As you play more and more you will be able to tell.How a ship takes damage and sinks really does depend on the cargo.Some ships carry fuel and ammo others have just freight.Also depends where you hit them.Engines, under the stack really does a ship in.
Last patrol in 1944 in Yellow Sea, I fired four Mark 18's in a night surface attackat a 8500 ton Hakusika Maru in TMO 2.5(part of a convoy) two hit bother forward(speed dropped slightly after i fired, caused two to run forward) , this caused heavy forward flooding and slowed the ship to 3.5 knots.Daylight came and forced me to pull away to reload bow tubes and avoid the escorts.I stayed about 8 miles off but on radar could see convoy was leaving the wounded ship behind but a pesky escort kept hanging out in 4-5000 yards away while other escorted the rest of the convoy.Would not have been a problem except only had 100 feet of water to play in and seas were calm, so waited it out, eventually(7 hours later) the escort was 6 miles away, I dove, closed in and put two more into the wounded ship, which sank bow first.I then snuck away.
Other time's I have had one or two fish cause a massive explosion so all depends on cargo type and where you hit them.Sometimes you have to wait a few minutes for the flooding to overwhelm the ships.
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