ANTHONY VEDER GROUP N.V.

Merchant Ships 1949 supplies both V122 and V124 and notes that most vessels were then using the V124 funnel.

Brown 1951 assigns V45 to motorships and V46 to steamships. The latter’s flag initially appears red, but Rosanoski considers this probably a printing fault. Brown 1958 also assigns V45 to Maatschappij Zeetransport N.V., Oranje Lijn; Stewart 1963 records it without mentioning Veder, appropriate to the subsidiary before its 1958 sale. V289 is documented by US Navy 1961 and Stewart 1963.

Jarig Bakker’s two illustrations distinguish the intertwined white “VA” capitals of V288 from the smaller “V” with “A” in V125, both on a blue diamond. His account of De Blauwe Wimpel, April 1956, calls the field red and suggests a merger of Oranjelijn and Zeetransport, whose earlier flag had a larger A. Rosanoski cautions that “red” may be a typing error. V125 is attributed to Jaarboek 1940 Haagsche Courant. The suggested orange association with a red flag and yellow funnel remains part of the original, uncertain account.

Josef Nüsse’s earlier website table flag, V123, was interpreted as having a red field. His later website clearly shows the orange field represented by V290.

V291 is based on Coral Lophelia photographs. The port-side view of 27 July 2010 shows a band unlike the orange lifeboat, perhaps air-sea-rescue red, while the starboard view of 3 April 2013 looks definitely dark orange. Coral Millepora photographs show an orange flag with a red band in 2006 and a very bright air-sea-rescue red band in 2009. Rosanoski finds the photographs inconclusive: paint or cameras may account for the variation, while the website logo indicates orange. V306 is explicitly a possible compromise between the photographic sources. Ships-and-funnels also records the funnel on Coral Obelia and the V291 flag.

The three Koraal funnel illustrations K445, K446 and K447 come from the Mitchell collection. The document supplies no separate written descriptions of their differences.