Merchant closing B340

[PapaG39]

Sonar! Topside. On the double!
What kind of Merchant ship is this?
I ran across this when my sorar guy had me tracking a merchant that was really slow...
388km Heading 300 degrees out of trondheim, Norway on May 22, 1940

Sorry, I forgot to crop this thing so it is kinda big...

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[GoldenRivet]

the chart symbol and sound contact info default to merchant ship i think.

just an ice berg though... your sonar guy will hear it on hydrophones and just arbitrarily call it a merchant contact... of course if it is moving at 1 knot you can be pretty sure its an ice berg... couldnt hurt to take a listen either i guess.

nice find... some people sail their whole SH3 careers and never run across an ice chunk

[BulSoldier]

You are wrong ! Damn Norwegians thats a masked ship.:rotfl:

[seafarer]

I'm betting on the British. Remember the iceberg sub/boat Bond escaped in at the opening of "A view to a kill" - little known fact that is that it grew out of the whole allied idea of giant ice ships. While "officially" the allies only experimented with pykrete and ice boats in Canada, British intelligence had their own plans in development (Q is older then dirt, after all - what do you think he was doing back in the 1940's?).

[Gezoes]

So the Titanic didn't sank, she was sunk :hmm:

[Siara]

I was watching the program the other week , and aparently it was Olimpic not Titanic that sunk. The story does not end there - it was biggest insurance scam in history of the world.

All the facts convinced me. Like the ship that saved survivors was empty , but only had 3 000 jumpers and quilts onboard :lol:

[Jimbuna]

The game treats icebergs as it does vessels :yep:

Still, consider yourself lucky to have come across one :up:

[PapaG39]

yeah, I thought it was kinda cool (no pun intended) to finely see an iceberg through the binoculars instead of a ship. I thought it might be a fuel tender or perhaps a ship that was broken down. An iceberg was the last thing on my mind though...lol..