Amazing Ship Explosion

[Tikigod]

Look at all the different shades of smoke...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7009975008653689943

[Paajtor]

OMG, you are right.:o

I always found a torpedo-impact in SH3 looking to white and clean.
Is there a way to change this?

[Nippelspanner]

Yeah... the death of the Barham is, besides the casualties, very impressive. The most impressive explosion ive ever seen.

I think its strange that the ship doesnt "move" during the explosion... I mean pushed down, starts rollin etc... a giant explosion like this, but the ship doesnt move a cm.

does anyone know the number of casualties/survivors? unbelievable that anyone could have survived this. the shockwave must be terrible...

@Pajtor
this explosion wasnt a torpedo impact... if i remember right there was fire in one of the ammo bunkers...

the actual hit was hours ago, i think...

[Dowly]

@Pajtor
this explosion wasnt a torpedo impact... if i remember right there was fire in one of the ammo bunkers...

the actual hit was hours ago, i think...



I think it exploded when cold water rushed down the funnel to it´s boilers. :hmm:

[Paajtor]

I know it's not a torp-impact, that is shown.
But it reminded me of the ones we do get in SH3, that's all.:up:

[Swany6mm]

Wow. That wasn't a torpedo impact. If you read the little article that came with it, that was her aft magazine exploding. She looked like she did before the explosion because of three torpedos.

"On 25 November 1941, while steaming to cover an attack on Italian convoys, Barham was hit by three torpedoes from the German submarine U-331, commanded by Lieutenant Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen. As she rolled over to port, her after magazines exploded and the ship quickly sank with the loss of over two-thirds of her crew."

Hit from only 750 yards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Barham_(1914)#Sinking

Over 800 crew went down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_class_battleship#The_Second_World_ War

I'm a little stunned. I was watching the smoke coming off of her, thinking that it was no big deal. Couldn't hardly make much out with the white smoke against the white clouds. Then the magazine blew. I actually jumped. The first thought through my head was "There were people still on her".

I think I'm going to put the game up for a bit. No, not done with it. I know I'm going to come back to it, but it was sureal for me. While not in the Navy, I am in the Army and I am leaving for a year in a couple of months. Not looking for sympathy or anything like that (knew what I was doing when I signed the dotted line), just explaining my POV is all.

You know it's real. I mean, you know it's real. But every now and then something drives it home. Hard. You know?

[Malc]

I think its strange that the ship doesnt "move" during the explosion... I mean pushed down, starts rollin etc... a giant explosion like this, but the ship doesnt move a cm.



Unlike the ship in this video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1478426071633820913

.. and that was just one torpedo. Just goes to show how much weapon technology has advanced in the past 60 years

Malc

[Melonfish]

my first thought as she went up was 'how many were lost?' kind of morbid but i was hoping that most had got off..
impressive, and sad.
pete

[RAM]

.I already had seen some footage of Barham's sinking. And what I think of SH3 and compare the sinkings I've seen in it it with this clip I notice how the ship rolled over before sinking. In fact rolling over was one of the most usual ways a warship sank in WW2.

However I've never seen a ship turning turtle in SH3 unless already under the waves...

am I the only one?

[Biggles]

Poor bastards.

[Saukko]

However I've never seen a ship turning turtle in SH3 unless already under the waves...

am I the only one? In my experience, merchant vessels very rarely turn upside down as they tend to go down aft first, but warships do that more often. I have seen it a few times

Another video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9212418252439950058) of battleship capzising, the Szent István of Austro-Hungarian Navy during WWI. The camera is close enough that you can see me running on her deck as she turns over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Szent_Istv%C3%A1n
She sunk easily due to faults in the Tegetthoff class design (low tonnage displacement and high centre of gravity versus the tremendous weight of 12 × 12 inch (305 mm) main artillery). There were only 89 dead, partly attributed to the fact that all sailors with SMS had to learn to swim before entering active service.

[Sailor Steve]

There are different colors because you have:

1) Powder smoke from the explosion itself

2) Unburned powder thrown aloft by the blast, which makes a "pseudo-smoke" of its own

3) Smoke from everything else burning on board

4) Steam from the boilers going up


In my experience, merchant vessels very rarely turn upside down as they tend to go down aft first, but warships do that more often. I have seen it a few times
Large warships are divided by longitudinal bulkheads which separate port from starboard. This keeps the water from getting to the opposite side, hence the high probability of capsizing. Smaller warships and almost all merchants are not divided this way, so they tend to sink on an even keel. Occassionaly water from a torpedo hit will rush suddenly to the other side, causing a merchant to roll in the direction opposite the torpedo hit.

I've seen ships capsize in the game more than once, so it does happen.

[mookiemookie]

.I already had seen some footage of Barham's sinking. And what I think of SH3 and compare the sinkings I've seen in it it with this clip I notice how the ship rolled over before sinking. In fact rolling over was one of the most usual ways a warship sank in WW2.

However I've never seen a ship turning turtle in SH3 unless already under the waves...

am I the only one?

Yes. I sank the Rodney once, and she rolled over before going under. I think it took me about 6 fish to put her down.

War is a terrible thing. My hat is off to the crew of the Barham, as well as the crews of all the ships sunk during that time.