Colors edit

Typical color combinations
MS-31 MS-31a MS-32 MS-33 MS-33a Horizontals
Haze Gray 5-H Haze Gray 5-H Light Gray 5-L Light Gray 5-L Pale Gray 5-P Pale Gray 5-P Light Gray 5-L Ocean Gray 5-O
Ocean Gray 5-O Ocean Gray 5-O Dull Black 82 Ocean Gray 5-O Haze Gray 5-H Haze Gray 5-H Ocean Gray 5-O Deck Blue 20-B
Dull Black 82 Navy Blue 5-N Dull Black 82 Navy Blue 5-N Ocean Gray 5-O

Destroyers edit

Destroyer designs
Name Description Pattern sheet Photo Known examples
MS-32/1D for Gridley (DD-380) and Bagley (DD-386) classes [a]
 
Starboard

Port
 
Mugford
Bagley,[b] Helm,[c] Mugford,[d] Ralph Talbot
for Sims (DD-409) class Port and starboard Anderson
for Fletcher (DD-445) class Port and starboard Taylor, Mullaney, Bush, Hoel,[c] Hall, Halligan, Newcomb
MS-32/3D for Wickes (DD-75) and Clemson (DD-186) classes Port and starboard Lea, Badger, Breckinridge,[e][f] Barney, DuPont, Bernadou, Cole, Bainbridge
for Porter (DD-356) class[g] Port and starboard Selfridge,[h] Moffett, Phelps
for Mahan (DD-364) class Port
Starboard
Downes
for Somers (DD-381) class Somers, Warrington, Sampson, Davis, Jouett
for Benham (DD-397) class Mayrant, Trippe, Rhind
for Sims (DD-409) class Russell, Wainwright
for Benson (DD-421) and Gleaves (DD-423) classes[i]
 
Starboard

Port
 
Farenholt
Benson, Mayo, Niblack,[e] Charles F. Hughes, Livermore, Eberle, Plunkett, Lansdowne,[c] Mervine, Quick, Farenholt, Doyle, Endicott, McCook,[c] Frankford, Kendrick,[e] Laub, MacKenzie, Baldwin, Thompson, Cowie, Knight, Butler, Tillman, Rodman,[e] Harding [e]
alternate for Benson (DD-421) and Gleaves (DD-423) classes[j] Buchanan, Kearny,[c] Lardner,[c] Boyle, Champlin [e]
for Fletcher (DD-445) class Radford,[c] Haraden,[c] Paul Hamilton, Hickox, McNair
for Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class Ingraham, Cooper, English, Walke, Laffey, O'Brien, Meredith, DeHaven, Mansfield, Hyman, Shannon,[k] Adams,[k] Brush, J. William Ditter[k]
MS-31/6D for Farragut (DD-348) class Dewey, Hull, Dale, Aylwin
for Benson (DD-421) class Woodworth,[d] Bailey, Meade
MS-3_/6D for Fletcher (DD-445) class
 
 
Colhoun
Jenkins (MS-32), Capps (MS-31), Ross (MS-32), Rowe (MS-31), Twiggs (MS-32), Bearss (MS-32), John Hood (MS-32), Monssen (MS-31), Colhoun (MS-32)
MS-31/7D for Farragut (DD-348) class Farragut, Monaghan[d]
MS-32/7D for Gamble (DM-15) class[l] Gamble, Preble, Sicard, Pruitt
for Chandler (DMS-9) class[m] Dorsey, Hovey, Hamilton
MS-3_/7D for Fletcher (DD-445) class
 
 
Waller
Waller (MS-32), Pringle (MS-32), Evans (MS-31), Porterfield (MS-32), Callaghan (MS-31), Cassin Young (MS-32)
for Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class
MS-31/9D for Fletcher (DD-445) class Saufley, Van Valkenbugh, Cotton, Hopewell, Uhlmann
MS-32/9D for Dunlap (DD-384) class Dunlap, Fanning
for Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class
 
 
Ault
Moale, Charles S. Perry, Ault, Waldron, John W. Weeks, Wallace L. Lind, Lyman K. Swenson, Maddox, Blue, Taussig
MS-3_/10D for Fletcher (DD-445) class
 
Boyd
Daly (MS-32), Boyd (MS-31), Stembel (MS-32), Bullard (MS-31), Kidd (MS-31)
MS-31/11D for Sims (DD-409) and other single-stack classes
 
 
Stack
Ellet, Stack,[d] Sterett,[d] Hughes
for Fletcher (DD-445) class Fullam, Watts, Killen, Metcalf,[d] Hale, Chauncey,[d] Jarvis, Gregory, Rooks [d]
MS-32/13D for Fletcher (DD-445) class
 
