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ColonelSandersLite · 12-08-15, 11:51 AM

If you download the archive at post 3 of this thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show....php?p=2339904

My run times and ship lengths sheet has the information you're after in a nicely formatted package.

There is a 3rd party utility out there that pulls all the ship lengths straight from the data files and dumps them to a text file. That's where my data came from. I don't remember it's name but can dig it up if you like.

@RR
First here is an actual recognition manual:
http://archive.hnsa.org/doc/id/oni20...hips/index.htm

I did some spot checking of the numbers in there a year or two ago now and I found the prewar ships to be pretty accurate. You don't need to measure the ship, you just need a good photograph with a good scale reference. It's also entirely possible that we actually had these numbers directly from the shipping companies that operated the ships from when they where still pulling into our ports.

Past that, when I went looking for ships in the manual that either don't have a photograph or just have a combat photograph, the numbers where pretty inaccurate. Obviously, these are designs that came about after the war started.

That being said, I *do* actually agree with the bulk of your sentiment. In the game, we have to deal with a very percentage of the ships that an actual submarine captain had to deal with and misidentification was a real problem. The historical record certainly bears this out 100%

Edit: RR, check your PMs.

12-08-15, 11:51 AM	#11
ColonelSandersLite Captain Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 481 Downloads: 74 Uploads: 3	If you download the archive at post 3 of this thread: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show....php?p=2339904 My run times and ship lengths sheet has the information you're after in a nicely formatted package. There is a 3rd party utility out there that pulls all the ship lengths straight from the data files and dumps them to a text file. That's where my data came from. I don't remember it's name but can dig it up if you like. @RR First here is an actual recognition manual: http://archive.hnsa.org/doc/id/oni20...hips/index.htm I did some spot checking of the numbers in there a year or two ago now and I found the prewar ships to be pretty accurate. You don't need to measure the ship, you just need a good photograph with a good scale reference. It's also entirely possible that we actually had these numbers directly from the shipping companies that operated the ships from when they where still pulling into our ports. Past that, when I went looking for ships in the manual that either don't have a photograph or just have a combat photograph, the numbers where pretty inaccurate. Obviously, these are designs that came about after the war started. That being said, I do actually agree with the bulk of your sentiment. In the game, we have to deal with a very percentage of the ships that an actual submarine captain had to deal with and misidentification was a real problem. The historical record certainly bears this out 100% Edit: RR, check your PMs. __________________ My SH4 LP Last edited by ColonelSandersLite; 12-08-15 at 12:03 PM.