The traditional white, brown and black scheme changed to blue and white towards the end of the 1990s. F110 records a white Roman numeral at the funnel base, apparently a later feature; some tugs instead use ordinary numbers. Chartered Borchard Line vessels lack the numeral. Fairplay IX shows F3 in August 1992 and later the blue F348, but a lifeboat hides the funnel base in both photographs. Mitchell’s F3 may concern chartered non-tugs. Fairplay XII and photographs in Hamburg Tugs support a lighter blue shade for F348.
Flaggen & Schornsteine reverses the stars’ directions, angling the rear red star, in line with the Atid company versions. Rosanoski considers Fairplay’s livery the apparent basis of those Atid liveries.
Fairplay traces its origins to Pauls & Blohm, formed in 1877 and merged with Carl Tiedemann on 25 November 1905. Richard Borchard, who had joined Tiedemann in 1897, became a partner, bought out the others in 1924 and renamed the company in 1926. The company website instead describes establishment by Borchard in 1905 and separation of stevedoring and towage in 1920. After his death on 12 January 1930, Lucy Borchard became owner and manager. In August 1938, anti-Jewish business laws forced transfer to a trust; the family moved to London and established Fairplay Towage. The Hamburg company was returned to Lucy and her son Kurt in 1949, and the British towage company dissolved in 1950. Kurt succeeded Lucy after her death on 4 February 1969.
Germany, Hamburg.
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