House Flags of Shanghai Shipping Lines

There is clearly a niche group of people who like old China and boats!! SinoMarinists?? Anyway, after a post a while back on the Henry Keswick I got a reply from a relation of the former captain – posted here. What interests me is that every time I do a boat related China post I get a flood of people sending me stuff – and long may it continue, I ain’t complaining. So thanks to Bill Savadove in Shanghai who sent me some nice scans of the the flags of the shipping firms plying the China waters circa 1940, courtesy of a nifty little book called The China Coaster’s Tide Book And Nautical Pocket Manual.