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Danish Shipping Companies (W)

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Danish merchant ensign

Weco Line
Erik Winther
Niels Winther & Co.
Wonsild & Søn A/S

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Weco Line

image by Jorge Candeias, 4 Dec 2005

The corporate newsletter of Dannebrog Lines shows the logos of both Dannebrog and Weco lines (both parts of Nordana Line). The Weco logo is a Dannebrog on a blue rectangle.
Dean McGee, 3 Dec 2005

Erik Winther

image by Michael Wilson, 27 Apr 2004
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2025
image by Ivan Sache, 27 Nov 2003

The company is based in Hellerup, north of København. The flag is horizontally divided red-white-red (1:2:1) with a thin vertical red stripe opposed to the hoist and a red "W" letter in the middle (see right image above). We show a flag for the same company, dated 1963, with a red Svitzer cross instead of the "W". The current design is similar to the house flag of Niels Winther, but I don´t know if there is any family link between both Winthers.
Source: company website
Ivan Sache, 27 Nov 2003

I suggest that it is likely that Ivan Sache´s flag from the company website should not have the narrow vertical red stripe in the fly with this appearing on the company website logo merely as a means of dividing the white of that band from the surrounding white background. Unfortunately the photo of the "Karen Winther" does not clearly show the funnel markings but I would imagine that they are in line with the flag logo which either means that either the Brown 1982 version is not correct with its more ornate portrayal, or there has been a subsequent change.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 Sep 2004

The flag for Winther is incorrectly shown by Stewart and Styring (1963) flag as a red-white-red triband (as above) with a red cross on the wide white stripe. This flag in fact belongs to the Belgian company Havenbedrijf Mabesoone N.V. The correct flag for Winther is that shown just before it by Stewart i.e., the same band structure but with a red lozenge frame enclosing a red "W" (see central image above). The company appears to have been the successor to Niels Winther formed in 1945 with the same flag but Erik it seems made a change, according to Brown 1982, deleting the diamond frame and having a slightly more ornate "W" (see left image above). The last vessel was sold in 2000.
Sources: Stewart and Styring´s, 1963and US Navy 1961, p.3-19/row 4/column 1
Neale Rosanoski, 27 Apr 2004 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2025

Niels Winther & Co.

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The company is based in Esbjerg. The flag is horizontally divided blue-white-blue (1:2:1) with the blue letters "NW" in the white stripe.
Source: company website
Ivan Sache, 27 Nov 2003

Wonsild & Søn A/S

image by Ivan Sache, 29 Nov 2003
image by Neale Rosanoski, modified by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 May 2025

The company was founded in København in 1904 by Valdemar L. Wonsild and his son Jørgen. It has a fleet of 16 chemical tankers and also deep sea dry cargo ships. The company has affiliates in København, Connecticut, Singapore, Rotterdam and Istanbul. The flag is white with a green border and the green monogram of the company in the middle (see left image above). This monogram is made of the interlaced "W" and "S" letters.
Source: company website
Ivan Sache, 29 Nov 2003

Brown 1978 and Flaggenbuch 1905 show a different version being white with the monogram in blue (see right image above) though the shape of the "W" is shown differently but by 1995 was showing the green version though still with different "W" which shape is disproved by the company website as well as Josef Nüsse´s flag.
Source: Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, group 3, image 105
Neale Rosanoski, 11 Sep 2004

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