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Ship House Flag Badge Luckenbach Steamship Co.1930s
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Ship House Flag Badge Luckenbach Steamship Co.1930s. Screw back....Luckenbach Steamship Co. (1850-1974), New YorkThis was one of the longest-lived and most successful of US shipping companies. Lewis Luckenbach started with a single tugboat in New York and initially built his fortune by pioneering tug-and-barge transport of coal from Norfolk, Virginia (the outlet for the coal fields in what is now West Virginia), to New England. Luckenbach was later a major force in the intercoastal trade. The flag was a red burgee with the letter L inside a ring in white.