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Old 03-03-10, 07:27 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by iambecomelife View Post
Based on the types of merchants included tonnage scores will be too high. The Liberty, Victory, and Cimarron were very large merchants for their time; the C-1 and C-2 were quite big too. In real life, even oceangoing convoys would sometimes have few ships over 6,000 GRT. Coastal convoys often had nothing but merchants of 500 - 2,000 GRT.
Well,

It sounds like someone has their work cut out for them....
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