N.V. SCHEEPVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ SURINAME.

The Dutch-style flag appears on the April 1956 De Blauwe Wimpel chart. Flag Bulletin dates it to 1956 and records consideration of a change in 1975 because its colours followed Dutch tradition. Rosanoski regards the diagonal Dutch-colour triband as no proof of a corporate relationship.

The later flag replaces blue with green, apparently following Suriname’s independence. Brown 1995 also narrows the orange and white bands, though Rosanoski considers those differences possibly insignificant.