R.W. CAMERON & CO..

The flag’s A stands for Australia. FOTW identifies it with Pioneer Line of Australian Packets; Rosanoski considers Loughran’s black-A version attributed to John Ogden Pioneer Line misleading. The Private Signals of the Merchants of New York chart in The Clipper Ships attributes its flag to R.W. Cameron without mentioning Pioneer Line.

Mystic Seaport associates this flag with East Indies and California trade, listing R.W. Cameron & Co. [1850] as Australia Line.

Mystic Seaport gives this flag both for John Ogden’s Pioneer Line and Cameron’s Australia Line, possibly supporting a joint Pioneer Line of Australian Packets operation.