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DFDS Scandinavian Seaways (Danish Shipping Company)

image by Jarig Bakker, 29 Nov 2005

DFDS Scandinavian Seaways (United Steamship Co. - Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab)
DFDS Tor Line

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DFDS Scandinavian Seaways (United Steamship Co. - Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab)

From the website of the National Maritime Museum, the house flag of the United Steamship Co.. A rectangular dark blue flag with a white cross formy. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn." Brown (1951) has: Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab, København.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 2 Sep 2004

[Flag of Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S new]

image by Michael Wilson, 27 Apr 2004

Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S, More precisely Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A/S which led to the current name of DFDS A/S being adopted in 1970.The flag is a dark blue and apparently still applies although another flag appears on the Joseph Nüsse website of white with the white cross formy appearing on a blue circle in the hoist accosted with the red legend of "DFDS" over "SEAWAYS" and the flag base consisting of a bicolour of light over dark blue which would refer either to the DFDS Seaways Service instituted in 1971 or possibly the subsidiary DFDS Seaways A/S formed in 2000. It is in line with the vessel colour scheme but may not have been actually used at sea.
Michael Wilson, 27 Apr 2004

DFDS Tor Line

image by Michael Wilson 27 Apr 2004

A similar flag, but with the cross appearing within a white ring on a blue angled panel and the legend being blue and "DFDS" over "TOR LINE" shows on the company site for DFDS Tor Line A/S which was formed in 1998.
Michael Wilson, 27 Apr 2004

by Michael Wilson, 27 Apr 2004

Again on the Nüsse site such a flag shows, but without the "DFDS" reference, and this appears to relate to the fact that the company was originally Tor Line A/B of Sweden [though is now based in Norway], formed in 1966, with a white flag bearing a black and white target emblem above 2 blue wavy lines of sea, the Nüsse flag presumably adopted after the company was acquired at some point by DFDS and the website version adopted after the 1999 name change to DFDS Tor Line A/S. (It is now somewhat difficult to allocate such groups to one specific country without losing the thread).
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

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