Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ction of troop-ships and cargocarriers against su])niarines. Owing to the position of aperiscope, in UK^st instances witliin a few feet or even incliesof sea-level, a fiuther limitation was fixed in that a vessel 40 endangered by a submarine was observed not against a back-ground of water, or even, as a rule, against a combination ofwater and sky, but ratber as looming wbolly above tbehorizon and against the pitiless sky, unless, indeed, it wereat such long range that a foreground of water hid a portionof its hull. From the point of view of the camoufleui, tlicprobl
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ction of troop-ships and cargocarriers against su])niarines. Owing to the position of aperiscope, in UK^st instances witliin a few feet or even incliesof sea-level, a fiuther limitation was fixed in that a vessel 40 endangered by a submarine was observed not against a back-ground of water, or even, as a rule, against a combination ofwater and sky, but ratber as looming wbolly above tbehorizon and against the pitiless sky, unless, indeed, it wereat such long range that a foreground of water hid a portionof its hull. From the point of view of the camoufleui, tlicproblem could not have been more clear and unified, or moredifficult of solution. The reason that camouflaged ships began so suddenlyto dot the seas and fill our ports, to the wonder of wide-eyedlandsmen, is that on October 1, 1917, the Bureau of Warllisk Insurance, recognizing the probable efficacy of protec-tive painting, imposed a penalty of one-half of one per cent,increase in premium upon all uncamouflaged merchant ^?^ ^f. -l^ Courfesr of Sea Power The Minnesota is here camouflaged with an American low-visi-bility pattern, the intention being that the red, green, and violetpatches will blend at a distance and produce a neutral tone. 41
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