The Knights of the Sea - A DCS Add on

[Hawkeye60]

The Knights of the Sea

This is NOT a link to the sim of a similar name!

Long in the making, and finally here,

Presents,

The Knights of the Sea

Patrol Torpedo Boats In DCS

A large collection of boats

Took forever to make them all work as intended.

It required a sim Up-date as well.

A labor of love!

There are a few from Markindel as well,

re made by me to work in the current build

All work is my own

A saved games instal

OvGME ready

The included boats, all as separate mods inside the main zip

ELCO 80 Class PT Boat

German Torpedo Boat T14

Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat PT-73

IJN Torpedo Boat No 2

IJN Torpedo Boats

Motor Torpedo Boat PT-3  and PT-6

Patrol Torpedo Boat PT-109 Pacific

Patrol Torpedo Boat PT-328 Pacific

PBR 31 Mk.II Patrol Boat Riverine

Royal Navy Fairmile C Motor Gun Boat

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser

Schnellboot S11

Swift Patrol Boat

Torpedo Boat PT-109

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8hkoc4nk9t2htkicv7uij/Knights-of-the-Sea.zip?rlkey=f7nqzrhhui1941d44h2cpbhb3&st=lgv2da7d&dl=0

Please report any bugs or issues to me via PM

I will fix them ASAP

 

PT Boats of World War II: From Home Front to Battle

 

US Navy/National Archives 80-G-345819
Introduction

PT (Patrol, Torpedo) boats were small, fast, and expendable vessels for short range oceanic scouting, armed with torpedoes and machine guns for cutting enemy supply lines and harassing enemy forces. Forty-three PT squadrons, each with 12 boats were formed during World War II by the U.S. Navy. PT boat duty was very dangerous and the squadrons suffered an extremely high loss rate in the war.
From Design Competition to Home Front Production

In 1938 the US Navy sponsored a design competition to small boat builders with a challenge to create a highly mobile attack boat. Prizes were awarded for the winning PT boat designs. Not long after the U.S. entry into the war, there were roughly a dozen separate manufacturers of PT boats from the United States, Canada and Great Britain supplying the US Navy. Eventually Elco (Elco Motor Yachts) with a factory located in Bayonne, New Jersey and Higgins Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana were the dominant two builders with Elco producing the largest number. In the later years of the war the U.S. Navy standardized the design and construction of the PT boat. Two basic and distinctly different types of PT Boats were built for combat with the predominant PT, the 80-foot long "Elco" boat, and the slightly smaller 78-foot long "Higgins” boat. By the end of World War II, 399 Elco PTs had been built. Higgins built 199 or 205 PTs, depending on which figures are used.

Elco answered the call to design a PT boat by purchasing a new Scott-Paine motor torpedo boat from England and having it shipped to Electric Boat’s Groton plant. Dubbed PT-9, America’s first PT boat was subjected to numerous sea trials, alone and against other PTs in prototype stages. Over the next two years, PT-9 and subsequent Elco-improved PTs won a series of comparison “plywood derbies” In 1939 Elco doubled the size of its plant and tripled its capacity in order to build PTs. At the height of its PT boat production, Elco employed more than 3,000 men and women working three shifts a day six days a week. They produced, on average, one PT boat every 60 hours. Along with Elco, Higgins Industries made a strong impression with its PT boats in the “plywood derbies."

Based in New Orleans, Higgins Industries was a small boat company owned by Andrew Jackson Higgins. Higgins built a wide array of boats. Most World War II historians often equate the beach landing crafts used at Normandy and Iwo Jima simply as “Higgins boats." The first Higgins PT boats were used against the Imperial Japanese forces in the Battle for the Aleutian Islands and in the Mediterranean against Nazi Germany and her allies. They were used to support the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. PT boats were used for harassing enemy shore installations, supporting friendly troop landings, destroying floating mines, sinking enemy shipping targets, destroying enemy landing barges, rescuing downed pilots, landing partisans behind enemy lines, and attacking enemy island outposts.
A smiling, shirtless Lt. John F. Kennedy in cockpit of PT-109
Lieutenant John F. Kennedy sitting in the cockpit of World War II Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109.

Photographer unknown. Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
A Future U.S. President’s Tale of Heroism: PT-109

Perhaps the best known PT was skippered by Lieutenant and later U.S. President John F. Kennedy. An 80-foot Elco boat, PT-109 was operating in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific and joined 14 other PT boats for a nighttime ambush of four enemy destroyers and supply ships of Japan’s “Tokyo express." Most of the PT boat attack force fired their compliment of torpedoes and headed for home, but three boats stayed behind including the 109. In the confusion and darkness at sea, Lieutenant Kennedy noted a vague shape approaching him. He assumed it was a sister PT boat, but soon discovered it was a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy attempted to swing his boat into position to fire a torpedo, but was not fast enough. The much larger destroyer hit the 109 broadside at full speed nearly splitting the much smaller wooden boat in half. Kennedy and the survivors swam nearly 3 miles to a small island. After a week of surviving on small islands with the help of Solomon Islands locals, Kennedy and the 109’s surviving crew were rescued by PT-157.
two photos: left: long ship with spotted paint moving quickly through water. Color photo of same ship in a building.
PT 617 in the water in the 1940s and in 2007 at Battleship Cove, MA.

[Rudel_chw]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for sharing these ships, I gave them just a quick trial and some are very detailed and look superb, but others seem to be out of scale. Haven't tried yet to see how they do battle, but the Mission Editor shows several of them as CC (cruiser) type ships, which seems not correct, hopefully that does not impact on their combat ability, will test more carefully during the week-end.

 

 

 

Best regards, and thanks again 

 

 

Eduardo

[Seaside]

Sweet