Nailed an ocean liner AND a troop transporter

Einsamer Wolf · 03-08-06, 07:49 PM

Ocean Liners generally carry about 10,000 troops. How many do troop transports carry? What a blow to the Anglo-American Alliance!

EW

Torplexed · 03-08-06, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Einsamer Wolf

What a blow to the Anglo-American Alliance!

Nah. They just recruit some more.

STEED · 03-08-06, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Einsamer Wolf

Ocean Liners generally carry about 10,000 troops. How many do troop transports carry? What a blow to the Anglo-American Alliance!

EW

No chance they got you on their hit list watch out

U-Dog · 03-08-06, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Einsamer Wolf

Ocean Liners generally carry about 10,000 troops. How many do troop transports carry? What a blow to the Anglo-American Alliance!

EW

Actually you have just freed up about 10,000 young women for the British ladds. The RAF will probably send you a thank you card!

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bookworm_020 · 03-09-06, 03:44 AM

The RAF may thank you for freeing up some women, but they won't think twice about the girl you got at home when they come after you.

They haven't got past my flack gunners yet, but there will always be a first time, and a last time.

BettingUrlife · 03-09-06, 11:06 AM

Dude, you sink a liner and they send a crack outfit after you, 30 cyber-ninjas from hell in their black pajamas, plus Sadako from the original Japanese version of Ring. You won't ever make it to your next patrol ...

Einsamer Wolf · 03-09-06, 02:26 PM

I came back from that patrol, and the subsequent one. On the return voyage home, while patrolling BF 15, a whole armada of airplanes started hunting me. I escaped though.
Anyway, does anyone know the troop capacity of a troop transport?

EW

Montbrun · 03-09-06, 03:26 PM

A "typical" WWII AP had a capacity ranging from 1500-5000+ troops. I'll get into my library tonigt....

Einsamer Wolf · 03-09-06, 04:45 PM

When I say capacity, I mean how many troops could a troop transport carry? Ocean liners were converted to carry 10,000. So it should be less than that. In my career, I have sunk two troop transports, and ocean liner. One TT and the ocean liner were sank in the same patrol, but in different convoys. The ocean liner was sunk in heavy fog, low visibility. Also nabbed two tankers.

EW

DerKaleun · 03-09-06, 06:52 PM

Damn RAF... come to close an eat some 20mm Krautlead!

andy_311 · 03-09-06, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by DerKaleun

Damn RAF... come to close an eat some 20mm Krautlead!

Don#t kid yourself I thought that myself in 44 until I ran out of ammo theb what do you do DIVE!

Einsamer Wolf · 03-09-06, 07:42 PM

I never engage planes. Only time I was prepared to was when I submerged briefly to finish off a straggler. The planes did not even turn around before my deck gun crew finished off the T3. The planes do not seem as deadly as historically was the case. Even so, I do not engage, but crash dive.

EW

03-09-06, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by DerKaleun

Damn RAF... come to close an eat some 20mm Krautlead!

And when I run out of ammo I stand on the bridge with a long sausage in my hands and shout at them, "BATTER UP!"

Rotary Crewman · 03-10-06, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by U-Dog

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Originally Posted by Einsamer Wolf

Ocean Liners generally carry about 10,000 troops. How many do troop transports carry? What a blow to the Anglo-American Alliance!

EW

Actually you have just freed up about 10,000 young women for the British ladds. The RAF will probably send you a thank you card!

:|\

Now-a-days Harrier pilots wouldn't need any help getting women. Thats what they would tell you anyway, oh look, here comes one now...

JScones · 03-10-06, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Einsamer Wolf

Ocean Liners generally carry about 10,000 troops. How many do troop transports carry?

Depends. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...avy_transports and http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/2157.html for some ideas.

I'm sure there's better resources out there, but I couldn't be stuffed searching. Basically, some transports could carry as few as a hundred or so troops, and some could carry in the low-to-mid thousands.

03-08-06, 07:49 PM	#1
Einsamer Wolf Watch Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 30 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Nailed an ocean liner AND a troop transporter Ocean Liners generally carry about 10,000 troops. How many do troop transports carry? What a blow to the Anglo-American Alliance! EW

03-09-06, 03:44 AM	#5
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	The RAF may thank you for freeing up some women, but they won't think twice about the girl you got at home when they come after you. They haven't got past my flack gunners yet, but there will always be a first time, and a last time. __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

03-09-06, 03:26 PM	#8
Montbrun Torpedoman Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 115 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	A "typical" WWII AP had a capacity ranging from 1500-5000+ troops. I'll get into my library tonigt.... __________________ \"Ein U-boot ohne Sehrohr ist heute angekomman - A U-Boat without a periscope arrived today.\" - Message sent to Gunther Prien in U-47 during the Norwegian Campaign by Karl Doenitz to tell Prien about the birth of his second daughter...

03-09-06, 06:52 PM	#10
DerKaleun Machinist's Mate Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: DÃ¼sseldorf Posts: 124 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Damn RAF... come to close an eat some 20mm Krautlead! __________________ U-Boot Spezialcocktail :-)

03-09-06, 11:06 AM	#6
BettingUrlife Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: AM56 North Atlantic Posts: 128 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Dude, you sink a liner and they send a crack outfit after you, 30 cyber-ninjas from hell in their black pajamas, plus Sadako from the original Japanese version of Ring. You won't ever make it to your next patrol ...

03-09-06, 02:26 PM	#7
Einsamer Wolf Watch Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 30 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I came back from that patrol, and the subsequent one. On the return voyage home, while patrolling BF 15, a whole armada of airplanes started hunting me. I escaped though. Anyway, does anyone know the troop capacity of a troop transport? EW

03-09-06, 04:45 PM	#9
Einsamer Wolf Watch Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 30 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	When I say capacity, I mean how many troops could a troop transport carry? Ocean liners were converted to carry 10,000. So it should be less than that. In my career, I have sunk two troop transports, and ocean liner. One TT and the ocean liner were sank in the same patrol, but in different convoys. The ocean liner was sunk in heavy fog, low visibility. Also nabbed two tankers. EW

03-09-06, 07:42 PM	#12
Einsamer Wolf Watch Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 30 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I never engage planes. Only time I was prepared to was when I submerged briefly to finish off a straggler. The planes did not even turn around before my deck gun crew finished off the T3. The planes do not seem as deadly as historically was the case. Even so, I do not engage, but crash dive. EW