huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 A friend found these photos in her father's papers after he died some years ago. I have no idea what ships they are but I thought that you may like to see them Moderators please move if posted in wrong place.Thanks. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 These are great! If I'm not mistaken the liner is the Queen Mary - the grey ghost. The colour scheme on that County class cruiser (I think?) is dates this to 1944/45 as its wearing "scheme A" of G45 with B20 panel on the hull - which hitherto this time period wasn't used. What's interesting is that 3 of those escort carriers are wearing different disruptive schemes so they may be identifiable which together with the cruiser means the convoy number and exact date could be determined. Or vice-versa if there happen to be any writings on the back? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 I just 'googled' the Queens and see that both RMS Queen Mary and Elizabeth are there. Are there three or four escort carriers in photo 3 (and its crop in 2)? Jamie,I won't even try to claim that I understand what you just wrote! Richard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 I see 4 carriers there. The cruiser (towards the left with 3 funnels, the middle one a bit fatter than the fore and aft) is overall light grey with a medium blue rectangle on the side of the hull. That became the "Standard Scheme A" which came into use from mid 1944 but by the end of 1944 most ships were painted thus. There was a Scheme B, similar but with much lighter colours (B55 and B30) used in winter or in the Mediterranean. Scheme A was for use on all stations or other circumstances. So by virtue of that single ship being light coloured with a darker rectangle on the hull, we know this is mid 1944 or later. Possibly not much later though given the carriers in disruptive pattern camouflage... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 The QE and QM didn't travel in convoys but relied upon their speed, so that is unlikely to be helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Graham Boak said: The QE and QM didn't travel in convoys In photo 1 she is going up the Clyde. I have just noticed that she is underway in photo 4 so I have edited the tag to delete convoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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