IINO KAIUN K.K.

The early funnel chronology is uncertain. Various Iino companies may have shared a funnel which began plain black, gained white marks and later bands, possibly after the war. The records conflict: 1930 notes mention white marks, while photographs of pre-war tankers show black and Talbot-Booth 1944 gives both forms.

A photograph of the chartered Lord Byron appears to show the Iino funnel with very narrow white edging, an elongated and compressed band, and the internal branch pointing upwards. Rosanoski and Watt regard this as a likely painting error.

The emblem varies between sources, sometimes with the branch too high or the whole mark too small. Rosanoski treats I13 as representative and favours the website logo and the Laurel Island funnel for its form, while noting that a flag version might be slightly thinner. I13 came into use after the Second World War and was seen on Laurel Island at Wellington on 17 June 2002. The band looked orange-red to the observer, a reading Watt rejected. Chemroad Hope and Chemroad Oasis photographs also confirm the funnel, and NJK reports I13 for all its sightings.

The intervening funnel is described as very dark khaki, reportedly used in the 1960s before a return to I13, although Brown 1958 already shows it. Sources render it yellow or green. Mitchell shows green with a diamond frame and darker red inside than on the band, also mentioning a yellow basic colour. The Stewart-derived FOTW I240 flag was stretched to 2:1; Rosanoski says the internal vertical line should be straight rather than angled. The flag was also used by the dry-cargo Iino Kisen company.

I262 is based on a portside photograph of Tamiat Navigator dated 25 October 2011. The funnel base carries the charterer Waterfront Shipping’s logo.