Converted Whale Factory Ship 1.0 Released
 

Here is a first release of my Converted Whale Factory Ship. Except for the fact that it is unarmed, the model should be fine. I added one more skin too, which can be seen below. (two others are in the NCOT thread).

http://rapidshare.de/files/15287038/...e_1.0.zip.html

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6554/cvw038bl.jpg

oh YES! This is so nice!

Re: Converted Whale Factory Ship 1.0 Released
 

My god, these have really existed? it is screaming to be torpedoed!


Nice work :rock:

Keep up the good work AG124! :rock:

Done 3 patrols already and havn't yet seen the Coastal Tanker :damn:

anyone have a good german traslation of the ships name "Converted Whale Factory" ready?

Umgebautes Walfangschiff? :nope:

Modifizierter Walfänger? :nope:

:shifty:


edit: I finally managed to add the ship to the roster. Will it show up in campaign?
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/7586/whale3la.jpg


:sunny:

umgebautes Walfangmutterschiff
umgebaute Walkocherei
"Jan Wellem", the first german whale mothership, was a normal freighter which was widened in beam over her entire lenght, which is quite an unusual conversion

"Walfabrikschiff" ?

"Umgewandelte Wal-Fabrik" using Altavista's babel fish translator

Could someone please e - mail me the above ship mods, i've got problems accesing rapidshare. thanks in advance

michael.dibble@ntlworld.com

Whale factory ship on the way!
Please remember to add the ships name to your englishnames.cfg manually and not to use the names file i´ve put into the package! Otherwise it´ll replace your existing names.cfg and you´ll run into problems...
The ship will be added to Norway Roster.
Please excuse my english! ;)

Great work!!! :up: :up: :)

Finally some great WIP ships are released.. that´s really great!!
BTW. does somebody know what nations used to have this vessel?

I'm not a native German speaker, but the Greenpeace folks have used the following phrases on their German language website to describe the Nisshin Maru, a modern day whale processing ship (english translations are my own poor attempt).

• das Fabrikschiff (factory ship)
  das Fabrik- und Mutterschiff der Walfangflotte (factory and mother ship of the whaling fleet)
  das Wal-Verarbeitungsschiff (whale processing ship)
  das Walfaenger Fabrikschiff (whaling factory ship)

Pablo

I think "umgebautes Walfangschiff" or "modifiziertes Walfangschiff" should be the best! :know:

Sorry about not answering questions, I just got out of bed. :oops:

I'm not sure exactly what nations would have had Whalers converted out of liners, (except for the UK which definitely had them). But the following nations would have had at least conventional whale factories - US, UK, Germany, Norway, Japan, and maybe Sweden and Russia.

Yes, it should appear in the campaign wherever random 101 entries are found. (it is a type 101, but you can change it if you like under the .cfg files) It won't appear in convoys under the stock campaign though. I'm not sure about RUB or IUB convoys.

BTW - A good way to test ships is by making a single mission with the mission editor - it doesn't need to be elaborate.

Also, unlike the NCOT, this ship is not NYGM-based.

Hi!

It seems there have been two kinds of whaling ships since the early 20th century:

• the kind that harpoons the whale
  the kind that takes the carcass and renders it down into oil, meat, bone, etc.

The new model is more the processing ship than a ship with a harpoon (try modeling that kind of damage against a U-boat ;)), so isn't the new model is more of a "umgebautes fabrikschiff" (or whatever) than an "umgebautes walfangschiff"?

Pablo