JAMES E. WARD & CO.

The earlier Ward livery is also assigned by several sources to New York & Cuba Mail. W164 and W165 preserve the separately published versions, while Ships & The Sea 1938 says the W164 livery had been discontinued.

The narrative prints W250 for the replacement funnel, whereas the source list gives W251. Merchant Ships dates the change to 1936 and then describes a 1939 replacement of white bands by a white star in wording Rosanoski finds unclear; a Mexico photograph confirms the latter format. The flag changes from W164 to W252, but the statement that the old Ward flag was done away with does not clearly distinguish replacement design from abandonment. Alderson records a flag change after the 1934 Morro Castle disaster and at least two more under AGWI.

Rosanoski presumes C802 was flown by whichever vessel served the route, with its normal funnel, and tentatively links it to Alderson’s account of later flags.