Dazzle camouflage was developed to help protect merchant ships from U-boat attacks. Here are a couple of examples of patterns that were applied to Q-ships. Q-ships were commissioned warships that were resigned to look like merchant vessels. The submarine would be tempted to come to the surface in order to complete destroying its prey without … More Some Examples of British WWI Dazzle Camouflage
You can find a reference to all my Japanese ship camouflage posts at: https//wetherhorn.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/japanese-ship-camouflage-cross-reference/ Japan participated in the First World War on the side of the Western powers against Germany. She was amply rewarded in the peace settlement by acquiring most of the German colonial possessions in the Far East, Japanese destroyers helped fight U-boats … More Japanese WW One Ship Camouflage
The American Army sent a massive force of ground troops to France to help bring an end to the First World War. There were no airplanes to cross the Atlantic then, Everyone came by ship. The largest of the transatlantic passenger ships have been called superliners because they were so much larger than other ships … More The Superliners at War
I just had an item I wrote published on the US Naval Institute blog. https://www.navalhistory.org/2019/01/10/heroes-in-camouflage It’s not the first tie I ever had an item featured on-line, but it feels good to know that someone else appreciated what you’ve done enough to share it with their viewers. It was a good day all around, with … More A Good Feeling
Here are a few more models from my collection painted in their First World War “Dazzle” camouflage designs,
I live in Israel. I was born in the USA. We moved to Israel in 1972. When e started out, in Haifa, we used to say that to get anything done, especially at a government office, it takes three separate visits, That was based on our experiences doing various errands and making arrangements like getting … More Adjusting to a new place
There are several Merchant Marine Academies in the US. Graduates of these institutions can accept a naval reserve officers commission if they so choose. When I was on active duty around 1970 my ship played host to a pair of midshipmen from the Maine Maritime Academy. The idea was to have them serve aboard a … More The Maine Midshipmen Caper
The models featured in this post were giant transatlantic passenger liners. They usually traveled without escort. Their high speed often kept them from being attacked. But Justicia, a former Dutch ship, was sunk by a U-boat while waiting to proceed into port.
This group of models are examples of merchant ship dazzle patterns used on decoy ships. The ships were designed to appear similar to normal merchant ships but they were actually full-fledged warships with a strong armament that were expected to lure a submarine to the surface by their appearance and then to destroy the U-boat … More RN WWI Camouflage on my models – part IV
Here are a few more models from collection, This time British and Australian smaller cruisers wearing dazzle patterns. Strictly speaking, Amphitrite had already been converted to a minelayer, and Ascot was a minesweeper.
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