Landships II

Ned · General

Mk V star marking ?

Gwyn Evans · Legend

Blue/white/red was used by the American Army.

Gwyn

Ned · General

Gwyn, so this is a post war picture. From my understanding during WW-1 the U.S. 301st. used the British white-red-white markings.

Does this picture look familiar to you ? I can't find another one of this tank to be able to see what the serial number on it is.

thanks for the reply.

Ned · General

I was able to do a reverse image search and the picture shows up on a russian tank web site.. it says

"American tankmen "master" the English heavy tank Mk V *. Bovington, spring of 1918."

They must have changed the marking when they shipped over to France.

Gwyn Evans · Legend

I wouldn't rule it out being a post-war photo whatever this website says. It does not look like a picture taken at Bovington.

Three Mark V* Females were shipped to the USA from Liverpool in September 1918, numbers 9907, 9911 and 9914. I'd suggest the tank in the photo is one of these. What can be seen of the number looks like 9914 to me.

Gwyn

MooreTanks · Lieutenant-Colonel

9907 in America with Blue White and Red Horns

MooreTanks · Lieutenant-Colonel

9911

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MooreTanks · Lieutenant-Colonel

9914

Ned · General

Thank you for the pictures Moore, I hadn't seen those before. Now my question is what color where the tanks ?

From the dark color on the pictures, i guess they can be considered "green" ???..

They seem to dark to be that khaki-brown.. like in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KsU3ffw2D4

CharlieC · Legend

Ned wrote:

From the dark color on the pictures, i guess they can be considered "green" ???..

Just because Asian plastic model manufacturers think that British WW1 heavy tanks were green does not mean you have to fall

into the same error. The wolves which get released on this forum when the inaccurate form of designation for the Renault light tank is used should,

perhaps, be released at the heresy of green rhomboid tanks during WW1.

Charlie

Ned · General

So Charlie, what you're saying is that the pictures that show the Mk V* here are really a "brown'ish" color.. correct ?

CharlieC · Legend

If the image can be shown to have a WW1 provenance then ... probably was brown.

Charlie

Ned · General

Makes sense, thanks Charlie

Gwyn Evans · Legend

Ned wrote:
I was able to do a reverse image search and the picture shows up on a russian tank web site.. it says
"American tankmen "master" the English heavy tank Mk V *. Bovington, spring of 1918."
They must have changed the marking when they shipped over to France.

Just realised what should have been obvious to me. There were no Mark V* in the Spring of 1918. First deliveries of this type took place in June 1918. So the website is clearly wrong.
Gwyn

Ned · General

Gwyn, then that picture could be a post war tank. Since all the pictures I saw of a V* had the British white-red-white markings, even the YouTube video shows a 301st tank with those British markings.