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![[A.W. Pickard & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfawp.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of A.W.
Pickard & Co. (#744, p. 72) as triangular, red with a white disc inscribing a
red "P".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/37/
Ivan
Sache, 27 April 2021
![[Pickering & Haldane's Steam Trawling Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpha.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
He has given his name to a substantial area of the west of Hull, and was the
archetypal Victorian self-made man. Christopher Godmond Pickering was born in
1842, the son of Christopher Pickering, a tailor, and his wife Jane Gibson. On
the 1861 census the family were living at Hales Entry; young Christopher was a
fish curer. Ten years later he was married to Rachael Blakestone and lived at 3
Marlborough Terrace, Hessle Road. He was then a fish merchant. In the next ten
years he became a ship owner [...].
Pickering made a fortune very quickly.
During the 1880s he owned a fleet of sailing smacks in partnership with a man
named Haldane. They were quick to recognise that the future was in steam, and
sold the sailing ships in Europe in order to acquire steam trawlers. By 1914 he
headed Pickering & Haldane's Steam Trawling Co. and Pickering, Haldane & Co.
(fish and ice merchants), as well as being Chair of several fishing and allied
firms. [...]
He died in 1920.
Christopher Pickering - a rags-to-riches
story
http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/k-victorian/people/chris-pickering/chris-pickering.pdf
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Pickering & Haldane's Steam Trawling Co., Ltd. (#1725, p. 119), a Hull-based
fishing company, as blue with a red saltire, in the respective quarters, the
white letters "&", "P", "Co.", and "H".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#84
Ivan
Sache, 4 May 2021
![[Pike Ward Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~piwa.gif)
image
by Eugene Ipavec, 17 April 2009
A venerable British company Pike Ward Ltd.,
established at Teignmouth (Devon):
“Pike Ward Limited offers a wide range of
services to the shipping industry. These include Shipbroking, Ships Agents and
Cargo Supervision. From our main office in Teignmouth we are well positioned to
serve other ports in Devon including Bideford and Dartmouth.” (A further port
served is Appledore.) The firm was founded in 1876.
Shown on the website is the house flag (a drawing – no photo found yet): green
bearing a white six-pointed star in the centre.
Jan Mertens, 17
December 2008
![[T. Lee Pippet houseflag]](../images/g/gb~pippt.gif)
image located by Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of T. Lee
Pippet (#864, p. 78), a Newcastle-based company, as blue with two horizontal
stripe near the top and bottom, a red horizontal stripe in the center, and a big
red "P" superimposed.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/43/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
![[Pockett's Bristol Channel Steam Packet Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpoc.gif)
image located by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
The Pockett family’s business commenced in 1840 when James’ father, Capt.
Walter Pockett (1794-1856), began taking passengers from Swansea to
Weston-super-Mare and Ilfracombe aboard the smack ‘Elizabeth’ on summer weekends
and bank holidays. Due to the enterprising acquisition of three paddle steamers,
the ‘Troubadour’, the ‘Lass of Gowrie’ and the ‘Lord Beresford’, the business
expanded rapidly and, in 1852, James Wathen Pockett took over from his father as
proprietor. At that point he had three paddle steamers under his control, the
aforementioned ‘Lord Beresford’, together with two newer vessels, the ‘Princess
Royal’ and the ‘Prince of Wales’.
The business was to become known as
Pockett’s Bristol Channel Steam Packet Company, and involved James Pockett’s two
younger brothers, William (1823-1890) and Henry (1828-1868) as paddle steamer
Commanders. The earliest record of William Pockett as Commander is in 1858,
aboard the ‘Prince of Wales’ on a voyage from Swansea to Hayle in Cornwall.
(William went on to run the company for several years after the death of his
elder brother James c.1880) Henry Pockett is recorded as being Commander of the
‘Lord Beresford’ in 1861, sailing between Swansea and Ilfracombe, but there was
friction on the horizon as, when he commanded the paddle steamer ‘Henry Southan’
between Swansea and Bristol in 1862, he found himself having to sue his brother
James for his wages. Henry Pockett died in 1868 at just 40 years of age.
