RAILSHIP GMBH & CO. K.G.

Brown 1995 gives the same design for flag and funnel, but Rosanoski’s photographs of the three vessels differ from Brown. The funnels are orange rather than yellow. Except for the wheel spokes, bands and emblem lines have equal widths. The bow-shaped chevron is higher, with a stepped upper horizontal line and a more upright counterpart, suggesting a forecastle rather than a flush deck. The wheel sits lower, has neither a central ring nor a vertical spoke, and the wavy sea line is longer. These photographic details form R319; the viewing angles may introduce distortion.

The R319 flag is a reconstruction from the funnel, not a directly observed house flag. Rosanoski considers Brown’s flag detail potentially incorrect, but the one reasonably identifiable flag photograph, Railship II on 1 July 1995, appears to show the manager H.M. Gehrckens’s flag.