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Originally Posted by iambecomelife
Really like how one of them is a Long Bridge Deck type merchant ... great eye for detail. They were pretty common for companies that needed to ship high volume/low density cargo like cotton or grain....until postwar designs made them obsolete.
Also like that they are low tonnage, unlike the big Liberty & C2 ships you always see in the Silent Hunter series - ships as small as 1,000 GRT were pressed into service in Atlantic convoys, bc every cargo ship was valuable in wartime. This is good to counteract "tonnage inflation".  |
Yes, the most common merchant ships which were sailing into convoys are never modeled...
Kapuhy's merchants are around 2000 tons of displacement. But that's different than GRT !!!