Pockett’s Steam Packet Company continued to thrive and, in 1865, Swansea’s first
steam-driven quayside crane was installed on the company’s wharf near the
entrance to the North Dock Basin. The rail-mounted crane, patented by G.
Stothert & Co. of Bath, was capable of lifting loads of anything up to 3
tons. That same year a new service between Swansea and London was inaugurated
with the s.s. ‘Pioneer’, and in 1868 the paddle steamer ‘Velindra’ was added to
the Bristol Channel fleet. The ‘Velindra’ was a modern vessel of 199 gross
registered tons, and had been built at Blackwall, London, in 1860.
In
1871 the company relocated to the South Dock Basin and by 1879 had acquired yet
another paddle steamer, the ‘Collier’, followed by the ‘Rio Formoso’ in 1887.
The ‘Prince of Wales’ was by then obsolete, having been built in Neath in 1842,
and was put up for sale. In 1896, after 28 years service, the ‘Velindra’ was
also disposed of and was replaced that same year by the paddle steamer
‘Brighton’, built in Govan in 1878. The last vessel known to have been purchased
by Pocketts was the paddle steamer ‘Mavis’, acquired in 1909. Built in 1888 at
Kinghorn, Fife, the ‘Mavis’ was to prove unreliable and lasted just four years
before being withdrawn from service in 1913. She was scrapped two years later at
Briton Ferry.
After 19 years of excursions from the South Dock at
Swansea, and also from the Mumbles Pier which was built in 1898, Pocketts’ last
remaining paddle steamer, the ‘Brighton’, was requisitioned by the War Office in
1915 for naval service in the First World War. After the war she was sold to a
Turkish company and spent her remaining years in the Aegean until being broken
up in 1927. With the loss of the ‘Brighton’, Pocketts’ role as ship-owners
ceased to exist, and the company’s former excursion routes in the Bristol
Channel were quickly absorbed by P&A Campbell’s fast-expanding fleet of ‘White
Funnel’ paddle steamers. Nevertheless, the company retained its wharf, warehouse
and office in the South Dock Basin until the mid 1930’s and today, quite
rightly, the famous name of Pockett is preserved for posterity as part of the
Swansea Marina.
http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/docksnewsite/steamers1.html
Swansea and
Port Talbot Dock History
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
shows the house flag of Pockett's Bristol Channel Steam Packet Co., Ltd.
(G.J. Wakefield) (#1347, p. 101), as horizontally divided blue-white-blue with a
black "P" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#66
Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
![[Pollok, Gilmore & Co houseflag]](../images/g/gb~p123.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker
Pollok, Gilmore & Co. white used white with the blue letters "P.G". They were taken over as Rankin, Gilmour & Co. and eventually as the Saint Line Ltd..
![[Henderson & McIntosh houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpol.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 29 April 2021
The Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA) was a travel firm which emerged under
the aegis of Quintin Hogg’s Polytechnic (later known as the Regent Street
Polytechnic then, from 1970, as the Polytechnic of Central London or PCL, and
finally from 1992 as the University of Westminster).). The firm gained
independent status in 1911 as the Polytechnic Touring Association. It traded for
a further fifty years, changing its name along the way to Poly Travel, before
its acquisition by a competitor. It eventually became part of one of the UK’s
best-known holiday brands, Lunn Poly.
The PTA was a distinctive,
significant and successful player in the growing British travel and tourism
industry. While other travel agencies had ‘rational recreational’ and
educational origins, the PTA was distinctive in terms of the numbers of tourists
for whom it catered and the balance of its portfolio. Polytechnic/PTA travel
accounts up to 1911, considered as a body of writing, formed an ideology of
‘collective Continentalism’ which represented aspects of modernity. Their
emphasis on simple fun and enjoyment suggested a degree of willingness to edge
close to the boundaries of respectability while on holiday. After its change of
status in 1911, the PTA became an effective adaptor to changing economic and
social conditions – if not the pioneer it claimed to be, in emulation of the
Polytechnic. By its latter days in the 1950s, now known as Poly Travel, it was a
sizeable and well-respected firm, though not as modern – in the sense of being
new and innovative – as perhaps it had been in its early years.
https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8z0w6/the-very-model-of-a-modern-travel-agency-the-polytechnic-touring-association-1888-1962
Neil Matthews. 2013. The very model of a modern travel agency?
