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Historic paint experts recover hundreds of fragments of its original paint, and have have disentangled 72 layers to discover how ship appeared.
Now thought as follows:
The hull was originally mostly black, with a lot of varnished timber above the water line. It was later partly repainted in an ochre shade, probably before Nelson took it over, but a much paler colour than the present vivid shade.
The orlop deck, was a pale creamy stone colour. The surgeon's cabin and the other small cabins on that deck were a surprisingly grand two shades of blue – good quality paint, compared to the cheap limewash and poor quality oil paint used in much of the ship.
The spaces now shown as Nelson's admiral's cabin, and the captain's cabin of Thomas Hardy are entirely comparatively modern reconstructions, but the experts are convinced from contemporary sources that they would have been much plainer, and probably painted a light blue.
The upper decks are almost entirely reconstructions, but on the lower decks they discovered mainly original timber and hundreds of patches of original paint, dating all the way back to the very first paint scheme in 1765.
http://www.theguardian.c...admiral-nelson-flgaship
http://www.dailymail.co....one-hideous-orange.html
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Very interesting. I think she would look good in black and natural wood “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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