Largest Single Ship Sunk?

[Riggsie15]

I was off the coast of Norway while surpporting the invasion on my 5th patrol, when I came across a Task Force of about 10 DD's and HMS Nelson. I shot 4 at her, 3 went into her bow the 4th prematuerd. I was then deth charge for 1.5 hrs. I was alone when I sufaced so I continued alone the TF's track till I found the old girl. The DD's had already taken off the crew and had scadadled. She was bow down up to the 3rd turrent but to keep from being salvaged I put another one into her, she went down within minutes.

So HMS Nelson 36,000 ton!

[TomcatMVD]

I found the Nelson on my 4th patrol, out of the north-west coast of Britain.
She was only being escorted by two DD's:o So I gave her a four salvo-shot... played cat and mouse with the small guys, and then went back for a coup-de-grace shot on her...

[T.Von Hogan]

Found her sister ship running inside a convoy in november 39 HMS Rodney 36000 tons also:yep:

[danurve]

Got lucky the other day in N/E 53 and took out HMS Rodney & HMS King George V. :arrgh!:

[seafarer]

I just started a new career in GWX2, and went with starting in the Med this time (albeit in a VIIC, not a B). On first patrol, we did bag a Dido and a Southampton, and we are now out on our 2nd patrol. So 10K tons for the Southampton is the biggest vessel thus far this career.

In my history of playing SHIII, I once came across the Nelson, Rodney and, err, the NelsonII/RodneyII. Yup, 3 Nelson class all in a row, with cruiser and DD escorts. I only managed to sink the lead two :cry: (was in a IXB). I also remember the first time I ever even saw a big liner - coming out of the Med. - I put 4 torps into it since I had no idea how much it took to sink something over 50K tons. It blowed up real goood :up:

P.S. this was stock SHIII, within a few weeks of it's initial release, so I did not have any mods at all.

[KeptinCranky]

Hood on my first ever GWX patrol :up:

seen her a couple of times after that, but never managed to quite sink her

[Tool]

Found the Hood on Day 4, patrol 1 of GWX 2 sitting in a port. 2 torps sent her to the bottom. 48k tons :arrgh!:

You can read about it here:
http://207.44.214.111/subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=126769&highlight=hood

Tool.

[Oberon]

Large Merchant :oops:

I really must take a poke into DER KANAL at some point, probably get my nose blown off, but it seems to be the place for shipping.

[U49]

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/846/19390922hood1el6.png (http://imageshack.us)
That one is my biggest so far in all careers. I never killed anything bigger :( , YET :)

[TriskettheKid]

I've taken out pretty much every ship in GWX...save the really small coastal craft....and the Axis ships.

I've taken out the Hood numerous times, both in port and at sea.

Haven't gotten into the Pacific yet in GWX2, but in the earlier versions of GWX I ran into an Iowa-class, which went to the bottom.

So if it's gross tonnage, I think it'd be the Hood, wouldn't it?

[Buhring]

The Nelson for me too.

Gute Jagd

Buhring

[Blacklight]

Man.. I feel like a loser here. Largest ship I ever sent to the bottom was a big old troop ship in Scapa Flow.

I DID have an opprotunity to take down TWO battleships of the size pictured above once. They were driving in a nice straight line behind a C&C class that was leading them. I fired off all my torpedoes at the last ship in line. One missed. One exploded about 15 secconds after leaving the tube, another hit the ship but didn't explode and riccocheted off the hull, and the last one exploded a good 5-10 feet away from the ship (close enough to shower the sailors with water and fish). Oddly enough, the ships took no notice at all and just kept chugging along. They were going fast enough that I could hardly keep up with them and I ended up losing them in a fog bank. :damn:

[Commander Gizmo]

In 5 patrols in GWX2 I have already sunk the Nelson and Rodney. They were guarding the center of seperate convoys. I've also taken out a South Hampton class as well. You know it must be disheartening for those DDs and merchants to see their BB go down in flames. Really shatters that feeling of saftey.

[Blacklight]

My biggest ship so far looking at my war reccord was a troop ship (S.S. Desert Light) weighing in at 8891 tons. I'm looking for bigger fish on my current tour but have yet to find a single ship this time out. It seems they're all hiding from me.

