Cargo types are drawn from the list at the bottome of the second block from the top: [TEXT]. The last three lines are CargoTypes_eng and its German and French counterparts. I took the _eng list and created a separate notepad file, listed vertically and numbered them from 1 to 30. That way I could compare them to the numbers in each Ship Names listing and know exactly what is what.
The fact is that if you were a Kaleun and sank a ship, unless you could actually interrogate one of the officers you probably wouldn't know anything about ship, crew or cargo beyond what you thought you saw in the ID book. Information on the name might be forthcoming through intelligence, as they could probably find out what ships went missing in the right place. Other than that you might not know anything until the war was over and reports could be compared.
That's why rather than "Ship Sunk!", my patrol logs tend to look something like this:
7.9.39.
1638 Spotted ship - first since war declared.
1643 Small freighter - 2000 tons.
1706 Hailed them to stop.
1708 Identified as British.
1715 Crew abandoning ship.
1733 Crew well away. Fired torpedo.
1734 Torpedo failed to explode.
1741 Fired second torpedo. This one good.
1805 Talked to captain. Said his ship is SS Goulburn, 2367 GRT, carrying a cargo of iron ore, crew 35, all present.
Or less information:
14.9.39.
0311 Arrived BF1911.
0700 Encountering heavy seas.
1611 Ship spotted - freighter, about 4000 tons. Will conduct surface attack.
1643 Fired two torpedoes, range 650 metres. #1 missed. #2 hit aft of funnel.
1646 Fired another eel. Dud!
1650 Fired #4. Hit near bow!
1658 Target down by stern.
1703 Target stopped. Crew lowering lifeboats.
And at the end:
12.10.39.
0203 First friendly ship spotted. Raised flag.
0257 Entered Jade.
0423 Passed locks into harbor.
0458 Tied up at Wilhemlshaven. Patrol over.
Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk:
SS Goulburn, 2367 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 35. Crew lost: 0.
SS Umlazi, 8229 tons. Cargo: Scrap Metal. Crew: 96. Crew lost: 0
SS Baron Renfrew, 3635 tons. Cargo: Tobacco. Crew: 44. Crew lost: 6
SS Fanny Brunner, 2366 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 20. Crew lost: 5
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 16597 tons
The game actually awarded me 20109 tons for the patrol, but I revised it downward based on my knowledge of the real tonnage for the ships. Unfortunately changing it after the fact in Commander doesn't change what the game actually gave you.
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