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Talbot-Booth’s V244 has dots after the letters in Merchant Ships 1942 and 1944. These sources specify blue without expressly calling it light blue.

James Dignan’s V51 comes from Sampson’s Dumpy Book, which likewise does not specify light blue. Brown 1958 shows the same version.

V245 represents an actual flag exhibited in Hamburg: celestial blue, edged white, with a white diagonal ribbon bearing red VDS. Schneider’s observation gives evidence for the later sky-blue shade.

Skipet’s five variants are V247, a dark-blue swallowtail with white VDS; V248, a square dark-blue flag with a white border and a white diagonal from the upper hoist bearing red VDS; V251, dark blue with a white diagonal and red VDS; V249, sky blue with a white border and diagonal, bearing sky-blue VDS separated by sky-blue dots; and V250, sky blue with a white border and diagonal bearing red VDS. No dates are assigned to the sequence.

Norske Rederiflagg 1952 supports the last Skipet pattern, but with a wider white band, represented by V246.

V129, from Brown 1951 and 1982 and Stewart 1963, is blue without a border and has a wider white diagonal band.