Mountbatten Pink Camouflage

Since being formless entities shooting people from behind a veil of sand was something the sas were really into they painted their land rovers the same shade of sultry pink and nicknamed them pink panthers.

Mountbatten pink camouflage. It was first used by lord mountbatten of the british royal navy during world war ii. While in transit from the pacific to the atlantic in december 194l she stopped at capetown south africa. Other naval officers similarly had their ships painted that color starting a trend. The color of is known as mountbatten pink.

The destroyer winslow was the first american ship to he painted in this singular color. Mountbatten pink also called plymouth pink is a naval camouflage colour resembling greyish mauve. A later refinement of the basic mountbatten pink camouflage was the use of a slightly lighter tone of the same colour for the upper structures of the ship. The story of its creation is that while on convoy protection mission he saw that one of the ships seemed to disappear from his sight faster than the rest.

Mountbatten pink is a color invented by and named after admiral of the fleet louis francis albert victor nicholas mountbatten 1900 1979 the 1st earl mountbatten of burma kg gcb om gcsi gcie gcvo dso pc frs and the last royal viceroy of india. They also recalled a shade of pink used to paint battleships to make the harder to see at night called mountbatten pink. Mountbatten pink also called plymouth pink is a naval camouflage colour resembling greyish mauveit was first used by lord mountbatten of the british royal navy during world war iiafter. It was first used by lord mountbatten of the british royal navy during world war ii.

Believing that this would give the royal navy an advantage mountbatten ordered that several other ships be painted in a similar color a dark pink approaching gray now called mountbatten pink see the color here.