GRUPO BOLUDA.

The former flag is white with a blue St George’s cross and the company logo at the centre, also used by Naviceuta. A photograph in the 2006 annual report shows V B Algericas with a pennant based on this design, but funnel markings resembling the later G385 design.

An office flag appears to be white with a logo of a flapping flag above a ring. The flags are draped and their details unclear: identifying this illustration with the second front flag is expressly guesswork. Other obscured flags may have different versions of the logo, including a red cross.

Funnel evidence comes from V B Artico, photographed to starboard on 17 May 2007, and Boluda Set, photographed to port on 12 October 2006.

The change announced on 28 February 2008 introduced a B within a double circle and the colour red. Singladura No. 2, winter 2008, illustrated the new identity, although the 2006 photograph of V B Algericas already shows a funnel in line with this design.

The new flag is red with a dark blue cross and a white canton bearing a red B within two red rings, the outer ring thinner. The rings merge in small or distant images. G387 is documented flying ashore on 14 April 2009; ships show the pennant form G388. Macarena B carried it at the bow in March 2008, an unusual position which Rosanoski presumed served for the house flag because none was visible in the usual positions. Photographs generally do not resolve the fine detail. G388’s funnel is documented on V B La Heve on 26 October 2008; an unnamed vessel photographed on 26 January 2014 shows that a narrow black top can occur.

The funnel of V B Supernacho in the 2006 annual report has a colour scheme unsupported by other photographs. The vessel, owned by Remolques del Mediterraneo, appears in the older Boluda colours in several photographs through March 2008.

This conjectural office flag appears red with a blue cross and a white canton, apparently bearing the old logo without its ring. The arm issuing from the red frame seems to start at the corner rather than midway. Rosanoski considered the flag unlikely; company magazines from winter 2008 to summer 2010 did not clarify it.

Mitchell gives white CIERSA letters. As AUXMASA was a subsidiary of Compañia Iberica de Remolcadores del Estrecho, Rosanoski considered CIRESA the probable reading.

The former Naviceuta flag is gyronny blue and white with the group logo at the centre. In October 2008 Lidon B had the G388 funnel but a bow pennant apparently red with a narrow dark blue horizontal band rather than a cross. Its white canton may have been edged blue and seemed to bear the old flag-and-ring logo. The photograph is insufficiently clear: old stock or a variation are possible explanations.

Before Lidon B passed to Naviceuta in 2007, the Naviera Fos flag was painted on its superstructure with Boluda funnel markings. On 25 February 2004 the vessel had CEUTA UNIVERSAL on the hull and the C1058 funnel; on 17 March 2006 it had NAVIERA FOS on the hull and the N579 funnel.