Warship Mountbatten Pink

Discussion in warship builds started by lou dec 11 2013.

Warship mountbatten pink. Beyond a few hundred yards at duskdawn a ship painted in mountbatten pink would turn invisible to the human eye. It was first used by lord mountbatten of the british royal navy during world war ii. Color png the sas used to drive around in pink panther land rovers for much the same reason. Captain louis mountbatten s 5th flotilla of k class destroyers were painted mountbatten pink in 1940.

Mountbatten or plymouth pink was used as camouflage for warships during the second world war though originally used primarily as an experiment it was used to a limited degree during ww2 such as the malta campaign. These paints cover the period from the 1930s to the modern era and include nearly every color used by the us. Navy from 1939 through 1946 in both the atlantic and pacific theaters of operation. Mountbatten observed a union castle liner disappear from convoy during an autumn sunset because of the companys unusual lavender mauve gray hull color.

In 2017 tru color paint started to release a large variety of paints for military ships. One of the anecdotal and possibly apocryphal tales told in support of mountbatten pink was the story of the cruiser hms kenya nicknamed the pink lady at the time due to her mountbatten pink paint which during operation archery covered a commando raid against installations on vagsoy island off the norwegian coast. Mountbatten pink also called plymouth pink is a naval camouflage colour resembling greyish mauve. A navy official said some ships still on active duty also have the pinking in hard to paint areas such as the masting.

I think it would be pretty sweet if we could get such camouflage in the game. Mountbatten pink lt 5rp 515 db deception pass 22 v 1 mountbatten pink dk 5rp 41 db preserves 1 v 1 wa blue 5b 82 db land of the free 19 b 3.