STRAIT SHIPPING LTD.

The initial rendering followed a logo painted on the Wellington wharf office: a flag on a sloping pole, diagonally divided light blue over dark blue with white SS. Rosanoski later acknowledged that treating the logo itself as the actual flag led to his erroneous 1996 published version. A clearer office photograph showed light blue at the foot of the pole. White lines represent folds, not consistent strokes through the letters, despite the suggested nickname “Dollar Line”.

The first vessel, Straitsman, retained the Tasmanian Transport Commission funnel with the former owner’s logo painted out, confirmed at Wellington in November 1993.

An actual flag was seen at the Port of Wellington entrance in April 1995, and Suilven’s November photograph confirmed the livery. The real flag places the logo on a white field, with two white vertical fold-lines through the logo’s SS. Both ships were recorded flying S1303 in May 1997.

Suilven’s March 1997 portside view confirms this funnel arrangement but retains the lighter S1303 blue. Straitsman’s darker-blue funnel has a metal emblem plate that misleadingly suggests a black rim. On the starboard side the pole points forward while the reversed flag design keeps the letters readable. The 2010 retrospective also labels the actual flag-on-white design S1306.

A shore flag photographed in February 1997 has a smaller logo with STRAIT SHIPPING LTD in blue underneath. Rosanoski hopes this was an advertising version for land use only.