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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith
How would the captain know the ship's name to put into his log book? This seems a little unrealistic to me the more I think about it  I think that's why I never added the ship's name to the message box. |
Each U-Boat would have had a merchant silhouette book for ID'ing ships like the USN one seen here. Sometimes with thousands of vessels. There was an official one for the Kriegsmarine, as well as commercially printed ones like Talbot Booth's Merchant Ships. By examining mast configuration, funnels, and decks it's surprisingly easy to narrow down a single merchant from thousands of classes.
I would love to see ship names for SH5, so if you & Steve can make it happen that would be great.
