CELEBRITY CRUISES INC.

The X emblem is the Greek chi inherited from Chandris. Josef Nüsse’s table flag has a white X on blue. Ivan Sache suggested that a later blue-X logo might imply the white-X flag predated the merger. Rosanoski cautions that website pages show both colour arrangements and that ship photographs still show white on blue.

Photographs of Celebrity Century on 12 May 2008 show a blue flag with an enhanced white X above two words, flown from the mast and as a stem jack. Rosanoski thinks the words likely to be Celebrity Cruises, with taller initials, but cannot read them clearly or determine the case of the remaining letters. A Celebrity Infinity stem jack photographed on 20 May 2013 appears to support lower-case letters after the initials. The C920 funnel follows portside Century on 1 August 2005 and starboard Constellation on 24 May 2005. Century’s ventilation openings can produce an apparent striped effect, like C918 but with a different base.

The actual funnels are shorter than the drawings suggest, with the X occupying nearly their full height.

Ocean Ships gives C918 as an alternative to C919. C918 is supported by Mercury and a black-and-white Century photograph. It may be the version mentioned by NJK, with a possible dark-blue/black confusion, although a genuine livery change is also possible.

Later vessels have the cross edged yellow, as in C921. Constellation photographs in 2002 and the 2003 Cruise Ship Guide support this design. The red exhaust surround is not treated as a funnel top. The structure has ventilation openings that could suggest narrow white bands, but Rosanoski renders it as blue.