ship names?

frau kaleun · 07-07-10, 07:35 PM

The real "issue" for me is that I was assuming anything named "Empire <something>" was a British ship at the time I sank it and not a US one.

It's not really that big of an issue overall, since I'm only picking alternate names for my patrol logs to sub in for anything that is or appears to be a US ship at a time when they were still neutral and I *know* I'm not sinking US ships. I don't want to look in my log for July 1940 and see some ship named the "USS Thingamajig" when I know the ship I actually sank was an enemy vessel flying a British flag. There may very well be ships in my logs that were, historically, from still neutral countries on the date I sank them. But if they don't look obviously "wrong" to me, or have the name of a ship I already know belonged to a different country than the flag it was flying when I sank it, it's no biggie.

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07-07-10, 07:35 PM	#7
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	The real "issue" for me is that I was assuming anything named "Empire <something>" was a British ship at the time I sank it and not a US one. It's not really that big of an issue overall, since I'm only picking alternate names for my patrol logs to sub in for anything that is or appears to be a US ship at a time when they were still neutral and I know I'm not sinking US ships. I don't want to look in my log for July 1940 and see some ship named the "USS Thingamajig" when I know the ship I actually sank was an enemy vessel flying a British flag. There may very well be ships in my logs that were, historically, from still neutral countries on the date I sank them. But if they don't look obviously "wrong" to me, or have the name of a ship I already know belonged to a different country than the flag it was flying when I sank it, it's no biggie.