Back to the original post.....many did still make headway and return to port. I did not see this episode on TV but I have seen the picture of that ship and yes, you could drive a semi through the hole!!!!!. If read books on the ships/subs you will find that many claims of tonnage were reduces for some captains during the after war analysis. Some claims of sinking were later found untrue as the claimed ship made port. As you probably know the ships had water tight compartments. So a large hole in one and the others are water tight allowed the ships to float. The Titanic for example had numerous compartments but the lack of closing the bulkhead doors after the iceberg gashed a hole in the side allowed for flooding of unaffected compartments. I believe that GW simulates this aspect very well with exception of the tramp steams that have the same shields as the star ship Enterprise.....I understand this will be fixed in GWX
. They are however giving the tramp steamer the Klingon Cloaking Device
