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Originally Posted by Beery
With the crew off the ship and with no damage control teams plugging leaks or closing watertight doors, sinking a ship would take just a few rounds.
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If there is no one trying to stop you, ANY steamship can be sunk with only a pound or two of gun-cotton. Make sure at least a few of the w/t doors are open and then blow the condenser inlet pipes. Bubble, bubble, down she goes.
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"Pitt was the greatest fool who ever lived to encourage a mode of war which they who commanded the seas did not want, and which, if successful, would deprive them of it." Earl St.Vincent (allegedly)
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