ARKLOW SHIPPING LTD.

Mitchell apparently treats this as the original funnel, shown in his line drawing of Arklow View, built in 1978. It may have changed in 1988; his other drawings show white.

Brown notes this funnel on some ships. Mitchell’s second version leaves the red compartments empty and gives only sketchy detail in the white compartment, with black-and-white sea. Rosanoski suggests it may date from the new company floated in 1988. The FOTW flag follows Brown 1995.

Arklow Fortune photographs from March 2007 show a white fish and white circle in the upper red compartments. Below, a black-hulled sailing ship rests on blue-and-white sea; its white sail is outlined black and bears a black displayed bird, possibly an eagle, facing the viewer’s left on both sides. The passage describes both a white pennant and a black pennant, without a clear distinction. Arklow Raider’s starboard photograph of 30 January 2014 differs: the bird faces forward and the sail has no outline.

Arklow Future, photographed to port on 8 November 2008, has a blue bird facing the viewer’s right, black areas at the sail’s foot, a red-and-white hull and a white masthead pennant. Arklow Viking’s starboard view of 27 August 2010 is similar, but the bird is black, the hull black and white and the pennant black.

Arklow Rally’s starboard photograph of 20 May 2007 shows a shield matching the website arrangement except that the bird faces the viewer’s left and the sea is blue and white rather than black and white.

The Arklow Ranger flag photograph is indistinct because the flag is fluttering, but appears consistent with the funnel seen to starboard on 26 January 2006. Its pennant is black rather than white outlined black, and the bird faces the viewer’s left. The same funnel is recorded on Arklow Rebel, Arklow Rose and Arklow Ruler; a later reference names Arklow Muse. On Arklow River, the newly bought Golden Bay, the flag was observed before any new funnel livery was applied; it was only hoisted on the last day, in unhelpful conditions.

That flag description is white with a black-outlined white shield. A brown ship, possibly with a black bird above, rests on blue-and-white wavy stripes. The main compartment rises as a triangle to the top, leaving two red upper compartments described as bearing a green shamrock and a green-and-white fish. Rosanoski explicitly warns that some of these details are guesses.