NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER & ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH.

Tangaroa’s 14 May 1997 photographs show dark-blue NIWA lettering above the smaller Taihoro Nukurangi on an attached white funnel panel whose edge is not defined. The larger letters slope more than the smaller ones. The white superstructure carries the website-style rainbow logo, with the smaller lettering definitely black.

Tangaroa also flew a flag whose design differs from the website logo. Its coloured form widens and narrows towards the fly, passing through green, yellow and red with lighter merging areas. Beneath it are smaller Taihoro Nukurangi letters, apparently black in several photographs but possibly dark blue in another. The lettering has the same differing degrees of slant as on the funnel.

Kaharoa’s funnel is small and unsuitable for an attached panel. A starboard photograph of 6 September 1996 shows a brown superstructure panel with black NIWA FISHERIES RESEARCH lettering. By 14 May 1997 the port side carries the flag design without its small lettering.