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House Flags of German Shipping Companies (u)

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Union Partreederei (Scipio & Co.)

image by Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2005

Union Partreederei (Scipio & Co.), Bremen - red flag, white diamond, black serifed "U".
Image after Brown's Flags and Funnels Shipping Companies of the World, compiled by J.L. Loughran, Glasgow, 1995 [lgr95]
Jarig Bakker, 19 Oct 2005

Unter-Elbe Fähr Betrieb

Cycling towards the Danish-German border, I saw a ship on the Kiel canal belonging to the shipping company Unter-Elbe Fähr Betrieb. The house flag was, divided per saltire, white over blue, U over E before F over B in black. I reported this one last year, but this time I spoke with the captain of one of the ferries, who confirmed that they do indeed have this flag in cloth.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001

Unterweser Reederei

image by Jorge Candeias

Unterweser Reederei GmbH, AG - I saw a photo of the German ship Weser. Painted on the board was a [divided saltirewise] blue-red flag with white letters URAG. Source: German magazine Guten Tag, 1989.
Victor Lomantsov, 8 Feb 2001

This must be a West German ship. Interesting to see a West German company using 'typical' East German colors.
Volker Moerbitz Keith, 8 Feb 2001

Unterweser Reederei GmbH. The company not only predates the GDR, thus having more "right" to the colours, but it has also outlasted it as it still exists though going by the image on the company site the blue and red colour shades are different. It originated in 1890 as Schleppschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Unterweser, changing to Unterweser Reederei A.G. in 1923 and to Unterweser-Reederei GmbH in 1963. The original flag was the same format but with the white letters "SGUW" in place of the current "URAG".
Neale Rosanoski, 9 Oct 2004