![[John Wood & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfjwo.gif)
image by Ivan Sache,
28 April 2021
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image by Ivan Sache,
28 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of John Wood
& Co.. (#1004, p. 84), a London-based company, as white with a blue border and a
red "W" in the center..
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/49/
Ivan
Sache, 28 April 2021
![[Woods, Tylor & Brown houseflag]](../images/g/gb~wtb.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 22 April 2021
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels [Wedge 1926]
Woods, Tyler & Brown, London - white flag, red knotted rope.
Jarig Bakker, 31 January 2005
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the same house flag (#225,
p. 47).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#12
Ivan Sache, 22 April 2021
![[Worldfast houseflag]](../images/g/gb~wfl.gif)
by Jorge Candeias, 22 Mar 1999
White with a blue and white logo
centered. The logo is a disc with a
very fat "W" "sailing" on wavy lines.
Jorge Candeias, 22 Mar 1999
![[World Steamship Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfwos.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of the
World Steamship Co., Ltd. (G.T. Symons & Co.) (#467, p. 59), a London-based
company, as blue, charged in the center with a red disc with a white Equator and
cantonned by the white letter "W" (upper hoist) and "S" (lower fly).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#24
Ivan
Sache, 24 April 2021
![[Wright, Graham & Co. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~hfwrg.gif)
image by Ivan
Sache, 30 April 2021
Wright, Graham & Co. operated the Falls Line.
The "Falls of Clyde", a
four-mast sailing ship was built in Glasgow 140 years ago. The 285-foot long and
40-foot wide vessel built by shipbuilders Russell & Co. in 1878 has a
wrought-iron hull. She entered service as part of the Falls Line fleet - all of
which were named after Scottish waterfalls – and she sailed to ports on all
continents except Antarctica.
In January 1898, flying the Hawaiian flag, the
"Falls of Clyde" arrived in Honolulu after being sold to an agent of Captain
William Matson. He modified the ship’s rig to that of a bark and built a large
wooden deckhouse forward and a charthouse on the poop deck. Later registered in
the U.S., she carried sugar from Hilo to San Francisco until 1906 when the
Associated Oil Company in which Matson had an interest bought her and converted
her into an oil tanker. After 10 tanks were added within the hull, she had a
carrying capacity close to 750,000 gallons. She also carried molasses from Hilo
to San Francisco over the next 13 years. In 1921, she was sold to the General
Petroleum Corporation who, after de-rigging the ship, then used her as a
floating petroleum depot in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Nearly three decades
later, she was taken out of commercial service and was on the verge of being
sunk to form a breakwater when "Honolulu Advertiser" columnist Bob Krauss came
to her rescue. Supporters and school children raised money to help bring her
back to Hawaii, and the U.S. Navy contributed by towing the "Falls of Clyde"
from Seattle to Honolulu in 1963.
With financial support from people around
the world and hundreds of volunteers working on a variety of restoration
projects, the Bishop Museum, which had taken over management of the ship’s
operations, opened the "Falls of Clyde" to the public in 1971 at Pier 5 in
Honolulu Harbor. Over the next decade, tens of thousands of people visited the
ship.
However, during Hurricane Iwa in 1982, the ship sustained major
damage. Krauss and other supporters formed the original Friends of The Falls of
Clyde group which then took control of the vessel. A few months later, the
"Falls of Clyde" was named a National Historic Monument by the National Parks
Service, and restoration work began.
Despite this, her future remained
uncertain, and she was again saved from being scuttled. The Save Falls of Clyde
International Campaign was launched in August 2016 when Honolulu Harbour
impounded her. Their aim is to now return her to Scotland.
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/scottish-group-calls-for-help-to-save-historic-ship
The Maritime Executive, 2 April 2018
Lloyd's Book of House Flags and
Funnels (1912) shows the house flag of Wright, Graham & Co. (#1382, p. 102) as
horizontally divided red-blue-white-blue-red (1:1:2:1:1).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#67
The
National Maritime Museum keeps a copy of the flag.
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/1010.html
Ivan Sache, 30 April 2021
![[Tavistock Shipping Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~wyre.gif)
by
Jarig Bakker,
based on the website of the National
Maritime Museum.
From the website of the National
Maritime Museum, the house flag of Wyre Trawlers, Fleetwood. A white
rectangular flag with a red 'W' 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
toggle is attached."
Fleetwood is a port in Lancashire (England).
Jarig Bakker, 4 September 2004
![[Tavistock Shipping Co., Ltd. houseflag]](../images/g/gb~w246.gif)
by
Ivan Sache
Wyre Trawlers. Appear to have originated as Wyre Steam Trawling Co. Ltd.
operated by John N. Ward & Son and using a red flag with a white diamond
throughout bearing a blue "W" being shown by Lloyds
1912. Ward appears to have disappeared from the scene post WW2 and in the latter
1950s the company became Wyre Trawlers Ltd. lasting until around the beginning
of the 1980s.
Neale Rosanoski, 7 February 2005
The same house flag is shown (#1796, p. 122) in Lloyd's Book of House Flags
and Funnels (1912).
https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l011061/l011061-c008/#87
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2021
