About merchant ship wartime colours

[Mister_M]

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 :

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

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So, finally, it seems that it was more important to remove white surfaces than black ones.