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B471 was the original livery, derived from the first two ships’ former Shaw Savill & Albion colours with a star added.

The original flag lacked the white disc, which was added in September 1928 in the change from B150 to B149. The earlier design appears on a menu dated 1 April 1927, with the star very near the upper edge. Rosanoski says Stewart is wrong to make the star smaller than the full disc.

The later flag is a red burgee with a five-pointed blue star on a white disc. A reading of Brown 1940 gives a fork angle around 60 degrees, outer taper around 5 degrees and disc diameter approximately equal to the distance between the tips. Wellington Star at Wellington on 13 December 1998 confirms flag and funnel. The white funnel band is broader than the black beneath it, also evident in photographs of Arandora Star; Brown and Talbot-Booth often make the bands nearly equal, whereas Loughran is closer.