by tjstoneman » Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:51 am
According to Christopher Langtree The Kelly's (London: Chatham Publishing, 2002), JERVIS wore a two-colour disruptive pattern of AP507A (dark grey) and AP507C (light grey), from July 1940 until December (?) 1941, with a black stern section from September (?) 1940. She then wore the dark grey hull/light grey superstructure, with black bow and stern, until late 1942, after which the black sections were painted out. As a flotilla leader, she would have worn a broad black stripe at the top of her funnel, and, according to Alan Raven Camouflage Vol One: Royal Navy 1939-41 (New York: WR Press, 2000) she wore a single, narrower, blue band below that; there is a drawing of the camouflage pattern in that publication.
I've seen no evidence that she ever wore the pattern shown in the paintings, which resembles that worn by several ships of the "A" to "H" classes. The two white bands shown on the funnel were the markings of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla - JERVIS was flotilla leader of the 14th Destroyer Flotilla through the whole of 1942, so would have been unlikely to wear white bands.
I'd also suggest altering the after section, where there appear to be two gun mountings facing aft, and two gun barrels ahead of the mainmast. Jervis had one twin 4.7" mounting in "X" position on the after gundeck, and a single 4" HA mounting replacing the after set of torpedo tubes.
According to Christopher Langtree [i]The Kelly's[/i] (London: Chatham Publishing, 2002), JERVIS wore a two-colour disruptive pattern of AP507A (dark grey) and AP507C (light grey), from July 1940 until December (?) 1941, with a black stern section from September (?) 1940. She then wore the dark grey hull/light grey superstructure, with black bow and stern, until late 1942, after which the black sections were painted out. As a flotilla leader, she would have worn a broad black stripe at the top of her funnel, and, according to Alan Raven [i]Camouflage Vol One: Royal Navy 1939-41[/i] (New York: WR Press, 2000) she wore a single, narrower, blue band below that; there is a drawing of the camouflage pattern in that publication.
I've seen no evidence that she ever wore the pattern shown in the paintings, which resembles that worn by several ships of the "A" to "H" classes. The two white bands shown on the funnel were the markings of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla - JERVIS was flotilla leader of the 14th Destroyer Flotilla through the whole of 1942, so would have been unlikely to wear white bands.
I'd also suggest altering the after section, where there appear to be two gun mountings facing aft, and two gun barrels ahead of the mainmast. Jervis had one twin 4.7" mounting in "X" position on the after gundeck, and a single 4" HA mounting replacing the after set of torpedo tubes.