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This is a photo of the unprotected cruiser USS Anniston (C-9) (ex- USS Montgomery) wearing a unique form a dazzle camouflage designed by the Chief Painter of the Norfolk Naval Yard, Frank Morris Watson, Jr. ("F.M. Watson") . The camouflage has been referred to as the "Watson-Norfolk Camouflage Scheme" and "Watson System Camouflage," and was only applied to two ships on an experimental basis, the photographed (and aforementioned) Anniston and Virginia-class battleship USS Nebraska (BB-14). USS Anniston featured a series of semi-circular rainbow-patterns on her starboard side and intersecting angular patterns on the port side. For more on F.M. Watson and USS Anniston, see: camoupedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/watson-norfolk-camouflage... camoupedia.blogspot.com/2018/03/camoufleur-fm-watson-has-... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Montgomery_(C-9) www.navsource.org/archives/04/c9/c9.htm

Typo -- caption says "I H P", not "1". IHP I think stands for "indicated horsepower."

HMS Leviathan was a 14,100-ton Drake-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy, and the third ship to bear the name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Leviathan_(1901) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/91829349@N00] correct: Indicated Horsepower refers to the power exerted in the cylinder of an engine, stated in horse powers, estimated from the diameter and speed of the piston, and the mean effective pressure upon it as shown by an indicator. the actual power output may only be 70% to 90% of the indicated horsepower For this ship it translated to 2 screws, speed 23 kn (26 mph; 43 km/h)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_(BB-5)

Earlier (1903) picture at

and for more pictures, see www.navy.mil/gwf/battleships/bb-5.htm
and
www.navsource.org/archives/01/05a.htm
www.navsource.org/archives/01/05b.htm
www.navsource.org/archives/01/05c.htm
www.navsource.org/archives/01/05d.htm