What ship is the "N3SA1 Small Merchant" ??

03-20-10, 08:28 AM

I have a small project with the merchant ships of SH-5. I'm trying to figure out the correct draft and length values of the ships by finding each ships real contemporary. Its a quite big task, but so far I have only run into one ship that I can not find.

I have been looking in different ship recognitions manuals and I can not find out what kind of ship the N3SA1 Small Merchant is.

I have been through the "Die Handelsflotten der Welt" from 1942 and the "Nachtrag" to it and ONI-208-J

So far i belive its a fake - the hull looks like the Taihosan Maru (SH-4 ship) while the kranes looks like its a ship of the same type as the "Uralmash"

http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/...70579-URALMASH

But that ship is 2975 BRT and not 1800 as the N3SA1 is listed as. Length, draft etc. are also fitting to the SH-4 Taihosan Maru data.

Pablo · 03-20-10, 10:13 AM

Hi!

The "N3SA1" is supposed to the U.S. Maritime Commission NS-3-A1 coastal merchant design. You can decide for yourself how well the developers matched the actual ship.

You can read more about it here http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-mc.html

If you can read Spanish, you can read more about it here: http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Vapores/...mm/08-N3-0.htm

Pablo

Sailor Steve · 03-20-10, 11:42 AM

Yes, it does bear a close similarity to NKSCS_Taihosan in SH4. There were a lot of small merchants all over the world that looked like this. For SH3 Commander I have names of ships from almost every country imaginable that fit this model.

The actual N3s were sold to Britain, The Netherlands and even Poland.

03-20-10, 08:28 AM	#1
Mav87th Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	What ship is the "N3SA1 Small Merchant" ?? I have a small project with the merchant ships of SH-5. I'm trying to figure out the correct draft and length values of the ships by finding each ships real contemporary. Its a quite big task, but so far I have only run into one ship that I can not find. I have been looking in different ship recognitions manuals and I can not find out what kind of ship the N3SA1 Small Merchant is. I have been through the "Die Handelsflotten der Welt" from 1942 and the "Nachtrag" to it and ONI-208-J So far i belive its a fake - the hull looks like the Taihosan Maru (SH-4 ship) while the kranes looks like its a ship of the same type as the "Uralmash" http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/...70579-URALMASH But that ship is 2975 BRT and not 1800 as the N3SA1 is listed as. Length, draft etc. are also fitting to the SH-4 Taihosan Maru data.

03-20-10, 10:13 AM	#2
Pablo Commodore Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 641 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	Hi! The "N3SA1" is supposed to the U.S. Maritime Commission NS-3-A1 coastal merchant design. You can decide for yourself how well the developers matched the actual ship. You can read more about it here http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-mc.html If you can read Spanish, you can read more about it here: http://www.histarmar.com.ar/Vapores/...mm/08-N3-0.htm Pablo __________________ "...far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899

03-20-10, 11:42 AM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Yes, it does bear a close similarity to NKSCS_Taihosan in SH4. There were a lot of small merchants all over the world that looked like this. For SH3 Commander I have names of ships from almost every country imaginable that fit this model. The actual N3s were sold to Britain, The Netherlands and even Poland. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo