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A photo from Charleston Navy Yard NPS Park photo collection. TONAPAH served as a Submarine Tender at Boston Navy Yard during WWI.

I can see how "happy" the crew would be in maintaining this scheme. They painted the anchor too.

No wonder sailors used to drink so much...

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Tracy White -Researcher@Large

"Let the evidence guide the research. Do not have a preconceived agenda which will only distort the result."
-Barbara Tuchman

I wonder how long it took them to realize that all of those pretty diamonds all blended together at distance and didn't really hide anything. You gotta love early warship camo. Some wacky designs indeed.

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Drawing Board:
1/700 Whiff USS Leyte and escorts 1984
1/700 Whiff USN Modernized CAs 1984
1/700 Whiff ASW Showdown - FFs vs SSGN 1984

Slipway:
1/700 Whiff USN ASW Hunter Killer Group Dio 1984

I have a Reynolds "History of the USN" Published in 1919 and there are photos taken of TONAPAH in 1918-19 and she was in a solid "war" grey. So, this scheme didn't last long.