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Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey
You found one of the Queens? And not just any Queen but the Queen Elizabeth the largest ship in OM? You sir are a lucky bastard.
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I don't have a better screenshot, a tragedy. It was a pleasant early morning when I stumbled across her south of Ireland. We were homeward bound and had not a single torpedo left. She was steaming westwards at 13 knots. I ordered scope depth and let her approach. When she was 3000m away we surfaced and immediately started to shell her. By that time I thought it was impossible to sink her that way. A giant ship and so little visible damage done. But surprisingly she slowed down fairly quickly after 15-20 hits. Another 20 shells and some faint smoke rose from the stern. She went down with a ladylike gentle groan, no explosion, no big flames. The classy conduct one would expect from a moribund Queen.
