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St. Johann Lagerhaus & Schiffahrt AG (i.e. St John Warehouse and Shipping
Ltd) aka Silag was a Swiss inland shipping company established at Basel, named
after the local port. Founded in 1937 as a cooperative, St. Johann would
experience much change in the nineteen-eighties and later:
1984 acquisition
of Roba terminal at Basel;
1987 cooperation with Natural Van Dam (Swiss,
originally Dutch); fleet reduced to three vessels;
1996 merger with Spedag
to form Silag Rhein Terminal AG and extension of warehouse;
2003 sold to
Ultra-Brag.
Some sources:
http://www.coopzeitung.ch/archive6078
http://www.schulschiff-leventina.ch/srsl/module/pages/detail.asp?IDPage=100&PageKatalogeID=81&menuid=81&parentid=
The house flag, shown in �Flaggen auf dem Rhein� (1952 ed.), may be seen
on this page (small coloured drawing, also click camera logo next to �1958� at
end of page for b/w photo of �Homburg� flying it):
http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/schip_detail/6422.
Image is a photo of a
table flag recently offered on German eBay: no. 200578308519 (end 1 Mar 2001)
put up by �freschkall�.
Orange field with white horizontal stripe,
lowered to provide space for a white St John�s cross; in the white stripe the
short company name in black, between square brackets: �ST. JOHANN�.
Jan
Mertens, 15 March 2011