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As long as there will be no Seaman Staines on deck, and, no Rodger the Cabin boy.
I won't tolerate that on my boat. :rotfl: |
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FAKE IMPOSTOR. PHONEY, FRAUD, SHAM, CHEAT. |
Here's the real Captain Pugwash
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9109/pugwash9ix.png And what's that he's reading I quote, "Oberon posts fake picture on forum, police are investigating this serious crime against the original captain pugwash." |
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In a very swift court case Oberon was found Guilty and was ordered to drink three bottles of Rum. :yep:
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But... "Why's the rum gone?!" http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...20Depp/rum.jpg |
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So does it mean that a U-boat could withstand nowadays pirates?
It is the sole foundation of my story. I also would like to see if there are blueprints, pics or specs for that. IŽd love to make some drawings, and if I am to make a story I need to know where they cook their food, where they eat, etc. It would be better if it could be a U-boat model which had the proper thing to ram another ship and a deck gun. |
If you're asking whether a Uboat could take on a modern day pirate then I should imagine that it would be possible, after all, all the uboat needs to do is submerge, most pirates wouldn't have anything to deal with that, all they could do is drop a few grenades which wouldn't do much except give the sonarman a headache. If the Uboat wanted to retalliate, it could always get out of range of the pirate's machine guns and open fire with the deckgun...although firing on a rapid moving speedboat with an old 1940s cannon would require a lot of skill. Alternatively they could try using the flak gun against the speedboat, I've heard of skippers on SHIII doing that with patrol boats...trouble is, to get within range, you'll also be in the range of their gunfire and you could wind up with a man down.
As for blueprints of Uboats... Here's a Type II cutaway, although I doubt you could do much pirating with a Type II: http://www.uboataces.com/uboat-type-ii.shtml#top Though a Uboat pirate in these days would most likely use a Type IX or Type XXI: http://www.uboataces.com/uboat-type-ix.shtml http://www.uboataces.com/uboat-type-xxi.shtml Though the XXI doesn't have a deckgun...it still has AA guns, AND they're in a better position than the other boats. :arrgh!: |
I'd only sail with Capt. Peter Blood.
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There have been cases of pirates equipped with rocket launchers and machine guns. Some only have machetes. It depends. Sometime they steal stores and run off, sometime they hold the crew hostage to get the captain's safe, sometime they kill half the crew, get the captain to open the safe, then kill the Captain so the rest of the crew will stay calm... Sometime the ship just disappear, and we can only assume the crew's dead. Pirates are scary.
Lots of pirates nowaday. Pirate activity dropped since the Tsunami, but it's still a very existent problem, for which crews are still trained as needed. Pirates wouldn't attack a U-Boat. In fact, they'd run away from anything millitary... And I'm guessing a speedboat would be faster than a surfaced typ II. Unless you go after the kind of pirates that use fishing boats... But I have to wonder what year your story is taking place in? A twenty year old steel ship, although very well maintained, is going to start having problems - Even if most of the electronics and engines were replaced over time. Military vessels are conceived to drydock at an alarming rate. |
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