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Sailor Steve · 06-07-07, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Growler

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Larger ships were more likely to break in half in real life, primarily because of the weight of the cargo they carried. As for capsizing (rolling over), ships with longitudinal bulkheads (ones fat enough to have a wall running down the centerline) were the ones mostl likely to capsize because only one side of the ship would flood. Very small merchants and destroyers should almost never capsize or break in half. Very large merchants should break up, and very large warships should capsize. Anything else could happen, but wasn't extrememly likely.

Steve, that's you on the fifty in your av, innit? I don't know where I remember thinking that.

I was actually considering the fact that the large guys always break in half, but never any further than that, and was curious about that as far as SHIII goes. I've seen the smaller merchies break in half more often as well, though DDs seem to race to the bottom fairly intact, I've also seen them roll before disappearing.

When it comes to warships rolling over, I was thinking of the ex-Hamilton, WPG-34, rolled over and hung about on the surface for quite awhile before disappearing. She took a single torp on the fireroom bulkhead seperating the fireroom from the engine room, so they not only lost any motive power, they also lost all electricity, so damage control efforts were significantly hampered. It's my understanding that the captain believed the ship could be saved, even with the power loss, which was why they tried towing her towards Iceland. Evidently, a storm in the area rolled the ship over, which was (obviously) fatal.

That was where my brain started with the OPs question; the rest followed from that. Hey, what can I say? I needed more coffee.

Yeah, that's me, way back when. A big version is in the sticky thread on member biographies in the General Topics forum. As for breaking up and turning turtle, I was of course speaking of what should be expected, not what happened in every case. There was a lot of variety and I'm sure that one of everything had one thing or the other happen at least once.