World War 2 era landing craft

[Blakrider]

alot of the landing craft ended up being used as car ferries for river barges and a few countries still use them as landing ships or replenishment ships

[kalos72]

Good stuff thanks. I wonder if the smaller ships could be made from scrapped tankers and such.

My players are caught between just moving back to sailing ships or try to take advantage of some of the technical benefits of the newer designs and such. Wind power is cheap and easy but you just cant move the volume.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by kalos72

Wind power is cheap and easy but you just cant move the volume.

Not that there would be many around post Twilight War but the bigger clipper ships at the end of the Age of Sail could move some pretty impressive tonnages, especially over longer distances where their lack of a fuel load requirement made them more economically efficient than steam powered vessels.

[kalos72]

Thats true...I wish someone had stats for ships like that.

[Blakrider]

here is somthing you may enjoy the specs for a typical channel cat ferry, im sure they were pressed into service and LSD.

[kalos72]

Again, nice find.

[mikeo80]

I read somewhere on this site that the four Iowa class battleships had been activated just like IRL.

I was thinking about the USS Alabama, USS Massachussets, and the USS North Carolina.

IF things get really squirley, wouldn't the govt reach for ANYTHING that floats and has weapons? If any of those ships needed something rebuilt, I think the Navy dept has all of the specs from WWII when these mighty ships were built.

Just my mind drifting down a different path.