[Farmer John]

I listened to a programme recently about colours and the origins and names. The "heading" for one bit was Mountbatten Pink, described as a colour used in Naval camouflage initially but later perhaps for planes. The colour was stated to have come from a time when Mountbatten noticed that a Union Castle ship in convoy "disappeared" into the twilight before others did due to the hull colour, which he used for camouflage purposes himself (well, not his actual person, you understand).

The question then arises, where did the colour originally come from, and did it have a name before Mountbatten Pink?