Who can identify this ship ?

OK - for a long time it has pussled me.

All the ships from the original SH4 ver. 1.4 looks very close to the real ship. Except one....

Akita Maru



This ship does not look like the real ship. At least not in its WWII era version that looks like this one below.

Note the tall coal engine funnel on the real ship compared to the above and the funnels placement in relation to the rest of the superstructure. Allso the real Akita Maru is listed as 3817 tons while the SH4 Akita Maru is listed as 4070 tons.



Now the milliondollar question.....

I have paged through the ONI-208-J and i can not find any ship that are similar to the SH4 Akita Maru. So what ship was that model based on??

[FIREWALL]

It's pointy on one end ? :p

[The_Pharoah]

1 torp or 2

[V.C. Sniper]

Medium Old Composite Freighter

1 torp or 2

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Sorry lads, but i suspect neither of the answers are correct. I'd suspect the correct answer to be something like:

The ID of the ship is the "XXXXXX Maru", or what ever the name of it is.


But yes pointy end was on the ship and in the game its an Akita Maru. That just simply does not fit with the real Akita Maru.

[LukeFF]

I bet tater would have the answer. Have you tried PM'ing him?

[Nisgeis]

I've been through all 600 pages of 'Japanese Merchant Ships at War', which covers ships of the Mitsui and O.S.K. There's nothing that's a match, there are some very close ones, but they all have tall funnels.