WOERMANN LINIE A.G.

The original flag is dated to 1837 and appears in references from 1885. FOTW’s W482, following Brown 1926, has a much narrower blue border than the source portrayal W304. Reed 1901, LJC 1909 and Larousse 1930 show versions with the blue as an inset frame. The later company website retains the original flag; the dal-jte-sammlung website shows W28 with a narrower border. Band widths vary among sources.

The changed flag appears in sources from Brown 1929. The Massary and Lloyd cigarette-card albums instead show blue as a border rather than an inset frame and black rather than blue letters. On the dal-jte-sammlung version of W305 the green touches the blue.

Photographs of Woermann Sassandra and Woermann Ulanga confirm the funnel band. Some larger vessels could operate in Deutsche Ost-Afrika colours. The dal-jte-sammlung depiction appears to use grey rather than white bands. Rosanoski presumes the Woermann livery ended with the 1990 title sale, while noting that Woermann ship names continued another decade; the cited Woermann Ulanga photograph concerns a vessel owned from 1990 to 2003.