ÜBERSEE-REEDEREI GMBH.

Klaus-Michael Schneider’s U285 illustration of 6 April 2009 follows the 1956 German reference: an eight-striped Bremen flag with a black “Ü” in a white rectangular panel joined to semicircles above and below. Rosanoski finds the portrayal slightly inaccurate. In the source version U286, also shown in 1957 and 1958, the oval panel is shorter and only partly enters the lowest red band.

The US Navy 1961 version U287 has a narrower oval placed towards the fly, which Rosanoski likens to a comic face. It misspells the company “Übersse”; an earlier line in the document also prints the source year as 1861.