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tom W�rden (German Shipping Company)

Schiffahrtskontor tom W�rden GmbH & Co. KG

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[Schiffahrtskontor tom W�rden (Shipping Company, Germany)] image by Jorge Candeias, 13 Mar 1999 See also:

Schiffahrtskontor tom W�rden

Schiffahrtskontor tom W�rden GmbH & Co. KG
The company is located in Oldendorf. Owner is Klaus tom W�hrden. The company has a long tradition. In 1911 Claus-Wilhelm tom W�rden, the great grandfather of the nowadays owner, built an own sailing ship , which ran a service between Northern Europe and the Baltic countries, then part of Russia. His son Wilhelm tom W�rden built a motor sailing ship  in 1940, and his son Klaus-Wilhelm tom W�rden built a coastal liner in 1955.
Description of flag of tom W�rden: The flag is divided by saltire into white and blue. A red �t� is in the hoist quarter, a red capital �W� in the fly quarter.
Source: �Flaggen, Schornsteine, Reedereien- Flaggen und Schornsteine der deutschen Reedereien und ihre Schiffe �ber 300 BRT�; Hamburg; 1957; p. F22
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar  2009

NAVALIS Shipping

[NAVALIS Shipping] image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar  2009

NAVALIS Shipping GmbH & Co. KG
The company was established in 1972. In 1985 the current owner, Klaus tom W�rden added a container feeder to the fleet and the company since then expanded constantly and runs today 13 freighters and 15 container feeders. There are also a NAVALIS INVEST GmbH & Co. KG, maintaining financial services and Navalis Shipping Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, maintaining administration.
Klaus-Peter B�hne; translated by Klaus-Michael Schneider
Description of flag of NAVALIS:
It is a blue flag with a light blue squarish tressure. Inside the tressure are a red bow and a blue triangular object. At the bottom is a white inscription �NAVALIS�.
Source: www.marcollect.de - image located by Klaus-Peter B�hne.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 Mar  2009

The flag shown for Navalis Shipping GmbH & Co. K.G. has me wondering as to what the originating image located by Klaus-Peter B�hne comprised as the nearest I have managed to find is a somewhat similar style panel which serves as link button including on the company website. However that site, on its history page which shows images for certain years relating to tom W�rden  and then Navalis, for 1972 shows a panel of diagonal blue and white quarters with overall a white circle bearing a red "N" which is also shown [with a slightly larger letter] by Joseph N�sse for his table flags [see image below]. In actual fact only 1 ship is listed as owned by Navalis in Lloyds and that is managed by tom W�rden together with the rest of their fleet and all are in tom W�rden colours as far as their funnels are concerned and presumably as far as the house flag when flown. Joseph N�sse indicates that Navalis was originally owned by Rahmann and tom W�rden and I have one other lead which suggests this may have been the case originally and that may mean the N�sse flag was actually flown as well. Navalis now is the group which includes tom W�rden so the flag shown by Klaus-Michael may well be that of the group but without confirmation of a sighting of a flag of some sort I am left wondering. Incidentally the Navalis website image shows a white portside bow whereas this flag shows it as light blue.
Neale Rosanoski, 29 Aug 2009


NAVALIS Shipping - other flag

[NAVALIS Shipping - variant] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 30 Aug 2009, after image sent by Neale Rosanoski, 29 Aug 2009