




Lloyds and the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce sheet show the initials without dots at the base, with a vertical white anchor above.
Griffin’s illustration shows dark blue with white, unserifed S.E.R initials and two dots. The modern Scran rendering has three dots. Rosanoski corrects the cited edition to Griffin 1895, third edition.
The anchorless flag appears with dots after the letters in Griffin 1883 and Merchant Fleets’ verbal description, but without dots on that book’s back cover and the postcard variant drawn by António Martins-Tuválkin.
Albert Victor’s 1887 photograph provides an exception to the usual S1411 funnel, showing S1412 instead.