Dunno source via http://www.marine-marchande.net
Picture by Boris Paulien via the Interweb
Contship Germany
IMO : 9051222
Build : 1992 by Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack in Germany, nr 1105
Another one that was brought to my attention via the Tip-hotline! A regular containership but painted totally pink….in 2 different shades! OMG!! What happened here? I don’t know the reason but, but, but, I even don’t wanna think about a valid reason to paint your ship PINK!! Even my wife, who usually likes all things pink thought this was awful & ridiculous!
Dunno source, via the Interweb
Thank you, Michael Kokholm for bringing this “beautiful” vessel to our attention.
The company responsible for the above also had 2 other ships painted from bottom to top in a single color.
The Contship Singapore (IMO : 9070046) in lovely & cheerful yellow:
Dunno source via http://www.marine-marchande.net
Dunno source, via the Interweb
And the Contship Italy (IMO : 9109029) in a rather undefinable blue-ish:
I seem to remember once seeing a totally purple containervessel, can anybody confirm the existence of that one or is this a product of my imagination doing strange things???
Update (20-02-2009)
And this is the movie Robert in the comments below was talking about:
Dunno source, via the Interweb
Dunno source, via the Interweb
Robert, thanx a lot for the tip!!
WWW.UGLYSHIPS.COM 
This pinky reminds me of a 1959 movie titled Operation Petticoat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Petticoat
“The crew are eventually forced to continue on their journey with the sub painted pink after plans for a quick re-paint of the sub go awry (Not enough red lead or white lead undercoat primer paint is available to paint the entire sub either color, and so all the available paint of both colors is mixed together; and then the Japanese find the sub before the regular gray overcoat can be applied)”.
I googled it….and Yeah, you are right!!!
Operation Petticoat! thank you, Robert! this is so great. I have to direct you all to this: it’s Pink, it’s Blake Edward, and it’s in the spirit of what brings us here today, at this mad crazy site:
Purple ships – we used to be in Immingham a lot in the ’70s, and there were these Tor Line ferries, purple in colour, a pair of them. Bright purple, but used to look different colours in the different winter days, very pretty.
The pinky containership is not ugly… she’s sexy!
However, maybe the paintjob of each ship somehow could refer to one feature of it’s crew?
Yellow = cowards
Purple = sick people
Pink = girls or homosexuals
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