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The funnel is black with a very broad red band, described in the early account as extending from the stay-ring below the top halfway towards deck level; its choice may have been the builder’s. One flag arrangement combines a white Royal Mail pennant with red words and a red crown between them, above a red-white-blue pennant with a broader white stripe, the bands meeting at the point. The illustrated Royal Mail form predates the 1902 addition of a bugle below the crown. Haws’s black letters and natural-coloured crown are considered incorrect.

The later white flag bears a red Calvary cross on three degrees, the Campbeltown cross, adopted shortly before the First World War according to Loughran. Another account describes an Iona cross on a white pennant, representing the cross in Campbeltown’s Main Street, above the tricolour pennant, with a separate white ship-name pennant. It says “Royal” and “Mail” were added beside that cross on award of the mail contract. These differing accounts are retained.