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Myanmar shipping lines house flags

Burma Navigation Corp.
Inland Water Transport
Myanmar Five Star Line
- Variant of the flag?
Union of Burma Shipping Board

Burma Navigation Corp.

image by Jarig Bakker, 2 January 2006

Burma Navigation Corp., Rangoon - horizontal red over blue flag; on red white "BNC".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 2 January 2006

Yesterday I watched a television documentary called "Burma's Forgotten Fleet", which is about the steamboat ferries of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, which was the world's largest river fleet during the times of British colonization. After Burma's independence the fleet has come under the control of the government agency known as Inland Water Transport, which to this day fly the flag illustrated here as a house flag (at the jackstaff, even when under way). Another interesting point is that although currently the (Myanmar) national flag is the proper civil ensign, a small number of ferries seem to continue to fly old surplus pieces of the former civil ensign, apparently without much political repercussions.
Miles Li, 18 December 2007

Myanmar Five Star Line

image by Rob Raeside

The Brown series of 1978, 1982 and 1995 all show a red flag with a very broad horizontal blue band bearing 5 white stars. The company began as the Burma Five Star Line Ltd., then becoming successively the Union of Burma Five Star Line Ltd., the Burma Five Star Shipping Corporation and then in 1989 Myanma Five
Star Line. I have shown the Lloyds spelling of "Myanma" which differs from the country name.
Neale Rosanoski, 21 June 2004

Variants of the flag?

image by Jorge Candeias

Red-black-red triband with white fimbriations between the black and the red and 5 white stars on the black bar.
Jorge Candeias, 1 April 1999

image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2012

Josef Nuesse shows the flag of with equal horizontal stripes: http://www.flagpole.de/reedereiflaggen/welt/asien-i/
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2012

Union of Burma Shipping Board

image by Miles Li, 8 October 2011

The house flag of the Union of Burma Shipping Board is brobably no longer in use.
Source: Colin Stewart & John S. Styring, Flags, Funnels & Hull Colours, Adlard Coles Ltd. 1963.
Miles Li, 8 October 2011