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Originally Posted by tater
Do ships have left/right compartments? Is capsizing a function of damage on 1 side?
According to what I read someplace (dunno where) the USN studied our losses to the U-boats and determined that most ships were sunk due to loss of stability, not flooding per se. It sounds like your mod does this if you see more ships list, then sink, or go down at the bow or stern, then sink...
tater
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I've read a few accounts of ships that did not have longitudinal bulkheads (divided down the middle - that usually was only done with large warships) which still capsized. Some of them even rolled over in the direction away from the torpedo hit. Apparently the water rushing in forced the ship to heel away from the impact side, and then it kept going that way.
Also in those Japanese convoy documents there are a few accounts of ships carrying steel which sank within thirty seconds of being torpedoed.
