HORST-EBERHARD EBERHARDT.

Rosanoski considers Brown’s flag reversed. The manager’s actual design is white with a black diagonal from upper hoist to lower fly, overlaid by a black-edged white circle bearing red E. It appears derived from Leth’s corresponding flag with L replaced by E. Photographs of Paul and Otto show a sloping pole and fluttering flag facing forward, with the pole’s lower end nearest the front of the funnel. Otto’s flying flag confirms the diagonal direction. Paul’s starboard view is too distant to read the letter: a normally readable letter there would be inconsistent with the pole unless double-sided, and Rosanoski suggests artistic licence may have led to Brown’s error.