IRAQI MARITIME TRANSPORT CO. LTD.
image by Jarig Bakker, 22 December 2005
image by Jarig Bakker, 22 December 2005
I6 adapts the 1959 Iraqi flag with green replacing black at the hoist. Loughran shows a white core to the star, carrying a yellow circle representing the sun.
Loughran dates replacement of the sun by the company initials to 1971, explaining them as the Hora, Iraq’s legendary bird. Mitchell dates the I46 funnel to 1974. The FOTW flag follows Brown 1995.