Take a look through here:
http://www.shipcamouflage.com/submarines.htm
MS/9 is the black paint job, which most boats had for the majority of the war. The question i have is, i wonder why they decided on black before the war? Maybe they *thought* it was better at night at the time?
edit: From
http://www.fleetsubmarine.com/wartime_mods.html
Quote:
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Various camouflage paint schemes were tried during the war. These ranged from simply painting the entire boat black, to various geometric patterns intended to break up the outline and make the boat difficult to see on the surface. In the end, the standard pattern was to paint all horizontal surfaces flat black and all vertical surfaces haze gray. As a result, a surfaced fleet boat tended to fade into the horizon from the surface while, from the air, a submerged boat would either not be seen or possibly be mistaken for a whale.
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