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by Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2003
At Auke Visser´s ESSO Tankvaart Mij. site <visseraa.topcities.com>,
there is another ESSO-flag, white with at the fly the company
logo and at the hoist in a vertical row red letters
"ETNA", abbreviation of Esso Tankers Nederlandse
Antillen.
Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2003
by Jarig Bakker, 21 July 2005
I am a collector of shipping company cap badges. I recently
acquired a badge with a blue house flag. On the flag is a
"V" surmounted by a slightly smaller inverted
"V". The side buttons on the cap have the words
"Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland".
I contacted the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam and got this reply:
"The badge you mentioned contains the house flag of the
Dutch N.V. Scheepvaart Maatschappij 'Volharding' at Willemstad
(Curacao), a venture of the Koninklijke Rotterdamse Lloyd (KRL),
Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Nederland' (SMN) and Koninklijke
Paketvaart Maatschappij (KPM) etablished in 1966. These shipping
companies merged in 1970 into the Royal Nedlloyd. The two ships
owned by Scheepvaart Maatschappij 'Volharding', ms. 'Antilla
Cape' (1966) and ms. 'Hypolite Worms' (1966) went over to the
Nedlloyd-organisation.
with kind regards,
Mr Cees van Romburgh
maritime historian"
Bill Johnston, 21 July 2005
All were related to the Dutch Nigoco shipping group and appear
in a 1995 book: F. Haalmeijer and B. Scholten, ‘Van Nievelt,
Goudriaan & Co’s Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Nigoco).
The Curaçao-based firms ‘Statistix Shipping BV’,
‘Getafix Shipping BV’, and ‘Idefix Shipping
BV’ were short-lived. They are mentioned in above
book as having flown the same flag but the Nigoco ships
list only mentions Statistix as (operating?) company for the
Liberian firms ‘Asterix’, ‘Getafix’, and
‘Idefix’ shipping corporations, respectively.
This gives 1975-1982 as Statistix’s operative years but if
Haalmeijer and Scholten are right, this would be: Statistix,
1975-1982; Getafix, 1976-1982; Idefix, 1976-1979.
The ships in question were operated for a few years but as there
was no profit these were chartered out or sold for scrap.
The flag of all of them: White field, narrow red and blue
horizontal stripes set away from the edges (a far cry from the
Dutch national colours) and between said stripes a red right
triangle presenting its hypothenuse to the hoist. In
fact the triangle makes up one half of a virtual square
positioned in the centre.
Jan Mertens, 30 October 2008