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Old 02-23-16, 08:43 AM   #2
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Merchants not so much. A ship has a different set of problems than a car or a plane, and ships turn tighter the faster they go. At 30 knots an Iowa class battleship could actually out-turn a Fletcher class destroyer.

At the kind of speed a convoy is moving the ships should barely be able to turn at all.
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