|
Buck Beach -> RE: Babes Medium (6/16/2010 3:23:51 PM)
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: JWE
quote:
ORIGINAL: Don Bowen
quote:
ORIGINAL: Andrew Brown
I just got around to downloading this mod and I hope to begin playing it as soon as an updated version is released.
Just one tiny nitpick - I think HMAS Doomba was based in Sydney, not Darwin (unless you have better information than I do?).
Andrew
Checked Niehorster and he says Melbourne.
I think you're both kinda right.
What I could find out was Doomba was requisitioned 9/03/39 from Brisbane Tug & Steamship Co; went to Sydney for guns and DCs; commissioned 9/25/39 and served as minesweeper for the Wilsons Promontory, Cape Otway area. Have some pics of her at Station Pier in Melbourne, but in 1940.
12/21/41 was back in Sydney to get ASDIC gear and a couple more K-bangers. Still operating out of Sydney during the midget attack in May, and believe she even dropped on one of the little critters.
So Dec. 7, maybe Melbourne, but two weeks later was at Sydney for an upgrade. We don't have the upgrade in the game, she starts out with her DC load.
Maybe have her arrive in-game at Sydney on 411221 with some SysDam?
Not a big thing but since you mentioned it, I personally assigned System and Engine damage (out of the air number) for those USN ships in California reflecting as undergoing overhaul at this California historical site.
http://www.militarymuseum.org/MilitaruUnits7Dec.html
I also seem to recall there were a couple in the shipyards in Washington, but can't remember the source at this moment.
Buck
|
|
|
|
