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Diffused lighting camouflage was a form of active camouflage using counter-illumination to enable a ship to match its background, the night sky, that was tested by the Royal Canadian Navy on corvettes during World War II.
During the experiments, one side of the test ship was faintly illuminated by projectors mounted outboard. Results were improved with the use of blue-green filters, and then with a photocell to measure the brightness of the night sky. The ship's visibility was reduced, but the technology was inconvenient and never adopted in practice. [35] [48]
Ships in Harbour, Evening (German - Schiffe im Hafen am Abend) is an 1828 oil on canvas painting by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich, now in the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden. [ 1 ] See also
Dazzle ships had been attacked in 1.47% of sailings, compared to 1.12% for uncamouflaged ships, suggesting increased visibility, but as Wilkinson had argued, dazzle was not attempting to make ships hard to see. Suggestively, of the ships that were struck by torpedoes, 43% of the dazzle ships sank, compared to 54% of the uncamouflaged. [8] [33]
Montague Dawson was the son of a keen yachtsman and the grandson of the marine painter Henry Dawson (1811-1878), and was born in Chiswick, London.Much of his childhood was spent on Southampton Water where he was able to indulge his interest in the study of ships.
Ships and boats have been included in art from almost the earliest times, but marine art only began to become a distinct genre, with specialized artists, towards the end of the Middle Ages, mostly in the form of the "ship portrait" a type of work that is still popular and concentrates on depicting a single vessel.
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Ships in a Storm on a Rocky Coast by Jan Porcellis. Oil on canvas, 1614-1618, Hallwyl Museum. Jan Porcellis was born at Ghent, around 1580 or 1584. [2] Though his birth date can't be exactly determined, it can't be after 1584, since in that year his parents joined Protestants fleeing from Ghent, a city that had recently captured by Spaniards from the Northern Netherlands for a second time.