Olympic became a troop ship during WW1 and was repainted in dazzle. She shows some of the techniques used by dazzle designers. Bold shapes at the bow and stern break up the form of the vessel.

This 'dazzle' strategy protected ships at sea, and gave artists a chance for their avant-garde visual language to serve a 'practical, useful purpose within the war'. In War Art with Eddie Redmayne ...

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 ...