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House flags of Chilean shipping companies

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Braun & Blanchard

BB house flag
image by Jarig Bakker, 03 Feb 2005

After 1926 Brown—s Flags and Funnels [wed26], Braun & Blanchard, Valparaiso: red flag, white 5-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 03 Feb 2005


Compañía Chilena de Navigación Interoceánica SA

CCNI house flag
image by Ivan Sache, 24 Aug 2002

Flag horizontally divided yellow-red-yellow with a white star in the middle of the red stripe. Image after a photo of an actual flag, from Joseph Nüsse’s website.
Ivan Sache, 24 Aug 2002


CSAV - Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores

CSAV house flag
image by Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

The company website is at http://www.csav.cl.
Dov Gutterman, 15 Jan 1999

The 1933 german sticker album [llz33] says (my translation):

377. Compania de Vap. Sud-Americana - Valparaiso
Shipping lines: Chile - Peru - Ecuador
Cargo and passenger steamboats: 9
Tonnage: ca 31,200 Regt. brutto.
A white flag with a red saltire. S, C, A, V, in blue, in the four quarters, respectively.
Ivan Sache, 24 Mar 2001

CSAV, Compañía Sudamericana de Vapores (South American Steamship Company), is a Chilean publicly traded shipping company, presently the largest in Latin America. CSAV, one of the oldest shipping companies in the world, was founded in 1872.
quoted by Phil Nelson, Sep 99

Flag-like logo

CSAV logo
image by Jorge Candeias and António Martins, 18 Jun 2004

The logo includes a flaglike wavy drawing like this flag.
Jorge Candeias, 08 Jan 1998

A contemporary logo which is certainly much nicer than many…
Jan Mertens, 29 Oct 2003

I cannot see that this is any more than a logo. There is also the question of the logo background which appears to have been assumed to be white (logically) whereas the company website now shows a blue background, both for the logo and its surroundings changed from the previous grey.
Neale Rosanoski, 16 Jun 2004

Wrong report in 1930

Only one Chilean firm in the 1930 Larousse Commercial house flag pages [hok30]: Cia SudAmericana de Vapores, Valparaiso. The author made a mistake and shown under this name the flag of the Sud Atlántica Sociedad Anónima de Navegación, of Buenos Aires (well, the company names are similar).
Jan Mertens, 29 Oct 2003 and 01 May 2004

Larousse Commercialis [hok30] not the only one to get it wrong as Talbot-Booth 1936 [tbb36] makes the same error but corrects it in his 1937 edition [tbb37].
Neale Rosanoski, 16 June 2004


Empremar - Empresa Marítima del Estado

Empremar house flag
image by Jarig Bakker, 06 Feb 2006

After Brown’s Flags and Funnels, 1995 [lgr95], Naviera Chilena del Pacifico, Valparaiso — blue flag, fly-diagonal red stripe, bordered white; in canton white disk, red "NCP".
Jarig Bakker, 06 Feb 2006


Naviera Chilena del Pacífico

NCP house flag
image by Jarig Bakker, 06 Feb 2006

On a blue flag, a red bend sinister fimbriated white; in canton is "NCP" in red on a white disk. From Brown’s Flags and Funnels, 1995 [lgr95], Naviera Chilena del Pacifico, Valparaiso.
Jarig Bakker, 06 Feb 2006; edited AG 13 Jan 2015


Somarco

Somarco house flag
image by Ivan Sache, 03 Jul 2002

This Chilean shipping company was founded in 1953. Its house flag is white with two horizontal thin blue stripes near the bottom of the flag and a letter S in blue flanked with two blue stars in the middle of the field. (Source: Somarco website)
Ivan Sache, 03 Jul 2002


Sociedad Nacional de Buques y Maderas

BM house flag
image by Jarig Bakker, 03 Feb 2005

After 1926 Brown—s Flags and Funnels [wed26], Soc. Nacional de Buques y Maderas, Valparaiso: red flag, blue 5-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 03 Feb 2005


South Pacific Corretaje Marítimo Limitada

South Pacific Corretaje Maritimo Ltda
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 Nov 2008

A purple house flag – well, flagoid! That is a rare sight. It belongs to South Pacific Corretaje Marítimo Ltda.’, a maritime brokerage company established at Santiago.

Founded in 1976 as tanker brokers, South Pacific now deals in dry cargo as well. Carried products mentioned are “crude [oil], clean products, forestry products, coal, copper concentrate, grains, fertilizers and scrap”. Oil deliveries involve major brands and locally important carriers, forest products especially are brokered all over the world.

As to buying/selling or scrapping/building ships, the main concacts mentioned are “Sonacol, Sonap, Empremar, Nachipa and Puerto Ventanas”.

Above mentioned flag(oid) is purple having in its centre a rather small white disk bearing black initials “SP” without serifs.
Jan Mertens, 28 Sep 2008

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Transmares Naviera Chilena Limitada

Transmares house flag
image by Ivan Sache, 24 Aug 2002

White flag divided by a yellow-blue saltire and with a yellow disc charge with a blue T placed over the saltire in the middle of the flag. Image after a photo of an actual flag, from Joseph Nüsse’s website.
Ivan Sache, 24 Aug 2002


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