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Danish Shipping Companies (H)

28:37, image by Željko Heimer and and António Martins-Tuválkin
Danish merchant ensign

Dampskibsselskabet "Hafnia" A/S
C.K. Hansen
Carl Hassage & Co.
Peter Heering
Helle-Broe´s Bådmands Co. ApS.
Per Henriksen ("Mercandia" Shipping)
Holm & Wonsild

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Dampskibsselskabet "Hafnia" A/S

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2008

The company is based in København. It is a blue flag with a white simplified coat of arms of the City of København (Copenhagen), a three-towered white castle with an open gate above three white fessy wavy lines.
Source: Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) p. 74, image no. 797
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 Sep 2008

C.K. Hansen

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000 based on Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

C.K. Hansen ("Dannnebrog" S.S. Co.), based in København: the split Dannebrog on a blue background, but without interrupting the swallowtail by a short right piece ending the white cross. (Probably a mistake in detail.)
Jan Mertens, 11 Dec 2003

A ship-broking firm, they were managing owners of A/S D/S Dannebrog, which they formed in 1883. A reorganisation in 1967 saw them split and in 1970 the shipping company changed its name to Dannebrog Rederi A/S, under which it still operates using this flag.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Jan Mertens is quite right about the squaring of the cross point of the Dannebrog. All sources, apart from Stewart, so show it.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 Sep 2004

Carl Hassage & Co.

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 May 2025

The company was based in Randers. The flag was parted per saltire of red and white with a 4-point star in counterchanged colour on every quarter.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, group 3, image 231
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 May 2025

Peter Heering

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

The flag was blue with a white initial "H" in centre and a white 7-point star between the upper horizontal bars of the initial.
Peter F. Heering is th producer of the famous Heering original Cherry Liqueur, nowadays bottled fo danisco Destillers A/S. Theonly purpose of the shipping company seemed to be the transport of liqueur.
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963 Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

Helle-Broe´s Bådmands Co. ApS.

image by Eugene Ipavec, 15 June 2011

Based in Gentofte to the North of København, family owned Helle-Broe´s Bådmands ("boatmen") company was founded in 1857 and is occupied in mooring, unmooring, and shifting vessels in København harbour round the clock. Website, in English, with house flag drawing: http://www.helle-broe.dk/
Launch ‘Forward III’ serves as a crew change, supply, and inspection boat, photos of which are easily found on the ´net but no house flag was spotted.
So the drawing will have to do, and a striking flag it is: blue swallowtail, bearing a red Maltese cross in the centre plus white serifed initials "H" (upper hoist) and "B" (lower fly).
Jan Mertens, 14 June 2011

Per Henriksen ("Mercandia" Shipping)

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 Feb 2006

The company was based in København. The flag was blue with white outlined shield and a white standing winged anchor.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 Feb 2006

Holm & Wonsild

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 Apr 2004

Some pre-WW2 sources show the flag without the white border but most agree with the flag shown here (see left image above), i.e. red flag with with inscription "H&W".
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Version without the white border (see right image above)
Source: Brown´s Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926) Jarig Bakker, 27 Apr 2004

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