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Originally Posted by Mister_M
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Obviously an oversight since the same database lists Phidias among the losses of Convoy OB.330:
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/ob/index...ses.htm~obmain
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Originally Posted by Mister_M
Sorry for hijacking this thread...
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You are on topic Mister_M, OB.330 is one of the convoys "in color" we are discussing, and SS Phidias is among the ships skecthed by Commodore Rogers as part of that convoy
Maybe the Hague dtabase includes enscorts in the count?
EDIT: no, I just checked that, it doesn't
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Originally Posted by Mister_M
This confirms my idea that, in war time, it was not so easy to find the exact paint color as required by "official" rules... :
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In part, yes.
Indeed time factors and paint availability played a big role. Many ships were sunk before they could be repainted, and there was no colour omogenity among the ones which eventually were repainted. You were right on that, but you had also speculated that old ships might have been not worth the extra paint, and this is the point that I and kapuhy disagreed on
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Originally Posted by U-190
I think. that I should try to draw something for ships using a color table courtesy of our amigos.
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Good idea, but please read my final notes at post #30