A flag indicating the company that a ship belongs to.
（商船的）公司旗
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 flag
noun
A flag indicating the company that a ship belongs to.
（商船的）公司旗
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.