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Olaf Held wrote:

John @ WEM wrote:Hi Olaf,

According to the good Professor Raven, it was WINSLOW (DD-359), which obtained the paint from SS DUNOTTER CASTLE during a stopover in Capetown in 12/41. DDs that subsequently painted up in MBP included WARRINGTON (DD-383), CLARK (DD-361) & PHELPS (DD-360).

Thanks John ~ The list of ships painted in (or similar to) MPB is getting longer and longer. I'm still confused about those colours, all named differently (Plymouth Pink, N**ple Pink, MBP, then the differences in brightness (light, medium, dark, maybe in patterns on a few ships), as if every skipper or squadron leader had his own idea about this colour ...).

I think I need to update my library with the proper books, the "professor" would be a good start, eh?

Happy painting ~ Olaf!

Tracy White wrote:How about HMS Campletown? I've heard she was MBP on her last voyage... truth?

John @ WEM wrote:Hi Olaf,

According to the good Professor Raven, it was WINSLOW (DD-359), which obtained the paint from SS DUNOTTER CASTLE during a stopover in Capetown in 12/41. DDs that subsequently painted up in MBP included WARRINGTON (DD-383), CLARK (DD-361) & PHELPS (DD-360).

mike mccabe wrote:Olaf
http://www.shipcamouflage.com/royal_navy3.htm half way down, also an illustration in John Lambert and Les Brown's Shipcraft Flower class book. Cool eh?

Presumably 'true pink' is the kind of shade some Spitfires were painted in?

Mike

mike mccabe wrote:Also the primrose yellow flower class corvettes just for something different

Mike

mike mccabe wrote:Here is my model of HMS Broadway in Plymouth Pink, intended for camouflage at dusk and dawn

http://www.finewaterline.com/pages/gall ... oadway.htm

Mike

Some months ago I recall signing off on a discussion that had again brought up the possibility of Haguro being painted pink at the time of her demise, and some other points, one re HIJMS Kamikaze, and I said I would check with survivors from both ships and try and get a definitive answer. Well, it has taken some time � I bet you thought I forgot, or worse, just blowing smoke - as had to go through another friend involved with the survivors and have him translate the detailed questions first.

The following answers come from the head of Haguro Survivors Association, who was on Haguro when she sank, and the head of Kamikaze Survivors Association, who was on Kamikaze that fateful night also. (They also checked with other survivors to confirm answers, hence the delay in the reply coming back.)

The questions posed - abbreviated here- were basically;

Question) Was Haguro painted camouflage color like Myoko?

Answer) NO

Question) Was she painted pink or a variation thereof on her final sortie in Malacca Strait?

Answer) NO, SHE WAS GREY.

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Walker, however, had detached a five-destroyer force for such an eventuality, and the Venus, Verulam, Virago, Vigilant, and Saumarez made radar contact at 2300. Using an often-practiced (but seldom-used) "star" destroyer attack formation, they attacked the Haguro, fought a close-range battle, and sent the pink-painted cruiser down at 0150, 45 miles southwest of Panang.