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Ships on Zippos
1977 Zippo with tugboat for Doris McKinney Towing, Jefferson Louisiana.
The commercial maritime industry began advertising on Zippos in the late 1940's. Until that time, the U.S. Navy was the principal sponsor of ship and marine themes to be engraved on the Zippo. A lot fewer Zippos with civilian ships and vessels have been produced than with Navy ships, making them rarer and more difficult to find by the Zippo collector.
1974 Zippo with a tugboat for Alter Company, of Davenport, Iowa. 1974 Zippo with a colorfully engraved smokestack and seagulls for Cunard Lines, a leading luxury ocean liner operator. This 1955 Zippo has an engraving of the S.S. Independence of American Export Lines for "Jacoby 3-20-55". It is one of the oldest and most storied ocean liners still afloat.
1977 Zippo with Viking Ship with an "S" logo on the sail. 1985 Zippo with an Alaska Ferry of the Alaska Marine Highway System. 1974 Zippo for S.S. Rotterdam, one of the post World War II ocean liners. 1973 Zippo with an image of a docked cargo ship for Boyd-Campbell Co. Inc. - Agents-Stevedores - Corpus Christi, Texas. 1971 Zippo with a tugboat for Nolty J. Theriot Towing Contractors Golden Meadow, Lousiana.
1992 Zippo with a sail boat and the Statue of Liberty. This lighter is an advertiser of Zippo Mfg. itself.
1957 Zippo with an engraved barge with a "Dravo" logo on the reverse. Dravo Corporation, a ship building company based in Pittsburgh PA, renown for building LST's during World War II, was founded by the Dravo Brothers Francis and Ralph in 1887. 1960 Zippo with a colorful engraving of Royal Order of Atlantic Voyagers - MSTS (Military Sea Transportation Service). The Royal Order of Atlantic Voyagers was a certificate issued to any voyager who crossed the equator in a ritualistic initiation ceremony held on board ship. The certificates were signed by "Davy Jones, His Majesty's Scribe" and "Neptunus Rex, Ruler of the Raging Main".
See the historic Missouri Surrender Zippo.
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