Not only that.. but I just recieved a message that a minefield has been discovered all ove the place west of Heligoland so I'm going to have to be real careful on my drive home.

[kenijaru]

Large Merchant :oops:

i understand and feel your pain... my answer is Large Merchant as well :cry:

[CCIP]

Can I make a confession?

I played SHIII since pretty much day 1 (well, March 2005), and I've never sunk a battleship in campaign :88) It must be the way I play the game. (Though I damaged two or three)

I did take down a fleet carrier once, but it was stuck in the open sea without moving (a glitch...) so I'm not even sure how fair it was. Otherwise my biggest tonnage were a couple of liners I sunk.

[Stealth Hunter]

Queen Mary.

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g17/Sgt-Smithy/Silent%20Hunter%20III/sh32007-11-2415-27-05-60.jpg

Ignore the Mary being pushed into the sand. It's just a glitch from that other bloke who decided he'd sink on top of her.


Otherwise, the Rodney:


http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g17/Sgt-Smithy/Silent%20Hunter%20III/sh32007-10-2523-42-21-25.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g17/Sgt-Smithy/Silent%20Hunter%20III/sh32007-10-2523-44-30-85.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g17/Sgt-Smithy/Silent%20Hunter%20III/sh32007-10-2523-44-34-56.jpg

And finally, the Iowa:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g17/Sgt-Smithy/Silent%20Hunter%20III/sh32007-10-2523-54-56-71.jpg

[sik1977]

HMS Hood with 48K Tons is the largest in the game tonnage wise and Renown (in GWX 1) 2500.

I took it down once and pretty much have taken down all other types of BBs from Britain in my last two campaigns. Haven't come across any US BB yet, but then again, I have only finished a few patrols in GWX compared to my previous custom mixed-mod SH3 Installs.

BTW, I only play at 71% realism, which is mostly due to my inability to use Manual Targeting.

[Jonathan]

The Neslon for me. Seems to be the town sub that everyone has had a chance to take down...

[bruschi sauro]

For me Prince of Wales..............evvvvvvvaaaaaaaiiiiiii:yep:

[JG10r_Bull]

it was only tankers till today......HMS Nelson.:up:
http://http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=128749

[KeptinCranky]

Big Capital Ships, collect the whole set:
(approximate historically available number in brackets)

HMS Hood, BC (1) check
King George V class, BB (5) check, check :rock:
Illustrious Class, CV (4) check, check

still to go:

Essex Class CV (lots)
Iowa Class BB (4)
Nevada Class BB (not sure, 7?)
Revenge Class BB (10?)*
Nelson class BB (2)
Renown Class BC (2)
Maxim Gorki CA (3)
Marat BB (1)
Vittorio Veneto Class BB (4)


there's quite a few others out there, most aren't in the game, especially a whole bunch of British aircraft carrier types, but that's my to do list :D
better get back to it, some of those are going to be sunk by the Japanese and the Luftwaffe if I don't hurry :oops:

* also includes placeholders for Queen Elizabeth class BB

[3Jane]

Illustrious class carrier

[Cohaagen]

Only two Nevadas, and five Revenge battleships.

Best result was HMS Hood in GWX 1.03, standing in for Renown during the skirmish with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Despite taking two torpedoes and listing heavily she still managed somehow to sink both of them with some cracking "over-the-shoulder" gunnery! After that I stuck another two torps into her and she obligingly heeled over and capsized - very satisfying to see a big ship capsize in GWX (as they usually did in real life). Sadly I lost all the screenshots when I updated to 2.0 :-?

[danurve]

Just the other day I slabbed this huge steamer in shark infested waters.


http://mysh3.info/danurve/hoax.jpg

[Wulfmann]

Just sank the HMT Aquitania a liner/troopship of 45,557 tons with one torpedo under the bridge.
Wulfmann

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/Wulfmann/troopship-1.jpg

[U49]

Just sank the HMT Aquitania a liner/troopship of 45,557 tons with one torpedo under the bridge.


THAT IS (!!!) efficiency !! :up: :up::up: