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[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Letum

There is a great photo somewhere of a destroyer being towed into harbor after losing it's entire bow section.

Other ships suffered massive damage, but stayed afloat.
It's not unusual.

The USS Minneapolis
USS St. Louis
HMS Eskimo
and USS LST 387

All lost large parts of their structure with out sinking.

The one that comes to my mind is HMS Javelin http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4451.html

She had her bow and stern blown off, and survived to be rebuilt and go back into service. I likewise could find no picture online, but I've seen one in a book and it's impressive.

That said, these are warships and have much better compartmentation thatn merchants. Still, I like the idea of pieces sinking at different rates, or not sinking at all. As long as I get credit for the sinking, I'm happy.