Danish Shipping Companies (D)

Last modified: 2025-06-20 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Dan Chem Tankers
• Danena A/S
• Dania Chartering ApS
• Otto Danielsen Rederiet
• "Danmark" Dampskibs Selskab
• Dannebrog Line
• Dansk Cement Central A/S
• Det Dansk-Franske A/S D/S
• Det Danske Kulkompagni A/S
• Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railway)
• A/S Deep Sea Shipping

• DFDS - Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab

• Denmark
• Joseph Nüsse website
• House flags of shipping companies

Dan Chem Tankers

The company is based in Nykøbing. The flag is red with blue initials "DCT".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 29 Nov 2005

Danena A/S

The company is based in Aarhus. It is a shipping and ship-owning company specializsd in dredging in the Baltic, North Sea and Danish waters. The flag is swallow- tailed, red with two thin white stripes near the top and the bottom of the flag and a white "N" in the middle.
Source: company webbsite
Dov Gutterman, 17 Oct 2003 and Ivan Sache, 27 Nov 2003

The "N" probably refers to Ejnar Nygaard, who up to the end of the 1980s was shown by Lloyds as the manager at the same address as they still use.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 Sep2004

Dania Chartering ApS

The company is based in København. Orange flag with a black equilateral triangle in the middle.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 2002

Otto Danielsen Rederiet

The company was founded in Virum by Otto Danielsen in 1944. It operates 10-12 dry cargo ships. The flag is green with the white letters "OD".
Source:: company website
Ivan Sache, 27 Nov 2003

"Danmark" Dampskibs Selskab

The company was based in København. The flag was red with a centred white annulet.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, group 3, image 561
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 May 2025

Dannebrog Line

image by Jorge Candeias, 4 December 2005

The corporate newsletter of Dannebrog Lines: http://w3t.org/?c=dannebrog. shows the logos of both Dannebrog and Weco lines (both parts of Nordana Line). The Dannebrog logo is a swallowtailed Dannebrog on a blue rectangle. I guess a Danish company called Dannebrog had to use some adaptation of the national flag as their logo.
Dean McGee, 3 December 2005

Dansk Cement Central A/S

The company was based in København. The flag was red with a centred white annulet. The flag was blue on centre white disc an isosceles voided blue triangle with blue inscription "DANSK" (hoist) "CEMENT" (fly) "CENTRAL" (bottom) parted in each corner by a blue 5-point star.
Source: US Navy 1961, p.3-18/row 4/column 3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 29 May 2025

Det Dansk-Franske A/S D/S

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

image by Michael Wilson, 27 Apr 2004

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2008

The flag was a pennant version of the flag of France with a pennant version of the flag of Denmark in the canton (see left image above).
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 image 506 Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

The white band should bear "D-F" with the "D" and the dash being blue and the "F" red (see central image above). The company was formed in 1902 and declared bankrupt in 1979. According to Talbot-Booth up until 1938 it was operated by A.N. Petersen (and he shows it under this name), being joined in 1938 by E. Hahn-Petersen. Post WW2 only the latter is shown by Lloyds as being the operator and some flag sources also show this name with Lloyds deleting the reference at the beginning of the 1970s. Flag sources prior to WW2 show a different version with the red canton being normal style with sources varying as to whether the white cross fess point was centred or placed nearer the hoist in Scandinavian style.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Det Dansk-Franske Dampskibsselskab was located in Esbjerg and used a triangular pennant. The colours are the same like on the French flag. Within the white stripe is a serifed inscription D-(blue) F (red) (see image above). There is a red canton with a white centred cross.
Source: Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) p. 105, image no. 1439.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2008

Det Danske Kulkompagni A/S

The flag is horizontally divided by seven stripes alternating of blue and white charged with a black inscription "DDK".
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 image 223
Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railway)

The company is based in København. The flag was white withstanding crowned anchor, interrupted by a space charged with "DSB", all blue.
Jarig Bakker, 21 Oct 2005

A/S Deep Sea Shipping