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I am currently reading a book about the Abdiel Class fast minesweepers, "Very Special Ships," by Arthur Nicholson.( Published in 2015.) There are illustrations of the many and varied camouflage schemes worn by these ships, and HMS Latona wore a scheme which featured two shades of "Mountbatten Pink" from May until the Autumn of 1941, when she was serving in the Med.
Most of the hull was a dark shade, the upper works were a lighter shade, and the funnels were mostly white. None of the other vessels in the class appeared to have used this colour scheme. There is no mention of how this colour was named, and it appears to have no Admiralty "shade number" to identify it. Could it have been purely an experiment?
In late 1941, this scheme was replaced by a two tone Admiralty grey camouflage pattern.
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