SENATOR LINE.

The short-lived transitional flag was dark blue–red–dark blue horizontally, without an emblem, apparently in proportions 2:3:2. MarCollect’s account says the partners used DSR funnel colours while unable to agree a logo. Rosanoski insists that this documented version should remain recorded even though its FOTW entry was later replaced.

The next transitional flag added the S-like Senator wave to the wider red stripe, coloured blue–white–blue from left to right. It is documented by Hartmut Weinhold’s 2005 flag wall and MarCollect. That account dates the subsequent separation to 1998, which need not conflict with the 2000 rename.

Funnel colours were not uniform. DSR Baltic showed the D235 form, while DSR-Europe had a dark sky-blue funnel with a red band; DSR-SENATOR on the hull was the principal common marking. D235 and S268 sometimes had narrow black tops. Some new vessels with very little funnel showed red with narrow blue top and base, represented by S795; its flag association is assumed.

The house flag under the DSR-Senator and Senator names is white with a three-line stylised S, two lines dark blue and one red, as in Nüsse’s flag. Brown 1995 instead gives the middle line in lighter blue. Rosanoski therefore questions D39; Nüsse also uses ordinary red rather than the darker website shade.

Mitchell’s funnel agrees with Nüsse’s table-flag colours. It appears on a Conti Reederei card noting that Senator chartered Conti vessels.