VAN OMMEREN.

The familiar flag has green and white horizontal bands, with a black “V” inside a black ring on a white diamond. The black funnel carries a white “V” and ring. The livery was used by Crawford and Medomsley by 1948, with Langleescot entering service in it in 1947, and is also assigned to “De Maas”. Sources vary: the funnel V may sit wholly inside the ring; the flag diamond may be black-edged or extend to top and bottom; bands may be equal or have differing widths. Stewart gives two narrow white bands and a broad central green one, while Jahrbuch der Schiffahrt makes green wider than white. The green shade is uncertain; Nüsse’s flags are dark and dull. Photographs confirm the V5 funnel on Ivinghoe Beacon, and Mitchell records it at Glasgow in 1964. It continued under Van Ommeren Clipper, with a variation.

V1 is documented in Brown 1926 and Lloyd Reedereiflaggen under Phs. Van Ommeren’s Shipping Business. A captain’s account, relayed by the contributor averheijden, describes this version after the London company’s takeovers. Jarig Bakker supplied the FOTW image on 1 January 2005.

V4 represents the green-ring and green-“V” version. Rosanoski associates the change broadly with the succession of corporate names but gives no precise adoption date. Nüsse’s table flags show both black and green emblems with equal bands. Al Fisher’s original FOTW image of 11 February 1999 came from the company website; it was apparently replaced by a Jarig Bakker chart-based image after Rosanoski’s comment.

V169 is shown for the management of N.V. Stoomboot Maatschappij “De Maas” in Almanacco Marine Mercantili 1925.

V101 comes from Mascarin, later Treguier, of the 1986 Van Ommeren Tankers and Socatra venture involving Umoil and Soflumar. Lloyd’s lists the vessel for both Socatra and Van Ommeren under the long ownership title. Rosanoski therefore also records the image as S1621 under Socatra; this is retained as a cross-reference, without changing the present association.

V235 is the unidentified variant reported from a 2006 Marktplaats offer: a black Van Ommeren emblem on a white diamond, with six green and six white rays, the upper central ray white. The diamond projects into the horizontal green rays. The offered flag measured about 40 by 60 cm. Jan Mertens could not establish whether it was formally Dutch or which company used it.

Medomsley used F. Carrick’s livery until around its wartime change to Buries Markes, then adopted its own M701 design. Rosanoski tentatively links that change with the disputed 1943 or later Van Ommeren takeover.

V194 is documented in La Marine Marchande Française 1980 and the Mitchell collection; no separate written design description is supplied.