WESTFAL-LARSEN & CO. A/S.

The original flag was a red swallowtailed pennant with a narrow blue horizontal band edged by narrower white bands. It was in use about the turn of the century and, according to Loughran, replaced by the end of the First World War. Its design, though not necessarily proportions, matches the Norwegian naval Commodore’s broad pennant adopted on 7 June 1906.

The later lettered flag has red lettering in the principal sources. Brown, Talbot-Booth and Loughran omit the dot after L; Stewart omits all dots and US Navy retains only one beneath o. Loughran makes the white band wider than the blue. A photograph shows W63 hoisted on Ravnanger at Bergen. Rosanoski questions the existence of a differently lettered FOTW version and rejected its separate placement under Germany.

Brown 1926 substitutes P for W without an apparent reason; Rosanoski considers it a likely error repeated by the 1933 Lloyds Reedereiflaggen cards.

Loughran dates adoption of plain red WL to 1963. W61 is also the company website’s flag logo, and its funnel is confirmed by Ravnanger in May 2007. Jarig Bakker’s FOTW flag follows Brown 1995; Loughran again gives a wider white band.

These additional funnel and flag variants are documented by skipet, without separate verbal design comparisons.

W335’s funnel is assigned to the Star Bulk Shipping service in 1962–1972 and assumed to apply only to Westfal-Larsen ships.

W336’s funnel is assigned to Star Shipping from 1972, again assumed to concern only Westfal-Larsen ships.

W337’s funnel is assigned to the Fred Olsen Interocean service in 1966–1970; Rosanoski assumes both partners used it.

James Dignan’s version comes from The Dumpy Book of Ships and the Sea. Jan Oskar Engene argues for red letters from 1953 plates and personal observation; Rosanoski notes that Sampson 1959 appears to show black, perhaps because the small image obscures hatching. He regards blue lettering as highly suspect because the principal references do not support it.