but then sailing vessels as well. By 1896 ships were held both in Dixon’s own name and through Irish Shipowners Co. The latter entered voluntary liquidation in 1917, with its last two ships and goodwill bought by G. Heyn & Sons in 1918. Rosanoski suggests Dixon continued separately; Allanton, owned directly since 1911, was sunk on 3 January 1918. The common Belfast address also indicates a connection with John E. Wellwood.

UK, Belfast.

Thomas Dunlop founded the business in 1851 and entered shipowning in the early 1870s. Its early Clan-prefixed names changed to Queen after Clan Line adopted the former system in 1878. Operating interests included Cadogan Steamship, Lomand Shipping, formed in 1937, and Queen Line. Shipowning ended in 1957, with winding-up dated 1956–57.

U.K., Glasgow.

Thomas Hamling appears in Lloyds’ shipowner listings from 1963–64 through 1985–86.

United Kingdom, Hull.

Metcalf managed for C. Crawley, Mac Shipping, Metcalf Motor Coasters and Wimaisia Shipping. Vessel names usually combined a personal name with M, leading Rosanoski to regard the latter three as subsidiaries. S. William Coe appears as manager in 1973–74. An earlier register account describes amalgamation through Metcalf Motor Coasters into James Fisher; a later account amends this to Coe Metcalf Shipping in 1978.

UK, London and later Gravesend.

Weiss is recorded as manager for Ångfartygs A/B Swanbridge of Strömstad, Sweden.

U.K., Newcastle.

Also known as The Law Shipping Co., Thomas Law entered steam in 1907 and sold its last ship in 1934.

UK, Glasgow.

Thomas Owen & Co. is placed in the mid-nineteenth century.

USA, New York.

Thomas Rose managed Deeside Shipping Co. and The Rose Line. Rosanoski suggests an origin in Wear S.S. Co., also of Sunderland, because it used the same livery.

U.K., Sunderland.

Thomas W. Bascomb is recorded in Lloyds 1917–1918. The fleet was sold on 22 October 1935 to Fred Parkes [Sir Basil A. Parkes] of Blackpool.

UK, Grimsby.

The line is described as Thomas Wardle & Co. by FOTW, but the Private Signals chart and Mystic Seaport use Thomas Wardle. Mystic records an East Indies and California service in 1840 and alternative flags.

USA, New York.

The company changed its name from D.J. & S.A.J. Bradley in 1953, with D.J. Bradley subsequently recorded as operator. Later ships were held through named companies, while Watson appeared as agent. Ship names continued to begin Lady, initially with a second name starting S; other second names appear by Lloyd’s 1980–1981.

U.K., Rochester.

The brothers Thomas and James Harrison became partners in the Brown shipping business, which took the Thomas & James Harrison name after George Brown’s death in 1853. Other sources give 1830, when Thomas was apprenticed, or 1860, associated with specially built steamships, rather than the partnership’s actual formation. The first iron ship, Philosopher, had been acquired in 1857. The business continued through the next Harrison generation and the Hughes family. It was commonly called Harrison Line, with Harrison-Star also recorded; the date of incorporation as a limited company is unclear.

Star Line was bought in 1889, its vessels retaining their names. Aberdeen Direct Line followed in 1911, apparently operating as Harrison-Rennie until the First World War ended. Crown Line and Scrutton fleets were bought in 1920, and Harrison financed the Blairdale purchase in 1986. Charente Steam-Ship Co. owned the fleet under Harrison management; its formation is dated 1884 or 1871, the name recalling the port from which brandy was imported. Harrison joined the ACT consortium in 1966 and formed Bibby-Harrison Management Services in 1997, with a full takeover recorded in 2003. Liner-trade rights passed to P&O Nedlloyd in October 2000. Cargo vessels generally bore names of professions or occupations; passenger ships retained Zulu In names recalling the Rennie connection.

United Kingdom, Liverpool.

