An online database of camouflage used by 
United State Naval Warships during WWII

Table of Paints used by the USN During WWII
(from: Instructions for Painting and Cementing Vessels of the United States Navy 1943)

Formula 
Designation		 Name of Paint Navy Dept.
Specification		 Purpose
5-B Thayer Blue 52P47 Light Blue Paint for Camouflage
5-H Haze Gray 52P45 Light Blue-Gray Paint for Camouflage
5-GTM Green Tinting Material 52P50 Green Tinting Material for mixing with white base 5-U
to obtain Navy Green, Haze Green, and Ocean Green
5-HG Haze Green 52P55 Light Green Paint for Camouflage
5-L Light Gray 52P52 Lighter Blue-Gray Paint for Camouflage
5-N Navy Blue 52P44 Dark Blue-Gray Paint for Camouflage
5-NG Navy Green 52P57 Dark Green Paint for Camouflage
5-O Ocean Gray 52P46 Medium Blue-Gray Paint for Camouflage
5-OG Ocean Green 52P56 Medium Shade of Green Paint for Camouflage
5-P Pale Blue-Gray 52P51 Lightest Blue-Gray Paint for Camouflage
5-BTM Tinting Material 52P49 Blue Tinting Material for mixing with White Base 5-U
to obtain Navy Blue, Ocean Gray, and Haze Gray.
5-TM Tinting Material 52P42 Blue-Black Tinting Material for mixing with White Base 5-U to obtain Navy Blue, Ocean Gray, and Haze Gray.
5-U White Base for 
Camouflage Paint		 52P25 White Base for mixing with 5-TM to obtain the 25
Camouflage Shades described in Ships-2
6 Outside White 52P28 Glossy White paint for exterior Topsides
12 Hospital Ship Green 52P32 Green for striping exterior of Hospital Ships; for 
starboard light boxes; for flag officer's motor launch 
exteriors.
13 Dull Black   Submarine exteriors above the waterline; a suitable
Flat Black finish for other exterior surfaces.
14 (Formally 
Mare Island 42A)		 Anticorrosive Shipbottom   Undercoat for hot and cold plastic antifouling paints.
14-D (Formally 
Mare Island 42-D)		 Anticorrosive Shipbottom   Dark Undercoat for cold plastic antifouling paint on Submarines.
15HP (Formally 
Mare Island 142C)		 Hot Plastic antifouling
Shipbottom		   Antifouling Coating.
16 Copper Bottom for 
Wood Vessels		   Antifouling for Wood Hulls.
  Antifouling paint for
High-Speed Wood Vessels		 52P20 Antifouling paint where high abrasive and frictional 
forces are encountered.
19 Dark Green Deck   Dark Green for interior steel decks in officers quarters.
20-B Weather Deck 52P43 Dark Blue-Gray paint for steel and wood weather
decks except Aircraft Carrier flight decks.
20-G Deck Green 52P58 Dark Green paint for Camouflage.
20-L Light Gray Deck   Light Gray paint for interior steel decks.
20-U White Deck Paint 52P48 Coating on decks of washrooms and other wet spaces.
21 Flight Deck Stain   Blue-Gray stain for wood flight deck on Aircraft Carriers. (CV's, CVL's, and CVE's)
22 Flight Deck Marking   Light Blue-Gray (contrast with F-21) for marking flight decks.
23 Red Deck 52P23 Dark Red paint for interior steel decks.
24 Black Deck 52P27 Glossy Black paint for exteriors; motorboat hulls.
27 Inside White 52P22 Flat Fire-retardant white for bulkheads, overheads, and decks of magazines.
27-L Inside Light Gray   Light Gray finish for interior bulkheads and overheads.
28 Acid-Resisting Black   Black coating for acid storage spaces, and other areas where corrosive fumes are present.
30 White Enamel 52P21 High Gloss acid resisting white finish for interior bulkheads.
30-L Gray Enamel 52PE4 Finish coat on Machinery.
31 Inside Semi-Flat Green 52P33 Flat Pale Green finish for  stations; undercoat for Green enamel.
38 Black Striping 52P36 Gas Cylinder marking and other identification where a Black is desired.
39 Green Striping 52P37 Gas Cylinder marking and other identification where a Green is desired.
40 Red Striping 52P31 Gas Cylinder marking and other identification where a Red is desired.
41 Brown Striping 52P38 Gas Cylinder marking and other identification where a Brown is desired.
42 Yellow Striping 52P30 Gas Cylinder marking and other identification where a Yellow is desired.
43 Blue Striping 52P39 Gas Cylinder marking and other identification where a Blue is desired.
45 Anchor Chain Black 52V1 For anchor chains in service.
49 Cherry Stain 52S7 For wood prior to varnishing.
50 Mahogany Stain 52S7 For wood prior to varnishing.
51 Dark Oak Stain 52S7 For wood prior to varnishing.
52 Light Oak Stain 52S7 For wood prior to varnishing.
54 Walnut Stain 52S7 For wood prior to varnishing.
  Liquid Wax P-W-141 For Aluminum lockers and surfaces where the maintenance of a naturally bright metallic surface is desired.
62 Light Gray Smoothing Cement 52C25 For smoothing-out irregularity in steel surfaces such as on armor.
63 Oil and Water Stop   On surfaces where a viscous liquid can be handled.
64 Oil and Water Stop   On surfaces where a caulking paste can be handled.
65 Oil Stop Compound   On surfaces where a heavy caulking paste can be handled.
65-5 Series Norfolk cold plastic
Antifouling Shipbottom		   Antifouling coating for surface vessels.
67 Slate color Putty   As a seam filler where a Gray color is desired on Boat seams.
68 Red Putty   Pipe joint compound.
69 White Putty   As a seam filler where a White color is desired on Boat seams.
80 Phenolic Varnish 52V12 As a clear coating on faying surfaces aluminum and wood; as a general-purpose spar varnish.
84 Zinc-Chromate 52P18 After Pickling and interior primer.
84-D Dark Zinc-Chromate   Dark Green primer for exteriors.
84-G Green Zinc-Chromate Primer   For identifying types of steel at the pickling tank.
84-R Red Zinc-Chromate Primer   For identifying types of steel at the pickling tank.
89 White Plastic Compound   Submarine main ballast tanks.
90 Black Plastic Compound   Inaccessible area in submarine superstructures, and as an undercoat for antifouling boot-topping paint.
91 Plastic composition for potable water tanks   Coating for drinking water tanks where the temperature is not to exceed 150 degrees F.
92 Gilsonite paint 52P41 Coating for drinking water tanks.
93 Phenolic Varnish ingredient 52V17 As a baked coating for drinking water tanks; as the phenolic portion of the vehicle in Zinc-Chromate primer.
94 Chlorinated Rubber Lacquer   Coating for rubber sound projector domes.
143 Series Mare Island cold plastic antifouling shipbottom   Antifouling coating for Surface Vessels.
145 Series   Antifouling coating for Submarines.
146 Series   Antifouling coating for Waterlines of Submarines.