WWI Naval Camouflage Bizarrely Looked Like Zebra Stripes

Here is why

SS Mahomet, 1918 (Public domain)

The technology being used and perfected during World War I was not highly advanced. While the conflict saw the advent of the airplane and the tank these platforms did not get perfected until World War II. Many times, the Great War was being conducted with pure manpower, brute force and hand operations.