NIPPON SALVAGE K.K.
image by Ivan Sache, 24 June 2001
The version associated with Hotsu Maru in 1940 may have had a yellow funnel with black top, but the source does not give colours. Its suspect flag is green with a red diagonal bend and white letters aligned along the bend. Receipt of the background article added no further information.
Brown says both funnel versions apply. Watt identifies N151 as the earlier funnel and confirms N150 as the correct flag version. N150 uses Sache’s World Salvage Directory flag rather than Brown’s depiction.