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House flag of Delpierre - Image by Ivan Sache, 12 March 2008
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Delpierre was a fishing company established in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Pierre Delpierre (1873-1929) commanded the Petit Poilu, a steam
trawler built in the Selby shipyard in 1920 and sunk by the German
Navy off Brest in 1940.
In 1956, the Pêcheries Delpierre company published the book
Boulogne grand port de pêche, texts by Roger Vercel and
illustrations by Mathurin Méheut, as a tribute to those lost at sea
during the wreckage of the trawler Colbert on 26 November 1955. The
company was still active in 1965. In the 1960s-1970s, Delpierre
owned two trawlers built in the famous Polish shipyards of Gdynia, the
Boulonnais and the Equiennois.
Ivan Sache, 12 March 2008
The house flag of E. & J. Delpierre is shown in Lloyd's book of house flags and funnels of the principal steamship lines of the world and the house flags of various lines of sailing vessels, published at Lloyd's Royal Exchange. London. E.C. (1912) [llo12], also available online thanks to the Mystic Seaport Foundation, #1543, p. 75, as white with three blue thin diagonal stripes in the lower left and upper right corners, and two red stars tilted to the upper right corner and flanking a red "D", the whole placed on the main diagonal of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 12 March 2008