Ship Identified TALTHYBIUS Cargo Ship

shadow_wxh · 12-11-20, 03:12 AM

Ever wonder all those nameless generic ship roaming around your SH3 champain map:
Where they all came from?
Are they modelled after real ships?
Do they have a proper name?
Are they showing up at the right place at right time?
Are they assigned to the right country?

Here is a start

Ship Identified TALTHYBIUS Cargo Ship

It was named
KLCS=Heavy Merchant

Talthybius was a 10,224 GRT Cargo liner that was built in 1911 by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Greenock, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom for a British shipping line. She was sunk at Singapore in an air raid in 1942. Salvaged by the Japanese, she was renamed Taruyasu Maru, serving with the Imperial Japanese Navy until 1945 when she either struck a mine off Sado Island and sank or was sunk in an attack by aircraft of Task Force 38. She was salvaged by the British, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Evenlode. She served until 1949, when she was scrapped.

12-11-20, 03:12 AM	#1
shadow_wxh Sparky Join Date: Mar 2017 Posts: 155 Downloads: 112 Uploads: 1	This is a dedicated post to identify those nameless ships Ever wonder all those nameless generic ship roaming around your SH3 champain map: Where they all came from? Are they modelled after real ships? Do they have a proper name? Are they showing up at the right place at right time? Are they assigned to the right country? Here is a start Ship Identified TALTHYBIUS Cargo Ship It was named KLCS=Heavy Merchant Talthybius was a 10,224 GRT Cargo liner that was built in 1911 by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Greenock, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom for a British shipping line. She was sunk at Singapore in an air raid in 1942. Salvaged by the Japanese, she was renamed Taruyasu Maru, serving with the Imperial Japanese Navy until 1945 when she either struck a mine off Sado Island and sank or was sunk in an attack by aircraft of Task Force 38. She was salvaged by the British, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Evenlode. She served until 1949, when she was scrapped. Last edited by shadow_wxh; 12-14-20 at 02:08 PM.