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Originally Posted by Don Boose
Much progress on this beautiful ship, Mike!
Do you have any idea what color the ship would have been as depicted in the last image? Red lead? Gray primer? Unpainted steel?
Don
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Good Question Don. I can only speculate. I know the Red Lead was/is used on wooden hulls to help prevent corrosion by microbes. But I don't know if they used it when the navy went to steel. While building French ships, I discovered the green hulls were painted that way for the same reason. Could it be unpainted Steel? I don't think so, since there appears to be a thin white stripe marking the waterline, and there seem to be numbers painted down toward the keel just in front of the rudder attachments.
Mike