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Originally Posted by kapuhy
Description of second image says:
"Dazzle painting was not used as she would almost always be sailing in convoy"
...which kinda makes sense: dazzle does not help to hide a ship, only obscure its AOB, but if your target is in convoy accompanied by several rows of ships all sharing same course and speed, you have more ways to gather data then eyeballing a single target?
No idea if this was really the reasoning behind dropping dazzle of course.
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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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I am pretty sure Talthybius was an Alfred Holt co. ship, so her colors would have been white superstructure with brown trim, brown masts, blue funnel, & black hull.
Not sure about the others....unfortunately they are not as distinct looking as the Blue Funnelers and I will have to look up!