Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . An American submarine camouflaged by IVIr. W. A. Mackay in 1913, beforethe beginning of the European War. Green and blue stripes are separated bywhite stripes along the whole freeboard. 39. Courtesy of Sea Power A submarine chaser in American low visibility camouflage. Mostoi our larger fighting craft were painted only in a concealing mon-ochrome, though many of the destroyers were given a brilliantdazzle. bellies forming a perfect .scheme of comitershadiiig, arehardly less obliteratively colored than such notorious, bottom-living fishes as the Hounders. ]Mr. H. B.
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . An American submarine camouflaged by IVIr. W. A. Mackay in 1913, beforethe beginning of the European War. Green and blue stripes are separated bywhite stripes along the whole freeboard. 39. Courtesy of Sea Power A submarine chaser in American low visibility camouflage. Mostoi our larger fighting craft were painted only in a concealing mon-ochrome, though many of the destroyers were given a brilliantdazzle. bellies forming a perfect .scheme of comitershadiiig, arehardly less obliteratively colored than such notorious, bottom-living fishes as the Hounders. ]Mr. H. B. Tschudy, an aitistand my colleague in the Brooklyn ^Museum, has collaboratedwith naval camoutleurs in a series of tests on a miniaturescale in which painted models of submarines were sub-merged in seawater of varying color and clarity, but uni-formly illuminated from the sky, in the tanks of the XcavYork Aquarium. His conclusions from tliese tests ^\erethat a submersible craft, white beneath, ])earing a mackerel-like pattern upon its upper surface, and countershaded byskilfid blending on the flanks, might attain, when well belowthe surface, a close approach to invisibility to an aerial these allusion
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