FLOTA MERCANTE GRANCOLOMBIANA S.A.

The emblem is a light-brown ship’s wheel surrounding a black field with Venezuela in yellow, Colombia in blue and Ecuador in red. Around it is the white name FLOTA MERCANTE GRANCOLOMBIANA, completed below by three small white stars. Most sources show a red wheel, but Rosanoski follows Nüsse’s natural-wood colour and qualifies the lettering and stars as partly conjectural. Mitchell’s scan suggests brown rather than the black appearance of his drawing, and his funnel has a narrow black top.

Brown 1958 reverses the flag colours to white charged with a small blue pennant with a slightly curved hoist, without fine emblem detail. The wheel in this version is yellow, outlined black.