08-29-06, 10:22 AM
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Eternal Patrol
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Originally Posted by Rab09
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
...what is a V-boat?
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V-boats were 342ft long and 2,000tons (V1-V3) which were renamed Barracuda, Bass and Bonita. The next three were V4-V6 (at 371'-381' long and 2,700tons), renamed Argonaut, Narwhal, Nautilus, also Dolphin (V-7) (Dolpin was also around 1,100tons and M.A.N. powered), Cachalot (V-8) and Cuttlefish (V-9) (Cachalot and Cuttlefish were 1,100ton boats powered by M.A.N. diesels). At Pearl Harbor in the fall of 1941 were six V-boats; Argonaut, Nautilus, Narwhal, Dolphin, Cachalot and Cuttlefish. These boats also carried 2 x 5" deck guns. Slow, hard to manage. V-1, V-2, V-3 built in 1925-1926. V4, V-5 and V-6 were commissioned in the late 1920s.
Hope that helps, Salute Sir  |
It helps a lot, thanks. If I could get to my books I would have looked it up. I'm quite familiar with all of those boats, but I had never heard them referred to as 'V-boats' before. Now I have.
In fact I love the three 'biggies' and would love to see them in the game. In SHI they were hard to get but with Hawk's Silent Hunter Utilities you could assign yourself to one.
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