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British shipping companies (A)

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Thos. Appleby & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021

In 1866, Thomas Appleby (1839-1909) and Robert Ropner founded the shipping company of Appleby, Ropner & Co. This partnership was dissolved in 1874, with each partner establishing their own companies: T. Appleby & Co., and R. Ropner & Co.
Thomas was chairman of the Hartlepool Gas Company, president of the South East Durham Conservative Association and a J.P.

http://www.hhtandn.org/venues/3831/appleby-and-co
Hartlepool History Then and Now

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Thos. Appleby & Co. (#877, p. 78) as quartered per saltire red and white.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/43/
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021

Appleyard Lincoln & Co (Boatbuilders) Ltd.

image by Eugene Ipavec, 17 June 2009

The story of ‘Appleyard Lincoln & Co (Boatbuilders) Ltd’ (Ely, GB) is found at http://www.orcharddelight.co.uk/index.html. Quote from ‘Appleyard & Lincoln’ section (upper menu):

“Appleyard’s Boathouse, built in 1877 at Ely in Cambridgeshire, was taken over in 1946 by Harry Lincoln and became Appleyard Lincoln & Co (Boatbuilders) Ltd. During the next sixteen years they built over a thousand wooden constructed boats of which Orchard Delight was the last. Harry, whose name was associated with innovation and quality, was a pioneer of Glass Reinforced Plastic to which they switched in 1962. They went on to build over a thousand GRP boats before he retired.”

A design of theirs, the Elysian, would – after a slow start - prove to be very popular: it is easy to find these boats described and offered on the internet.

Shown on the website as a drawing, the wharf's pennant was yellow traversed by a green horizontal stripe; near the hoist was placed a yellow lozenge, outlined green, containing green initials ‘AL’ (no serifs).
Jan Mertens, 13 May 2009

ARC Marine Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker, 30 November 2005

ARC Marine Ltd., Southampton - horizontal blue-white-blue flag; in center black "ARC".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 30 November 2005

Arctic Steam Fishing Co., Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Arctic Steam Fishing Co., Ltd. (#855, p. 77), a Grimsby-based company, as yellow with a red star.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/42/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021

Argonaut S.N. Co., Ltd. (B.C. Atkinson & Son)

image by Ivan Sache, 21 April 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Argonaut S.N. Co., Ltd. (B.C. Atkinson & Son) (#1, p. 37), a Middlesbrough-based company, as blue with a white, cursive "A".

https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#2
Ivan Sache, 21 April 2021

Ariadne Steamship Co., Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Ariadne Steamship Co., Ltd. (#971, p. 83), a London-based company, as light blue with a darker blue cross, charged in the center with a slanted yellow anchor.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/48/
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021

"Armenia" Steamship Company, Ltd.

B.B. Murrell & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the "Armenia" Steamship Company, Ltd. (B.B. Murrell & Co.) (#1861, p. 125), a West Hartlepool-based company, as white with a red cross, in the respective quarters, the red letters "W", "H", "&", and "Co"
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#90
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Armitage's Steam Trawling Co., Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Armitage's Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. (#1835, p. 124), a Hull-based fishing company, as blue with a red lozenge charged with a white seven-pointed star.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#89
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

R.T. Arthurs & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of R.T. Arthurs & Co. (#1830, p. 124), a Glasgow-based shipping company, as swallow-tailed, red with a white saltire charged in the center with a black "A".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#89
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

British Shipping lines: continued