The origin of the Long Branch "Maltese cross" mark?

[Surpmil]

The first Rules for Iron Ships were published in the 1855 Register. These were revised and the classification symbol updated in 1870. The iron barque Lizzie Leslie was the first iron vessel to be assigned the new notation [cross inserted]100A1. An international organisation Lloyd’s Register’s first surveyor to be appointed overseas was Captain Thomas Menzies, a shipbuilder from Leith, who was posted to Quebec and the St. Lawrence River in 1852. It was Menzies who, in 1853, suggested to the General Committee the use of the Maltese Cross [example inserted here in original text] to indicate a vessel had been built under special survey.
This is perceived to be the first use of a quality mark anywhere in the world.

http://www.lr.org/Images/31%20lloyd%...155-173544.pdf

So, if thanks to Lloyds, the "Maltese cross" had become recognized generally as a quality mark, might this be why it was adopted for use on the parts selected for the sniper conversions built at Long Branch?

(It is correctly known as a Cross Formée apparently, not having the recess and two outward points on each arm of the true Maltese cross)

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