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NH 79365-KN "Low Visibility-Deception" System for Southern Latitudes

Photo #: NH 79365-KN "Low Visibility-Deception" System for Southern Latitudes
Title: "Low Visibility-Deception" System for Southern Latitudes
Description: Low Visibility-Deception System for Southern Latitudes Contemporary drawing of a camouflage system devised in 1917-1918 by the Submarine Defense Association for use on vessels operating in the Atlantic Ocean below Latitude 45 North, where the average weather is less cloudy than further north. It was intended to produce confusion in determining a ship's course, speed and distance at ranges below 5000 yards, low visibility at greater ranges, and blurring of the bow, stern and upper superstructure at ranges of less than 1000 yards. A description of this camouflage system is on pages 51-53 of The Science of Low Visibility and Deception as an Aid to the Defense of Vessels Against Attack by Submarines, by Lindell T. Bates. Published by the Submarine Defense Association, New York City, 1918. In 1974 the original volume was in Record Group 45 at the U.S. National Archives. This drawing is Figure 32 of that publication. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 79365-KN
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