140,000 ton freighter!
 

I'm using irishred's radiolog mod. On my last patrol there was a message from U-204 to BdU: 'Damage to 140000 ton freighter'. Date was 1941/08/05.

Did these really exist back then? Anyone making one for SH3 have my deepest gratitude in advance! :ping:

Holy frijole, Batman! That's a BIG ship! :huh:

I WANT ONE!

What was that old saying? 'One Torpedo, One Ship'? Forget that, with ships like that out there it'd be more like 'One Ship, One Patrol'!

Yes, there were plenty of large freighters and tankers. Some whale factory ships were converted to cargo- I remember a Norwegian one sunk that was over 11,000 tons.

140000 tons.. :hmm: That is one huge ship.

11.000BRT are not much for a big tanker, but there was never a shipt with 140.000BRT...absolutely utopic...but its a typo, im sure... :yep:

Yes but this is 140.000 tons, so thats ten times more.

Yep, this is an error, should be 14000 tons not 140000. Already fixed and will be included in next release.

well the supercarriers displace what, around 50,000 T? they don't get much bigger than that (well, maybe the Exxon Valdez size) :o

Think biggest ship ever was the Jarre Viking. She could haul half a million tons. :o

Returned to Norfolk fm the Indian Ocean on the Nimitz in 79. We had to offload a b***load of stores to get under 100,000 tons so we could enter the channel. Normal displacement was 92,000 tons.

good old Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahre_Viking

647,955 when fully loaded

What is a whale ship or factory ship?

http://supertankers.topcities.com/1f4c83b0.jpg

in case you wondered.. big ship. :|\ 24m draft... ouch.

Found these pics of the Jahre Viking (renamed Knock Nevis):
http://supertankers.topcities.com/id132.htm

I like the huge "NO SMOKING" written below the bridge. :rotfl:

Oooh, I'd LOVE to run into that in this game. And think about it, how could you MISS shooting at something that size?