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MINERAL OIL REFINERY CO.

M545

A colour picture of Etelka, apparently relating to her arrival on 12 December 1892, shows a red flag with a white diagonal and three stars. The stars are indistinct; Rosanoski considers black likely. He identifies the same funnel design in a black-and-white photograph dated around 1910 and concludes that the markings belonged to Mineral Oil Refinery Co., with Photogen as managers. The flag’s descending diagonal appears rising on the funnel, possibly because the photograph shows the starboard side.