Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
NUIT England is the largest country in the United Kingdom which is abbreviated UK and is also informally known as Britain The UK ran the British Empire which included people and territories all over the world And it was the UK's Royal Navy that made that empire possible The British Empire was one of the major participants in World War I which lasted from 1914 to 1918 and was known at the time as the Great War The British allied with among others Russia France Italy Serbia Romania and starting in 1917 the United States to fight mainly Germany Austria Hungary and empire the Ottoman
ONE OF THE SHIPS ON THIS PAGE IS PAINTED IN SNEAKY STRIPY CAMOUFLAGE You probably can't even see it hmmmmmmm Oh You can see it
That ship was an allied vessel used during World War I and it was camouflaged so strangely for a reason More than 1 200 US ships were decked out that way and so were more than twice as many ships in the British fleet The idea was to make these ships sink harder for German torpedoes to
were we thinking That's right Harder What Well as an old saying goes DESPERATE times CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES
