Hull paint

[Cam Houseman]

Thanks, Bob. Here is a colourised and extended version of that picture. If the colours are true, it shows the colour of the anti fouling paint.
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Cool picture Jim!

 

[Simple]

Cool picture Jim!

Someone over Facebook dmed me this. It's a good read i think.

 

[Cam Houseman]

Why are we even talking about fake colors when there are real ones which can be examined?

You have real, colorized pictures of the Olympic? Or is it the photo of Titanic's rose colored paint still on the bilge keel?

 

[Cam Houseman]

Someone over Facebook dmed me this. It's a good read i think.

Excellent read, Simple! So it's a misconception that her paint can be pinkish?

 

[Simple]

Excellent read, Simple! So it's a misconception that her paint can be pinkish?

Though i myself am no expert on this topic, i find it to be at least auite a decent article and i myself believe it holds it's own quite well. This guy on facebook claims that it's been looked into heavily.

 

[Bob Read]

Beware of articles where the author doesn’t put his name on it.

 

[Cam Houseman]

Though i myself am no expert on this topic, i find it to be at least auite a decent article and i myself believe it holds it's own quite well. This guy on facebook claims that it's been looked into heavily.

wow that guy is pretty smart. Where did the color photographs of Olympic and Mauritania come from, and are they fakes?

 

[Steven Christian]

Here is a photo of Olympic's center propeller area. The light colored object is a zinc sacrificial anode plate applied to the sternpost. Above it is a smaller rectangular zinc plate. Additionally there were narrow zinc strips applied to the forward end of the rudder. What you really can't see clearly in this photo is that on the upper and lower surfaces of the center propeller aperture, a narrow zinc strip was applied. This was the extent of the sacrificial zinc anodes which were applied.
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Good detail. That technology was used in a lot of different applications. At least some variation of it.

 

[Mike Bull2019]

I know you said colored photographs are unreliable, but these are the only things we have to show the color of her paint. I am not saying these are definitely right.

Cam- these are NOT 'the only things we have' because they are NOT REAL COLOURS! Probably we're just arguing over your phrasing here and what you meant to say is, 'Are these made up colours deemed to be anywhere close to reality?' Hopefully you can see why people get annoyed at this though; it is as valid as me scribbling over a B&W photo with a red crayon!

 

[Cam Houseman]

oh yes, what you said is what I meant. So sorry! sorry Bob for starting an argument when I didn't phrase it right