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The original flag is white with narrow deep-sky-blue bands at hoist and fly and a blue ring enclosing a white L with a slanted upright, outlined and shaded blue. Rosanoski’s actual flag measured 72 by 36 inches: the end bands were 8 inches wide, the circle 30 inches in diameter and its ring 1 inch wide. The L was 4 inches wide, with 1-inch blue shading above, on the hoist side and above its horizontal stroke, and 3 inches elsewhere. Black outlines around the ring, letter and shading were actually one-eighth-inch stitching, visible only close up.

Mitchell’s Tarihiko funnel is presumably an interpretation of the air-sea-rescue orange-red shade.

Tarihiko adopted the new funnel after its Lyttelton survey on 25 January 1990, but initially kept the old flag. The new flag was seen at the Christchurch LPG depot in August 1991 and on the ship in November. LPG refers to the cargo. The funnel has five horizontal lines, while the flag has six. Funnel lines point aft on both sides, with letters arranged to read normally; the starboard pattern was confirmed at New Plymouth on 31 August 1994, as was the flag. Its blue seemed darker than the original flag, but Rosanoski could not inspect it closely enough to be certain.

Brown 1995’s L433 is reversed and has five horizontal lines instead of six. Rosanoski explains that the information originated with him but the funnel’s five-line pattern was incorrectly transferred to the flag, and the side arrangement was confused. Jarig Bakker’s FOTW image follows Brown.