ISLE OF MAN STEAM PACKET CO. LTD.

A painting of the first Mona’s Isle supports the I224 funnel and shows a blue foremast flag with an indistinct white emblem or wording.

The house flag’s red field bears the company letters and Manx triskelion, generally agreed to be yellow. LJC 1885 gives white letters, which Rosanoski considers a probable printing error. Sources divide over a small o after C and the direction of the kneeling knee. An unclear Lady of Mann photograph suggests the knee towards the hoist and a wholly yellow device, but the I112 arrangement is only a guess. Earlier FOTW descriptions gave UIOMSPCo in white or IOM and SPC without the o in yellow. Brown showed the knee towards the hoist until 1978, then towards the fly; Rosanoski could not establish whether this reflected actual changes. Spurs appear in the logo and Stewart illustrations, but their presence on flags is uncertain.

The I112 funnel comes from Ben-my-Chree. Photographs show it alongside the Lady of Mann funnel; a starboard view has the kneeling knee pointing aft, unlike a builder’s profile showing it forward as on the port side.

Rosanoski considers the I228 funnel a probable printing error.

LJC 1909 shows a flapping, angled flag with similarly angled letters. Rosanoski considers that unlikely and does not treat it as a separate variant.

A detailed photographed flag supplied the later I191 rendition and replaced the earlier FOTW description. The photograph offers clearer evidence of the legs and spurs.

The fleet commodore flies a swallowtail. Loughran’s I27, sighted on Ben-my-Chree, omits the small o. Eugene Ipavec notes that I190’s triskelion is ten per cent smaller and differently rotated than the house flag.

I189 is a printed flag flown on company buildings at Heysham and Liverpool in the 1990s. Its white field carries a red ring with yellow ISLE OF MAN above and STEAM PACKET COMPANY below, separated by yellow dots, around yellow legs. A yellow rope surrounds the ring, tied below in a FIAV-like knot with ends extending horizontally, twice on each side. Lupant illustrates the seal and a related version with large ISLE OF MAN lettering above and smaller company wording below. His colour description differs from the company website seal.