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Originally Posted by NEON DEON
I am not sure U Boats had an ammunition scuttle, but U. S. fleet boats did. That way they could easily get the ammo up to the gun without having to pass it thru the hatch. Still doent mean that the bucket brigade would not work.
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Hi!
I have read that a bucket brigade approach was used since U-boats did not have an ammunition scuttle. Ammunition was lifted by hand up through to the top of the conning tower, sent through a chute down to the deck, and then carried across the deck to the gun once the ready ammunition supply (about 20 rounds in a watertight container built into the deck near the deck gun) was used up.
From a "realism" (dare I say the word) perspective I think there should have been some waiting period from the time the "man the deck gun" order is given until the time the gun is ready to fire to account for the time the deck gun crew needed to prepare the gun to fire, but in SHIII the gun is ready pretty much instantaneously. I don't know if there is any way to change the simulation to recreate this effect.
There were apparently a couple of instances during the war when the gun crew forgot to remove the gun barrel plug (that stopped sea water from filling the barrel while the U-boat was submerged), with unfortunate results for the gun and its crew.
Pablo