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The funnels are described as buff, W112 being used in 1856–1899 and W111 thereafter. Loughran attributes the 1899 change to J.E. Guthe and identifies the patonce cross with St. Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. Rosanoski considers Brown 1926’s older funnel incorrect and questions whether the cross’s identification is more nominal than literal.

The other documented variants are W487 from Lloyd’s 1882; W488 from Reed 1891; W492 from LJC 1885; W489 from Reed 1901; W490 from Lloyd’s 1904/1912 and Reed 1912; W491 from LJC, Brown and Talbot-Booth; W494 from Stewart 1953/1957; and W493 from later Stewart, Brown and Loughran references. The text gives no separate design comparison for these illustrations.