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W563 is apparently the original Willie funnel, associated with Rudby, though its line drawing also shows plain black.

Mitchell dates these colours to 1973. Coastal Ships & Ferries describes the panel as the Welsh flag: a red dragon on white and green bands.

Jarig Bakker’s FOTW flag from Brown 1995 is horizontally white over green with a red dragon on the white.

Celtic Carrier’s port-side view shows a grey W shaded black. Celtic Forrester’s starboard view mirrors it, with the dragon and W shading facing forward on both sides. The Celtic Pioneer note instead calls the charge a lion and has it facing aft. Celtic Pride suggests that the shading of both letter and dragon may result from light on welded-on emblems, although the shield’s black border remains.

W565’s flag is from Celtic Fortune on 18 October 2008.