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29th March 2013, 08:25 AM
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This is how she was as a tugTME - REBOC INCOMATI.JPG
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9th January 2014, 03:36 PM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
After reading the full contents of this posting,I believe I have just read a quiz .
If that is the case should this post be moved to the quiz section.
Your thoughts please.
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10th January 2014, 07:00 PM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
I was told the correct name for the lavendar colour was Heliotrope. Don't know if that is correct.
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10th January 2014, 07:49 PM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
Originally Posted by
Mike Hall
After reading the full contents of this posting,I believe I have just read a quiz .
If that is the case should this post be moved to the quiz section.
Your thoughts please.
Bit late now!
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10th January 2014, 07:51 PM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
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Colin Hawken
I was told the correct name for the lavendar colour was Heliotrope. Don't know if that is correct.
Never heard it called that.
We referred to it as lavender grey or I have heard it called London Grey.
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10th January 2014, 08:09 PM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
The colour was " London Grey "
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26th November 2022, 10:47 PM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
ulundi tug
still there in durbanulundi.jpg
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27th November 2022, 12:16 AM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
This will solve the Colour discussion Lads!
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In 1940, while escorting a convoy, Lord Mountbatten noted that one ship in the group vanished from view much earlier than the remainder. The ship, a Union-Castle liner, was painted lavender mauve grey. Mountbatten thus became convinced of the colour's effectiveness as a camouflage during dawn and dusk, often dangerous times for ships, and had all of the destroyers of his flotilla painted with a similar pigment, which he created by mixing a medium grey with a small amount of Venetian red. By early 1941, several other ships began using the same camouflage, though no formal testing was done to determine how well it worked.
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21st February 2023, 10:35 PM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
ulundi.jpg the ulundi was part of the sar @h harbour tugs - she forms art of the natal maritime musuem with jr more tug and sas durban
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22nd February 2023, 02:33 AM
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Re: Union Castle Ship Still in Existance ~ solved by Vic McClymont
Just of interest i see there was another by that name .
Lost to U Boat though!
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Below a Pic of the Incomati ( The one that was with UCL for a spell)
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