CCL

C747 appears to derive from the Costa Armatori funnel with the quotation marks removed. Mitchell identifies C748 as the new 1986 logo.

The initial FOTW illustration interpreted a newspaper logo as a long rectangle, 215 by 65, divided diagonally from lower hoist to upper fly, black over dark red, with large yellow CCL initials. Its existence as a house flag was then uncertain. Website evidence suggested ordinary red and blue rather than dark red and black. The original dark-red specification is retained as RGB 153, 000, 0000, as printed.

By 2008 photographs confirmed the blue-and-red flag in use at sea and on the company website, including an example used in skydiving. Actual flags were normal rectangles, not the elongated logo proportions. Rosanoski notes that the earlier FOTW image was recoloured blue and red but retained its elongated shape. The flag became historical when the CCL brand ended in 2009. C630’s funnel follows the company photograph, with red reaching the top at the middle of the aft end.

On chartered vessels the design could become a broad band: C1011 is documented on Cala Palamos on 8 June 2005 and C1012 on Cala Panama on 9 February 2006. Cala Piedad’s starboard view on 24 March 2006 shows the coloured halves in mirror image but not the letters, which Rosanoski calls incorrect. A photograph identified in the source as Cala Ponemte shows the same arrangement as the port side.

C1013 is documented on Cala Paradiso on 12 December 2005, where the funnel base merges with the white superstructure. Cala Pancaldo provides a similar example for C1014 on 29 June 2008. Cala Ponente on 23 October 2005 also has a base merging into the superstructure and could be classed as C1014. Rosanoski relates the variations to funnel depth.