Daniel Brocklebank founded a shipyard at Sheepscutt, Mass., in 1770 and moved to Britain in 1775. His sons Thomas and John succeeded him on his death in 1800, with Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank dated to 1801. The company was also known as Brocklebank Line. It entered the pooled Cunard-Brocklebank fleet in 1968 and disappeared after the last two Brocklebank-liveried ships were sold in 1983.

Edward Bates & Sons bought 50% in 1911 and sold to Cunard in 1919, but accounts variously date the Cunard relationship to 1911, an indirect interest in 1912, the 1919 buyout or acquisition in 1940. Well Line’s purchase is dated 1915, 1916 or 1919. Anchor-Brocklebank was a joint venture formed in 1911 or 1912. Brocklebank invested in Shire Line in 1906 and sold its remaining holding to Royal Mail in 1911.

The company operated Anchor-Brocklebank and Brocklebank & Well Lines and managed Holt Maritime Enterprises and Guinea Gulf, the latter from 1962. Gosman & Smith acted as agent until ceasing business in December 1967. Fleet names were mainly Indian names beginning with “M”.

U.K., Whitehaven; Liverpool from 1820.

Thomas Royden and the timber merchant Bland began building small sailing ships at Liverpool in 1800, on the later Brunswick Dock site. Iron construction began in 1864. The business became Thos. B. Royden & Son under Thomas Bland Royden; the Bland family no longer had a commercial involvement.

The first steamers built for the company’s own account, Indra and Indrani, entered the India trade in 1888 under McVicar, Marshall & Co., advertised as the Indra Line. Tyser chartered Indra for New Zealand in 1891, while James P. Corry coordinated her with the Star Line schedule. The developing relationship led to Commonwealth & Dominion Line in 1914. Royden sold its yard to the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board in 1893 and left shipbuilding.

Indra Line Ltd. was incorporated in 1901 with Thomas Bland Royden as manager. The managed Santa Clara Steam Ship Co. provided a West Indies–New York feeder service. In 1915 the remaining New York service was sold to Alfred Holt’s Blue Funnel Line and Indra Line was wound up, leaving Santa Clara as Royden’s only independent shipping interest. Thomas Royden also became a Cunard director and later chairman. Shipowning ended in 1930 with Pinar del Rio’s sale to Bristol City Line.

U.K., Liverpool.

The origins are variously dated. One account begins Beckington, Wilson & Company in 1822, importing Swedish iron ore, followed by Wilson, Hudson in 1831 and Thos. Wilson, Sons after the Hudsons’ withdrawal in 1841. Merchant Ships instead gives 1843 after Beckington’s retirement; other accounts give an 1835 foundation or Thomas Wilson’s family firm in 1840. The company became private limited in 1891. Thomas’s sons Charles and Arthur took over in 1861, followed after their deaths in 1907 and 1909 by their sons Tommy and Kenneth.

The company acquired Brownlow, Marsdin’s seven ships in 1878, with Merchant Ships giving the name as Brownlow Barsden. Bailey & Leetham’s twenty-three ships followed in 1903, along with a joint London–Baltic service with DFDS. The Wilson-Furness service existed by 1887, possibly 1885. The North Eastern Railway connection is dated as a joint company in March 1906 or fleet absorption in 1908.

Ellerman bought Wilson in 1916 according to the principal accounts, although FOTW gives 1919. It became Ellerman’s Wilson Line in 1917 while largely retaining separate operations. In 1973 all but North Sea services entered Ellerman City Liners; competition and reduced trade led to sale of the remaining ships by 1978.

UK, Hull.

Kramer is recorded as manager for Angfartygs A/B Bore, A/B Mare and Orient A/B in the 1939 account.

Finland, Turku (Abo).

The 1967 open-T logo allowed acquired companies’ traditional marks to be combined with Thyssen’s identity. After the 1973 Rheinstahl acquisition, the group instead adopted the Rheinstahl arch in January 1976, replacing yellow Rheinstahl lettering with blue Thyssen lettering. Rheinstahl’s 1958 design was by Hamburg graphic artist Schierning, based on its Hanover exhibition pavilion; blue and yellow were Essen’s colours. The later ThyssenKrupp brand preserves both the Thyssen arch and Krupp’s three rings.

