HMT Olympic in dazzle camouflage after service as a troopship during World War I, 1919. Credit: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Pictures from History Wilkinson’s ...

A passenger ship in dazzle camouflage. © Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons During World War I, navies ...

Wilkinson’s Dazzle Section developed hundreds of camouflage schemes, for large ships and small. Each side of a ship had a different pattern. One vessel was the enormous Olympic – sister ship ...

The effectiveness of the iconic dazzle camouflage used on British Royal Navy ships during the First World War could be “substantially overestimated”, according to a new study. Instead ...

To counter this threat, Britain turned to an unlikely tool: art. Bold, irregular geometric patterns — known as dazzle camouflage — were painted on ships to confuse enemy submariners.

The effectiveness of the iconic dazzle camouflage used on British Royal Navy ships during the First World War could be “substantially overestimated”, according to a new study. Instead, the research, ...