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The funnel yellow is confirmed by The Great Liners video, while Ships & The Sea calls it deep cream and Mitchell gives light orangey buff. Lloyds 1912 also attributes the flag to Shire Line.

The fleet commodore’s flag is reconstructed from a verbal description and may not be accurately portrayed.

The FOTW rendering derived from James Dignan places a small crown wholly on the saltire. Rosanoski notes that its stated Sampson source instead has a differently shaped crown extending slightly beyond the saltire.

The National Maritime Museum initially mislabelled an Elder Dempster flag as Royal Mail, leading to an erroneous FOTW illustration. It subsequently corrected the attribution. Its Royal Mail specimen, dated about 1955–67, had first been listed under the older Royal Mail Steam Packet name. Rosanoski notes its unusual proportions and criticises the FOTW rendering for excessive black around the jewels on the crown’s arches and omission of black at the cap base.