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Insular steam shipping company (Portugal)

Empresa Insulana de Navegação a Vapor

Last modified: 2018-12-19 by klaus-michael schneider
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[Empresa Insulana de Navegação a Vapor #1]
2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 Sep 2004
[Empresa Insulana de Navegação a Vapor #2]
2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Dec 2018
[Empresa Insulana de Navegação a Vapor #3]
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Dec 2018
     


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About the flag

Empresa Insulana de Navegação (a.k.a. African Line): a simple flag with letters EINS on it, but at the back cover of this 1971 brochure on line (from Björn Larsson’s collection) where we find a flag with three horizontal stripes and letters EIN in the centre, lighter one. Luckily, it’s in the 1912 Lloyd’s Flags & Funnels [llo11] under No. 1319 on p. 64, (see left image above) available on-line: white with narrow blue upper and lower horizontal borders, blue letters "E.I.N." (no serifs) in the centre for «Empreza Insulana de Navegaçao (Bensaude & Co.), Lisbon». An alternative name for this venerable firm, according to The Ships List website, was Insular Line, and Blue-white-blue horizontal triband, in white stripe inscription in serifed dotted blue initials "E.I.N." (in Flaggenbuch 1905, part V, p.67a, image 338 (see central image above).
Jan Mertens, 24 Jun 2004 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Dec 2018

White flag with blue horizontal edges, in white inscription in serifed dotted blue initials "E.I.N." (see right image above).
Source: U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office (editor): "Merchant Marine House Flags and Stack Insignia", 1st edition 1961, p.3-135, row 2 column 3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 Dec 2018


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