OK Galanti - im home at my PC now.
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b0c5...n_der_Welt.pdf
Check that manual i have copyed and snipped together. It contains a lot of info on the merchants.
Btw. any ideas what kinda tonnage SH-5 is. Gross tonnage, BRT or deadweight.
Example from the above manual:
Empire Shearwater ~ "Hog Island Type A Freighter" has 4970 BRT and 5745 ts (Tragfähigkeit), its a freighter build in 1920, so the table is like this:
The table is a sort of comparison of the relations between different measurements for normal ships of the era. (page 3 in the manual)
a) BruttoRaum (BRT) 10
b) Netto-Raum (NRT) 6
c) Laderaum (RT) 7-10
d) Ladefähigkeit (ts) 14
e) Tragfähigkeit (ts) 15,5
f) Wasserverdräng. (ts) 20
one ts is 1016 kg
In SH-4 the tonnage was an addition of Displacement and DisplacementVariation, and its properly the same in SH-5
from a SH-5 thread:
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Yeah, the tonnage is changed for each ship. In each ship's config file, there is an option for displacement and displacementVariation. DisplacementVariation is a number that is added to the displacemnt when you sink a ship, in adddition displacementVariation is random between 0 and the number you provide.
So if you have a ship's displacement as 500, and a displacementVariation of 100, when you sink that ship type you'll get credit for a ship of anywhere from 500 to 600 tons.
The default game has a DVariation that is usually 5 or 10. Every ship of that type you sink will be roughly the same tonnage, this mod would increase the variation by 5 or 10% of the default original tonnage. So you could see a wider variety of tonnages sunk within a single ship type.
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So in the Empire Shearwaters example we have to use the real Displacement tonnage and then the variation on top of that to get the real tonnage possible. It so happens that Tragfähigkeit IS Deadweight tonnage
so we can flat out use THAT as the displacement value, now we only have to figure the ships own weight aka. Lightweight.
Since Wasserverdränungung is the ships weight with a full load then by using the table we can circa the ships Lightweight as the factor of Wasserverdänungung / Tragfähigkeit = 1.290
Deadweight * 1.290 = Lightweight
So Empire Shearwater's Lightweight should be 7411 ts.
BUT from all the sources I have found on-line regarding Hog Islanders of Type A the tonnage in SH-5 is correct. So the Germans might have gotten some tonnage wrong in their reference books - which could help explain some of the claims they had during the war.