The Thyssen group dates its foundation to acquisition of all Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser shares and the first steel production in 1891, following August Thyssen’s earlier 1871 business. Much of the group entered Vereingte Stahlwerke in 1926, and August Thyssen-Hütte was founded in 1934. After post-war liquidation, a new company was established in Duisburg in 1953; former associated companies returned during the 1950s and 1960s. The name changed to Thyssen in 1977. Steel activities combined with Krupp in 1997, followed by the full group merger effective 17 March 1999.

The 1989 logistics venture with Haniel passed wholly to Thyssen in 1998 and was sold, including Krupp logistics and inland shipping, to Imperial Holdings on 1 October 1999. Veerhaven became ThyssenKrupp Veerhaven in 2002. Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, HDW, joined ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems in January 2005; Atlas-Elektronic was held 60 per cent with EADS holding 40 per cent from December 2005.

Germany, Dusseldorf.

The company account dates Veerhaven’s start as a Thyssen dry-bulk Rhine push-tow concern to 1967. Another account gives a 1966 foundation under Raab Karcher and a Thyssen takeover in 1967. Also known as Ertslijn, or Ore Line, it moved to Brielle in 1984; notes give both May and 1 June for the change and describe a separation of shipping and agency activities. Veerhaven means Ferry Harbour. The name became ThyssenKrupp Veerhaven in 2002, and Europese Waterweg Transporten was acquired in 2003.

Netherlands: Brielle; Rotterdam in Mitchell’s collection.

Two Fjordveien photographs dated 19 April 2009 differ: one inboard funnel view is black with a broad white band edged yellow-green, while another appears plain white.

Tide was formed by merging Hardanger Sunnhordlandske and Gaia Trafik in November 2006, though Skipet gives 2007 and the spelling Gaia Traffik. Det Stavangerske held about 75 per cent. Ferries operated through Tide Sjø, renamed from HSD Sjø in 2006, while buses used Tide Buss. Tide Sjø later became Norled, wholly owned by Det Stavangerske, from the beginning of 2011/2012 as the source puts it.

The operating group included Bergen’s Nor-Ferjer, founded in 2005 and presumed unrelated to the earlier Narvik company of that name. Stavangerske joined in 2007; its origin is given both as 2005 in Lloyds and as Rogaland Trafikkelskap in 1990, renamed in 2003, in the cited historical account.

Norway, Bergen.

Other group funnels appear on Cem Crusher and the ex-Aalborg Kongsdal, the latter with a narrow black top. Rafnes’s differing design and name suggest a Jebsens connection, probably chartering. Mitchell’s orange T4 funnel for Federal Bergen may be a confusion with red.

Rasmus F. Olsen, a shipowner from 1876, formed D/S Tordenskjold in 1888, taking its first delivery in 1889. Reorganised as a share company in 1930, it remained under four generations of Olsen control until outside shareholders entered in 1989. Olsen also operated separately until selling the last ship in 1965, with a reactivation noted in 1990. The later commentary uses Rasmus S. instead of F.; that variation is not resolved.

The group acquired ships through limited partnerships in 1989–1991 and established Tordenskjold Rederi as an investment company. The source records a 1993 Nordenskjold/Tordenskjold merger. Runciman bought 51 per cent early in 1995, but a Tor Johan Stuve-linked syndicate returned it to Norwegian ownership by year-end. Tordenskjold ASA was founded on 20 September 1996 according to the account, which explicitly rejects a later website date of 20 December. Share exchanges followed with vessel partnerships, and CEM Bulk Carriers was acquired in 1997.

