Ever wonder all those nameless generic ship roaming around your SH3 champain map:
Where they all came from?
Are they modelled after real ships?
Do they have a proper name?
Are they showing up at the right place at right time?
Are they assigned to the right country?
Here is a start
Ship Identified TALTHYBIUS Cargo Ship
It was named
KLCS=Heavy Merchant
Talthybius was a 10,224
GRT Cargo liner that was built in 1911 by
Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd,
Greenock,
Renfrewshire, United Kingdom for a British shipping line. She was sunk at
Singapore in an air raid in 1942. Salvaged by the Japanese, she was renamed
Taruyasu Maru, serving with the
Imperial Japanese Navy until 1945 when she either struck a
mine off
Sado Island and sank or was sunk in an attack by aircraft of
Task Force 38. She was salvaged by the British, passed to the
Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed
Empire Evenlode. She served until 1949, when she was scrapped.