[REL] The Little Ships of SH5 - Coaster Pack

iambecomelife · 02-17-22, 12:24 PM

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".

02-17-22, 12:24 PM	#12
iambecomelife Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 4,587 Downloads: 297 Uploads: 0	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". __________________ https://www.facebook.com/WolvesoftheKaiser/