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![[CNN wo/ logo (shipping company, Portugal)]](../images/p/pt~hfcnn0.gif)
2:3 image by Al Fisher, 28 Jan 1999
Only one Portuguese house flag in Sandy Hook’s series in the
1930 Larousse Commercial [hok30]:
«Cia. Nacional de Navegaçao», (no tilde on the "a"!)
Lisbon: quarterly blue and white.
Jan Mertens, 09 Dec 2003
Also shown in The dumpy book of ships and the sea
[sam57].
James Dignan, 10 Oct 2003
The 1959 edition of Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours
by Colin Stewart [ste59] shows
this flag under #311.
Al Fisher, 28 Jan 1999
It’s the same houseflag as the British
Channel Islands Shipping Co.
Jarig Bakker, 15 Oct 2003
Empreza Nacional de Navegação, Lissabon - West Africa
till Mossamedes and Porto-Alexandre. Houseflag:
Blue and White quartered.
Jarig Bakker, 10 Oct 2003
![[CNN w/ logo (shipping company, Portugal)]](../images/p/pt~hfcnn.gif)
2:3 image by Jan Mertensand Eugene Ipavec, 16 Nov 2010
Founded in 1881 as 'Empreza Nacional de Navegacao'
by "Bensaude & Cia, Lima, Mayer & Cia and Ernst George to operate services to
Africa" (and India, 1951-1972). Name change to C.N.N. in 1918; merger with
Sociedade Geral de Comercio in 1972; wound up in 1985.
Simplon Postcards page, showing a number of ships:
The simple house flag - blue and white, the former royal colours - has been given
a logo in the upper hoist in a table flag version. A white initial 'C', almost closed, surrounds two white stylized initials 'n'
suggesting waves (I suppose we can discount the blue sleeve).
Would this have been the house flag 1972-1985 after the merger with Sociedade Geral de Comercio?
Possibly, as shown on this page
(halfway down; other interesting logos and flagoids).
Source: German eBay offer no. 290221927134
Jan Mertens, 2 Oct 2008
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