YANG MING MARINE TRANSPORT CORPORATION.

FOTW describes a red-yellow-red flag in approximately 1:3:1 proportions, with a central red square, blue Y and interrupted white M. Rosanoski considers Brown’s panel imperfect and the yellow a golden shade. The black Y1 funnel is probably an uncoloured printing error; the observed Y25 version is confirmed by YM Comfort’s 2 November 2005 photograph, with golden yellow and a black funnel base.

Mitchell supplies Y26’s funnel and places the Y27 object beneath a funnel drawing. Rosanoski assumes Y27 is a flag but allows that it could instead be another funnel-band version.

The Hamburg flag variant is horizontally divided white over pearl grey, with a narrow white stripe at the grey area’s upper edge. Its central red rectangle contains a blue Y over two white halves of an M. On YM Utility’s funnel, the white-grey division curves like a wave, with another narrow grey curve above, tapering at its ends and widening slightly between. Port and starboard views agree, and enlarged photographs, including YM Ultimate, show that the design continues around front, back and corners.

Y51 follows YM Cultivation’s photograph of 7 July 2006, when the ship was owned and operated by Yang Ming.

The full-size flag adds YANG MING LINE in white sans-serif letters to the lower red stripe and white Chinese characters to the upper stripe, presumed by the contributor to give the same name. The example offered on eBay measured approximately 0.93 × 1.40 m.

Y60 follows a starboard photograph of YM Rightness dated 2 September 2011, accessed through shipspotting.com in September 2013.