Mitchell gives C741 for Clipper Atria. Rosanoski could not locate the vessel in Lloyd’s and assumes a charter, with the band presumably added to the owner’s funnel.
Some funnels have a narrow black top rather than the original plain white. Blue shades are uncertain: the Nüsse flag, attributed to Clipper Denmark A/S, is darker, while photographs of vessels connected with Dockingdale show a deep sky-blue funnel letter. Coastal Ships & Ferries appears to give this funnel to Idwal Williams’ Clipper-named vessels, presumed chartered, but calls the emblem a diamond rather than a triangle. The company website logo is darker blue than several photographs.
C808 records Rosella at Wellington on 11 June 2005, under charter from Kobe Shipping.
C809 comes from a port-side photograph of Clipper Beaufort at Wellington on 9 August 2003, apparently under charter.
C1008 shows darker blue, consistent with the website logo, in photographs of Clipper Trust at Sydney on 5 March 2008 and Clipper Karen on 1 June 2007.
C1437 comes from a starboard photograph of Clipper Barolo downloaded on 1 March 2011.
C989 records Marinus Green on 23 July 2006, with GREENFLEET painted on the hull.
P500, photographed on Panam Oceanica on 27 July 2006, is assumed to represent Panamerican Tankers’ charterer colours, apparently retained after the Clipper takeover. A possible flag on Panama Atlantico is too indistinct to establish. Other charters seem to have retained owners’ colours. The logo may be based on, or include, a p.
VOC Galaxy still carried the Van Ommeren Clipper funnel in March 2006 while listed under Clipper Bulk. A February 2008 observation of VOC Daisy described a grey funnel, black top and white band with a light-green Van Ommeren emblem, where the emblem had formerly been black over blue-white-blue bands. Rosanoski questions this reading: distant photographs of Daisy and VOC Rose suggest that the blue bands and logo may have been painted out, leaving a faint, perhaps welded-on emblem mistakenly read as green.
C1278 comes from a port-side photograph of CEC Vision dated 10 May 2007.
The first Clipper company was incorporated in 1972. The group was reorganised in 1991 when Armada co-founders Jorgen Dannesboe and Torben G. Jensen divided their shipping interests. Jensen took the Clipper trading business, continuing from Houson, Texas, with commercial offices in Denmark and a corporate head office in Switzerland. Clipper Group (Management) Ltd. was established in Nassau in 1997, and the head office moved there in 1998. A 1999 venture with two Danish banks acquired troubled Elite Shipping and established Clipper Elite Carriers; Clipper later bought out the banks. It acquired an interest in Van Ommeren’s dry-cargo business in 2000 and full ownership in 2003. The US interests eventually became Clipper Bulk (USA), while Clipper Bulk (UK) was formed in 2002. The source dates the PanAm Tankers acquisition to both 2000 and 2001. Clipper increased its Copenhagen Tankers interest in 2002, bought Wonsild in 2005 and combined Copenhagen Tankers, Wonsild and Crescent Tankships as Clipper Wonsild Tankers. Full buyouts of Copenhagen Tankers and Panamerican Tankers are dated to 2005. In 2008 a single-brand reorganisation brought the activities under Clipper Projects, Clipper Tankers and Clipper Bulk.
The operating companies reflected these acquisitions. CEC Shipmanagement of Svendborg was renamed from T&C A/S on 1 July 2003; its Dutch counterpart began in January 2004 to manage five former GenChart vessels, later using the Holland Ship Service name. Clipper Americas’ fleet passed to CEC management in 2004. Lasco Shipping became Clipper Bulk (Portland) on 2 December 2003. Other operations included Clipper Denmark, formed in 1995, Clipper Bulk in Singapore, formed in 2007, and Nassau-based Clipper Bulk Shipping. The Crescent companies became Clipper Wonsild and subsequently Clipper Tankers and Clipper Marine Services. Seatruck, formed in 1996 for Irish Sea road-haulage traffic, had previously appeared under Crescent. The Dutch Van Ommeren business became wholly owned after Clipper bought out Vopak and NeSBIC, while the US name evolved separately.
Other interests included Bossclip, a 1995 venture with B.O.S.S. for Brazil–US Gulf parcel services; acquisition of Crescent with London & Wessex in 1997 and full control in June 2002; Van-Clipper with Vanship in 2004; half of Univan in 2006; PetroClipper with Petrotank in 2007; and an investment in Dockendale that year. Clipper acquired 30 per cent of Mols-Linien in December 2007 and half of International Maritime Services in June 2008, raised its DFDS holding to 15 per cent in 2009 and became Nordic Tankers’ largest shareholder in 2010. It also acquired the remaining interests described in Van Ommeren Agencies Rotterdam in December 2003.
In January 2008 Clipper and Bornholmstrafikken bought Scandlines Sydfy[e]nske. The Samsø–Hou service operated as Nordic Ferry Services from November 2008. In January 2011 Bornholmstrafikken, Sydfynske and Nordic Ferry Services were combined as Danske Færger, known as Færgen.
Bahamas, Nassau.
Keep the explicit scope label independent; no alias or company identity is inferred.