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Worktroll:
Okay, folks, post your colour images/details here!

Now all the following images come from:
The Illustrated Guide to Cruisers
Bernard Ireland
Published by Hermes House, an imprint of Anness Publishing Ltd, 2008

Thanks, Bernard - it's a ripper source!

(Apologies - my flatbed scanner seems to have committed suicide, so these are photos taken, at an angle to stop the flash glare obscuring all the image)

First up, Her Majesty's Royal Navy


HMS Good Hope, commissioned 1901


HMS Kent, commissioned 1903


HMS King Edward VII, also 1903

As paintings, they're probably very reliable colour sources. The red underwater, white waterline stripe, black hull, white upperworks and buff funnels are very consistent. But then I get this:


HMS Medea, commissioned 1889. As a colourised postcard or photograph one has to be suspicious, but this older ship appears to have either a white or light grey hull, with black bridge and funnels. Also notice the massive gold scrollworks surrounding the ship's crest on the bow. Anyone out there able to shed some light on this?

Worktroll:
The Americans get their fair share of face-time too ...


USS Atlanta, commissioned 1886.


USS Maine (the name rings a bell for some reason), commissioned 1889.


USS Montgomery, commissioned 1894


USS San Diego, commissioned 1901


USS Tennessee, commissioned 1906

More or less constants are: white hull, white turrets, buff upperworks, lots of gold scrollwork around the bow crest. The Montgomery appears to have dark grey or black upperworks and funnels, but it's a colourised photo, and potentially suspect. The Maine also shows a buff underwater hull; of the others, only the Tennessee seems to hint at a grey underwater hull. Who can shed more light on this? Is it a Pacific/Atlantic fleet thing?

Tonbo Karasu:

--- Quote from: Worktroll on February 20, 2010, 04:35:27 AM ---HMS Medea, commissioned 1889. As a colourised postcard or photograph one has to be suspicious, but this older ship appears to have either a white or light grey hull, with black bridge and funnels. Also notice the massive gold scrollworks surrounding the ship's crest on the bow. Anyone out there able to shed some light on this?

--- End quote ---

A quick look at HMS Medea in Wikipedea gets a link to the Marathon-class page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_class_cruiser), which has a chromolithograph of a sister ship, with a white hull, red or buff below the water and buff funnels and masts.  Oh, yes.  And that gold scrollwork.  Maybe an older colourscheme, or one restricted to lower-rate ships?

Tonbo Karasu:
Would you believe, I've found the colourscheme of a Peruvian Ironclad.  Latter quarter of 19th Century, so a bit earlier than ideal, but it gives ideas.



The painting is by a Peruvian artist, Saldivar, and the original is in the Naval Museum of Peru.

Found here: http://members.multimania.co.uk/Juan39/PERUVIAN_MARITIME_CAMPAIGNS.html, which has so much more.

Worktroll:
Excellent! Just the sort of thing I was hoping to see.

More from "Cruisers" in a few hours as I wrestle with the scanner.

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