This page provides pictorial information on camouflage types used on four-stack Caldwell Class destroyers during the First World War.
NOTE: This page represents a
"work in progress", in which the individual components
will be several years in preparation.
For presentations of Measure 31-32-33 design schemes listed by design designator, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Click on the small picture to access the Picture Data Sheet for each image. A larger reproduction of that drawing or photograph can be accessed by clicking the small picture in each Picture Data Sheet.
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USS Caldwell (Destroyer # 69) Probable Camouflage Type: Mackay Low Visibility, 1917-1918. Note: Other starboard side views of this camouflage scheme can be seen in the Online Library page for this ship |
![]() Taken 14 December 1917 |
![]() Taken 27 February 1918 |
USS Caldwell (Destroyer # 69) Probable Camouflage Type: "Dazzle" Pattern Camouflage, 1918. |
![]() Taken 1918 |
![]() Taken 1918 |
USS Caldwell (Destroyer # 69) Probable Camouflage Type: Modified version of that presented immediately above, 1918. |
![]() Taken 1918 |
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POSSIBLY USS Caldwell (Destroyer # 69) Probable Camouflage Type: Possibly the same as that presented immediately above, 1918. |
![]() Taken in late 1918 |
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USS Craven (Destroyer # 70) Probable Camouflage Type: "Dazzle" Pattern Camouflage, 1918. Note: Other port side views of this camouflage scheme can be seen in the Online Library page for this ship |
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![]() Taken 1 November 1918 |
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USS Manley (Destroyer # 74) Probable Camouflage Type: "Dazzle" Pattern Camouflage, 1917-1918. |
![]() Taken prior to 19 March 1918 |
![]() Taken prior to 19 March 1918 |
For more details on these camouflage designs, and listings
of the DD-692 (Allen M. Sumner) and DD-710 (Gearing)
class destroyers which wore them, see:
For information and images related to Camouflage Measure 31-32-33 designs used on other ship types and classes, see:
NOTES:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page IN WORK 24 October 2010