VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCHE SCHEEPVAARTMAATSCHAPPIJ N.V.
image by Al Fisher, 6 February 1999
The width of the funnel band varies in the sources, sometimes narrow. Ocean Ships calls it broad, although Rosanoski finds the photographed band only average. Some sources show orange as yellow or red; he regards orange as correct and attributes these alternatives to printing limitations. Wyt’s Digest 1965 and Op de Lange Deining suggest a lighter blue than later sources. The livery continued briefly after the 1970 merger. Al Fisher’s FOTW flag, drawn from Stewart 1959, originally showed red; it was amended to orange on 25 October 2003.