Ship Names

[Henry Wood]

Originally Posted by robj250

I thought that German sub Kaleuns were not permitted to rescue survivors.

I said they "questioned" the survivors in the lifeboats, simply by going alongside the boats and shouting questions to the people in them. While they were forbidden to rescue survivors for various reasons, many of them did assist by passing some stores, water, to them and advising them of a course to sail. This could only happen with lone vessels of course, and not with convoy attacks.
Also, it was often possible to identify a ship by name following a torpedo attack if the ship's radio op was able to send out a "SSS..." (attacked by submarine) message, when he would quote the ship's name and position. It was then a simple matter of looking up the vessel in the Lloyd's Registry which most U-boats seemed to carry.

Henry

[robj250]

Hi Henry. Thanks for the information. I've never heard an SOS from any lone ship that I had sunk in all the 40 missions I have done.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by robj250

Hi Henry. Thanks for the information. I've never heard an SOS from any lone ship that I had sunk in all the 40 missions I have done.

You wont because its not modelled in the game - he was on about in RL so its a compromise

[robj250]

I knew that in the stock game that a sub could not pick up survivors, but I thought he might have actually "intercepted" a radio message SOS. My fault. I misunderstood, again.

[bigboywooly]

Some mods have radio messages that will put out an SOS from a ship being attacked
Be cool if you could intercept a message but i guess thats something the game not capable of

[Henry Wood]

Originally Posted by robj250

I knew that in the stock game that a sub could not pick up survivors, but I thought he might have actually "intercepted" a radio message SOS. My fault. I misunderstood, again.

Hi robj250,
Sorry about the confusion my posts might have caused - I was trying to explain to messages #3 and #4 the different ways a Kaleun could find out a ship's name in WWII real life. Yet another way was to search among the wreckage for lifebuoys etc bearing the name and home port. That would be a nice mod!

Henry

[robj250]

Not a problem Henry. It's just me.

Although, In the original Silent Hunter we had to rescue downed pilots.

SH3 Commander is set up to give names to ships sunk. The game itself doesn't, so the names only show up in Commander's files, not the game files.





I think.