Look! Me island!

DavyJonesFootlocker · 05-21-08, 07:36 AM

Ah, I found Trinidad on the map in SH4. Thinking about creating a mission off the coast. Better get me history book out.

Raptor1 · 05-21-08, 09:19 AM

Nothing happened in Trinidad during WWII...

mcf1 · 05-21-08, 09:35 AM

Found a history book about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...dad_and_Tobago

peabody · 05-21-08, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Raptor1

Nothing happened in Trinidad during WWII...

Nuttin happin dere now either.:rotfl::rotfl:

Peabody

Raptor1 · 05-21-08, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by peabody

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Originally Posted by Raptor1

Nothing happened in Trinidad during WWII...

Nuttin happin dere now either.:rotfl::rotfl:

Peabody

Shh, Don't tell everyone...

DavyJonesFootlocker · 05-21-08, 10:57 AM

You are so incorrect! The Royal Navy tangled with a couple of uboats and a u-boat ace was held captive here. They would've fed him to the sharks but sharks find europeans bland-tasting. We need salt!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Yeah Mon!

Read dis, nah mon: http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/1594.html

akdavis · 05-21-08, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Raptor1

Nothing happened in Trinidad during WWII...

So very wrong.

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Most South American oil originated in two places: the rich fields under the shallow Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, adn the British West Indies island of Trinidad...

...Most of the Trinidad oil ws refined on that island. Strategically located close off the northeast coast of Venezuela, Trinidad was also a port of call for ships southbound to Latin American and African ports and for a fleet of shallow-draft ships that carried bauxite (the base mineral for aluminum) north from British Guiana and Dutch Guiana (Surinam) to Trinidad, where the bauxite was transferred to larger ships...

...Of the two U-boats at Trinidad, the enw U-161, commanded by the twenty-eight-year-old Albrecht Achilles making his first patrol as skipper, had the first successes. Cruising bravely into the shallow, confined Gulf of Paria, separating Trinidad from mainland Venezuela, Achilles approached Trinidad's well-lighted principal city, Port of Spain, as though U-161 were a cruise ship. Lying on the surface off Port of Spain just before midnight on February 18 in thirty-six feet of water, Achilles fired a bow salvo at two ships. Two of the four torpedoes failed or missed, but the other two hit a 7,000 ton British tanker and a 7,500 ton American freighter. Both ships settled to the shallow bottom, but both were later salvaged and returned to service.

Fully alive to the strategic importance of Trinidad, both as a source of oil and as a way station for shipping, Admiral Hoover was in the process of creating a powerful ASW base on the island, comparable to that on Iceland. But the work had only just begun and Achilles caught the Allied forces by surprise. Thus he was able to make the long run through shallow waters to open seas on the surface without countermeasures. Although the results were in now way comparable, his bold penetration of the Gulf of Paria was to be compared to Prien's feat at Scapa Flow.[emphasis added]

-Clay Blair, Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942

Raptor1 · 05-21-08, 12:11 PM

Well, I never heard of THAT...

DavyJonesFootlocker · 05-21-08, 12:11 PM

Thank you kind sir. Mr. Peabody and company will now walk the plank. Ignorance is no excuse!

Raptor1 · 05-21-08, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DavyJonesFootlocker

Thank you kind sir. Mr. Peabody and company will now walk the plank. Ignorance is no excuse!

You'll never take me alive!

DavyJonesFootlocker · 05-21-08, 01:07 PM

Oh, yeah!? Just you wait. Bwahahaaaa!

Anyway I'm learning some stuff about the u-boat war here at home. Geez, those Germans were far away from home. But I bet they prefer it there than freezing their butts off in some icy sea. There once was a story of a British Army Corporal who had to be dragged away kicking and screaming when the war ended. He was to be shipped off back home but he wanted to stay and finish his sun tan.

