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Loughran’s 1979 flag is white with a head, complete with eye, and light-blue and green flowing hair pointing towards the hoist, with black PRINCESS CRUISES below. Rosanoski suggests it may predate the P&O takeover. Marinart instead describes a white princess’s head with dark- and light-blue hair. Later observations also cast doubt on Loughran’s direction of the face.

Brown 1995 supplies this flag version. The logo is described as having wavy blue and green hair. A Ruby Princess photograph shows an apparently all-dark-blue logo without an evident eye on a white bow jack, but possibly a trace of green; Rosanoski therefore tentatively identifies it as P36. A postcard grouping four ships similarly uses a blue-and-green central logo despite dark-blue logos on the vessels.

Sky Princess at Wellington on 11 February 1999 flew a large, eyeless flag design with purple rather than blue, alongside the P&O flag. Her funnel had a very dark green top and very dark blue logo; the two sides were mirrored, both faces looking aft. Louis Loughran called the flag an original version, perhaps meaning under P&O, but had seen all-blue flags on Regal Princess and Crown Princess at Vancouver in 1997. P&O archivist Stephen Rabson said blue had prevailed for several years without a definite starting date. Rosanoski suggests old stock might explain Sky Princess’s flag.

The accounts do not fully agree on shades. Loughran later described dark-blue hair and mid-blue funnel tops. RJT’s observation of Italia at Sydney on 19 November 1969 confirms the face aft on the port funnel and towards the fly on the flag, with light-to-mid green and dark blue; he wondered whether sunlight had bleached the flag’s blue to purple. Italia’s funnel shape left no top band, while other observed ships had very dark blue tops and the green also changed to dark blue. Postcards variously show no top, a black top or, on Fair Princess, a blue top.

Pacific Princess in The Love Boat provides both funnel and flag evidence. The funnel top appears green in some scenes and blue in others, sometimes within the same episode. Rosanoski leaves open whether this reflects trials or misleading video colour, rather than establishing a definite sequence.

The website calls the emblem the “seawitch” logo. Coral Princess on 4 August 2011 has a mirrored starboard emblem facing aft, in a darker sky-blue shade matching the then-current logo. The modern funnel, mainly slats and vents, is presumed entirely white. Sea Princess on 9 July 2013 has a darker blue, though not as dark as the original.