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The National Maritime Museum’s Crescent Shipping flag, dated 1955–67, supplies L29’s elongated form; book sources show a normal rectangle. A 1983 Lyttelton sighting confirmed the crescent’s bias towards the hoist but not the depicted horn angles or proportions. Its position on the funnel varies: Faience shows it farther forward, nearly filling the red band. Tug references call it silver, while other vessel descriptions use white. Mitchell’s small white circle, possibly a star, has no supporting evidence here; his blue-band version belongs to former Bowker & King tankers under Crescent.

Bakker’s FOTW versions differ in proportions: the London & Rochester illustration follows Loughran at 2:3, while the museum-based version uses 1:2.

The additional variants are retained from the US Navy and Stewart sources.