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Ships Flags |
This section is devoted to
flags that have been flown from the mast of the Legacy
Companies. |
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Chevron Tanker Flags |
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Standard Oil of California Flag |
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California Oil Co. - The acronym for California
Standard Oil (Calso) in white letters on a red field |
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California Transport Corp |
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California Tanker Company. California Transport
Corp, California Tanker Company, and Socal Marine Department
were consolidated in 1957 and then became Chevron Shipping
Company in 1984 |
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The chevron was first used as a trademark of
Standard Oil of California in 1931. The flag was use on tankers |
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Chevron flag at the time of the merger with
Texaco |
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Caltex Tanker Flags |
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This flag was mentioned as being used by
Caltex, but I can not verify |
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The Caltex Flag was copied from the Texaco Flag |
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Texaco Tanker Flags |
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This appears to be the first flag flown on
Texaco tankers |
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After the first trademark was
registered by Texaco in 1906 they adopted this flag |
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This was the flag on Texaco tankers at the time
of the merger |
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Gulf Oil Tanker Flags |
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The house flag of J. M. Guffey Petroleum Company
tankers ca 1907 |
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Gulf Refining Company was organized in 1910 to
refine and market crude oil produced by Guffey Petroleum. In
1907 Andrew Mellon bought Guffey Petroleum. Ships then flew this
flag until after WW II |
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By the end of the 1960s, Gulf was one of the
largest oil companies in the world. Around the 1950's this flag
was adopted |
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This flag was adopted in the 1960s |
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Union Oil of California Tanker Flags |
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This appears to be the first flag of the
company's tanker fleet, which consisted of 8 ships as of 1949 |
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The blue and white diagonally striped flag was
adopted in 1966 on the 76th anniversary |
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This was the flag when Union got out of the
tanker business around 1998 |
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Tanker Flags of Other Legacy Companies |
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Tidewater Flag before the 1937 merger. Not sure
what flag was used when Getty Oil took over the Tidewater Oil
Company |
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Associated Oil Flag before the 1937 merger. Not
sure what flag was used when Getty Oil took over the Tidewater
Oil Company |
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Warren
Petroleum Tanker Flag. Gulf Oil purchased Warren in 1956 |
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Flag
flown on Pure Oil Company Tankers |
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Flag
flown on Pure Oil Company Tankers |
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Flag
flown on Regent Petroleum Tankers before Texaco purchased the
company |