U-Boat Actions Off Florida Coast (Historical)

[KapitanSpinks]

Read a little article about it here at this link. Thought you guys might enjoy...

http://www.kait8.com/category/224248...1d9489c384f62f

[Rconch]

Thanks.

[KapitanSpinks]

No prob.

Saw that article and got a hankerin to play SHIII again. Still trying to get my boat tweaked right to run a full campaign again. Not so good with all the mods stuff. Working on it tho.

Carry on.

[sublynx]

Thanks

The article mentions the only blimp shot down in WWII, by U-134, and thus led me towards googling for more info. K-74 was the unfortunate blimp, if you guys want to read about that yourselves.

[Jimbuna]

A little different perhaps.....Blimp v U-boat:

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/s...imp-vs-u-boat/

[Gargamel]

In game, the 'straights' between miami and the Bahamasa are my newest favorite hunting grounds in '42. Lots of good targets, lots of bad ones, and frequent, seemingly incompetent ASW patrols. The lack of convoys is by far made up for by the frequent solo merchies.

Down side is getting there with enough fuel to stay and play for a while. 3 weeks through the mid atlantic is very boring.

I will have to take a gander at those articles then.

[Jimbuna]

There are some blimps scripted into GWX....beware!!

[Marinenachrichtendienst]

Thank u for interesting reading.

[flag4]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

A little different perhaps.....Blimp v U-boat:

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/s...imp-vs-u-boat/

'wearing Mae West lifejackets.'

how'de get that name..

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by flag4

'wearing Mae West lifejackets.'

how'de get that name..

Mae West was a veteran of vaudeville and Broadway. She made her first movie and immediately became a national sex symbol when she was nearly 40. With her hourglass figure, saucy double-entendres, and sinful saunter on five-inch heels, she was a natural bombshell. During World War II, Allied soldiers called their inflatable life jackets "Mae West" in honor of West's famously buxom figure.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/milita...ject.asp?ID=14

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by flag4

'wearing Mae West lifejackets.'

how'de get that name..

When inflated makes the wearer look like

[VONHARRIS]

I have never thought of that.

[mookiemookie]

I never could understand how a slow cumbersome blimp would be an effective anti-U-boat weapon. I figured they'd be too slow to catch them by surprise unless they could pull of a maneuver as described in the link and swoop down out of the clouds. But you can't rely on that happening all the time.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I never could understand how a slow cumbersome blimp would be an effective anti-U-boat weapon. I figured they'd be too slow to catch them by surprise unless they could pull of a maneuver as described in the link and swoop down out of the clouds. But you can't rely on that happening all the time.

They were plenty fast enough to keep up with the convoy, and had enough fuel to stay on station for up to more than a day. From the air you can see down into the water far enough to spot a u-boat at periscope depth, and then tell the escorts exactly where it is. No need to swoop down, and plenty of surprise when the escorts could drive straight to the sub.

In that respect they were of more value than much faster aircraft.

[Jimbuna]