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House Flags of U.S. Shipping Companies: Y, Z

Yates-Porterfield Line
Zapata Gulf Marine Corp.
A. Zarega & Co

Yates-Porterfield Line

image by Fred Smith, 18 January 2011

The flag of Yates-Porterfield who did shipping in the mid to late 1800s is shown on the ship in the attached photo. It was a red flag with 2 white circles one with a Y and the other with a P. They operated out of NYC and did a lot of shipping to Liberia. The owners were Joseph W. Yates and Capt Robert Porterfield.
Fred Smith, 18 January 2011

Zapata Gulf Marine Corp.

image by Jarig Bakker

Zapata Gulf Marine Corp., Houston, TX. - white burgee; red outlined compass-rose; "Z"-shaped blue block.
Source: Loughran (1995)
Jarig Bakker, 22 October 2005

A. Zarega & Co.

image by Joe McMillan

A. Zarega & Co., New York (1840s-50s) <us~zareg.gif>(Source: PSMNY)
Zarega & Co. ran several lines in the late 1840s and early 1850s, both trans-Atlantic and coastwise. Its ships are easily recognizable by their cryptic names, like A.Z. and I.Z. The Red Z Line, whose flag was a blue-white-red vertical tricolor with a red Z on the center, operated immigrant ships from Glasgow to New York from 1848 until the late 1850s. Another line, called simply the Z Line, operated immigrant ships from Antwerp to New York, 1847-1851. The company's Regular Line ran between New York and New Orleans.

Joe McMillan, 4 December 2001

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