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Houseflags of Norwegian maritime companies (A)

Alf. Monsen
Ambra A.S.
Andr. Olsen
Anders Jahre
Anders Utkilens Rederi A/S
Anders Wilhelmsen & Co

See also:

Alf. Monsen, Tonsberg

image by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, 1926 ^[9]

Blue flag, white eagle.
Jarig Bakker, 24 December 2004

Ambra A.S.

image by Ivan Sache, 12 December 2013

Josef Nuesse's "Ships and Flags" website shows the house flag of Ambra A.S., a Sandjefjord-based company, as white with a thin black horizontal stripe at the top and bottom edges, in the middle a dark green disk charged with a swallow-tailed flag vertically divided white-blue (indeed letter "A / Alpha" in the International Code of Signals).
Source: http://www.flagpole.de/reedereiflaggen/europa/nordeuropa/
Ivan Sache, 12 December 2013

Øystein Bøe founded tanker company Ambra in March 1989, and was its CEO until it went bankrupt in October 1992. No trace of the flag, though. It looks like it was his first adventure in shipping, though, which might explain the lack of contrast in his flag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 January 2014

Andr. Olsen

image by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies, 1926 ^[9]

Bergen - white flag, blue shortened saltire
Jarig Bakker, 22 January 2004

Anders Jahre, Sandefjord

image by Jarig Bakker
Source: The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels ^[15]

#28 - White flag, blue cross; in center blue diamond, white 5-pointed star.
Jarig Bakker, 28 December 2004

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(2)
images located by Neale Rosanoski, 29 January 2011

Can you tell me what organization or company used this flag? It is from a silverplate bowl made by Gebruder Hepp Pforzheim.
Leslie Canerday, 25 January 2011

It has a pattern that would be very typical of a shipping line. I have hunted through the flags of the shipping lines of several countries, and came up with one match - that of Anders Jahre, Norway. However, that flag has a diamond, not a circle at the cross-over of the arms of the cross. The bowl is a two-handled quaich-style. I cannot find any other match in the flags of shipping lines in Canada, USA, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Scandinavia or Italy.
Rob Raeside, 25 January 2010

It is such a simple flag, too. I think the Anders Jahre flag isn't exactly right, the area around the star is different. Perhaps it is a county flag? As it was made by Gebruder Hepp, I thought it was likely to be German.
Leslie Canerday, 25 January 2011

Colours obviously would help, but my impression is a dark cross on a lighter field and ditto star. This would count out El Grupo Arisona. Anders Jahre does fit the bill with its white field and star and blue cross. Although the central form is shown here as a diamond compared with the circle at the fesse point as shown on the bowl, please keep in mind that we are dealing with small images in most cases and I know from my experience, since I deal in small images, that it is next to impossible at times to clearly differentiate bewteen drawing a circle and a diamond when filling in the small area which is available. Most sources show a circle, sometimes making it clear by narrowing the width of the cross and by having a larger circle as a result and thus the curve of the sides are readily apparent (such as in Brown 1982 and 1995).
On the other hand the cap badge in collectors corner clearly shows the straight sides of a diamond. Perhaps that was for ease of manufacture. I attach two images. The cap badge (1) and another website image of the flag which is more in line with bowl image (2). The 2nd appears, to me, to have a circle at the centre. But if I keep looking at it am I so sure?
Overall, on the information available, I favour Jahre, for what that is worth.
Neale Rosanoski, 29 January 2011

image located by Rob Raeside, 30 January 2011

I then dug around a bit on the Anders Jahre line website and came up with this ship information and image. I think that clinches it as a circle. In fact, from the shadings on that image, I'd hazard the image was based on the bowl, or vice versa.
Rob Raeside, 30 January 2011

Anders Utkilens Rederi A/S

image by Jarig Bakker, 25 October 2005
Source: Brown’s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World, 1995 ^[4]

Bergen - horizontal blue white - blue flag; in center of white something like "SAL" in blue.
Jarig Bakker, 25 October 2005

Anders Wilhelmsen & Co

image by Jan Oskar Engene, 10 July 2005

House flag: Diagonally red over blue from lower hoist to upper fly with a white W in the centre.
Jan Oskar Engene, 10 July 2005

Image as depiced in Brown's Flags

image by Jarig Bakker, 12 September 2005
Source: Brown’s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World, 1995 ^[4]

Oslo - per fly-diagonal red over blue, in center white "W".
Jarig Bakker, 12 September 2005

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