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Originally Posted by Kapitain
South georgia is hundreds of miles from falklands, and the only damage from a bomb bouncing off the deck without exploding would probly be a dent and some scrapped paint hardly "sunk".
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A heavy bomb falling on a merchant ship deck from any appreciable height would go straight through that deck (Hellllllo watertightness!), and possibly the tank top and double bottom. Depending on the cargo and all.
It'd be a bit harder with a general cargo, strenghtened for or carrying cargo on deck, or a container ship, but with a tanker, the bomb'd go straight through. That's if it doesn't rip out half the deck piping first.
Tanktop strenght on a bulk carrier (And those have pretty though tank top, because hellllllo concentrates) is usually about 20-25MT per square meters, and the hatch covers might be around 1 or 2 MT per square meters (Ballpark figure, here, for a ship not really used to deck cargo, so it's probably around what a tanker can take). A 500lbs bomb, with a surface area of say, half a meter (Although it'd be less than that, since it's cylindrical), is about... Ah, ballpark, 500lbs = 250kg, 250kg x 2 = 1/2 ton per square meter, and that's just sitting there. It hasn't been dumbed from an aircraft yet.
And, by the way, the British Wye was registered in London. Take a look at the picture Von_Capo posted.