LLOYD TRIESTINO DI NAVIGAZIONE S.P.A.

The early blue flag bears white emblems: a crowned fouled anchor, accompanied by L and T, in the upper hoist, and Trieste’s spearhead in the lower fly. Larousse 1930 and a 1928 brochure support this arrangement despite doubts about its unusual placement. Brown 1929 reverses it. Flaggenbuch 1928 instead gives the crowned anchor the whole hoist, without initials. A cap emblem places the device within a rope with a Savoy knot and a possibly naval crown. Loughran’s end date of 1935 is questioned because Brown 1934 already shows the subsequent flag; the proposed range is 1919–1934 or 1935.

The later flag is a red-and-white vertical bicolour: Trieste’s white halberd on red and Genoa’s red St George cross on white. Candeias describes a very dark red and a slender fleur-de-lys-like device. The website likewise uses dark red, but Martins-Tuválkin points to ordinary red in postcards and suggests the darker shade may be artistic licence. Brown 1934 also attributes L47 to the two absorbed companies, Società Italiana di Servizzi Marittimi and Società Marittima Italiana. A 1940 source confirms replacement of the blue flag.

The L7 and L46 funnels are recorded in 1939. Brown 1934 identifies L46 with the Eastern Express Service. A monochrome photograph of Africa confirms the L8 funnel.

Mitchell dates L10 to 1989, with sloping letters and a black band apparently joining them. Photographs of LT Greet suggest that connection may be an optical effect. L316 is supported by LT Usodimare in May 2004 and LT Greet; LT Cortesia in May 2005 shows very dark blue, which may explain the black rendering or indicate a later brighter-blue change. Its indistinct flags cannot be identified. LT Usodimare in December 2000 carries the red-and-white design as a bow jack.

L9 is retained from Brown 1951 and Loughran.