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Originally Posted by Mister_M
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Its common sense and natural to use camouflage John.
All ships use more black and white paint than any other colour so a mixture of these would soon produce grey in an emergency.
I was at sea from 1936 to 1956.
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Originally Posted by Mister_M
In real life, I don't know how much time it was needed to repaint a whole ship. Maybe lack of time ? Lack of crew ? Lack of equipment (in wartime, all is restrained) ? Lack of... money (and you will have to repaint again the ship after the war) ?... Or even other things that we just cannot have an idea or we just cannot imagine...
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I don't think the factors you are mentioning could affect big shipping companies, but indeed they might have played a role for small shipowners
One photo cannot say anything about the whole story.
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Maybe coal burners were not repainted grey because it was totally useless to try to camouflage a ship which produces so much black smoke !...
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Maybe, but again:
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I was a seaman all through the war and sailed in many convoys.Convoy Commodores were very strict and would reprimand any masters of ships who had bright colours visible,as occasionally some ships had red lead showing.
Emitting smoke from funnels was also taboo.
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As noted by kapuhy, brightly painted ships and old coal-burning tramps sailing within convoys might have been not too an uncommon exception to the above rules, but I would expect them to become rarer and rarer as the war progresses.
By the way of that amazing picture by Robert Capa I think I have found the full set of photographs:
https://www.lasegundaguerra.com/viewtopic.php?t=13661
https://izismile.com/2017/06/01/a_tr...1_32_pics.html
Capa documented at least two Atlantic convoys. Apparently this set is from his first crossing, which took place in December 1941.
Please note this other freighter with dark hull, bluff superstructure and white/blue funnel from the same convoy...
...and the bad paintwork on these tankers
@ kapuhy good finding!
