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Canadians Help US

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nateholtrop

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THE CANADIANS ARE FINALLY GOING TO HELP AMERICA WITH THE WAR ON TERRORISM. THEY HAVE PLEDGED 2 OF THEIR BIGGEST BATTLE SHIPS, 600 GROUND TROOPS AND 6 FIGHTER JETS. AFTER THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE RATE WE ENDED UP WITH 2 MOUNTIES, 1 CANOE AND A BUNCH OF FLYING SQUIRRELS



LOL...

nate
 
I saw one of these "destroyers" down here on Puget Sound. It was painted PINK!! (OK, maybe they call it some other color, but to me it was pink...). So much for don't ask, don't tell!
 
Could've been a test paint job. The paper said something about the color actually was less visible than the traditional gray used by the US navy.
 
At the current rate of inflation we better hurry and accept lest we end up with a simple Partridge in a Pear Tree.. :Q
 
LOL, those flying squirrels are mean though.

Actually though I think it was more like six ships, a handful of bound to crash helicopters, and a couple F-18 fighters.

Oh, and I'll be wanting my canoe back by next spring😉
 
Lord Mountbatten in WWII discovered that pink was less visible than other colors.

The color in his honor is called Mountbatten Pink.

shipcamouflage
A further unofficial type that originated in 1940 in home waters was a singular idea thought up by Louis Mountbatten. In the autumn of 1940 while escorting a convoy he noticed that one ship in the group vanished from view much earlier that the remainder. The vessel in question turned out to be a Union Castle liner that was still wearing her pre-war hull color of medium lavender mauve grey. So convinced was Mountbatten of this color?s effectiveness at dawn and dusk, often the times of greatest danger, that with only a slight variation in tone, he adopted the color and had it worn by all of destroyers in his flotilla. At this time the ships of the fifth flotilla were all ?K? class destroyers. As originally worn, the color was a medium grey (507B) with a small amount of Venetian Red in the mix. The red tint produced a very distinctive color and is one of the few camouflage types an observer never forgot once he had seen it. No reports were ever received from sea as to its effectiveness but belief in its properties was strong enough to convince captains of other vessels, so that by early 1941 several destroyers and some cruisers were wearing this scheme, known by this time as ?Mountbatten Pink?.
 
etech, thanks for the confirmation. I was beginning to wonder if the color I remembered wasn't alcoholic induced (it was part of the SeaFair celebration, after all...)
 
anandfan,

I don't know if they still use that color for camouflage or not. It could be they were short of gray and the red lead was showing through. 😉


note, red lead was the primer paint.

 
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