03-12-13, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Carrollsue
This something that I have wanted to say for a long time…. EVERY THING is an estimation doing this time (1918-1945) and you are on water, moving and everything is rock and rolling EVEN on smooth water. Ain’t no way you can get a reading like that…66.3 feet at that range. Come on
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You're quite right Carrollsue everything was just an estimate.
The fact that I set the height (in this case the funnel of the Nagara Maru) at 66.3 feet tall is close enough to get a fairly good estimate of range ONLY if everything else were to be optimal. Seldom is this ever true.
In real life, the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) manuals of the day did indeed try to give dimensions down to the inch. Go HERE to look at some of the published pages of an ONI manual.
Does this mean you could turn their "best guess" estimate into an accurate firing solution? Yes, but only with practice, trial and error, luck, and all the pieces coming together. On average a Captain learned from his mistakes, with the hope of trying something different if he survived his first one.
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Last edited by CapnScurvy; 03-12-13 at 07:27 PM.
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