[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by Leoz

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. Enjoying my NYGM greatly.

An interesting thing I found about CAM ships. Below, interesting as I believe that while shadowing a convoy on at least two occasions, I think it was a Hurricane from a CAM ship that forced me to crash dive.

How are CAM ships scripted in NYGM in regard to their ASW ability as the historical info below appears to make them out as a stop cap in case German aircraft were encountered and nothing more?

"Catapult Aircraft Merchantmen

Aircraft ranges were constantly improving, but the Atlantic was far too large to be covered completely by land-based types. A stop-gap measure was instituted by fitting ramps to the front of some of the cargo ships known as Catapult Aircraft Merchantmen (CAM ships), equipped with a lone expendable Hurricane fighter aircraft. When a German bomber approached, the fighter was fired off the end of the ramp with a large rocket to shoot down or drive off the German aircraft, the pilot then ditching in the water and (hopefully) being picked up by one of the escort ships if land was too far away. Nine combat launches were made, resulting in the destruction of eight Axis aircraft for the loss of one Allied pilot.

Although the results gained by the CAM ships and their Hurricanes were not great in enemy aircraft shot down, the aircraft shot down were mostly Fw 200 Condors that would often shadow the convoy out of range of the convoy's guns, reporting back the convoy's course and position so that U-boats could then be directed on to the convoy. The CAM ships and their Hurricanes thus justified the cost in fewer ship losses overall."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle...ft_Merchantmen

The CAM Hurricanes are equipped with one 250kg bomb. The ships are found in the .rnd file and have no asw ability of their own.