ROBERT GILCHRIST & CO.

Early livery attributions appear to use service or trading names, consistent with other owners supplying the vessels. Reed 1891 assigns G271 to Glasgow & Liverpool Steamers, while Talbot-Booth 1942 gives its funnel to South Wales & Liverpool Steamship, apparently supporting interchange of ships. Lloyds 1912 also lists G272 under Henry Lamont & Co.

Loughran describes this pre-war funnel as an amalgamation of those of the two subsidiaries operating under the combined name. The flag is not illustrated there; Rosanoski considers it common to both.

Fenton assigns the H. Lamont livery, discussed as G273, to nineteenth-century Gilchrist. Rosanoski disputes parts of Fenton’s chronology: the claim that L291/G272 served from 1870 into the 1930s and G271 followed in the late 1930s does not agree with other sources.