CEM remained the marketing and operating subsidiary despite descriptions of its 1997 absorption. Other interests included Euro Fleet, Portland, Paper Sea, Euro Quarts and Fana Cement; the 2003 notes record bankruptcies among several of these and a suspension of Tordenskjold. The Euro Fleet chronology juxtaposes winter 1998 with convertible notes in autumn 1989, and the December 2000 Paper Seas sentence is incomplete. Later fleet management appears through CEM Bulk Management, Temaco and the Haugesund and Polish Tordenskjold Marine companies; the latter two registrations disappeared by 2005–2006.

Norway: Bergen, Haugesund in the 1953–1954 register, later Bergen again.

Tore Ulff was active from the late 1930s into at least the 1970s, appearing variously as operator and owner.

Sweden: Stockholm in the original Country field; Gothenburg in the published historical comment.

Wikström bought the tug Vikingen in 1992.

Sweden, Karlsborg.

Some ships used Geest Line colours in the 1960s.

Torvald Klaveness founded Görrissen & Klaveness in 1946 for technical and commercial management and competitive broking. It became Torvald Klaveness & Co. in 1958 and expanded into dry-bulk shipping. The private group’s maritime arm became Klaveness Maritime Logistics; Lloyds first dates the merger to 2005, then amends it to 1 February 2006.

Cementa was taken over on 1 September 2003. Its ships later appear under Klaveness Cement Logistics, formed in 2003, a change Rosanoski thinks may have applied from takeover. Joint ventures included Guinomar International with Guinea’s government in 1978, Novoklav with Novorossiysk Shipping, and Scandinavian Bulkers with RS Platou Finans in August 2005.

Norway, Oslo.

Also known as T.T.M., the concern appears as Total Compagnie Francaise de Navigation in 1985–1986, succeeding Compagnie Navale des Pétroles, and as Total Transport Maritime by 1996–1997. It managed Marine Transport Coporation.

France, Neuilly-sur-Seine.

The government-owned South African Railways & Harbours Administration later appeared as South African Transport Services and adopted the Transnet name in 1990. Portnet Dredging Services managed part of its fleet in 1996–1997.

South Africa: Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg in successive register entries.

Several early sources outline the parent livery’s diamond in black. Contributors describe the flag as closer to a yellow cross on blue than a blue saltire on yellow, with the yellow cross set more towards the hoist, like Sweden’s national flag. Vessels chartered to Hunting & Son used a different funnel; the narrative calls it T228, while the source list uses T288.

Frans Malmros and others founded Trelleborgs Ångfartygs in 1870, followed by a separate Nya company in 1872 and Merkurius in 1901. All three combined as Trelleborgs Ångfartygs Nya in 1902. Frans Jr. succeeded his father in 1904, and Jarl succeeded him in 1931. The company dropped Nya in 1944 and formally adopted its long-used Malmros name in 1968.

The unprofitable post-war Hamburg service passed to the newly formed Svenska Hamburglinjen, with Frans Malmros on its board; Trelleborg’s vessels mainly tramped or worked on charter. A 1931 Forsgren partnership became the Malmros Line before ending during the Spanish Civil War. Svenska Hamburglinjen continued through the Second World War, moving mainly into tankers; through Flykapitalbyrån it was sold back to Trelleborg in 1946, with the trade passing to Hillerströms in 1960. The source implies earlier ownership but leaves the precise succession qualified. Trelleborg also held half of Atlantraffik, formed with Broström in 1946, and an Ernst Russ association is recorded.

Sweden, Trelleborg.

The later T596 design, documented on Hiona, has a broad black circle bearing white NTP letters. The outer letters follow the circle, especially the curved outer leg of N, and T joins both at the top. Rosanoski says an apparently orange base gave way to red. Fragga’s November 2010 photograph shows the previous Pan circle painted over; completion with the new circle and perhaps a black top is presumed, not observed. The letters cannot be reconciled positively: suggested links to managers’ names or the Greek company name remain speculation, and P might be Greek rho.

Tritea was incorporated in Liberia in July 1981 and operated from Piraeus as a manager and later an agent. The directory names Vasilios Nkavoyannis and John Tsoukatos as managing directors; Konstantinos and Christopher Nkavoyannis and financial controller George Pavlopoulos also appear in the notes.

