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Reply With QuoteBlack hull, white superstructure and yellow ochre stacksOriginally Posted by jlvfr
Hello folks
I'm looking for colour images of late 19th century (1870 onwards) RN ships. I need to know what paint schemes they used. So far, I only found either b&w photos, or colors of WWI, by which time they had switched to grey. Any sources?
Black hull, white superstructure and yellow ochre stacks
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Thanks a lot, folks
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All the chimneys are yellow but on the image niobe1 (3rd pic, msg #5) where they are red. Why the color change?
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It could be lighting and the artist's impression - details of color schemes are hard to find - but the general yellow ochre color of the stacks could look red at sunset. (note the fleet in review in post #3, final image- at sunset - the shadow side of the stacks look red there too).
I have seen variety in the masts - some black - some stack color - some darker ochre, also white.
The Monarch and Captain seemed to use a different scheme. - with black (Captain) and white (Monarch) stacks. They were experimental vessels.
I thought BigFella might enjoy seeing that model of Cerberus.
It's fun to return to battleships after the grim current events of late...
Last edited by USSWisconsin; 14 Aug 11, at 18:57.
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it's amazing to see the amount of evolution from 1870-1905.
The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!"
-Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Indeed, the pace of naval change is amazing.
Warfarfe does tend to cause an acceleration of technology.
Compare frontline aircraft in service in 1939 for all major belligerants to 1945...I am not talking about the exotic prototypes, I am talking amazing frontline aircraft which didn't even exist in the mind's eye in 1939.
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