The
Polytechnic Touring Association 1888-1962. PhD Thesis, University of Westminster
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctv6zd9f6.16.pdf
Neil Matthews. 2013.
From philanthropy to commerce: the Polytechnic Touring Association. Pp. 203-239
in E Penn (Ed.), Educating mind, body and spirit: the legacy of Quintin Hogg and
the polytechnic, 1864-1992. University of Westminster Press
Lloyd's Book
of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the Polytechnic
Touring Association (#1177, p. 93) as white with a red cross cantonned by the
blue letters "P", "S", "Y" and "V".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#58
Ivan Sache, 29 April 2021
![[Porthcawl S.S. Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpts.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache, 23 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of
Porthcawl S.S. Co., Ltd. (Thomas & Stephens) (#335, p. 52) as blue with a white
"T.S." monogram.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#17
Ivan Sache, 23 April 2021
![[Port Line Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~prtln.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache, 30 December 2001
This image is redrawn from one provided by Ted Harrison, based on a menu card from the shipping line.
![[Port Line Ltd houseflag]](../images/g/gb~s0959.gif)
image
by Phil Nelson, 9 April 2000
from Stewart and Styring's Flags, Funnels and Hull Colors 1963: note the narrower crosses.
uThe Port Line was in operation from about 1923 to 1980.
Port Line was the secondary name that the company acquired because its ships
were named 'Port of .........'
David Prothero, 3 January 2008
The company was founded in 1914 as the Commonwealth & Dominion Line, by fusion
of G.D. Tyser & Co. and several other companies.
In 1916, it was purchased by the Cunard Steamship Company, but kept operating
under its original name, to be renamed into the Port Line in 1937. In 1978, it
was fully integrated into Cunard.
Source:
Merchant Navy Nostalgia website:
http://iancoombe.tripod.com/id42.html
The company flag was inherited
from G.D. Tyser & Co.
Tomislav Todorovic,
13 December 2014
![[Portosalvo Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~posa.gif)
image
located by Jan Mertens, 3 December 2008
‘Portosalvo Ltd’ is established at Aberdeen, UK (founded 1996) and operates two platform supply vessels (a third one is in the project stage) for offshore work (http://www.rimnap.it/portosalvo_limited.html). Here, a flagoid is shown repeating the white ‘RN’ monograph in the upper hoist corner of a flag divided by an ascending diagonal into a blue field (hoist) and a green one (fly), bearing a stylized white initial ‘P’.
Portosalvo Ltd. is part of the Italian towing company fleet, 'Rimorchiatori
Napoletani Srl' (“Neapolitan Towing”), founded in 1917.
Jan Mertens,
3 December 2008
![[Powell Line houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hffhp.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
F.H. Powell & Co. already operated a steamship on a direct line between
Liverpool and Bristol in 1860 (every Tuesday, return every Saturday), as
reported in Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, No. 318, 1
January 1860.
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the
house flag of the Powell Line (F.H. Powell & Co.) (#428, p. 57) as blue with a
yellow "P" in the center.
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#22
Ivan Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Ensign Express Shipping Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~powg.gif)
image by Jarig
Bakker, 10 December 2005
Powergen p|c, London - dark green flag, outline of person in white lines holding
a yellow radiant half-sun.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 10 December 2005
This logo is reminiscent of Prometheus giving fire to humans.
Phil Nelson, 10 December 2005
![[Power Steamship Co., Ltd. (J. Power & Co.) houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfpow.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 1 May 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Power
Steamship Co., Ltd. (J. Power & Co.) (#1608, p. 113), a London-based shipping
company, as red with a white "P".
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#78
Ivan Sache, 1 May 2021