STOCKHOLMS REDERIAKTIEBOLAGET SVEA.

The original Stockholm-company flag is dark blue with an ornate gold oval frame around the upper part of a red-coated man wearing a golden crown against light blue. The name and flag had changed by 1912.

Nüsse’s table flag has a very small Swedish-style canton with the cross intersection towards the hoist and a plain S. Its field appears pale cream, possibly discoloured with age, while other sources give white. Rosanoski considers this table flag especially useful evidence.

The website S1554 renderings presumably derive from Lloyds. Brown also gives S1555 under manager H. Ericson; Lloyds 1904 lists the S259-related flag under Nya Rederiaktiebolaget Svea.

Sources vary in S lettering and in whether the canton’s cross is centred or offset towards the hoist. Talbot-Booth uses a Swedish-style offset cross, and photographs of Örnen and Regin confirm plain funnel lettering. The cap badge has a centred cross; a closely related website version moves the cross towards the hoist and makes S smaller and rounder. Brown 1978 and 1982 show a more conventional canton and a smaller letter, with the latter naming Svea Rederierna.

The FOTW depictions prompted discussion of a centred versus Scandinavian cross and serif versus plain S. Rosanoski says the S1552 Stewart citation should instead resemble S1560, and the Brown-based S1553 discussion should resemble S1557. Richard Roosvall recalled a bolder S and no small Swedish flag, but that remains a personal recollection. Elias Granqvist rejected a suggested prohibition on using the national flag and proposed either a general Swedish association, through the personification Svea, or a design error; none of these suggestions establishes the canton’s origin.

One additional cap badge apparently has a dark-blue S, perhaps a later change; the colour comparison suggests a slightly darker blue than the canton.