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image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 April 2009
Bernhard Schulte GmbH & Co KG – group of companies:
1st generation:
Consul Johann Hermann Schulte (1847(?)-1920) and his friend
Christoph Bruns were establishing a ship broker company, named
Schulte & Bruns, in Papenburg in 1883, the predecessor of
current Schulte group. Having different ideas about management
the partners were separated in 1893 in a friendly way. Brun
stayed in Papenburg, Schulte went to Emden. For the company
S&B had had a good reputation, an agreement was made to keep
the name for both companies but using different colours for the
flags:
The company Schulte & Brun in Papenburg, owner Christoph
Brun, had a yellow and blue flag since then.
The company Schulte & Brun in Emden, owner J.H. Schulte, had
a green and red flag since then.
The company in Emden had twelve ships in 1912, transporting
timber across the North Sea and Baltic Sea. In 1914 the first
steamship was acquired. In 1917 the company opened a dockyard in
Emden.
2nd generation:
Consul Heinrich Schulte (1876-1937) and Johann Schulte
(1877-1938). Heinrich Schulte was mastering the troubles during
inflation and economic crisis in 1923 successfully. In 1930 his
company has 16 overseas ships and numerous inland ships.Branches
in Rotterdam, Hamburg and Duisburg were established. The main
business meanwhile was the transport of coal, iron and steel for
the expanding mining companies. Since 1939 the company was under
supervision of NS-government.
3rd generation:
Consul Bernhard Schulte (1907-1975) and Hans Heinrich Schulte
(1909-). The company acquired three wrecks from allied occupation
forces in 1945. In 1949 the first own ship was bought. In 1950
the company had already 16 overseas ships and 100 inland ships.
During the next years Schulte und Bruns Emden became one of the
leading shipping- and shipbuilding companies of Germany. In 1955
Consul Bernhard Schulte left the company, founding his own
shipping company, named Bernhard Schulte GmbH.
The company expanded, pushed by Suez crisis, in 1956. In 1957
there were bought 13 new built ships.
4th generation:
Dr.Heinrich Udo Schulte (1935-) and Thomas Schulte(1939-). By
overtaking the company in 1963 Dr.Heinrich Schulte was managing
14 overseas ships. His younger brother Thomas, who joined the
company in 1967, built up an “inhouse chartering department”.
In 1968 the first gas tanker was used and the company began to
expand slowly but continuously. In 1971 the Schultes were owner
of the bigger part of the fleet they managed.
Due to high taxes in Germany the company began to transfer parts
of the fleet in 1972 abroad and the Hanseatic Shipping Co.,
located in Limassol( Cyprus), was
established.
In 1976 the Atlantic Marine Ltd., located in Hamilton(Bahamas),
was established. The company was located in Hamilton (Bahamas).
In the center of a white flag a blue disc interrupted by white
wavy lines in a pattern like on top of a dune in the desert. It
is the same disc like the disc upon the flag of another Schulte
company, the Dorchester Maritime Ltd.
Source: <www.marcollect.de>
; photo of a table flag .
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 April 2009
image by Joe McMillan, 9 July 2005
Royal Caribbean International was founded in 1968 by a
consortium of three Norwegian shipping
companies: Anders Wilhelmsen & Co, I. M. Skange
& Co., and (later) Gotaas Larson. Wilhelmsen later took over
sole ownership, then turned the line into a joint venture with
the owners of the Hyatt hotel chain and the shipowning Ofer
family. Royal Caribbean operates 19 ships ranging from about
50,000 to over 135,000 tons, each carrying from 2,000 to 3,000
passengers. Its destinations are in the Caribbean, Mediterranean,
North Sea, Alaska, and Hawaii. The flag is white with the company
logo, a crowned anchor, in dark blue.
Source: Observation of flag flying on M/S Empress of the
Seas at anchor in Georgetown, Grand Cayman, last
week. All RCI ships are now registered in the Bahamas.
Joe McMillan, 9 July 2005
Anders Wilhelmsen & Co houseflag:
Diagonally red over blue from lower hoist to upper fly with a
white W in the centre. The other companies should be I. M.
Skaugen & Co. (see houseflag)
and Gotaas-Larsen (houseflag yet unknown).
Their Norwegian language web site says the company now operates
29 ships.
I think the company is based in the US nowadays, though there is
an office in Oslo as well. Anyway, finding out how to attribute
nationality to shipping companies these days is rather difficult
with ships registered under one or more flags and with ownership
from several countries, etc.
Jan Oskar Engene, 10 July 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 25 October 2005
Royal Cruise Line Ltd., Nassau - white with a blue hoist
diagonal; in center yellow crown interrupted by two blue stripes,
of which the bottom one is wavy.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 25 October 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 25 October 2005
Teekay Shipping Ltd., Nassau - white flag, red connected
"TK", outlined blue.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995.
Jarig Bakker, 25 October 2005
