My good Panache,
I hesitate to offer this correction, not being a seafaring nor airfaring man, but one prefers terrier firma, but if I may interpose - surely you meant that blimp of that deviant Grant was painted red both fore and aft? For as you describe his vessel, it was white all over, except for the stern (aft) and mapleleaf. Knowing the obsession that Grant, poor demented soul that he is, has for the Mapleleaf, it would seem more likely that the ship's markings would mirror those of the Canadian flag.

Your most obedient servant,
W.Ompet