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Originally Posted by Larrywb57
First Patrol out of Midway with the USS Plunger, porpoise class submarine, sonar picked up sound contact. Turned to heading of 106° and surfaced at flank speed towards hearing of sound contact. Using free camera, went in the direction of the sound contact. Came across two fishing vessels and proceeded towards sound contact. The convoy appeared to be in a heading of WNW. Noticed what appeared to be a Medium Composite Freighter was sinking with only the bow above the water. The convoy consisted of a total of four other ships. They were being led by a Corvette Kanamuro Class escort, a Tonan Maru Class was next followed by two Medium Cooler Class ship, the last one on a helming course. As I continued to watch, the escort was leading with the other two ships in a straight line behind. The last Medium Cooler ship started moving in a different direction, SSW. The reason I'm calling attention to this is, there 'might' have been a collision of two convoys before I arrived. My position was long 142° 52'E lat 41°46'E. Time was 08:37 hrs, USS Plunger is Midway base submarine. Using FOTRS version 0.63 downloaded on July 22.
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I'm taking it then that you left from Midway on Dec 8, 1941? I'm not so worried that a convoy collided with another, as much as I am about the harbors getting choked with wrecks, but it still deserves to be looked at, and try to minimize it if we can. Thanks...