Government Colors in Hex for Internet Web Sites
Battleship Grey Color

Battleship Grey - #848482

The color battleship gray is displayed at right. It is so called because the color is the drab shade of gray used for battleship camouflage. It is also the color British Railways location cases are painted, after buying the excess paint from the Royal Navy following World War II.

A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of heavy caliber guns. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the battleship was the most powerful type of warship, and a fleet of battleships was vital for any nation which desired to maintain command of the sea. During World War II, aircraft carriers overtook battleships in power. Some battleships remained in service during the Cold War and the last were decommissioned in the 1990s.

The word battleship was coined around 1794 and is a contraction of the phrase line-of-battle ship, the dominant wooden warship during the Age of Sail. The term came into formal use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ironclad warship, now referred to by historians as pre-dreadnought battleships.