The Dazzle Ship.

The NLV Fingal leaves the breakwater at Western Harbour to head up the Firth of Forth to South Queensferry, where she will participate in the centenary commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of Jutland.

Dazzle camouflage was developed by marine artist and naval reservist Norman Wilkinson from the ideas of zoologist John Graham Kerr and artist Abbot Handersen Thayer as a way to confuse enemy ships at sea, to confound observers at long range at sea and make firing solutions and course changes uncertain for a successful attack.  It was widely used in the Great War by both the Royal and United States Navies.

The Battle of Jutland was fought by the battleships of the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine off the western coast of Denmark between the 31st of May and the 1st of June 1916, ending in what was ultimately a strategic victory for Britain despite the larger loss of men and materiel in what was the largest naval encounter of the war.

The Fingal, formally a Northern Lighthouse Board tender built along the Clyde in 1963, was painted in this contemporary interpretation - entitled 'Every Woman' by artist Ciara Phillips - as a co-commission of both 14-18Now and Edinburgh Art Festival 2016, and is usually berthed alongside the Prince of Wales Dock in Leith.