Documentary images — company attribution uncertain

Solar Arion’s starboard funnel was photographed at Newcastle on 6 March 2011. Initially attributed to owner NHR Shipping, it was later thought by Rosanoski to be a survival from the vessel’s previous identity, Merilla, owned by Madliena Shipping care of Goodwood. Yet a photograph dated 7 February 2011 showed Polaris Shipping’s funnel, and a charterer’s colours remained another possibility. Madliena had bought the vessel as Tien Shan from Sincere Navigation on 6 May 2009, with delivery on 27 May. No photograph as Merilla had been found, so Rosanoski explicitly calls the proposed attribution a guess.

No Merilla photograph verifies the proposed former-owner allocation.