[REL] U-boat Historical Specifications (UHS)

[Capt Jack Harkness]

Originally Posted by ddrgn

Another thing would be I like my boat lower in the water. During convoy attacks its easy to forget about the DD's buzzing around when focusing on target freighters. The deeper your boat is the less chance of being split in two after being rammed.

Makes sense, but did any boats actually ride like that? I can kinda picture it if they just left port all loaded to the gills with supplies and torpedoes, but it seems to me that if you wanted that low of a draft mid-patrol you'd either have to flood all your trim tanks to compensate for lost weight or partially flood the ballast tanks, which I imagine might be tricky...

[M4XDmG]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack Harkness

Makes sense, but did any boats actually ride like that? I can kinda picture it if they just left port all loaded to the gills with supplies and torpedoes, but it seems to me that if you wanted that low of a draft mid-patrol you'd either have to flood all your trim tanks to compensate for lost weight or partially flood the ballast tanks, which I imagine might be tricky...

Are we talking about "Decks awash" here?