GERHARD WESSELS.

Nüsse’s Wessels flag turns the W into a ship with light-blue horizontal superstructure lines and vertical and diagonal derricks. The older W10 table-flag scan has letters along a wavy line, unlike W498 on the newer site, probably because the fabric was wrinkled. Nüsse assigns it to Wessels Bereederungs-und Befrachtungsgesellschaft; application to the principal and other subsidiaries is assumed.

Jorge Candeias’s W238 flag similarly transforms the W into a navigating ship, adding light-blue ship features and a wavy line below. Its angled letters may interpret Nüsse’s older scan. Mitchell’s funnel seems to show black letters on a white panel, while his separate flapping flag and dark-blue logo drawing are ambiguous; they do not confirm the slanted lettering. The difference between flag and funnel remains unclear.

Mitchell attributes W501’s funnel to the tug Fritzen 2.

W502’s funnel is from Mitchell and its flag is derived from that funnel. The accompanying descriptive sentence is incomplete, so no additional specification can be established.

W554 records Pasadena’s funnel from port-side and starboard photographs dated 16 February 2006 and 9 December 2013.