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ORIGINAL: Yaab

From Wikipedia about Ulithi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulithi

"On 23 September 1944, a regiment of the United States Army's 81st Division landed unopposed, followed a few days later by a battalion of Seabees.[13] The survey ship USS Sumner examined the lagoon and reported it capable of holding 700 vessels—a capacity greater than either Majuro or Pearl Harbor. "

Now, I know anchorages did not make it into WITP:AE. Still, is there a complete list of anchorages and their capacity made by USN during WW2?

Ulithi anchorage - 700 ships
Majuro - ?
Peral Harbor -?
Simpson Harbor (Rabaul) -?

BTW, Majuro is a total non-entity in WITP-AE.

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

Wait, did USN submarines ever use anchorages? In the Ulithi photos all ships look like surface ships to me.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

From Wikipedia about Ulithi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulithi

"On 23 September 1944, a regiment of the United States Army's 81st Division landed unopposed, followed a few days later by a battalion of Seabees.[13] The survey ship USS Sumner examined the lagoon and reported it capable of holding 700 vessels—a capacity greater than either Majuro or Pearl Harbor. "

Now, I know anchorages did not make it into WITP:AE. Still, is there a complete list of anchorages and their capacity made by USN during WW2?

Ulithi anchorage - 700 ships
Majuro - ?
Peral Harbor -?
Simpson Harbor (Rabaul) -?

BTW, Majuro is a total non-entity in WITP-AE.

Seems like a fools errand - ships vary in size from 80 ton PT boats to 45,000 ton BBs/CVs. How can you figure out how many without knowing the specific size of the vessels and how long their anchor tether would normally be?

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

From Wikipedia about Ulithi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulithi

"On 23 September 1944, a regiment of the United States Army's 81st Division landed unopposed, followed a few days later by a battalion of Seabees.[13] The survey ship USS Sumner examined the lagoon and reported it capable of holding 700 vessels—a capacity greater than either Majuro or Pearl Harbor. "

Now, I know anchorages did not make it into WITP:AE. Still, is there a complete list of anchorages and their capacity made by USN during WW2?

Ulithi anchorage - 700 ships
Majuro - ?
Peral Harbor -?
Simpson Harbor (Rabaul) -?

BTW, Majuro is a total non-entity in WITP-AE.

Seems like a fools errand - ships vary in size from 80 ton PT boats to 45,000 ton BBs/CVs. How can you figure out how many without knowing the specific size of the vessels and how long their anchor tether would normally be?

Check out https://ww2db.com/images/56230bdd7944e.jpg

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Now, I know anchorages did not make it into WITP:AE. Still, is there a complete list of anchorages and their capacity made by USN during WW2?

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BTW, Majuro is a total non-entity in WITP-AE.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

From Wikipedia about Ulithi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulithi

"On 23 September 1944, a regiment of the United States Army's 81st Division landed unopposed, followed a few days later by a battalion of Seabees.[13] The survey ship USS Sumner examined the lagoon and reported it capable of holding 700 vessels—a capacity greater than either Majuro or Pearl Harbor. "

Now, I know anchorages did not make it into WITP:AE. Still, is there a complete list of anchorages and their capacity made by USN during WW2?

Ulithi anchorage - 700 ships
Majuro - ?
Peral Harbor -?
Simpson Harbor (Rabaul) -?

BTW, Majuro is a total non-entity in WITP-AE.

Seems like a fools errand - ships vary in size from 80 ton PT boats to 45,000 ton BBs/CVs. How can you figure out how many without knowing the specific size of the vessels and how long their anchor tether would normally be?

Check out https://ww2db.com/images/56230bdd7944e.jpg

Link says I am forbidden from accessing it.
I have seen many pics of Ulithi with the fleet anchored there anyway.

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Try this link https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=25072 and the "full resolution" link provided on the page.

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

Ships are at anchor in Ulithi.

Jap air raid incoming!

Questions:
-how ships at anchor are generating electricity? Batteries/ secondary generators?
-if no electricity avaialble, no analog computers/fire directors working plus AA mounts have to be traversed manually, right? Then flak accuracy would drop, resembling Jap flak, right?

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

Ships are at anchor in Ulithi.

Jap air raid incoming!

Questions:
-how ships at anchor are generating electricity? Batteries/ secondary generators?
-if no electricity avaialble, no analog computers/fire directors working plus AA mounts have to be traversed manually, right? Then flak accuracy would drop, resembling Jap flak, right?

It's probably not going to matter, because of all the Corsairs etc flying CAP.

The more serious answer is that some ships had auxiliary diesels to generate power, or simply kept a boiler lit, and could do the old coal era oil spray trick* for a fast start (not fast enough to get going for a couple of hours, but fast enough to power up the turrets etc). There was a recent Drachinifel video where he mentioned this.

[* I don't understand the engineering of it, but it has something to do with heating the oil so that it becomes more inflammable - and allegedly room temperature standard bunkerage is not very inflammable to start with - and then spraying a rich mix on the flames to heat up things faster. Or something like that. Perhaps someone with some engineering fu can actually explain it correctly.)

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Try this link https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=25072 and the "full resolution" link provided on the page.