Just finished watching the umpteenth rerun the movie, and got it into my head to try and build a dio of the final scene where the DDE rams and rides up onto the U-Boat. But it seems kind of funny. . . I would have thought the weight of the destroyer would drive the sub under the water. Yes/no?
Haven’t built any ship models in a long, long time, so any help and advice will be greatly appreciated.[%-)]
Hey , just finished seeing it too…i was wondering too. i think its called artistc license, anyway its stiil a pretty neat flick
I’m thinking that it be more of a big accordian-like crunch with both giving way vertically and a lot of torn sheet metal. No explosions, at least not at first, a lot of foam and spray.
Having read several first person accounts of operations in the North Atlantic, I’d have to agree that there was some artistic license used, to put it mildly.
Anyway, captains often rammed when they had the chance (which wasn’t often), which crushed their bows and rolled the U-boat over onto her beam. If the corvette struck the U-boat fairly then the pressure hull was breached, else the ship only damaged the U-boat’s casing, and in some cases where the angle was not acute, the two vessels slid off each other. I believe there was more than one case when that happened of the ship’s hull being holed in the machinery spaces by the U-boat’s planes.
Regards,
Bruce
Thanks for the comebacks. I kinda figured Hollywood played fast and loose with the truth, but I still think it would make a cool diorama subject.