dazzle

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

"NEWSPAPER WRITERS SAIL.; Transport Orizaba Starts with Big Delegation for Peace Conference. The American transport Orizaba, commanded by Captain Freeman, U.S.N., sailed from Pier 5, Hoboken, at 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon for Brest with ninety-eight newspaper correspondents, photographers, and moving picture operators from all parts of the United States, and two army officers." New York Times, Dec. 2, 1918. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=950DEFD81239E13AB... Pier 5, Hoboken, NJ.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Orizaba_(ID-1536)

Thanks Art Siegel and B-59. I found this photo published in a Dec. 4, 1918 article in the Hartford Courant.

Believe that is known as 'Dazzle' painting on the liner being used as a troopship

This is a photo of RMS Olympic (HMT Olympic), sister-ship of the ill-fated Titanic and Brittanic, in the dazzle camouflage scheme she wore during the First World War.