SVENSKA STATENS JÄRNVÄGAR.

S950 comes from a colour postcard of Konung Gustav V in her later years. Earlier black-and-white views of her, Malmö and Drottning Victoria are unclear: the funnels appear darker than the apparently white hulls and could have been yellow.

Post-war colours appear to begin with the plain buff funnel of Malmöhus, S952. She later carried S215. Postcards look distinctly buff, but a 1979 photograph looks white, as do some monochrome views; a very pale yellow may explain this, although other Drottnigen photographs are definitely yellow. S215 and S949 are recorded as alternative funnels.

The pennant bears a winged railway-carriage wheel. The source gives proportions of 2×1, yellow borders one-twelfth of the hoist wide, measured along the hoist, and a wingspan about three-quarters of the hoist. It is described as a railway-company signal used with the ordinary rectangular ensign at the stern. The proposed adoption around 1956 is contradicted by its appearance in the 1939 flag book. Actual adoption, use and replacement dates remain unknown; Elias Granqvist thought it still in use in the 1970s.

The cap-badge version is bordered on all three sides, with an all-gold crown and cross and the wheel pointing towards the hoist. S949 combines a funnel and flag from separate sources for display; it does not establish that they were used together.

Nüsse’s version has a darker blue field, gold borders along the top and bottom, and an entirely gold emblem placed vertically, the crown towards the hoist and the wheel towards the base. It may simply be displayed upside down. The proportions are given as 3:2.

M476 is linked in Mitchell’s notes to Öresundsbolaget, Lion Ferry and Svenska Lastbil, with a line drawing of Nils Dacke as its basis.

M478 comes from postcards of Gustav Vasa and Kronzprinz Carl Gustav; the Gustav Vasa view lacks a dot after the “O”.

S994 is included as a later railway flag although the railways were no longer involved in shipping. The 1998 sighting describes unequal horizontal bands, with the wording “dark blue over red white with logo over all”, and approximate proportions (8+2):15. That ambiguous colour wording is not silently resolved here. The logo is a stylized winged wheel beneath sans-serif “SJ”. Christian Berghänel specifies that SJ means Statens Järnvägar, not Svenska Järnvägar.