


A cap badge suggests an apparently earlier flag: white, with a red canton bearing a gold saltire and the black letters SSA on the field.
Sources differ over the width of the outer ring. Mitchell’s funnel letters are black but were probably intended as white. Bryggan associates the livery with Lida in 1935–1938; Rosanoski hesitates to accept that dating because the photograph’s name is indistinct and its funnel markings do not correspond. Lida was built in 1920 and scrapped in England in 1964.
Brown 1982 shows the flag’s outer ring as black rather than red. The funnel bears three white diamonds. Mitchell recorded new colours at Visby on 7 June 1970, omitting the white ring and drawing the charges in black pencil; Rosanoski assumes these were intended to be white.