Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Glad it survived.
According to this source special paint schemes were only done for recognition purposes and only painted once at sea, being overpainted grey again before land was sighted. He claims that capital ship aft funnels only were painted dark red, and only at Jutland. He further states that at Dogger bank the aft funnels were all light blue. None of the several books I have mention it at all, so further than this I don't know.
I've looked through several books, and none of them say. Websites such as Wiki mention camoflage on British and American ships, but don't mention Germans. I've looked through a couple of forums, and the concensus seems to be that even the British used camo only experimentally, and the Germans not at all. |
Thanks! I am amazed at how much you subsimmers know about my most obscure requests...your link also taught me that German battleships should only have the circle painted on their turrets from 1917 onwards; not throughout the war....very informative.