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DEUTFRACHT INTERNATIONALE BEFRACHTUNG & REEDEREI ROSTOCK.

D233
image by Volker Moerbitz Keith, 7 February 2001
D359
image by Jarig Bakker, 10 July 2008

The illustration shows blue-red-blue horizontal bands, without the DSR flag’s blue fly stripe, and a yellow griffin-like emblem referring to Rostock. FOTW places it on the Deutfracht page but also describes it as a jack used by the successive DSR/Deutfracht companies in 1952–89. Roland Bentin objects that the illustrated emblem is far from the correct design.

The table-flag evidence gives dark blue-red-dark blue bands in proportions 1:3:1. A white border, slightly overlapping the blue stripes, encloses a stylised griffin’s head and an F-shaped wing, resting on a white horizontal stripe extending from the border’s right side. The cited use is 1970–74. Whether the griffin also faced the hoist on the reverse is unknown.