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Sources call the funnel yellow or, in 1936, “now cream”; Amerika’s photograph confirms the latter account, while Selandia appears with a black funnel and a broad white band carrying letters. Lloyd’s 1904 draws the flag’s anchor white with blue detail. Nüsse’s version has a larger anchor with chain rather than cable and letters closer to it. The National Maritime Museum flag, dated 1955–67, measures 914.4 × 1387 mm; its dark colour looks blue-black and its catalogue incorrectly reads the initials as AK.

EAC lettering was introduced on the yellow funnel with Aranya in December 1966, confirmed by Arosia, Azuma and Fionia. Narrow blue vertical lines separate the letters but are visible only close up. Brown omits these lines in the O266 rendering, resembling a distant Malacca photograph.

Permission for a split flag with company mark and initials was granted in 1898. Flaggenbuch describes O44 for sailing vessels in overseas service, possibly as an ensign. The related Nüsse design places the house flag, flying from an angled pole, in the upper hoist of a split Dannebrog, with golden D.Ø.K. across the cross’s centre; Flaggenbuch instead shows only a flag panel. An illustration of the motor ship Selandia suggests stern ensign use alongside a mainmast house flag, though its canton is unclear. A Sumbawa photograph confirms O57 being flown as an ensign.