Floating docks - how to sink them?

DirtyACE · 02-12-08, 12:30 AM

Entered Loch Ewe and saw a floating dock. Is it best to hit it with impacts or magnetics? And how many torps does it usually take?

Sag75 · 02-12-08, 12:49 AM

Hi,
yestersay i just sunk one, at Dover harbour. Its draft is around some meters, so i set torpedo depth at 1 meter, impact pistol.

just one torpeto and it went down suddently!

bye,
S75

FIREWALL · 02-12-08, 01:20 AM

What's the renoun for a Floater ?

T.Von Hogan · 02-12-08, 01:36 AM

Not sure torps were given out to sink a dock, maybe what pulls up to it but not the dock itself. Did Bernard get a helm?

DirtyACE · 02-12-08, 05:26 AM

I sunk the dock, took only one impact torp and you get 26,000 tons. Very nice!

Jimbuna · 02-12-08, 05:53 AM

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!

Brag · 02-12-08, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by DirtyACE

I sunk the dock, took only one impact torp and you get 26,000 tons. Very nice!

I guess, that could be called a docker's strike.

Hanomag · 02-12-08, 09:37 AM

Kaluen,

26000 tons for a dock???

TomcatMVD · 02-12-08, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Hanomag

Kaluen,

26000 tons for a dock???

There was something "on" it for sure.

NealT · 02-12-08, 11:41 AM

Don't know what the renoun is but I have sunk 'several'.

It has only taken 1 fish each time.
Each time - dock loaded or unloaded - it has been 26k for the tonnage.

Just hit it square on from the side...works like a champ...and the best thing? They are a stationary target !

papa_smurf · 02-12-08, 12:39 PM

Sure floating docks are easy targets, but thats not the way to behave as a U-boat commander. You should be out there in the middle of the atantic in gale force winds and high seas chasing down convoys/lone merchants, and evading depth charge runs by naval forces.

Jimbuna · 02-12-08, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Brag

Quote:

Originally Posted by DirtyACE

I sunk the dock, took only one impact torp and you get 26,000 tons. Very nice!

I guess, that could be called a docker's strike.

Quite!!

bookworm_020 · 02-12-08, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by papa_smurf

Sure floating docks are easy targets, but thats not the way to behave as a U-boat commander. You should be out there in the middle of the atantic in gale force winds and high seas chasing down convoys/lone merchants, and evading depth charge runs by naval forces.

But everyone deserves a break now and then!

Would you say no to 26000 tons on your kill book and the problems it wold cause Churchill when he can't repair his ships?:hmm:

iambecomelife · 02-12-08, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by T.Von Hogan

Not sure torps were given out to sink a dock, maybe what pulls up to it but not the dock itself. Did Bernard get a helm?

In actuality they were sometimes targets. If you check the Allied Warships section on Uboat.net you will notice that British submarines sank some Italian docks in the Med.

DirtyACE · 02-12-08, 06:42 PM

According the the ship recognition manual there are also docks that are 32,000 tons, but either way, they are very easy prey and a nice way to bump up your tonnage.

02-12-08, 12:30 AM	#1
DirtyACE Engineer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 213 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Floating docks - how to sink them? Entered Loch Ewe and saw a floating dock. Is it best to hit it with impacts or magnetics? And how many torps does it usually take?

02-12-08, 12:49 AM	#2
Sag75 XO Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 424 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 0	Hi, yestersay i just sunk one, at Dover harbour. Its draft is around some meters, so i set torpedo depth at 1 meter, impact pistol. just one torpeto and it went down suddently! bye, S75 __________________ Betasom - XI Gruppo Sommergibili Atlantici http://www.betasom.it/forum/index.php

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FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	What's the renoun for a Floater ? __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ??? Last edited by FIREWALL; 02-12-08 at 10:35 AM.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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Hanomag Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: LI NY Posts: 964 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Kaluen, 26000 tons for a dock??? __________________ "Only if I can save first..."

02-12-08, 01:36 AM	#4
T.Von Hogan Planesman Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: mississippi Posts: 190 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	Not sure torps were given out to sink a dock, maybe what pulls up to it but not the dock itself. Did Bernard get a helm?

02-12-08, 05:26 AM	#5
DirtyACE Engineer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 213 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	I sunk the dock, took only one impact torp and you get 26,000 tons. Very nice!

02-12-08, 11:41 AM	#10
NealT Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 2 Meters Below Jimbuna Posts: 1,060 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Don't know what the renoun is but I have sunk 'several'. It has only taken 1 fish each time. Each time - dock loaded or unloaded - it has been 26k for the tonnage. Just hit it square on from the side...works like a champ...and the best thing? They are a stationary target !

02-12-08, 12:39 PM	#11
papa_smurf Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: High Peak, Derbyshire Posts: 2,851 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Sure floating docks are easy targets, but thats not the way to behave as a U-boat commander. You should be out there in the middle of the atantic in gale force winds and high seas chasing down convoys/lone merchants, and evading depth charge runs by naval forces. __________________

02-12-08, 06:42 PM	#15
DirtyACE Engineer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 213 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	According the the ship recognition manual there are also docks that are 32,000 tons, but either way, they are very easy prey and a nice way to bump up your tonnage.