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British shipping companies (C)

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W.R. Corfield & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of W.R. Corfield & Co. (#859, p. 77), a Cardiff-based company, as swallow-tailed, horizontally divided white-red with a blue square canton charged with a white star.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/42/
Ivan Sache, 27 April 2021

Cork Steamship Co.

image by Rob Raeside

For details, see British & Continental S.S. Co. entry.

"Flags and Funnels of the British and Commonwealth Merchant Fleets" shows this flag but the star is lighter and smaller, reaching outside the cross.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2006

Corinthian Shipping Co., Ltd.

(Richard Nicholson & Sons)

image by Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Corinthian Shipping Co., Ltd. (Richard Nicholson & Sons) (#982, p. 83), a Liverpool-based company, as horizontally divided blue-white blue (2:3:2) with a black "N" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/48/
Ivan Sache, 28 April 2021

James Cormack & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

James Cormack & Co., a Leith-based company, was mentioned in 1907, when its steamer "Moravia" (1,388 tons) was lost on her way to Flensburg (Shetland Times, 23 February 1907).

Undoubtedly the largest proportionate loss of tonnage arising out of the war was sustained by Messrs. James Cormack and Company. Their pre-war fleet numbered eleven, and of these the war deprived them of ten. Their trade was mainly conducted with Russian ports—Riga and Archangel, chiefly—and this is one of those which up till now have shown no signs of an early revival. The head of the firm is Mr. James Cormack, J.P., who is assisted in its management by his two sons, Messrs. James Cormack, Jun., and A. C. Cormack.

The Story of Leith
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/leith/31.htm

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of James Cormack & Co. (#1863, p. 125) as red with a white cross, charged in the center with a white square diamond inscribing a blue "C".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#90
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021

Cornish Shipping Ltd.

image by Jarig Bakker, 20 November 2005

Cornish Shipping Ltd., Plymouth - blue flag, in center three white "C"'s, arranged triangularly.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 20 November 2005

James P. Corry & Co.

image by Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021

Source: http://www.red-duster.co.uk/CORRY.htm

A further source (listing routes and years of operation) is http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/corry.htm.

Robert Corry, originally of Co. Down (Ireland) founded a company in Belfast in 1826, active in timber imports from Canada and later sailing to India, Australia and New Zealand, and South America. Relocated to London as a result of this growing trade; by then the firm was already named Corry & Co. (about 1850). During that period, the wooden Canadian-built ships were replaced by iron ones built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast. Representing a new generation, James P. Corry – grandson and name giver to the modified company name, created a baronet in 1885 - saw the acquisition of steamships starting in 1887 and the introduction of refrigeration plants. In cooperation with Thomas Royden & Sons and G.D. Tyser & Co., an emigrant service to Australia was established in 1912. Two years later, Corry’s Star Line (named after a famous series of ships the names of which started with ‘Star of…’), Royden (Indra Line), Tyser, and William Milburn (Anglo-Australian Steam Navigation Co.) were to merge into the Commonwealth & Dominion Line, later known as the Port Line.

image by Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021

The house flag is white with two red horizontal edges (1:2:1) and a red heart in the centre. I am convinced the heart is canting and long used as a mark before the mentioned baronetcy (whatever the armorial bearings may have been). A much smaller heart is shown by the on-line 1912 Lloyds Flags & Funnels, under No. 1386, last on that page, for ‘James P. Corry & Co. (Star Line, Ltd.) London’.
Jan Mertens, 29 November 2005

John Cory and Sons

image by Ivan Sache, 21 April 2021

Based on Wedge 1926 John Cory & Sons, Limited, Cardiff - blue, in the center red disk charged with white "C".
Jarig Bakker, 13 December 2004

"Flags and Funnels of the British and Commonwealth Merchant Fleets" shows this flag with a serif letter C.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 June 2006

John Cory I (d. 1891) was born at Padstow, Cornwall. After being master of coasting and foreign-going ships he came to Cardiff as a shipbroker and shipowner in 1872, i.e. some years after Richard Cory (founder of the firm of Cory Brothers) had arrived from Bideford, Devon, With his two sons, John and James Herbert, he established the firm of John Cory, Sons and Co., which owned at the time of his death twenty-one steamers with another three large steamers being built on the Clyde.

