ODFJELL ASA.

Jordan’s funnel lacks support from other sources, including Skipet, and Rosanoski classifies it as doubtful.

Skipet’s funnel is presumed to represent the original version.

Brown 1934 omits the black funnel top. Brown 1951 omits the flag’s swallowtail, which Rosanoski regards as an error. Skipet and the O221 source clarify the interlocking rings; the flag books are less clear. A change in ring positioning is possible, although the O221 evidence suggests otherwise.

Mitchell gives no explanation for this funnel.

This funnel may relate to the Storli name change. Mitchell shows the emblem as drawn and also angled as in O224. The company-logo arrangement is on starboard, with a mirror image on port. The flag was photographed over a Wellington building on 18 March 1993.

Bow Century and Bow Sun photographs confirm that the starboard side follows the company logo and port mirrors it, reversing the usual arrangement noted by Rosanoski. Bow Sirius and Bow Saga photographs document the flag, with dark blue.

Captains Abraham and Fredrik Odfjell founded the shipping business, drawing on family companies of the early twentieth century. The sources give 1914 and 1915 as its foundation year, a consolidation in the 1930s, and entry into tankers in either the 1960s or 1970s. The family business split in 1978 between Abraham and his second cousin Dan. A third of the shares was publicly listed in 1985 or 1986. The later company sequence runs from Odfjell Rederiet to Storli in 1993, back to Odfjell in 1998, and a 2000 merger with Seachem Tankers. Carl Henrik Odfjell acquired Jacob Christensen in 1985.

The group acquired Chemical Tankers of America in 1997, subsequently recorded as Odfjell America. It acquired a half-interest in Flumar in 1999 and the other half by the 2008 register, although the company account also calls the earlier holding a majority. Crystal Pool commercially operated European chemical tankers. Odfjell Seachem, initially described as a Ceres–Odfjell venture, is called wholly owned on the company website; it apparently reverted to Odfjell Tankers as commercial operator. Odfjell SE was formed in 2007. The 1985 Odfjell Westfal-Larsen pool later lost Westfal-Larsen as a partner. Ships mainly used Bow-prefixed names.

Norway, Bergen.