VELA INTERNATIONAL MARINE LTD.

V261 is the plain funnel seen on Capricorn Star on 29 January 2006 and again on 8 May 2011. Gemini Star and Hydra Star also showed it. Rosanoski suggests that this plain design was confined to the VLCCs.

The company website showed product tankers with “Vela” in white on the hull and the logo within a narrow white frame on the funnel, represented by V262 from a photograph named Zauruk Star. The listed examples include Altair Star, Zaurak Star, Altarf Star, Alnasl Star and Aldebaran Star. The small photograph suggests an upper fly half matching the funnel blue and a green lower portion, with a white star: possibly two shades rather than the blended colours of the logo.