John Cory II (1855-1931) was born at Padstow, Cornwall. He came to Cardiff when a youth of 17 from London, where he had been training as a merchant and ship-broker. He joined his father (John Cory I) and his brother (Herbert) in their firm. He was the chairman of directors of the Cardiff Channel Dry Docks and Pontoon Co., Ltd., and of the Mount Stuart Dry Docks Ltd., on their amalgamation in February 1931; a director of some thirty-six shipping and ship-repairing and trading companies, including John Cory and Sons, Ltd.

Sir James Herbert Cory (1857-1933), 1st baronet, was the younger son of John Cory I, and was born at Padstow. He was a shipowner, director of thirty-five companies, including John Cory and Sons, Ltd., Cory's Trading Co., Engineering and Dry Docks Cos., M.P. for Cardiff, 1915, and for Cardiff South 1918-23; sheriff of Glamorgan 1913.

https://biography.wales/article/s-CORY-SON-1850
Dictionary of Welsh Biography

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag (#15, p. 37).

https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#2
Ivan Sache, 21 April 2021

Cory & Strick (Steamers) Ltd

image located by Jan Mertens

From http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/strick.html:

“Another Company called Cory & Strick (Steamers) Ltd was formed in 1928. Cory's were long established in the coal trade and between 1928 - 31 they had six ships built with names all similar to that of La Tunisienne Steam. (…)
None of the Strick Companies could escape the depression in 1931 and many of their vessels found their way to lay up in various rivers and ports. (…)
In September of 1939 the three Fleets of Strick comprised 25 vessels of which 12 being Strick Line (1923) Ltd, 1 being Shahristan Steamship, 6 being La Tunisienne Steam Navigation and finally the remaining 6 with Cory & Strick. (…)
(In) 1943 Cory Strick had lost three of its six ships, two of the remaining were sold and the last was transferred to La Tunisienne Steam bringing to an end the Cory Strick association.”
The National Archives identify Cory & Strick as shipping agents based at Plymouth.

Lifted from the funnel image and enlarged, the flag above is seemingly a black lozenge with rounded sides delineating red fields (upper hoist and lower fly) and blue ones (lower hoist and upper fly), respectively. The black centre may symbolize the coal trade.
Jan Mertens, 27 January 2007

Cory Brothers

image by Jarig Bakker, based on the website of the National Maritime Museum.

From the website of the National Maritime Museum, "the house flag of Cory Brothers, Cardiff. A rectangular flag divided horizontally into white over green. A pink Welsh dragon is in the centre holding two overlapping black diamonds with a white diamond in the centre stitched with the inscription 'CORY BROTHERS'. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. A rope and toggle is attached. The dragon and black diamonds are a reference to their coaling activities."
Jarig Bakker, 10 August 2004

Cory Colliers Ltd.

Wm. Cory & Son; Cory Towage Ltd.

image by Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021

From the website of the National Maritime Museum, "the house flag of Cory Colliers Ltd., London. A red, rectangular flag with a white diamond in the centre. The flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is machine sewn. A rope and two Inglefield clips is attached."
Jarig Bakker, 10 August 2004

William Cory & Son. Originally in the coal trade they became tug operators, taking over several other companies and eventually consolidating under the control of Cory Towage Ltd. Around 1985 the flag emblem was altered from a white diamond to a blue one edged white. They were taken over and absorbed effective 20 February 2000 by Bureau Wijsmuller B.V.
Neale Rosanoski, 16 February 2004

image by Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021

Cory Towage Ltd., London - red flag, blue diamond bordered white.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 3 November 2005

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag (#535, p. 62) for Wm. Cory & Sons.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#27
Ivan Sache, 25 April 2021

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