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Carl Tiedemann (German Shipping Company)

Carl Tiedemann Stauerei; Fairplay Tugs

[Fairplay Tugs (Shipping Company, Germany)]

image by Jorge Candeias, 20 Feb 1999

Fairplay Tugs
Carl Tiedemann
Carl Tiedemann - C

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Fairplay Tugs

Fairplay Tugs or Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei GmbH - White with a centred device consisting of a large red four-pointed star charged with a smaller blue 4-pointed star, rotated 45 degrees relative to the larger one.
Jorge Candeias, 20 Feb 1999

This is interestingly similar to the houseflags of Borchard Lines Ltd. and Lucy Borchard Shipping Ltd.. Any idea of the reason for such similarity? Were these three once the same company?
António Martins, 18 Sep 2001

See for a similar star this website. Founded by harbour worker Carl Tiedemann in 1879, a service and towing company, Hamburg. In 1895, a towboat called 'Fairplay' takes up service and two years later, Richard Borchardt joins the firm. In 1900 the firm is called 'Stauerei und Bugsiererei Carl Tiedemann' (Stevedoring and Towing Company CT), later renamed 'Fairplay Steam Tug Office'. Surviving two world wars and considerable technological changes, the firm still exists as a major player in the maritime services business, logistics etc.
Familiar names crop up here, for Fairplay itself see here, with its own star. Richard Borchardt founded F. in 1905, took over BBB, Rostock and also URS (Antwerp) together with Smit International, this year.
Jan Mertens, 13 May 2004

Fairplay Tugs - (Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei GmbH). The full name of the company is Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffsreederei Richard Borchard and the following history has been gleaned from "Hamburg Tugs" by Michael Dollenbacher and Reinhard H. Schnake: "Originated from the tug company Pauls & Blohm formed 1877 which merged 25.11.1905 with Carl Tiedemann as Schleppdampfschiffsrhederei Carl Tiedemann und Pauls & Blohm with Richard Borchard, who had joined Carl Tiedemann in 1897, becoming a partner then in 1924 he bought out the others and in 1926 renamed the company Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffsreederei Richard Borchard, succeeded on his death as owner and manager 12 Jan 1930 by wife Lucy, then 8/1938 ownership was transferred to a trust due to laws prohibiting Jews from owing businesses with the Borchards shifting to London where they established Fairplay Towage Co. Ltd., the original company being returned to Lucy Borchard and son Kurt in 1949 with in 1950 Fairplay Towage Co. Ltd. being dissolved, Lucy dying 4 Feb 1969 succeeded by son Kurt". There is thus a connection with the various Borchard companies and explains the use of the family emblem by Borchard Lines Ltd. and Lucy Borchard Shipping Ltd.
Neale Rosanoski, 18 Oct 2004

Carl Tiedemann

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Feb 2007

Carl Tiedemann Stauerei is a freight- and cargo company for transports by ship.
The flag is white a red 4-point star pointing to the following directions clockwise 0gon, 100gon, 200gon and 300gon. The star is superimposed by a blue 4-point star pointing to the following directions clockwise 50gon, 150gon, 250gon, 350gon with a white capital "T" in its centre. The whole is surrounded by a big blue capital "C".
(ed.note: full circle is 400gon, a rectangle is 100gon)
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 20 Feb 2007

Carl Tiedemann - C

image by Jarig Bakker, 23 Jan 2009

This was sent to me via Gerard van der Vaart (of Shipmate and the new Dutch FOTW-mirror).
Albert Kelder sent an image of a cap with an emblem (2,5 MB):
White with a centred device consisting of a large red four-pointed star charged with a smaller blue 4-pointed star, rotated 45 degrees relative to the larger one; in center of blue a white serifed "T".
That is the image of Fairplay tugs + T; as well as Carl Tiedemann - C.
Jarig Bakker, 23 Jan 2009