RHEDERI M. JEBSEN A/S.

The blue shipping flag bears three white mackerels within a white wreath, repeated on the funnels and confirmed on Emma Jebsen. The design derives from Aabenraa’s arms and seal, recorded from 1421. Fish directions changed historically, as did the foliage from hop to oak leaves. The 1895 company logo has the middle fish facing right and the others left, whereas the municipality adopted all three left-facing in 1920. Stories of two fish carrying goods out and one bringing profits home, or only two ships returning, are presented as tales rather than established symbolism. The later Far Eastern group uses a blue outline on white; Rosanoski found no evidence of that version as a flag.

Carly’s chart makes all three fish point towards the hoist. Rosanoski thinks this an error.

Enoch’s chart assigns the J47-type livery to China-Reederei A.G. of Hamburg.

Jorge Candeias’s initial FOTW rendition appeared under Christian F. Ahrenkiel. He could distinguish fish and branches but not their species, and noted that it lacked the canton of the Ahrenkiel example. The unclear caption also seemed inconsistent with Ahrenkiel. Rosanoski’s later comparison identifies the blue flag with white fish and wreath as Michael Jebsen’s.

Klaus-Michael Schneider’s Kludas-based flag has golden fish and garland on blue, with a completely black funnel on the chart. The accompanying 1898–1901 period conflicts with the longer company history; Rosanoski suggests it may refer only to Chinese passenger and mail services. Schneider confirmed that the source was yellow, and Rosanoski agreed on seeing the copy, provisionally relating it to that service. A later unpublished note observes that Kludas’s volume 5 summary plates instead show white, agreeing with other sources, and again questions the yellow version. Schneider also cautioned that his reused drawing did not precisely reproduce the mackerels.