Pointer and memory allocation problem

Alright, I'm making an object oriented Battleship game, there are 2 classes, 'Ship' and 'Board'

The board is the ocean that the ships are placed in, and there are 2 objects of this class for every game that is played.

The class contains a member variable m_oceanArray of type short int.

Code:

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short int *m_oceanArray;

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The classes constructor then trys to initalize this pointer to a size of [x] and [y]. X and Y are two values passed to the constructor, based on the users input.

Code:

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m_oceanArray = new short int[x][y];

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I'm probably doing something horribly wrong, but I don't know what! Logic suggests I have to use something like realloc() to do this, but I'm unsure..

Thanks in advance.

Theres some code here that will show you what you need to do.
This thread

Code:

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bool **m_shipsDamage;
short int **m_shipsLength;

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Code:

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Ship::Ship(short int length)
{

        m_shipsDamage = new bool * [2];
        m_shipsLength = new short int * [2];

        for (short int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
        {
                m_shipsDamage[i] = new bool[length];
>                m_shipsLength[i] = new short int * [2];
        }
};

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> BattleshipV2.cpp(182) : error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'short ** ' to 'short *' Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast.


I have no idea what this is.. nor how to fix it.. I got a few other errors when making a refrence to the matrix, but I fixed it by sticking a * infront.