Japanese Merchant Marine in AEThe state of Japan merchant marine, on ‘opening day’ is as follows: fa

[JWE]

The state of Japan merchant marine, on ‘opening day’ is as follows: fast/modern vessels, built after 1930, or so;
7000 GRT+…..107
3500 GRT+…..124
1000 GRT+…..49
slower/older vessels, from War-1 till the late ‘20s and early 30s, or so.
7000 GRT+…..196
3500 GRT+…..113
1750 GRT+…..184
1000 GRT+…..232
These figures do not, not, not, include tonnages for tankers, passenger ships, navy conversions to AMCs, ASs, AVs, CVs, etc.. If you run statistics, the numbers will be in the ball park, but within 10-20% because I used big buckets to do this. Actuals are way more grainy and better representative.

‘Opening day’ ships are listed “by name” and by class, according to lists developed by Lloyds, the ONI, you name it. My confidence level is high that the 12/41 Japan merchant marine is “korect”.

OK, new construction: here it is.

...….......GRT.....DwT..........42.....43.....44.....45

1A..........6400.....10425.........0…...1.…..2.…...0
2A..........6600.....11200.........0…...3.....37.....34
2AT*......6600.....11200.........0…...0.....39…...5
1B..........4675.....7350..........5..….16.…..0…...0
1C..........2700.....4475..........10.....34.....10.…..0
2D..........2300.....3850..........0..…...0.....52.....29
1D..........1900.....2850..........7…...27…...6..….0
2E....…....875.....1580..........0.…..58.....296.....54
2ET*........870.....1680..........0.…...9.....112.....17
3E......…...870.....1540..........0…....0.…...0.....26
3ET*........870.....1605..........0.…...0..….11.…..0
1E.....…....835.....1265..........6…...13…...4.…..1
1F.....…....490.....700..…......0…....8.…..23…...4

and as to AE, here’s what we got.
Std-A………….95 (121 built, so need 26 more)
Std-B………….21
Std-C………….54
Std-D………….86 (121 built, so need 35 more)
Only 61 ships short of the entire wartime Japanese construction program (26 type-As and 35 type-Ds), will probably be done by the time you read this.

Sources: Jenchura, Hume, Parrillo, Eldredge, Inamura, and Chin.

[Terminus]

Nice job, John...[&o]

[GaryChildress]

Awesome!! [&o]

[Don Bowen]

Y'all gonna need straps to hold your chins up when you see the OOB and artwork!

[Terminus]

I'm still scheduled for chin surgery after the first drafts of it...[:D]

[Don Bowen]

Just got an OOB update - you could probably hear my jaw hit my desk!

Not done yet but the detail and artwork are superb. I'll say again, y'all are gonna love it!

[Terminus]

So that's what that *THUMP* was...[:D]

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

So that's what that *THUMP* was...[:D]

No that was Don slapping the side of his monitor with the lastest reports I sent him...

[Terminus]

Wonder how much money he's had to spend on new monitors throughout the AE project?[:D]

[Don Bowen]

ORIGINAL: treespider

ORIGINAL: Terminus

So that's what that *THUMP* was...[:D]

No that was Don slapping the side of his monitor with the lastest reports I sent him...

Actually I hired two large fellows with baseball bats to express my appreciation. They should be by sometime after dark...

[Don Bowen]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Wonder how much money he's had to spend on new monitors throughout the AE project?[:D]

Actual we take up collections. Speaking of which, your donations have been a little light this year...