ATLANTIC RHEDEREI F. & W. JOCH K.G.

Apache’s photograph of 16 November 1996 confirms the funnel. The flag’s canton varies in size but is less than one-quarter of the flag. The letter’s position also varies: Mobil places it nearer the centre, Brown low down, and Stewart nearer the lower fly corner.

The Essberger Atlantic Tank Rhederei also used these liveries, cross-referenced as A484 and A483. Merchant Ships 1942 suggests that the A484 funnel might already have been discontinued.

The archive instead gives a 1924 origin and proposes an Essberger/Atlantic-Tank connection. The contemporary 1919 history materially conflicts with that chronology, suggesting predecessor or similarly named Atlantic companies may have been conflated. Resolve the legal succession before page generation.