Damaged carriers

[Rainerle]

Well o.k. I can agree on 'sunk is sunk' for UV but for WitP there have to be some rules. AFAIK several ships that were 'sunk' at Pearl Harbour were raised, repaired and sent into service. It might take a year or two but thats just natural istn't it ?

respectfully
Rainerle

[Supervisor]

Originally posted by Rainerle
Well o.k. I can agree on 'sunk is sunk' for UV but for WitP there have to be some rules. AFAIK several ships that were 'sunk' at Pearl Harbour were raised, repaired and sent into service. It might take a year or two but thats just natural istn't it ?

respectfully
Rainerle

There's a whole long thread on that subject in the WitP forum.

Not up to the level of production threads there --- or the B17 threads here, either, but still quite respectable.

[Kingfish]

Long Lance has a point, raising them is one thing, fixing them is quite another.

USS California took relatively light damage at Pearl (only two bombs) but it was enough to sink her, with only her superstructure above water.

They weren't able to raise her until March '42, and she didn't rejoin the fleet until June '44. And this is with the repairs being done at Puget sound, a facility far more secure and with more resources than anything on the UV map.