[REL] Ship Names April 2012

[Sailor Steve]

Yes, it's back! I was updating the Ship Names files every month, when exactly a year ago my computer got hit by a virus. It made my entire desktop disappear, so I had to reapply all the icons I had there. I started with the Ship Names mod, then found out that nothing was lost - they had merely been converted to Hidden files. Unfortunately I had already replaced the Ship Names files with ones from February, which means I lost two months' work. I was so frustrated that I just quit doing it.

After ten months off I got the bug again (not the virus, but the sickness that makes us do weird things) and picked up where I had left off. So now, exactly one year after the last update, is a new Ship Names list.

Thanks to redoing those two months' worth of work, I've only added 21 new names for a total of 11795. I probably redid 500 in the process.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=3540

As always, load directly into SH3 Commander/Cfg and overwrite the old one.

[Sepp von Ch.]

Wow, great, thank you Sailor Steve!:salute:

[bigboywooly]

Nice one Steve :salute:

[Jimbuna]

So you weren't fibbing on skype last night :O:

[Wolfstriked]

As you are hearing around here alot pretty much anything is possible to mod into SH3 given enough time.Would love to see SH3 commander stuff in the actual game.:woot:

[STEED]

Thanks. :up:

[BossMark]

Nice one Steve :yeah:

[Borgneface]

Salute! :salute:

Welcome back Steve! This is really a nice surprise :up: Just last week end I was looking at my supply of SH3 &GWX mods and saw the last Ships list you had made...& thought "I wonder what happened???" So Again Thank you :yeah:

[Missing Name]

Yay!

[brett25]

ship names make me happy:woot: thanks

[Fubar2Niner]

Thanks a bunch Steve, really missed these :woot::()1::woot:

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Sepp von Ch.]

Hello Sailor Steve, what means please "MV"? I sunk "MV Surprise".

[bigboywooly]

Motor Vehicle as opposed to Steam Ship or SS

Basically means ship is oil powered not coal :salute:

[Sepp von Ch.]

Thank you:salute:

I needed five torpedoes (!!!) for this 3.960 BRT ship. Grrrrr:-))

[Jimbuna]

Hello Sailor Steve, what means please "MV"? I sunk "MV Surprise".

As BBW rightly states.

I give you my last MV...she was scrapped in 99 IIRC

MV Cedarbank
http://cdn2.shipspotting.com/photos/middle/1/4/2/1334241.jpg

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1334241

[Sailor Steve]

Motor Vehicle as opposed to Steam Ship or SS

Basically means ship is oil powered not coal :salute:

As BBW rightly states.
Well, almost. It means "Motor Vessel", which is a small thing, but more importantly it means the ship is powered by diesel engines, not steam. Some sources call the MS or M/S for "Motor Ship", and some even sort them out by type, i.e. "Motor Tanker".

[bigboywooly]

Dammit knew vehicle wasnt the right word but mind went blank
:oops:

Of course tis a vessel

Cheers Steve

[Sailor Steve]

Actually I was more concerned about the "oil vs coal" part. Both are fuel for steam engines, so are still "SS".

[Jimbuna]

Actually I was more concerned about the "oil vs coal" part. Both are fuel for steam engines, so are still "SS".

I remember us having this conversation when you read my fathers wartime credentials :yep:

[ossoo2020]

i want to ask something >> how u know all this ?? wow....i main that'sgreat job realy but how u know all this and this pic too from u get it

[Sailor Steve]

I'm not sure where Jim got his picture. I'm sure he has some he took himself. If you want to look at ship pictures the place to do it is here:
http://www.photoship.co.uk/Browse%20Ship%20Galleries/

If you're asking about my ship names, I own several books with records of merchant ships, and I have a list of ships that sailed in the British Convoys. I use that list and the books to find out what kinds of ships had what names, and I put them into the list created by JScones for SH3 Commander. It's slow work but not hard.

[Jimbuna]

I'm not sure where Jim got his picture. I'm sure he has some he took himself



http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1334241 (http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1334241)

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[Laufen zum Ziel]

I'm not sure where Jim got his picture. I'm sure he has some he took himself. If you want to look at ship pictures the place to do it is here:
http://www.photoship.co.uk/Browse%20Ship%20Galleries/

If you're asking about my ship names, I own several books with records of merchant ships, and I have a list of ships that sailed in the British Convoys. I use that list and the books to find out what kinds of ships had what names, and I put them into the list created by JScones for SH3 Commander. It's slow work but not hard.

Well done as usual SS:O::yeah: