Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged)

[Hotmanandre]

Somewhere near Norway.
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[cookiemonste]

What boat is that if I may ask?

[RogueUboot]

Been patrolling and tracking some convoy and failling (my very first patrol ever) i kept losing the convoy, couldn't get within range to attack them.

Then i became frustrated and decided to head to the Luzon Strait where i found a small fleet of japanese warships.
Felt sooooooooo good sinking my very first destroyer.


I survived the depth charging that followed with no damage.

Today was a good day.

[LCQ_SH]

So I got this convoy in radar, early 1941 inbound to Manila. Man, why would all the IJN escort fleet is protecting 6 ships? It is only one medium troops carrier, one T2 tanker, a CL, a 7k tons and a small freighter. I mean, back in the days, would this have been possible??

Just look how many escorts there are, and radar is not spotting the other half.

how would you guys attack this crazy convoy?

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by LCQ_SH

So I got this convoy in radar, early 1941 inbound to Manila. Man, why would all the IJN escort fleet is protecting 6 ships? It is only one medium troops carrier, one T2 tanker, a CL, a 7k tons and a small freighter. I mean, back in the days, would this have been possible??

Just look how many escorts there are, and radar is not spotting the other half.

how would you guys attack this crazy convoy?

USS Tang attacked a convoy in June 1944 off Nagsaki, had 6-8 merchants and 16 escorts so yes it did occur.


Game wise. What mods are running? If night is dark(well dark by SH 4 standards ugh) close in close as dare and in range of torpedoes and let them fly or make submerged approached, see if can slip through the screen submerged under thermal layer, then when clear come to scope depth. not easy but possible.

[Bubblehead1980]

January 1944
Fremantle, Australia

USS Jack-Gato Class.

TMO RSRD 100 realism Cams off, contacts on.


Although I added appropriate tanker traffic in East China Sea and planned to patrol where Jack actually did patrol in Feb-March 1944, was assigned to Celebes Choke Point South of Davao Gulf.Knowing this is a target rich area and wanting to test the convoys I modified(upped skill level of escorts to Vet, too many were set low) and made sure tankers were carrying fuel as a loadout(not sure if an error or was on purpose but a lot of tankers in RSRD departing these oil rich territories do not carry fuel, I feel they would have been so those departing do carry fuel now, blow up very nicely as loaded out tankers did when hit)


Departed Fremantle on 17 January 1944, refueled at Exmouth Gulf few days later and headed for Lombok Strait. Entered Lombok Straight afer dark on 22 January 1944, dodged 4 patrols vessels total and exited around 0300. Headed up Makassar Straight. Report of a convoy departing Balikpapan while transiting strait, headed for likely course but never made contact.Continued to patrol area. Dove to avoid several air patrols en route.


1/28/1944 reached patrol area, maintained surface patrol, diving to avoid planes and two corvette type patrol vessels. Around 0800 on 2 February 1944, radar contact on a convoy in the choke point, heading west.Went to GQ, closed at high speed. Radar revealed three ships in single column with three escorts. Dove around 0845 and began to close. Once near track, up scope for a look, had three tankers(one medium, two small, with medium tanker in lead) making 11 knots with two aux subchasers and one Momi patrol boat escorting.

Readied all tubes with plans to fire three Mark 14's at lead medium tanker and two at the middle small tanker.Saving one to make a follow up shot on last one if situation permits.0904 fired torpedoes. Raised scope, heard an alarm sound. The tankers spotted the wakes but it was too late for the medium tanker(Buzyun Maru), all three slammed into tanker, setting her afire but not a massive explosion as tankers tend to do when loaded out with fuel or oil, (westbound tanker must not be loaded with fuel, returning from a run) . Other two missed the small tanker(Haruna Maru) which was able to barely avoid them. With the Buzyun Maru sinking, set up to fire the last torpedo at the Haruna Maru, which was closing in with a nearly 0 AOB. The Momi PB was rushing my way, but was far off as had been sweeping far to the starboard of convoy when attack occurred. Fired tube 6 with it's Mark 14 which hit, but did not exploded. No dud reported, torpedo did not arm.Haruna was boiling in towards our scope.Ordered a dive to 300 feet, silent running.Passed 90 feet as Haruna Maru crossed over.

Soon was at 300 feet when pinging began.First few salvos were ineffective but one escort seemed to get a fix on the Jack, (sounded like the momi) . Soon charges were exploding close. Went to 350 feet, next few salvos were well above. Seems had escaped when suddenly the momi roared in and dropped a pattern, which were close and caused minor damage to pumps and compressor as well as forward battery.

Surfaced about 1300 , radar showed one escort(assume) about 6 miles, sitting still listening. Surfaced and headed on last course of convoy.Soon made contact. Pull ahead, dove and closed in, turned in for stern torpedo attack with Mark 18 electric torpedoes. Both small tankers were making 6 knots and zigging. The port escort was off looking for sub, leaving the entire side exposed. One tanker zigged away so unable to hit it, target next with two Mark 18''s around 1600 hours. Both hit, tanker caught fire but did not exploded. Tanker soon sunk by the bow. both escorts rushed in but never located the Jack.

Surfaced for another end around and waited for dark for night surface attack.

Night was quarter moon with medium clouds and light fog/haze.

Closed to 2,000 yards off port side of the convoy and it's lone small tanker(Haruna Maru) . Fired two Mark 14's. One hit setting her afire. Soon star shells filled air and escorts were rushing toward me as rorared off into the night at 20 knots. The Momi PB had us and was closing , some shell splashes landing in distance.

Readied to fire stern tubes for down the throat shot but the Momi lost us in the night. Setting off in distance. The tanker was wounded but not finished, limping away at a plotted 4 knots. Ended around and by 0130 was again in position to attack. From 2100 yards, fired two Mark 14's, both hit, finishing off the tanker. Sped away into the night, escorts trailing but never spotted us.

Patrolled next few days avoiding planes and patrol vessels.

Around 1000 on February 7, radar made contact with another convoy West of Celebes Choke point in Celebes Sea, heading east .Radar showed three ships with two escorts. Closed in and dove off projected path. Look with scope revealed three large ships and two destroyers escorted. Large ships turned out to be three large tankers(!) and two full fledged DD's(possible Mutsuki class but not sure). Convoy was making 12.5 knots heading NNW. On next observation, convoy zigged and would run over top of us. Went to 100 feet and sped up, would get out from under them and shoot one with Mark 18's in stern tubes, get the other two in follow up attacks.

Back to scope depth, check with scope showed targets coming on nicely at 12.5 knots heading West. Plot showed would fire from 1800 yards. All three large tankers positively identified as NIPPON MARU(10,000 tons) tankers. Tubes opened, fired all four fish at the middle large tanker, down scope.Raised scope, which broke the surface just as torpedo one hit amidships, torpedo 2 hit under the stack aft, which caused a large explosion, setting off a massive secondary explosion, yep this one was loaded with fuel. Other two fish hit but were redundant hits, as tanker was a fireball and destroyed.

Both destroyers roared in quickly, obviously dealing with A team.First run was not effective but second run by second DD, hit close as settled at 300 feet.Flooding in stern torpedo room, damage to pumps, compressor, batteries, stern tubes. Secured from silent running, put DC party to work to stop flooding. More runs occurred as we went to 350 feet, none close. Just as flooding was stopped in stern, a close pattern hit, pumps damaged even more, flooding in control room. Jack sunk to 400 feet before could regain control with ahead standard speed.

After fighting to avoid more charges, flooding in both compartments stopped, water eventually pumped out and went up to 375 feet, silent running.

Some twisting and turning confused the DD's which stayed close but never located us again for sure. Charges were dropped multiple times in distance. One persistent DD stayed behind and hunted for 6 hours total before moving away, allowing Jack to escape. Surfaced at dusk and raced down last known course of convoy.

Established contact around with remaining tankers at 2040. Moon was brighter and no fog but dark enough for night surface attack. Closed on the large tankers now making 11 knots heading West now South of Davao Gulf, bound for Palau most likely.

Both destroyers back in formation. Closed to 3,000 yards and fired three Mark 14's at each tanker. Each tanker exploded in large fireballs, turned and sped away. One DD rushed into our former location and began dropping depth charges. Once he stopped completely to listen, backed down, ready to fire two remaining mark 18's from stern torpedo room. fired both from 3500 yards. When fish were 1,000 yards away, DD sped up and turned North, unaware of the wakeless fish heading his way. With all tankers destroyed and one Mark 14 left in bow tubes, headed for Fremantle via Banda Sea, to Ombai Strait. Dodging patrol planes and vessels, arrived on 17 February 1944.

Total of 6 tankers for 38,000+ tons. Not a bad patrol.

[Bubblehead1980]

TMO RSRD
100 realism no cams, contacts on.
USS Jack

Running my current career and testing hings I've added to TMO RSRD


Departed Fremantle on April 2, 1944 for patrol area off Luzon in East China Sea. After fueling at Exmouth Gulf, chose to make transit via Ombai Strait(Timor), via Banda and Molucca Sea's, up East coastal of Philippines, Enter via Bashi Channel in lieu of running the Lombok/Balabac route this time.

Arrived in patrol Area on April 20, 1944. No contacts other than diving for planes. I added the Take Ichi convoy and an Ultra concerning this important convoy(Ultra did not show up properly) but also a contact report on evening of 24th showed up. I raced North towards Luzon Straits(Convoy College) and made radar contact around 1300 on April 25.

Attempted to get into position for submerged attack and had a nice set up but after run in, came to scope depth, could see smoke was in different direction.Sound and then radar showed they had zigged. Surfaced and raced , planning to attack on next zig, which should be about dusk.

Once again as prepared to attack, was thwarted as an enemy escort making a wide sweep preventing us from closing. Decided(as Jack was forced to do in real life, on a night surface attack). On the next zig, was in a good position and closed in toward starboard side of convoy. Counted 15 ships in two columns in main body witth 13 escorts(!) on radar. Made inside screen and ready to shoot from 3700 yards on two very large troopships. when suddenly a Kamikaze class destroyer turned turned us at high speed. No way could have seen us from this distance, guessing he has radar(did not have boat equipped with radar warning equipment yet) . Reset TDC as targets while still making a medium speed, were zig zagging. However while waiting for ideal firing time. A shell splashed close by. Forcing a crash dive. Before sub went under, sent final bearing to TDC and fire. Using spread knob to spread out the fish.

All six fish sped away as we went under and to silent running, as escorts closed. External cam off by soon heard a torpedo impact and many seconds later, another one. Two out of six impacted something. Soon we were at 300 feet, taking a pretty intense depth charging. Forcing Jack to 375 to get under the large patterns being laid down. Some close ones caused flooding in after torpedo room, damaged stern tubs, compressor, pumps, diesels and electrics as well as batteries. Flooding was soon controlled. After about two hours, escorts lost contact. Surfaced and began the run back to get into position. Obvious we would have to fire from long range(as Jack did in real life). Set up aft next zig, closed to 7100 yards and set up to fire. Fired at center of first column, aiming for large troopships, zigging making 10.5 knots.Turned for stern shot(although number 8 torpedo tube was not operational yet) and fired three more.


After a long torpedo run, three hits in quick succession, set the large ship on fire and from TBT, could see it settling in the water. Two stern torpedoes impacted a large ship in second column as well. Soon, the large troopship was sinking(later identified as Kotobuki Maru 18,000 tons). Other was on fire but not sinking.Not bad for such long range shooting on zigging targets Raced away and reloaded last four bow tubes and my the the operational stern tubes.

Prepared for a follow up night surface attack but was spoiled by convoy zigging away and alert radar equipped escorts forcing me to pull away in lieu of diving.

As dawn approached dove deep and closed in at high speed, planning to shoot from 1,000 yards. All torpedo tubes now operational. After reaching predetermined point, sound checked, came to scope depth. Convoy had moved a little sounth, I was 2400 yards from desired point and an enemy escort was near.I went deep but soon he was close and started pinging. Other escorts closed in, unleashing a serious attack.

Rudder transmission was knocked out, leaving turning ability limited, batteries, pumps, compressor damaged, stern tubes damaged. Prop prop shaf damaged.Forced 400 feet and eventually 450 to get out from under.Finally around 0700, lost them. Crew was exhausted with fatigue levels high and damage to repair. Surfaced and prepared to shadow convoy and attack later in the day or in evening. Stern tubes were revealed to be destroyed and rudder transmission repairs were taking a long time. Lost contact with convoy.

Headed back to patrol area and made contact with a southbound convoy that night. With just four bow torpedoes left and stern tubes non operational, this was last attack before heading home. Convoy was 10 ships and 4 escorts. Moved in on surface after dark. Flank escort forced to fire early but targeted a large merchant(NAGARA MARU), scoring four hits, she quickly sank. We raced away with Type C escort in pursuit, but was able to pull away.

