NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT.

The Department of Main Roads operated Koondooloo in 1951–71, although Lloyd’s also lists her under Sydney Ferries Ltd. in 1953–54.

This short-lived funnel is variously dated to 1972 or 1974 and was replaced in 1975. The top is described as navy blue, while another source gives light blue. The NSW logo has the first and last letters ending in arrows curving back.

Adopted in 1975, the livery includes a blue flag with two half-arrows, white above light blue, pointing respectively towards hoist and fly. The shades are uncertain beyond a dark/light distinction. Sydney Ferry Fleets shows a larger but more compact logo.

The 1990 funnel is light cream and dark blue, though Rosanoski could not establish the emblem’s exact construction. The flag, adopted in 1991, combines elements of Sydney Ferries Ltd. and Sydney Harbour Ferries Ltd. with the New South Wales badge stripped of its lion. The stars have eight points; The Log gives them as yellow.

An earlier Lady Northcott photograph confirms a black funnel top, with a lighter-blue logo than N42 and black SYDNEY FERRIES lettering below. Lady Heron carries the logo on her forward superstructure, its lower right-hand lines detached and wavy, and flies a flag with white stars. Pasquin describes a white-ensign-like flag: a red cross bearing four white eight-pointed stars, with a blue canton containing a white-bordered red saltire and white S and F at left and right. Dixon’s Sydney Ferries correspondence identifies it as the State Transit Authority flag, but he questions that description in view of the initials. Rosanoski suggests the white stars may represent a change from the yellow stars reported for 1991.

This livery follows a photograph of Charlotte.

Lady Northcott’s photograph of 26 January 2006 shows her name in white capitals on the black funnel band. Queenscliff instead carries her name just above the logo on the funnel body, in letters presumed green; Rosanoski relates the placement to funnel height.