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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
True, but those are test numbers, not operational numbers between overhauls or major refits. Depending on the wear they'd taken, some s-boats could barely make 12 knots surfaced by the time they were due for an overhaul.
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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
These were WWI boats that were nowhere near running at spec. Most were downright dangerous with performance way below design parameters. I would accept boat logs from WWII as evidence and nothing else. Just my opinion, but we ARE trying to simulate war experience aren't we?
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Originally Posted by LukeFF
Like swdw writes, the S boats were very old and tired boats by the time WWII rolled around. Norman Friedman, whom I consider to be the expert of American subs, states in U.S. Submarines to 1945 that the max speed of the S-18s was 13 knots and the S-42s at 12.5 in 1939. I lend very, very little credence to web sites for matters like this.
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Excellent points, and something I hadn't considered. And yes, as with torpedoes I'd rather bitch about having it be failing me than have it be perfect.
I'll crawl back under my bridge now.
