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Brown describes the flag as blue with a red disc carrying blue HSC letters. Website flag images show both red and orange discs.

Mitchell’s main funnel has pencilled letters presumed to be blue, but the small lower letter is H rather than C.

Mitchell associates this funnel with Atlantic Marine Line, which Rosanoski could not locate.

The FOTW version uses burnt yellow instead of red and was labelled a possible former flag. Rosanoski’s archived website evidence shows an actual flag at the building and red or orange elsewhere on the page, while a shadowy background flag has a yellow disc. He therefore suggests artistic licence rather than an established historical change.