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The earlier design has a buff funnel with a narrow black band edged white, overlaid by a white circle outlined black and a flowing black R with a tail. The corresponding flag is yellow with a narrow white-black-white horizontal band, the white circle and black R. Brown’s R49 differs slightly from the livery observed on Polar Queen at Lyttelton on 9 December 1985, represented by R50. The black stripe’s width differed between pamphlets and the actual vessel. The flag circle’s black outline was confirmed, but the funnel outline is uncertain: the contemporary report says it matched the flag except for buff replacing yellow, while the copied photograph appears to lack the outline.

When Polar Queen returned from the ice on 26 February 1986, she flew a yellow flag bearing only the flowing black R and had the corresponding black design on a buff funnel. The reason for the change was not established. This simplified livery was confirmed again on 26 November 1990.