HANSEATIC CRUISES GMBH.

After the sale the vessel retained its name and initially its livery, but the funnel eventually changed to Hapag’s, with new paint noted on 10 June 2011. Use of the flag may have been brief: the earliest photograph found, dated 28 June 2006, already shows Hapag’s flag. Schneider describes the Hanseatic flag as the Deutsche Atlantik design with proportions 19:15, compared with a 25 by 15 cm HAL example. Rosanoski also notes narrow white strips at top and bottom on the latter which other descriptions omit.