COMPAGNIE MARITIME BELGE (LLOYD ROYAL) S.A.

A black-and-white photograph of Elisabethville confirms this funnel.

These experimental funnels used the national colours in the 1930s, on Thysville and Jean Jadot respectively. Rosanoski takes this as confirmation that the funnel colour was yellow.

Rosanoski considers the diamond in the earlier FOTW image too small. He notes a possible replacement by the later “traditional flag” rendering credited to Miles Li and James Dignan. Minor source differences in diamond and crown were otherwise standardised in his artwork, apart from the different FOTW crown.

Moanda on 21 July 1966 appears to have a pinkish-buff funnel. Rosanoski questions the photograph’s colour accuracy because its background is greyish, but it does not resemble the golden yellow assumed in the other illustrations.