coal ships?

[She-Wolf]

Twice now, once in the North Sea and once in an estuary, I have come across a boat with beacons and all its interior lights ablaze - which is manned, because the estuary one obligingly shifted back when I came close to it - and then a fair distance from it, but parallel, another boat, sitting dark and motionless in the water.

In the North Sea I was told I was approaching a 'coal boat', which I assume is the dark one, and that the lightship is a marker to warn the rest of us to stay clear - but coal boat?? A dredger in the estuary I can understand ( my number one son used to operate the plant on one of them), but a COAL boat, sitting in the middle of the North Sea eh?? Is this the nautical equivalent of digging for victory??

I steered between the two and found no reason to regret it

[HW3]

Coal ships are used to supply fuel to coal burning merchant and navy ships.

[She-Wolf]

AAHHHH! :rotfl::rotfl:Silly ol me! Thank you HW3

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I sank one off the eastern coast between Scotland and England, I forget the exact location, but the Coal Ship was next to a Lightship that I couldnt target by locking, "L" button.
This is with the new GWX2.0

[bigboywooly]

Unfortunately we have run out of ship designations

Type100=Replenishment
Type101=Tanker
Type102=Cargo
Type103=Troop Transport
Type104=Coastal Vessel
Type105=Environmental

The lightships were previously a type=100
In order to get the Cam ship\Collier and AMM ship to show in convoys on a random basis I had to redisignate the Lightships as 105s
Enviromental
The only drawback is the crew wont spot them so there is a danger of collision
Another ship was placed close to the lightships so the crew will see something allowing you not to collide

If extra type= could be added life would be so much easier
But not found the answer to that yet