Ship Names

robj250 · 07-06-06, 08:12 AM

I just happened to be updating my SH3 Commander personnel files and noticed that records were kept of all my patrols and I looked in the patrol log and found that for each ship I sunk, it listed a name for the ship, is. S.S. something. My question is, why doesn't my patrol logs (when I press K during the game) show the ship names? Also, what is S.S. ?

Cpt.Thorne · 07-06-06, 08:33 AM

S.S. Steam Ship see here for that and more..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix
AFAIK It is a SH3cmndr that picks up the ingame names that are in there but the Dev. team was probably rushed and the names are one of those things already in the game , not coded to show/work in the ingame log amongst other things that are in there but never worked with the stock version.

irish1958 · 07-06-06, 09:46 AM

How did the sub's Kaleun know the ship's name? Didn't he just note the type of ship and location?
irish1958

robj250 · 07-06-06, 10:43 AM

I don't think that the sub Kaleun would know the ship's name unless it was a battleship like the King George or something like that.

I just wondered if anyone really got the ship's name in their Kaptain's log.

Henry Wood · 07-06-06, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by irish1958

How did the sub's Kaleun know the ship's name? Didn't he just note the type of ship and location?
irish1958

Depending on the circumstances in the aftermath of a sinking, some commanders questioned survivors in lifeboats regarding name, cargo, destination etc.

Henry

robj250 · 07-06-06, 11:10 AM

I thought that German sub Kaleuns were not permitted to rescue survivors.

Henry Wood · 07-06-06, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by robj250

I thought that German sub Kaleuns were not permitted to rescue survivors.

I said they "questioned" the survivors in the lifeboats, simply by going alongside the boats and shouting questions to the people in them. While they were forbidden to rescue survivors for various reasons, many of them did assist by passing some stores, water, to them and advising them of a course to sail. This could only happen with lone vessels of course, and not with convoy attacks.
Also, it was often possible to identify a ship by name following a torpedo attack if the ship's radio op was able to send out a "SSS..." (attacked by submarine) message, when he would quote the ship's name and position. It was then a simple matter of looking up the vessel in the Lloyd's Registry which most U-boats seemed to carry.

Henry

07-06-06, 08:12 AM	#1
robj250 Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Port Hardy, BC, Canada 75 yo with M.S. & C.O.P.D. & heart problems Posts: 1,930 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Ship Names I just happened to be updating my SH3 Commander personnel files and noticed that records were kept of all my patrols and I looked in the patrol log and found that for each ship I sunk, it listed a name for the ship, is. S.S. something. My question is, why doesn't my patrol logs (when I press K during the game) show the ship names? Also, what is S.S. ?

07-06-06, 08:33 AM	#2
Cpt.Thorne Torpedoman Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 116 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	S.S. Steam Ship see here for that and more.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix AFAIK It is a SH3cmndr that picks up the ingame names that are in there but the Dev. team was probably rushed and the names are one of those things already in the game , not coded to show/work in the ingame log amongst other things that are in there but never worked with the stock version. __________________

07-06-06, 09:46 AM	#3
irish1958 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Carmel, Indiana Posts: 3,250 Downloads: 320 Uploads: 11	Ship names How did the sub's Kaleun know the ship's name? Didn't he just note the type of ship and location? irish1958

07-06-06, 10:43 AM	#4
robj250 Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Port Hardy, BC, Canada 75 yo with M.S. & C.O.P.D. & heart problems Posts: 1,930 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I don't think that the sub Kaleun would know the ship's name unless it was a battleship like the King George or something like that. I just wondered if anyone really got the ship's name in their Kaptain's log. Last edited by robj250; 07-06-06 at 11:03 AM.

07-06-06, 11:10 AM	#6
robj250 Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Port Hardy, BC, Canada 75 yo with M.S. & C.O.P.D. & heart problems Posts: 1,930 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I thought that German sub Kaleuns were not permitted to rescue survivors.