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Definition of house flag in English: house flagnoun A flag indicating the company that a ship belongs to. Example sentencesExamples - Within New Zealand, the New Zealand Flag takes precedence over all other national flags and house flags.
- In 1935 she was bought by ‘the flying bug line ‘, the Alexander Shipping Line, which used a busy bee on its blue house flag.’
- The National Maritime Museum has over 1000 flags including two large collections of house flags, used to identify shipping lines, or owners of vessels.
- The website disclaimer says that most of the companies whose house flags are shown there are gone out of business.
- The house flag is a point of pride for the crew and a distinguishing characteristic for the ship.
Definition of house flag in US English: house flagnoun A flag indicating the company that a ship belongs to. Example sentencesExamples - In 1935 she was bought by ‘the flying bug line ‘, the Alexander Shipping Line, which used a busy bee on its blue house flag.’
- The website disclaimer says that most of the companies whose house flags are shown there are gone out of business.
- Within New Zealand, the New Zealand Flag takes precedence over all other national flags and house flags.
- The National Maritime Museum has over 1000 flags including two large collections of house flags, used to identify shipping lines, or owners of vessels.
- The house flag is a point of pride for the crew and a distinguishing characteristic for the ship.
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