Documents state that the entire 13 th cruiser squadron was so Were light grey, light green, with an occasional touch of black and white. Going type in that it employed a dark brown as one of the colors. Being of a land background type, it was different from a sea Was therefore proposed in April by the commander in Chief Home Fleet that suitable camouflage be devised and worn. The early months of 1940 there arose fears that the ships of the Home Fleetīased at Scapa Flow could be identified by German aircraft or by German spies Schemes, poor to the degree that the patterns cannot be ascertained. Unfortunately only the poorest of photos exist showing these early paint The destroyer GRENVILLE was the very first ship to carry camouflage, toīe followed by a handful of destroyers a few weeks later. Until December 1939 that the first camouflage appeared. System in a negative light, his proposal was therefore rejected and it was not As the Admiralty had produced a post WWI report that placed the Dazzle It was about this time that Norman Wilkenson proposed the adoption ofĭazzle camouflage, the style that he had originated in the First World War. Lighter tone would produce better results. There was no official sanction for this change, just a belief that the Medium grey color as being more useful for concealment purposes. Weeks later that some of the Home Fleet’s ships began to adopt an overall Outbreak of World War II in September 1939 saw no immediate change to ship’s The China and Far East commands had white hulls and upperworks with buff (named Mediterranean Light Gray) as did those serving on the West Indian andĪttached to the Indian Ocean were usually painted overall white, while ships of
Ships of the Mediterranean Fleet wore an overall light gray For vessels of the Home Fleet the colors were Home Fleet Dark Gray. Schemes depending upon which command they were attached to.
Interwar years found ships of the Royal Navy wearing one of four different paint Part III: British Camouflage in World War II By Development of Naval Camouflage 1914 – 1945
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