Ship sinking times

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by privateer

Not every ship sunk in a wham bam thank you mama way during WWII.
After the war many sinkings were found not to be sinkings.
VonHelshing spent MANY months working the damages for GW.
I still think that it's the best damage model out there.
And I try to duplicate his work for any new Unit I create.
Sure there are ways around it.
But I LOVE those slow sinkers!


It makes the Game for me.

After the war all the countries eventually got around to exchanging information about ships to find out if they were sunk or not and compare it against what was claimed lost. Though rare, few times captains underestimated and claim less than the actual tonnage. His work is impressive to say the least, compiling all that info would be rough having to deal with so many archives to go through.

There were other factors unique to wwii though that created situations that allowed for sinking freightors with a single eel. When liberty ships were first constructed and used their hulls were weak in the middle, in the cold north atlantic water it made them brittle and with one hit straight in the middle they'd usually crack in half! Eventually they fixed the problem but for awhile they were just about as safe as being in the submarine trying to hunt it!