How hard is it to sink a ship?

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

They could have done it like that SinkEx we all saw back a few years ago. I think they used that for the Sub Command intro movie as well.

The old HMAS Torrens. The irony is that HMAS Adelaide's sister ship, HMAS Melboure was going to be called Torrens at one stage.
They offer retired ships to the community to sink them as dive wrecks. It also makes old sailors happy that there ship isn't cut up into razor blades.

If the ship is filled with rail road ties it won't sink. But if filled with water of the same weight or open space it is going to the bottom.

It would now, as diver access holes have been cut into the hull. Leave the rail road ties on shore, my train still needs them to run on....

Lets see a FFG-7 equipped with SM-2 and ESSM... damn could be buy her back? Our FFG-7s only got a 76mm gun and torpedoes (soon to lose the 76mm gun)...

Turning warships into floating targets? How would you feel if you were assigned to one them. "We have no main guns, no missiles. But we do have some torpedoes, a rifle and large amounts of surplus baked beans to keep hostile forces away."