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The National Maritime Museum example discussed as U297 is dated about 1951 and measures 889 by 1422.4 mm. It has three blood drops, the middle one larger. LJC 1885 shows a more elongated shield with black blood spots; LJC 1966 gives the funnel shield a blue border.

The early versions omit letters even though Lloyds 1882 had shown them. The source gives conflicting counts of two or three drops for Griffin’s U298. Reed 1891 labels U124 “Ulster Steam Packet”, which Rosanoski suspects is an error; Reed 1901 corrects the name and shows two drops. He also questions Griffin 1895’s U124 attribution against LJC’s earlier version.

LJC 1909 spreads H369’s charges across the field. Lloyds 1904 and 1912 give the funnel shield a blue edge. Rosanoski’s Loughran note gives four blood drops and no dots after the letters, without a blue funnel-shield border; the quoted FOTW account instead says Loughran has dots after all letters. The copied National Maritime Museum credit for Bakker’s H369 is identified as erroneous; Rosanoski gives Loughran as its source.

A black-and-white photograph of Torr Head shows U299’s smaller shield halfway down the funnel. Talbot-Booth and Harnack put dots after all flag letters except “U”. The US Navy version gives the shield a blue orle and three drops. Bakker’s FOTW U299 derives from the National Maritime Museum.

After the 1967 acquisition of Donaldson’s Montreal service, its flag was flown below Head Line’s, as H370. Santona, the sole surviving Donaldson ship, retained her white funnel band and reversed the flag order. A year or two later the other two ships on the service received the white band together with the red hand; Rosanoski presumes that the latter also applied to Santona.