Fish tales

Sturgeon · 10-05-05, 10:31 AM

As I was testing my newly learned manual targeting skills yesterday, I got to thinking. "If I ID this ship incorrectly and sink it, will my log show the correct ID or my false ID." I am quite certain the log will show the correct ID, but I may test this out sometime. Then I started to wonder about real life. Certainly captains occassionally made mistakes identifying ships and it went in their logs incorrectly. Perhaps they ended up under- or overestimating the tonnage they sank. There isn't anything profound in this insight, we all know that tonnage numbers are estimates anyway.

Then I pushed it a little further. A captain (perhaps with his crew's consent) could intentionally overestimate tonnage to bump up his numbers. I am sure this must have happened, since BdU had almost no way to verify kills. But is there any evidence that any captains completely falsified logs, entering kills that never happened? Can any of you history buffs shed any light on this?

Sturgeon

10-05-05, 10:31 AM	#1
Sturgeon Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 14 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Fish tales As I was testing my newly learned manual targeting skills yesterday, I got to thinking. "If I ID this ship incorrectly and sink it, will my log show the correct ID or my false ID." I am quite certain the log will show the correct ID, but I may test this out sometime. Then I started to wonder about real life. Certainly captains occassionally made mistakes identifying ships and it went in their logs incorrectly. Perhaps they ended up under- or overestimating the tonnage they sank. There isn't anything profound in this insight, we all know that tonnage numbers are estimates anyway. Then I pushed it a little further. A captain (perhaps with his crew's consent) could intentionally overestimate tonnage to bump up his numbers. I am sure this must have happened, since BdU had almost no way to verify kills. But is there any evidence that any captains completely falsified logs, entering kills that never happened? Can any of you history buffs shed any light on this? Sturgeon