HMS Tamar with her new dazzle paint scheme in the water in Falmouth. Royal Navy picture. Royal Navy OPV HMS Tamar Gets Dazzle Camouflage Ahead of Pacific Deployment New patrol ship HMS Tamar will head to the Asia-Pacific region with a ‘dazzle camouflage’ paint scheme – various shades of black, white and grey in strange or jarring shapes. Royal Navy press release The paint scheme, introduced by the Royal Navy towards the end of World War 1, was adopted by many of the world’s navies at the time – and repeated again between 1939 and 1945. The different shapes, angles and colours were intended to confuse submariners peering through periscopes, making it hard for them first to identify ships and confuse their calculations about the target’s speed and direction – hopefully causing a torpedo to miss.