INUI KISEN K.K.

I91 reproduces the original funnel in a 1930 Japanese book. By 1953 the band was on a pale-blue funnel. Later sightings described light grey, blue or blue-grey, but Alan Watt’s November 1964 slide of Ken-ei Maru clearly shows light blue. Ken Zui later had a regular grey funnel. Watt placed an uncertain change between 1972 and 1996; Rosanoski notes that the 1961 US Navy book shows both colours, suggesting earlier alternatives.

The mid-blue of I31 was chosen provisionally because the intended light shade was uncertain. Mitchell uses the name Inui Sempaku Kaisha Kisen, Hyogo, but Rosanoski believes its Ken-ei Maru line drawing represents the wrong company. FOTW’s flag by Phil Nelson follows Stewart 1963.

I39 is based on Ken Zui at Wellington on 23 August 1997. Rosanoski calls the funnel grey, although JLL described it as blue in correspondence. Its narrower logo may reflect funnel width. Ken Spring and Kiwi Queen show slightly wider marks, still narrower than Stewart and Brown.