 
Morrison
Hudson, Stanly, Anthony, Kimberly, Morrison, Prichett, Robinson, Sproston, Cogswell, Knapp, Bennion, Richard P. Leary, McGowan, Picking, Halsey Powell, Norman Scott, Irwin, Preston, Porter
MS-3_/14D for Fletcher (DD-445) class
 
 
William D. Porter
Terry (MS-31), Wadsworth (MS-32), Aulick (MS-32), Charles Ausburne (MS-32), McKee (MS-32), Wickes (MS-32), William D. Porter (MS-32), Lewis Hancock (MS-32), Marshall (MS-32)
MS-31/16D for Fletcher (DD-445) class Leutze, Isherwood, Hailey, Smalley, Stoddard, Claxton,[d] Dyson, Young, Hart, Braine, Hunt, Cushing, Little
for Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class
 
 
Haynsworth
Allen M. Sumner, Haynsworth, Hank, Gainard, Barton, Laffey, Collett,[d] Harry F. Bauer,[k] Tolman,[k][d] Harry E. Hubbard, Lowry
MS-32/16D for Benson (DD-421) and Gleaves (DD-423) classes [j] Meade, Edwards, Thorn
MS-32/18D for Fletcher (DD-445) class
 
Port

Starboard
 
Luce
Foote, Luce, Heywood L. Edwards
MS-31/21D for Dahlgren (DD-187) class[n]
 
Thornton
for Fletcher (DD-445) class Ringgold, Conway, Cony, Healy
MS-32/21D for Fletcher (DD-445) class Beale, Twining, Bradford, John D. Henley, Longshaw, Burns, Albert W. Grant, Stockham
MS-31/22D for Fletcher (DD-445) class
 
Howorth
Howorth, Wedderburn
MS-32/22D for Porter (DD-364) class [g] Selfridge [h]
MS-31/23D for Mahan (DD-364) class
 
Smith
Mahan, Cummings, Drayton, Lamson, Flusser, Reid, Conyngham, Smith
for Fletcher (DD-445) class O'Bannon, McCord, Wren, Bryant,[d] Hickox [d]
MS-32/23D for Benson (DD-421) class[o] Frazier, Kalk
MS-32/24D for Fletcher (DD-445) class
 
Ammen
Nicholas, Ammen, Hazlewood, Heermann
MS-31/25D for Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class
 
Henry A. Wiley
Borie, Walke, Purdy, Massey, Robert H. Smith,[d][k] Thomas E. Fraser,[d][k] Henry A. Wiley,[d][k] Shea,[d][k] Gwin [d][k]
MS-33a/27D for Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class
 
Alfred A. Cunningham
MS-33a/28D for Gearing (DD-710) class
 
Southerland
Gearing, Frank Knox, Southerland, Chevalier
MS-33a/30D for Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class
 
John R. Pierce
Adapted patterns
MS-32/11A
(aircraft carrier)
adapted to Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class
 
 
Aaron Ward
Compton, Soley, Mannert L. Abele, Drexler, Samuel N. Moore, Putnam, Willard Keith, Lindsey, Aaron Ward
MS-31/2C
(cruiser)
adapted to Fletcher (DD-445) class Fletcher, Converse, Spence, Thatcher, Yarnall,[d] Harrison, Charles J. Badger, Benham
MS-32/2C
(cruiser)
adapted to Sims (DD-409) and other single-stack classes Patterson, Morris
  1. ^ This sheet calls for the unusual combination of Ocean Gray and Haze Gray
  2. ^ Used Black and Light Gray (MS-32) to starboard and Ocean Gray and Light Gray (MS-33) to port
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Used Measure 31 colors
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Used Measure 32 colors
  5. ^ a b c d e f Port and starboard patterns switched
  6. ^ Used Navy Blue instead of Black
  7. ^ a b Sheet marked "DD-357 [Selfridge] class;" Porter had been sunk in October 1942
  8. ^ a b Selfridge received the MS-32/22D pattern in April 1944; by April 1945 she was wearing MS-32/3D
  9. ^ Sheet marked "DD-421 class," but used on both
  10. ^ a b Sheet marked "DD-423 class," but used on both
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j As Robert H. Smith (DM-23) class minelayer
  12. ^ Minelayer conversions of Clemson class DDs
  13. ^ Fast minesweeper conversions of Clemson class DDs
  14. ^ Seaplane tender conversions of Clemson class DD's
  15. ^ Sheet marked "DD-598 class"