Here's a question for the naval buffs out there. I am trying to convert a model of the SS Kronprinzessen Cecelie to it's WWI conversion to a US troopship, the USS Mount Vernon. I am trying to figure out what color scheme she had. All I could find were black & white photos. Apparently her black & white sides were painted a solid color (light grey?) at the beginning of the war, then dazzled sometime during the war.
So here's the dilemma: what colors would the US have used? I know some early US warships were white, or a light blue. In the picture where she's tied up alongside the hospital ship Comfort, the funnels are black topped with a light (white?) stripe. The bright white stripe indicates the rest of the ship isn't white, she's grey or light blue. The story there is that on her last trip to America as the Cecelie, the crew painted the tops of her yellow funnels black to disguise herself as the RMS Olympic. This happened early in the war, yet the photo says 1920, after she was mothballed.
In the dazzle scheme, the funnels don't have the black & white tops. So was she "undazzled" after the war?
I haven't decided whether to depict her in a single color, or dazzled. If I dazzle her, I don't know appropriate colors there either. Blues, blacks, white, greys?
So here's the dilemma: what colors would the US have used? I know some early US warships were white, or a light blue. In the picture where she's tied up alongside the hospital ship Comfort, the funnels are black topped with a light (white?) stripe. The bright white stripe indicates the rest of the ship isn't white, she's grey or light blue. The story there is that on her last trip to America as the Cecelie, the crew painted the tops of her yellow funnels black to disguise herself as the RMS Olympic. This happened early in the war, yet the photo says 1920, after she was mothballed.
In the dazzle scheme, the funnels don't have the black & white tops. So was she "undazzled" after the war?
I haven't decided whether to depict her in a single color, or dazzled. If I dazzle her, I don't know appropriate colors there either. Blues, blacks, white, greys?
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