Hurricane guns

[Artist]

Thank you so much Gerry! I can now see the patches were made before application. This means alot for my painting. I have gotten so many different answers for my question from people. Many have said the patches were canvas then doped on with a reddish dope. You have shown me otherwise. I do thank you! You are very lucky to own this piece of history. Bob

[timothy]

Quote from elsewhere -

"Gun ports, and flare ports ( especially on shacks) were pieces of Irish linen, and were `doped ' on, i should know, one of the dirtiest jobs for a rigger on Shacks,, all sticky and gungy,, yuk."

= Tim

[Graham Boak]

My understanding is that the pre-prepared patches were used in the early fighting, but superseded by doped linen later. It is not a simple case of one but not the other.