As for modern day Germans- well they're taking over our sister isle of Tobago. We gotta stop them!:rotfl:

peabody · 05-21-08, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by DavyJonesFootlocker

Thank you kind sir. Mr. Peabody and company will now walk the plank. Ignorance is no excuse!

I'm not smart enough to claim ignorance.

Peabody

GerritJ9 · 05-22-08, 10:26 AM

A lot happened in Trinidad when I lived there

Raptor1 · 05-22-08, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by GerritJ9

A lot happened in Trinidad when I lived there

You're old enough to have been there at the 18th century?

akdavis · 05-22-08, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by GerritJ9

A lot happened in Trinidad when I lived there

You're old enough to have been there at the 18th century?

I know you jest, but you do realize that Trinidad is not uninhabited desert isle, don't you?

05-21-08, 07:36 AM	#1
DavyJonesFootlocker The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stink Drunk in Trinidad Posts: 1,572 Downloads: 138 Uploads: 0	Look! Me island! Ah, I found Trinidad on the map in SH4. Thinking about creating a mission off the coast. Better get me history book out. __________________ "Silence means death. Stand on your feet. Inner fear your worst enemy."- Sepultura. My Silent Hunter 5 mantra is this......"Torpedo missed, sir!" A P-400 is a P-40 with a Zero after it. A proud member of the Wikipedia Haters Club

05-21-08, 09:19 AM	#2
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Nothing happened in Trinidad during WWII... __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

05-21-08, 10:57 AM	#6
DavyJonesFootlocker The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stink Drunk in Trinidad Posts: 1,572 Downloads: 138 Uploads: 0	You are so incorrect! The Royal Navy tangled with a couple of uboats and a u-boat ace was held captive here. They would've fed him to the sharks but sharks find europeans bland-tasting. We need salt!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Yeah Mon! Read dis, nah mon: http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/1594.html __________________ "Silence means death. Stand on your feet. Inner fear your worst enemy."- Sepultura. My Silent Hunter 5 mantra is this......"Torpedo missed, sir!" A P-400 is a P-40 with a Zero after it. A proud member of the Wikipedia Haters Club

05-21-08, 12:11 PM	#8
Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Well, I never heard of THAT... __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

05-21-08, 12:11 PM	#9
DavyJonesFootlocker The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stink Drunk in Trinidad Posts: 1,572 Downloads: 138 Uploads: 0	Thank you kind sir. Mr. Peabody and company will now walk the plank. Ignorance is no excuse! __________________ "Silence means death. Stand on your feet. Inner fear your worst enemy."- Sepultura. My Silent Hunter 5 mantra is this......"Torpedo missed, sir!" A P-400 is a P-40 with a Zero after it. A proud member of the Wikipedia Haters Club

05-21-08, 09:35 AM	#3
mcf1 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Greece, Volos Posts: 710 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Found a history book about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...dad_and_Tobago

05-21-08, 01:07 PM	#11
DavyJonesFootlocker The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stink Drunk in Trinidad Posts: 1,572 Downloads: 138 Uploads: 0	Oh, yeah!? Just you wait. Bwahahaaaa! Anyway I'm learning some stuff about the u-boat war here at home. Geez, those Germans were far away from home. But I bet they prefer it there than freezing their butts off in some icy sea. There once was a story of a British Army Corporal who had to be dragged away kicking and screaming when the war ended. He was to be shipped off back home but he wanted to stay and finish his sun tan. As for modern day Germans- well they're taking over our sister isle of Tobago. We gotta stop them!:rotfl: __________________ "Silence means death. Stand on your feet. Inner fear your worst enemy."- Sepultura. My Silent Hunter 5 mantra is this......"Torpedo missed, sir!" A P-400 is a P-40 with a Zero after it. A proud member of the Wikipedia Haters Club

05-22-08, 10:26 AM	#13
GerritJ9 Sonar Guy Join Date: May 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 389 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 6	A lot happened in Trinidad when I lived there __________________ Quamvis Patiens Acris My SH3/SH4 mods: http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/GerritJ9