GOVERNMENT OF THE GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY.

G425 is reconstructed from black-and-white hatching, without a specified shade of blue. Rosanoski suggests that the intended arms may combine elements of G425 and the conjectural G426: the black edging of the yellow rising sun may represent yellow rays, while G426’s white areas may instead be red. This remains a supposition. The funnel is attributed to Nei Nimanoa, registered to the Commissioner late in 1949 and wrecked in January 1951.

Ninikoria carried this funnel in July 1963. Its shield varies the colonial arms by giving the shield proper a red field; a gold frigate bird appears above blue-and-white sea with a rising yellow sun. The arms were granted in 1937. Rosanoski presumes that the vessels used the Government Blue Ensign, with the shield in the lower fly and no white disc.