Ship Painters Must Read

[jmv575]

While searching the internet for images of Napoleonic Spanish Naval Officer's uniforms I found this great site explaining the way Napoleonic Naval Ships were painted.

<a href="http://my.erinet.com/~bp/pt_napnv.html" target="_blank">http://my.erinet.com/~bp/pt_napnv.html</a>

Here is the crucial information:

<b>National Ship Colors</b>
<u>Nation Hull Stripe </u>
Britain black yellow
French black white
Spain black red
U. S. A. black white or red
Russia green white
Denmark red blue
Denmark black red
Holland black orange
Ottoman ochre black


Have fun!
JMV

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" /> VERY interesting, JMV, thanks! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[AdmiralKoch]

thanks... I will try to make some British and french ships <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pirate2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="pirate2.gif" />