ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.

A72’s funnel is confirmed by a black-and-white photograph of Corean. Reed 1891, which also names Allan Brothers, gives a narrower blue band and a wider white band than the red band, normally one-third of the funnel marking. Reed 1901 appears to add a narrow blue pallet to the red pennant; Rosanoski presumed this an error.

Rosanoski marks the funnels in A441 and A442 as suspect. Lloyds 1904 also assigns A442 to J. & A. Allan, and the 1912 edition to Allan Bros. & Co. U.K. Ltd.

Reed 1912 lists A73 under Allan Bros. & Co. U.K. Ltd. Its flag component is international code flag T beneath a red pennant: a house signal rather than a single house flag.

The FOTW illustration A1026 derives from the houseflag chart in Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexikon, fourteenth edition, about 1907. António Martins-Tuválkin notes that Flags and Funnels of the British and Commonwealth Merchant Fleets shows a shorter pennant.