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Mountbatten Pink Color 615 - #997A8D

Mountbatten Pink, also called Plymouth Pink, is a naval camouflage color, a shade of grayish mauve, invented by Louis Mountbatten of the British Royal Navy in autumn 1940 during World War II.

Mountbatten was escorting a convoy and noted that one ship in the group vanished from view much earlier than the remainder, a Union Castle liner that was still painted in its pre-war medium lavender mauve grey hull color. Mountbatten became so convinced of its efficacy as a camouflage during the dawn and dusk periods, before the sun was visible but was near enough to the horizon to tint the sky this shade of pink, that he had all of the destroyers of his flotilla (the 5th Destroyer Flotilla) painted with a similar pigment, a medium grey (507B) with a small amount of Venetian Red mixed in. By early 1941, several other ship captains began using the same camouflage, though no formal testing was done to determine how well it worked.