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Shipping Companies (Denmark)

Echoship ApS
Erik Winther
Forenede Bugserselskab
De Forenede Kulimportører Handels-Selskab A/S
H. Folmer & Co.
Gefion Shipping A/S
Det Helsingforske Dampskibsselskab, P.Brown Jr. & Co.
Per Henriksen (Mercandia Shipping)
Holm & Wonsild
Jens Toft A/S (D/S Jutlandia A/S)
Chr. Jensen A/S
Juhl & Ehrhorn

Echoship ApS

image by Eugene Ipavec, 19 February 2009

Echoship ApS is a Danish shipping company established at Svendborg (Fyn). Homepage – in English - showing the house flag as a drawing and as a table flag is at http://www.echoship.dk/. Founded in 1990, the firm is active in complete management of coasters (in Europe), currently 26 in number, and freight brokerage (globally). Sawn timber, it is stated, is the most important bulk transported; then there are grains, fertilizers, steel products, etc.

The house flag is white with a thin blue border; in the centre is a blue logo made up of four horizontal rows of stacked timber above three stylized waves.

The real item may be seen flying at ‘Crownbreeze’ and ‘Thea Marieke’:
http://rotterdamhaven.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/05/1crownbreeze.jpg
http://shipspot.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/05/1crownbreeze_5.jpg
http://koopvaardij.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/03/1thea_marieke.jpg
http://rotterdamhaven.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/31/thea_marieke_1.jpg
Jan Mertens, 18 February 2009

I noticed that the flag of Echoship ApS is very close to that of Nielsen Chartering A/S also of the town of Svendborg. Echoship would be the continuation of Nielsen Chartering.
Dominque Cureau, 1 March 2009

Erik Winther

image by Ivan Sache, 27 November 2003

The company is based in Hellerup, Copenhagen. The flag is horizontally divided red-white-red (1:2:1) with a thin vertical red stripe opposed to the hoist and a red W letter in the middle. We show a flag for the same company, dated 1963, with a red Svitzer cross instead of the W. The current design is similar to the house flag of Niels Winther, but I don't know if there is any family link between both Winthers. Company website: http://www.ewinther.dk/
Ivan Sache, 27 November 2003

Erik Winther. I suggest that it is likely that Ivan's flag from the company website should not have the narrow vertical red stripe in the fly with this appearing on the company website logo merely as a means of dividing the white of that band from the surrounding white background. Unfortunately the photo of the "Karen Winther" does not clearly show the funnel markings but I would imagine that they are in line with the flag logo which either means that either the Brown 1982 version is not correct with its more ornate portrayal, or there has been a subsequent change.
Neale Rosanoski, 11 September 2004

image by Michael Wilson

based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

Erik Winther. The flag for Winther is incorrectly shown by Stewart and Styring (1963) flag as a red-white-red triband (as above) with a red cross on the wide white stripe. This flag in fact belongs to the Belgian company Havenbedrijf Mabesoone N.V. The correct flag for Winther is that shown just before it by Stewart i.e., the same band structure but with a red diamond frame enclosing a red "W". The company appears to have been the successor to Niels Winther formed in 1945 with the same flag but Erik it seems made a change, according to Brown 1982, deleting the diamond frame and having a slightly more ornate "W" (shown here). The last vessel was sold in 2000.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004

Forenede Bugserselskab, Copenhagen

image by Jarig Bakker

A white flag, black "FB".
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)
Jarig Bakker, 19 December 2004

De Forenede Kulimportører Handels-Selskab A/S

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

H. Folmer & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 27 November 2003

The company was founded in Copenhagen by Helge Folmer in 1955. It operates 13 vessels. The flag is red with the white monogram of the company in the middle. This monogram is based on the letter F. Company website: http://www.folmer.dk/

Ivan Sache, 27 November 2003

Gefion Shipping A/S

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006

Gefion Shipping A/S, Naestved - white flag, horizontal blue wave, interrupted by slightly wavy blue "G".
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006

Det Helsingforske Dampskibsselskab, P.Brown Jr. & Co.

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 September 2008

Det Helsingforske Dampskibsselskab, P.Brown Jr. & Co., located in Copenhagen. It is a white square flag with a red bordure and a black 5-point star in its centre.
Source: Lloyds Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) p. 80, image no. 908
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 17 September 2008

Per Henriksen (Mercandia Shipping)

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006

Per Henriksen (Mercandia Shipping), Copenhagen - blue flag, white outlined shield, a white standing winged anchor.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 14 February 2006

Holm & Wonsild

image by Phil Nelson, 24 June 2000

based on Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours, 1963

Holm & Wonsild. Some pre WW2 sources show the flag without the white border but most agree with the flag shown here.
Neale Rosanoski, 27 April 2004

image by Jarig Bakker

Version without the white border, after Brown's Flags and Funnels (Wedge 1926)

Juhl & Ehrhorn

Juhl & Ehrhorn (Esbjerg, Denmark) - J and E combined to white anchor on red.
http://www.chartering.dk/gallery.htm

Dov Gutterman, 17 October 2003