



Massary and the 1933 cigarette cards document K372. Merchant Ships says K373 lasted until the 1938 name change, but Rosanoski considers this contradicted by Massary.
Jordan describes a black funnel with a white K inside a white circle; Rosanoski calls the description impossible as given and identifies the intended version as K374. Talbot-Booth continues to label this funnel Kauffahrtei A.G. despite recording the name change elsewhere.
K371 follows the German recognition-book sources and US Navy. Klaus-Michael Schneider supplied the FOTW image and later replaced it with the same design.