Greece, Piraeus.

The original records successive funnels: T692 from an apparent 1978 Poole sighting; T695 on Coutances in 1989; T48 on Normandie Shipper in May 1992; T694 on Coutances; and T696 on Barfleur in May 1992. These preceded adoption of the owner’s livery; no fuller verbal comparison is provided.

Truckline Ferries was formed in 1978 by Compagnie Générale Maritime and Compagnie Maritime Worms & Charrbonnière. They sold to Brittany Ferries in 1984 or July 1985 according to differing sources. The freight operation began passenger sailings in 1986 and also appeared as Brittany Ferries Truckline.

Barfleur adopted Brittany Ferries colours in 1999 and was listed directly under the parent by December 2005. The cited account says the Truckline service ended when the original ships were sold and replaced by larger vessels in 2006.

France: Paris, later Roscoff; no address in Lloyds 2000.

Eriksen appears as manager in the 1963–64 and 1970–71 registers, acting for D/S A/S Aslaug.

Norway, Haugesund.

The flag is a red swallowtail with a very broad white horizontal band and blue M. The first funnel is black, the second yellow or buff; each has a broad white band edged red above and below, with a blue M. The second was recorded for Svanholm. Its flag is assumed still to apply, allowing for the different form of M.

Matland is listed as manager for D/S A/S Svanholm, probably a subsidiary, in 1963–64.

Norway, Haugesund.

Margot’s July 1994 colour photograph shows the T447 arrangement shared with Margita, including a yellow M; another image appears white, possibly through photographic lightening. T447 stayed with Margita when its registered owner became Chemveg in 2005. A separate T635 flag is preserved as a company website logo, contributed to FOTW in 2011.

TSA was founded in 1992 by experienced brokers for tanker chartering, operation and agency work. Its management included Sture Svanström, co-founder of the Tarbit partnership in 1962. The notes also give a 2 May 1997 registration against an SH Tankships reference without clarifying the relationship. Margaron passed from J.A. Johansson management to TSA by 1996–1997. Margita later appeared under Chemveg, then Neta, with SH Tankships as manager from March 2009. Shared addresses suggest associated companies, but Rosanoski does not establish their precise legal relationships.

Sweden, Gothenburg.

The modern T465 funnel on Niki T has blue between the upper white band and funnel top. Nestor shows a similar arrangement placed lower, with comparable upper and lower blue areas and a wider central blue section. T466 on Kalliopi T follows the website logo.

The family traces its shipping roots to Michael Tsangaris’s first sailing boat around the turn of the twentieth century. Later shipowning began in 1965. After George M. Tsangaris died in 1984, Nikolaos took control and, with George’s heirs, formed Tsangaris Bros. in 1989 according to the company account. Lloyds instead gives 1985.

A 2005 division of family interests created Anemi Maritime Services, whose fleet was sold to Eagle Bulk in August 2007.

Greece, Piraeus.

The source also uses the names Rosenveld and Rosenfield. It dates his shipping activity to 1945–1999 and records his move to Antwerp in 1966. He established Maritime Carriers (NZ) Ltd. at Auckland in 1972 and Sea Lanes N.V. in 1973. Maritime Carriers announced its withdrawal from shipping on 26 November 1982. The New Zealand Maritime Index records Rosenfield’s arrest in Belgium in 1999 on fraudulent-bankruptcy charges.

Other interests included Antwerp Bulk Carriers, trading as ABC Container Line, and Combo Carriers Luxembourg. Martha II was arrested at Melbourne on 14 February 1996, after which the cited account says its true owner was revealed.

The possible Deep Sea connection is unresolved. Rosanoski considers Deep Sea Shipping Co. Ltd., incorporated in Bermuda on 27 October 1971 and possibly the concern managed by Maritime Carriers New Zealand; Mitchell instead names Deep Seas Shipping of Monrovia for Ocean Blue. A further possibility is Deep Sea Trading of Rotterdam, recorded with an Ocean Blue in 1973–77. The vessel particulars differ, so these names are not treated as interchangeable.

