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Danish Shipping Companies (T)

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

Terkol Rederierne
Thingvalla Line
Poul Tholstrup
T & C Thor Chartering A/S
Thore Akt. Dampsk.
Jens Toft A/S (D/S Jutlandia A/S)
TORM
Tschudi & Eitzen Bulkers A/S

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Terkol Rederierne (Aarhus)

image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website

It is a white flag with a black disc with a white and black border and a white "T" inside it.
Ivan Sache, 16 Nov 2002

The company appears to originate from Nils B. Terkildsen, who seems to have been involved in various companies some of which incorporated the name "Terkol". In the early 1970s he seems to have became part of Terkildsen & Olsen A/S which gradually absorbed the other operations and traded as Terkol Rederierne up until the latter 1990s. The earliest flag description that I can find is in a 1967 shipping book, where it is given as the same as the funnel which is described as pale yellow with a yellow "T" on a blue circle. However this description is immediately found wanting as a ship photo shows the funnel emblem design is the same as that for the flag shown here. Probably the colours given are also suspect. This source shows the livery being for A/S Terkol etc., i.e. for all the Terkildsen/Torkel companies. However Brown 1978 and 1982 give a different version of a white flag with a black "T" within a black ring before Brown 1995 confirms the flag shown here.
Source: Joseph Nüsse website
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Thingvalla Line

image by Ivan Sache, 12 June 2005

In 1879 or 1880 (accounts differ) two Danish shipping companies, the “Seil-og Dampskibsselskabet af 1873” and “Det Danske Søfartsselskab” formed “Thingvalla-Linien A/S” (Dampskibs Selskabet Thingvalla) with the aim of diverting Scandinavian passenger transport from German and British firms. The København route included Oslo (then called Kristiania) and Kristiansand in Norway, and had New York as destination. Later, there were sailings between Stettin and New York as well. The line’s advantages were easier routes for many Scandinavians and its congeniality, but transport was slower than the competition; the ships were smaller, too, and met with accidents. Financial difficulties led to Thingvalla being bought up in 1898 by the more famous DFDS company, the route being renamed Scandinavian America Line in the process.
Sources:
http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_shiplist.asp?co=thing
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/thingvalla.html
http://skandinavien-amerika-linie.com/History/HIS.htm

The house flag was white with a blue seven-pointed star in the middle. I suppose this is the right design, one point up.
In colour on this poster you can see it, vaguely:
in this photo
The star is upside-down, surely, in this company brochure:
Norway Heritage Gallery
Jan Mertens, 10 June 2005

Poul Tholstrup

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2025

The company was based in Roskilde. The flag was blue with blue initial "T" on centred yellow diamond.
Source: US Navy 1961, p.3-16/row 4/column 3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2025

T & C Thor Chartering A/S

image by Ivan Sache, 16 Nov 2002

Horizontal red, green, red, approximately 4, 6, 4 units high, with the colours separated from each other and the edges by 1 unit of white. (Though this note is a clear description, it does not agree with my recollection. I think there should be a centered "T & C" in White on the middle stripe.) this webpage does show that, but it does not show the small border around the flag that I thought I saw.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001

Red flag with a wide green horizontal stripe fimbriated white in the middle, and the white letters "T & C" placed in the middle. Joseph Nüsse website
Ivan Sache, 16 Nov 2002

I agree with Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg that there is a narrow white edging to the whole flag, this being seen on the Josef Nüsse website, where his images are taken from actual flags. The only question I would raise is, whether the edging in the hoist is part of the designor forms the "sleeve". My guess is that it is a combination of these two as the hoist white edging is comparatively wide compared with the other 3 sides. The company itself was formed in 1994 as Tönnevald & Clausen A/S ,then becoming T& C A/S in 1996/1997, also known as Thor Chartering A/S, then on 1 July 2003 became CEC Shipmanagement A/S on being acquired by Clipper Elite Carriers, part of Clipper Group (Management) Ltd.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

Thore Akt. Dampsk.

image by Jarig Bakker, 20 Jan 2005

The company was based in København. The flag was red with two white letters "T", turned on side to make a disrupted white cross.
Source: Brown´s Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 20 Jan 2005

Jens Toft A/S (D/S Jutlandia A/S)

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

The company was based in København. The flag was white with a blue initial based on J" in a blue isosceles triangle.
Sources: Stewart and Styring´s, 1963 and US Navy 1961, p.3-19/row 2/column 2
Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

TORM

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Feb 2021
image by Jarig Bakker 19 Dec 2004

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2025
image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

The flag is a horizontal red-white-red triband, with blue letter "T" on the middle of the white stripe (see image lower row right).
Source: Stewart and Styring´s Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963
Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

The flag is a horizontal red-white-red triband, without letter "T" (see image upper row right).
Source: Brown´s Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 19 Dec 2004

The company website shows the current version of the house flag (see image upper row left), as hoisted in front of the company headquarters in København (photography in the gallery of the front page of the company website). There the the dark blue letter "T" is rather "bold" (seemingly not as "bold" on the real flag as on the company logotype) and serifed.
Torm was founded in 1889 by Captain Ditlev E. Torm (1836-1907) and Christian Schmiegelow. Today Torm ’s fleet (16 bulk carriers and 15 product tankers) is the second largest, in tonnage, in the Danish merchant fleet, surpassed only by A.P. Møller-Maersk.
Ivan Sache, 7 Mar 2008

TORM PLC is one of the world´s greatest transporters of refined oil. The company runs a fleet of 80 modern ships with high requirements on safety, environment and customer service.
The company operates worldwide and has branch offices in Hellerup north of København (seat), London, Mumbai, New Delhi, Houston, Manila, Cebu and Singapore and is an important supporter of the Danish sailing team.
Sources:

1) I spotted a flagoid on a sailing boat in Gilleleje on 4 June 2016.
2) https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/TORM_PLC
3) http://about Torm Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 Feb 2021

There is a flag variant with white "T" fimbriated black on centre of the white stripe.
Source: US Navy 1961, p.3-19/row 3/column 3 Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2025

Tschudi & Eitzen Bulkers A/S ()

image by Ivan Sache, based on Joseph Nüsse website

White flag with the light blue letters T & E in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 16 November 2002

Tschudi & Eitzen Bulkers A/S. or as shown by Josef, Tschudi & Eitzen Bulkers (DK) A/S which does make a difference as Tschudi & Eitzen A/S was (it split up last year) based in Oslo but its shipping interests were handled through various subsidiaries, which were all in other countries with this particular one being based in Gentofte, a northern suburb of København. The flag is different from the parent company in the blue colour used for the letters with the parent using dark blue (which can be seen on Josef Nüsse´s website for Norway under page 8 T-W). Whether other subsidiaries used such a differencing system is not known.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004

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