HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.

Bonsor dates adoption of the H264 funnel to 1856, when the company became a steamship owner. The buff H263 funnel was used by express steamers from 1889, express and mail steamers from 1902 and all steamers from 1909. Kludas gives H264 for other steamers in 1889–1900 and likewise H263 for all from 1909. LJC 1885 shows a red anchor on the flag.

This funnel is associated with the Atlas service from New York to the West Indies, with dates around 1901–09 despite the Atlas acquisition being dated 1902. It was also the Deutsch-Austral & Kosmos funnel, probably retained on their vessels until the 1927 change; those companies kept their own flags. Rosanoski therefore questions its appearance as an alternative in the US Navy 1961 source.

LJC 1909 assigns this funnel to the Atlas service. Rosanoski considers it suspect, noting the earlier Atlas red funnel band and two recorded variations.

Adopted in 1927, this funnel combined Hamburg-Amerika buff with the Deutsch-Austral top. A colour photograph of Stuttgart confirms the form, whose top also reproduces the pre-Nazi German flag. Brown 1934 omits the white band, apparently a printing error. The livery was also recorded for Kosmos and Deutsche-Australie and retained by Hapag-Lloyd, although one source dates it only to 31 December 1969. Rehm shows a blue anchor on the flag.

The Brazilian source records this livery for 1950.

Kludas assigns this livery to steamers in the Riviera service.