Netherlands, Rotterdam; Belgium in the NZMN account.

The separate T678 funnel is documented on Thomson Celebration, with the flag from Thomson Spirit in 2005. T711 comes from Mein Schiff, later Mein Schiff 1. The original provides no additional verbal design descriptions.

TUI’s antecedent was the mining concern incorporated on 9 October 1923 as Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten-Aktiengesellschaft. The original describes a 1927 combination into VEBA, later privatisation in 1959 and transformation of Preussag through travel and shipping acquisitions. Its TUI rename is dated 26 June 2002 in Lloyds and effective 1 July in the historical account.

Preussag acquired VTG in 1961 and later offered Offshore Supply Association for sale in 1989. Hapag-Lloyd was acquired in 1997, though the cited initial holdings differ between 69 and 99.2 per cent; full ownership is dated June 2002. Thomas Cook investments were disposed of after the Thomson Travel acquisition in 2000. Later Hapag-Lloyd ownership changes left a reported 33 per cent interest. TUI Travel was formed in 2007 and TUI Cruises in 2008, alongside hotels and resorts; Thomson Cruises was another operating brand.

Germany, Hannover.

The separate T659 funnel is documented on Bora Mete and Ilke Mete; it is not substituted for the Fuden and Zelek variants.

Tuncmete, also called Tuncmete Shipping & Trading, was formed in 1993 and worked in mining and shipment of scrap and metal products. It initially managed Ilke Mete for Fuden and Bora Mete for Vakif Deniz Finasai Kiralama; later both were listed under Tuncmete ownership. Fuden, formed in 1994, subsequently owned Hilmi K, with subsidiary Zelek Shipping owning Kemal Karu and Zelek Star. Rosanoski links the latter companies to a website apparently belonging to Kuruoglu Group, also naming Akden, but could not translate it fully.

Turkey, Istanbul.

Earlier livery sources appear under Turnbull, Martin, Shire Line and Scottish Shire Line. The original lists T157, T156, T158 and T366 without further verbal design comparisons.

The Glasgow cargo concern is dated to 1874 in one account and 1867 in Merchant Ships. Frozen-meat and passenger services to New Zealand began in 1884; Scottish Shire Line was used from 1893 for the route via South Africa and Australia, distinct from the Shire Line of Steamers. Clan Line acquired control in 1918, but the ships retained their naming and livery traditions. The 1956 Clan/Union-Castle merger formed British & Commonwealth.

Federal-Houlder-Shire was formed in 1904 with Federal Steam Navigation and Houlder, following the earlier New Zealand & South African service. It became Federal & Shire in May 1912 after New Zealand Shipping acquired Houlder’s Australasian business. Later Scottish Shire operations passed through Cayzer, Irvine and Container Fleets within the container-shipping group. Ships bore Scottish shire names; by 1978–1979 the original fleet had gone and Scottish Shire served as the owning company for Encounter Bay.

UK: Glasgow, later London.

Earlier sources list T377, T378 and T376; the narrative also ascribes T375 to Well Line without a matching source-list entry. These references are retained without inventing equivalence.

W.J. Branfoot began in sail, bought his first steamship in 1883 and joined Tyzack in 1884 to form the company. It became Well Line in 1911, with ship names ending in well. The fleet was sold to Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank and the company entered voluntary liquidation; the sale is dated 1919 in one source and 1916 in another.

Newcastle, as stated in the original.

The size of the funnel lettering is not known.

Maurel & Prom originated as exporters in 1813, establishing the shipping concern in 1830. The website history says shipping ended in 1970 during a maritime crisis, but the register sequence continues through 1985–86. Another source reports acquisition by Delmas Vieljeux around 1980, absent from the company’s own history. The original firm continued: Electricité et Eaux de Madagascar acquired 76 per cent in 1995, and the companies separated in 1999 as Maurel & Prom concentrated on oil. Earlier records use Maurel & H. Prom, with H. identified as Hubert.

France, Bordeaux.