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Description: | whole: a schematic drawing for Dazzle camouflage, featuring a hand-drawn and hand-painted port view of a warship. All text
is hand-lettered.
image: a port view of the Royal Navy 'Eclipse class' cruiser HMS Isis. The design applies a scheme of white, black, grey, blue grey and
olive. The scheme is a vorticist design which incorporates a variety of mainly straight-edged shapes in grey, black and white, including a
shape which looks like a three dimensional cube within a black semi-circle. The bow section, including the foremost mast, is predominantly
blue grey. The foremost turret, other parts of the superstructure, the rearmost mast and much of the stern section are mainly olive. The
second turret is blue grey with a black section and three black stripes. The stern has irregular shapes in white, black and
grey.
HMS Order No 41 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | shipping Transport Department Ministry of Shipping First Battle of the Atlantic 1914-1918 ISIS (HMS) Royal Navy Dazzle Section Camouflage dazzle / marine camouflage First World War Atlantic Ocean | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ministry of Shipping, Transport Department | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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