140,000 ton freighter!

[Nopileo]

I'm using irishred's radiolog mod. On my last patrol there was a message from U-204 to BdU: 'Damage to 140000 ton freighter'. Date was 1941/08/05.

Did these really exist back then? Anyone making one for SH3 have my deepest gratitude in advance! :ping:

[Duncan Idaho]

Holy frijole, Batman! That's a BIG ship! :huh:

I WANT ONE!

What was that old saying? 'One Torpedo, One Ship'? Forget that, with ships like that out there it'd be more like 'One Ship, One Patrol'!

[Shadow9216]

Yes, there were plenty of large freighters and tankers. Some whale factory ships were converted to cargo- I remember a Norwegian one sunk that was over 11,000 tons.

[SmokinTep]

140000 tons.. :hmm: That is one huge ship.

[Nippelspanner]

11.000BRT are not much for a big tanker, but there was never a shipt with 140.000BRT...absolutely utopic...but its a typo, im sure... :yep:

[Duli]

Yes but this is 140.000 tons, so thats ten times more.

[irishred]

Yep, this is an error, should be 14000 tons not 140000. Already fixed and will be included in next release.

[The_Pharoah]

well the supercarriers displace what, around 50,000 T? they don't get much bigger than that (well, maybe the Exxon Valdez size) :o

[Drebbel]

Think biggest ship ever was the Jarre Viking. She could haul half a million tons. :o

[Spadefish]

well the supercarriers displace what, around 50,000 T? they don't get much bigger than that (well, maybe the Exxon Valdez size) :o

Returned to Norfolk fm the Indian Ocean on the Nimitz in 79. We had to offload a b***load of stores to get under 100,000 tons so we could enter the channel. Normal displacement was 92,000 tons.

[Kernel]

good old Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahre_Viking

647,955 when fully loaded

[Jace11]

What is a whale ship or factory ship?

[Type941]

http://supertankers.topcities.com/1f4c83b0.jpg

in case you wondered.. big ship. :|\ 24m draft... ouch.

[Katana]

Found these pics of the Jahre Viking (renamed Knock Nevis):
http://supertankers.topcities.com/id132.htm

I like the huge "NO SMOKING" written below the bridge. :rotfl:

[Duncan Idaho]

in case you wondered.. big ship. :|\ 24m draft... ouch.

Oooh, I'd LOVE to run into that in this game. And think about it, how could you MISS shooting at something that size?

[Shadow9216]

What is a whale ship or factory ship?
Those were big ships equipped to hunt and process whales. They carried boats to actually hunt and kill the whales, plus the machinery to process the carcass, rendering it into meat and blubber- boiled down into oil.

I've seen some pictures of some of them, they had room to actually drag the carcass into the ship to work on it.

[Jace11]

thanks always wondered whether they were so named cause of their size, or cause of what they did.

[Type941]

If my memory is right, whales are like 30m long tops, not so big for a whole ship to handle it. There are recreational yahts 3 times this !

[Sailor Steve]

well the supercarriers displace what, around 50,000 T? they don't get much bigger than that (well, maybe the Exxon Valdez size) :o
If I remember correctly, Enterprise was originally rated as 80,000 tons normal and 120,000 tons full load.

The Iowa class Battleships were rated at 45,000 tons design, 48,000 tons standard and 57,000 tons full load.

Yamato was 64,000 tons standard.

I think some of the supertankers are rated at over 200,000 tons.

[JohnnyPotPie]

:arrgh!: yaaahar, i bet it be loaded down with jewels and gold yaaahar :arrgh!:

[Tullaian]

The current heavyweight champ of the shipping world, the Norweigan Jahre Viking clocks in at a portly 260,851 tonnes with a cargo capacity of over 500,000 tonnes.

[Duncan Idaho]

The current heavyweight champ of the shipping world, the Norweigan Jahre Viking clocks in at a portly 260,851 tonnes with a cargo capacity of over 500,000 tonnes.

Ahh yes...definitely the Rosanne Barr of the Shipping Lanes right there. :lol:

[marty6]

Hi

Here's another pic of the Jahre Viking:

http://www.intertanko.com/tankerfacts/sizes/biggest.htm

[Katana]

Is this the same ship that 'swallowed' the subs in The Spy Who Loved Me?
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Netrunner/liparus2.jpg

But then again the actual size can be deceiving ;)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Netrunner/liparus.jpg