FYLKESBAATANE I SOGN OG FJORDANE.
image by Jorge Candeias, None
image by Jan Oskar Engene, 20 November 1995; 20 March 1996
The flag derives from an early nineteenth-century Norwegian signalling system in which a white flag carried the registration town’s letter. Bergen’s letter was X, retained in the company flag. Red borders descend from the borders subsequently added to these white town flags, commonly in red and blue. Black-and-white illustrations confirm the funnel; its band originated between two reinforcing hoops.