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The website of the National
Maritime Museum describes the house flag of the Anchor Line Ltd, Glasgow, as
"a white swallow-tailed burgee bearing a red anchor and four links of cable. The
flag is made of a wool and synthetic fibre bunting. It has a cotton hoist and is
machine sewn. A rope and toggle is attached." The image on the website,
however, shows only three links.
Jarig Bakker, 3 August 2004
Anchor Line, Glasgow: Larousse Commercial Illustré (1930) shows a white
swallow-tail, a red anchor placed diagonally (flukes in upper hoist corner),
three rings of the anchor chain showing in the lower fly corner. The image above
shows four rings, the number of which is said to have some significance –
compare
this site with (it says `four links of cable'!)
this site. Perhaps the on-line 1912 Lloyds is right, see No. 226 on p. 13
(four links attached to the anchor's own ring) at
this site (i.e., `Anchor Line (Henderson Bros.), Ltd., Glasgow').
Jan Mertens, 4 June 2004
Anchor Line. The four links in the chain
(some sources show more or less) are said to represent the four Henderson
brothers who were involved in the company which originated in the 1850s as
Handyside & Henderson, adopting the name Anchor Line in 1899.
Neale Rosanoski, 9 February 2004