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image by Ivan Sache, 12 December 2013
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, 1926 [9]
Oslo - red flag, stylized "A".
Jarig Bakker, 30 Janurary 2004
The house flag shown by Brown (1926) already
appeared in Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (No. 716, p. 71).
The full name of the company was then E.B. Aaby Rederi S/A, the company being
already mentioned in 1903. On 22 May 1917, the ore cargo ship "Nannsmith", built
in 1907 in Newport for E.B. Aaby, sunk off Quiberon, south Brittany.
Whether the ship hit a floating mine or was torpedoed is still an unresolved
question.
The full name of the company was Aaby Shipping Co AS. Josef
Nuesse's "Ships and Flags" website shows its house flag with a slightly
different rendition of the "A" letter.
Source:
http://www.flagpole.de/reedereiflaggen/europa/nordeuropa/
Ivan Sache, 12 December 2013
In 1997, the company was bought by Borgestad ASA,
according to the latter's annual report.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 17 January 2014
Other sources: Reed 1912 No. 420; Josef Nüsse
website, Brown 1951 No. 262; Brown 1958 No. 191; Brown 1971 No. 133; Stewart
1953 No. 335; Stewart 1957 No. 335; Stewart 1963 No. 302.
Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 3 July 2025
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider and Tomislav Todorovic, 3 July 2025
Formed 1861, traded as E.B. Aaby until 1937 (Lloyds 3/1998).
Steamship
owners from 1901 (Merchant Ships 1942).
Some sources show the A2 flag with a
normal top to the "A".
For this flag Brown 1951 & 1958 show the "A" with a
flat top while brown 1982 & 1995 show the "A" with a downward forked horizontal
arm.
Source:
image based on Lloyds 1912 No. 716; Brown 1926 No. 230;
Brown 1929 No. 221; Brown 1934 No. 221; Brown 1943 No. 238; Brown 1982 No. 159;
Brown 1995 No 180; Talbot-Booth 1936 No. 9; Ships & The Sea 1936 No. 9;
Talbot-Booth 1937 No. 9; Ships & The Sea 1938 No. 9; Merchant Ships 1942 No. 634
& CI; Merchant Ships 1944 No. 634 & CI; US Navy 1961 118-8.
Klaus-Michael
Schneider, 3 July 2025
image by Jarig Bakker, 8 January 2006
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World [4]
Sunderborg - blue flag, white "EH".
Jarig Bakker, 8 January 2006
image by Jarig Bakker, 27 December 2005
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World [4]
Stavanger - horizontal Green-White-Green flag; in
center black outlined diamond, green "E".
Jarig Bakker, 27 December 2005
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 May 2017
Orange flag with green shield charged with a white capital “U”.
I spotted
this flag on 27 April 2017 in Trondheim City in front of the real estates
bureau.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 May 2017
image by
Ivan Sache, 14 December 2013
Eidesvik operates a modern fleet of highly
specialised vessels in three main segments: supply and logistics ("Northern
Crusader", "Viking Athene", "Viking avant", "Viking Dynamic", "Viking Energy",
Viking Lady", "Viking Queen", Viking Surf", "Viking Thaumas", and "Viking
Troll"), subsea ("Acergy Viking", "Subsea Viking", "Viking Forcados", and
"Viking Poseidon"), seismic survey and cable laying ("Geo Searcher", "Oceanic
Viking", "Veritas Vantage", "Veritas Viking", "Viking II", "Viking Vanquish",
and "Viking Vision"). The vessels are operated in the world wide market.
Source: http://www.eidesvik.no/ -
Corporate website
Josef Nuesse's "Ships and Flags" website shows the company's house flag as white
with a blue lozenge charged with a white "E" and bordered by a white lozenge
fimbriated in red.
Source:
http://www.flagpole.de/reedereiflaggen/europa/nordeuropa/
A
photo shows the flag being hoisted over the newly released "Oceanig Vega"
seismic search vessel (2 July 2010).
Ivan Sache, 14 December 2013
White flag with green
disc fimbriated white and charged with a white initial “E”.
I spotted this
flag on 26 April 2017 in Rørvik Harbour.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11
May 2017
image by Ivan Sache
Source: http://www.eidsiva.no/
The company was founded in 1930 by Sverre
Ditlev-Simonsen as the Skipsaksjeselskapel Eidsiva, and renamed in 1996 Eidsiva
Rederi ASA. The flag is swallow-tailed, asymmetrical, red with a white diagonal
stripe charged with SDS, the founder's initials, in blue.
Ivan Sache, 2 December 2003
image by Jarig Bakker, 26 September 2005
Source: Brown’s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World,
1995 [4]
Oslo; White-Red-White flag; in center a white
diamond enclosing a blue "H".
Jarig Bakker, 26 September 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 12 September 2005
Source: Brown’s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World,
1995 [4]
Oslo - white flag, top and bottom blue stripe, in
center blue "L".
Jarig Bakker, 12 September 2005
image
by Jarig Bakker, 5 September 2005
Source: Brown’s Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World,
1995 [4]
Kristiansand S. - blue flag, white diamond, blue
"R".
Jarig Bakker, 5 September 2005
by Jarig Bakker
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship
Companies, 1926 [9]
Oslo - white flag, red "L".
Jarig Bakker, 22 February 2005