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Originally Posted by Scottlu
In stock game,an oil tanker/merchant usually flows at 6 knots(or 9 knots)
But in Operation Monsun,I frequently found the merchant whose speed at 10+ knots. Is that the truth?
I never image such a corpulent vessvel(tonnage 9000GRT) runs at 12 knots for more than 20 hours.....
SO powerful engines to propel the 9000 tonnage ship in WWII?  |
10+ knots is probably a bit too fast.
In an emergency situation, an old steam merchant like a Hog Islander could do about 14 knots with a calm sea state. However, I doubt that could be maintained for long without damaging the machinery.
Some modern cargo ships built during the 1930's and 40's could achieve those speeds throughout a voyage, but they would not have made up most of any country's merchant fleet.
Liberty ships were pretty slow, as Sailor Steve says. Some of them only had a speed of 10 knots loaded, not 11. Although they were all sister ships, maybe the quality of boilers, etc. wasn't always good.