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Originally Posted by Mister_M
I think that's why dark/black hulls were not repainted : it was very good to camouflage the ship at night. Only ships with white/bright/saturated colors were repainted with medium/dark grey paint.
To confirm this, it would be useful to find original (peace time) paint sheme of these ships :
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The first ship I've searched for tends to confirm my hypothesis :
Mercier had white superstructures (
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/986.html).
Same for
Talthybius :
https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...29&postcount=1
Phidias had white superstructures and a black strip at the top of the stack (
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/982.html).
Daru :
https://www.wrecksite.eu/img/wrecks/z_daru_mv.jpg
Sally Maersk :
https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/1089.html
...
So, finally, it seems that it was more important to remove white surfaces than black ones.