The Dazzle camouflage strategy was adopted by other navies. The demonstrable effectiveness of the bold Dazzle camouflage was accepted by the Admiralty, even without practical visual assessment protocols for improving performance by modifying designs and colours. As an additional feature, the dazzle pattern usually included a false bow wave to make estimation of the ship's speed difficult. This became more important when submarine periscopes included similar rangefinders. Dazzle was intended to make that hard because clashing patterns looked abnormal even when the two halves were aligned. The operator adjusted the mechanism until two half-images of the target lined up in a complete picture. Rangefinders were based on the co-incidence principle with an optical mechanism, operated by a human to compute the range. An observer would find it difficult to know exactly whether the stern or the bow is in view and it would be equally difficult to estimate whether the observed vessel is moving towards or away from the observer's position. Its purpose was confusion rather than concealment.
The idea was to disrupt the visual rangefinders used for naval artillery. Credited to artist Norman Wilkinson, it consisted of a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other.Īt first glance Dazzle seems unlikely camouflage, drawing attention to the ship rather than hiding it, but this technique was developed after the Allied Navies were unable to develop effective means to disguise ships in all weathers.ĭazzle did not conceal the ship but made it difficult for the enemy to estimate its type, size, speed and heading. Dazzle camouflage, also known as Razzle Dazzle or Dazzle painting, was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships, extensively during World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II.
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