Arriving in Balabac Strait found some fishing boats which opened fire on us, obviously pickets. Quickly dispatched them with 40 MM and 4 inch deck gun fire. While making the transit, encountered an armed tug on patrol. Closed in quietly in darkness and at 3,000 yards, opened fire, setting it ablaze and quickly sinking her.

Made run for Lombok Strait arriving. Evaded North patrol but was constantly hounded by a fast moving vessel which soon revealed to be an enemy PT boat, which reported us as the South guard was on radar and moving towards our location. Seas were heavy so only manned 40 MM guns turned towards the PT boat which shined a spotlight on us and opened fire with automatic weapons. Scored hits on the PT with 40 MM guns, causing large explosions and she sank quickly. Avoided the in rushing patrols and exited the South of Lombok Strait before dawn. Forced to dive multiple times due to air patrols after dawn.

Arrived at Fremantle few days after. few screenshots I remembered to take.

[propbeanie]

Cool beans, man... How did you try to do the Ultra? via the contact stuff for the group in the MIS file, or a message generated with Trigger and Event stuff?...

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Cool beans, man... How did you try to do the Ultra? via the contact stuff for the group in the MIS file, or a message generated with Trigger and Event stuff?...

The text file titled "messages" in the campaign file. I was told could add it there, would appear at date and time. I must have did something wrong as it did not arrive(want to figure that out before release) as the other messages do in RSRD advising of convoys etc. The contact report(shows on map and in the text box above) did arrive 3 days into the voyage as planned.Sure you are aware you set that in the properties section of the random group under the "Contact Automatic Report". Set by minutes, so put the number of minutes that equals three days since it's departure which put the convoy in Luzon Straits area. Probability set to 100% I believe.

This convoy and the one Tang attacked on June 24 that I added are a lot of fun but may have to make some changes.For some reason some of the new ships from FOTRS have a hard time maintaining station, a lot of moronic behavior as opposed to the "native" ships.

Tough choice , because it's nice having different targets to shoot at besides the same 6 or 7 merchants.

[propbeanie]

I've been experimenting along similar lines as you are, for keltos01 and the Climb Mount Niitaka, and I'm encountering similar issues. I'm not sure if it's "environmental", or something with the settings in the ships themselves. I haven't gotten that deeply into it yet. I want to try to find something "concrete", you know? - SIM files?? It seems to be ships' physics, but I don't know. Something that works reasonably well in FotRSU, but not outside of it... But the game really is full of balancing acts, and not having the documentation that the devs had, we don't have the ins and outs, so, "experimentation" is the word of the year, or however long it takes...

As for faking the Ultra messaging, I was going to try several ways concurrently in a single MIS file with several RGG in it, in the campaign folder, emptying all the other Campaign files out of there, other than the necessities. Then see if the "ReportPosMin=" and "ReportPosProbability=" working with the "HighPrioContact=" (or not), generates a strong enough report (it'd just be in the little text box where crew dialog shows, or whether I'd use a Trigger / Event in the MIS file to generate an actual prompt and "Radio Message" that would pop-up on the screen, or maybe a "normal" message from the "messages.txt" file that you get a prompt about, but doesn't open, or maybe use a combination of some or all of them... Does it appear then that the "messages.txt" stuff does hit when the date / time are encountered? Have you tried a "Save / Load" of the mission and see what that does to the message that way?...

Ratz, sorry mods, we're doing this in the Reports thread... I'll start another thread tomorrow Bubblehead1980, and we'll discuss this fun kind of stuff in it...

[Solyom2]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

TMO RSRD
100 realism no cams, contacts on.
USS Jack

Running my current career and testing hings I've added to TMO RSRD


Departed Fremantle on April 2, 1944 for patrol area off Luzon in East China Sea. After fueling at Exmouth Gulf, chose to make transit via Ombai Strait(Timor), via Banda and Molucca Sea's, up East coastal of Philippines, Enter via Bashi Channel in lieu of running the Lombok/Balabac route this time.

Arrived in patrol Area on April 20, 1944. No contacts other than diving for planes. I added the Take Ichi convoy and an Ultra concerning this important convoy(Ultra did not show up properly) but also a contact report on evening of 24th showed up. I raced North towards Luzon Straits(Convoy College) and made radar contact around 1300 on April 25.

Attempted to get into position for submerged attack and had a nice set up but after run in, came to scope depth, could see smoke was in different direction.Sound and then radar showed they had zigged. Surfaced and raced , planning to attack on next zig, which should be about dusk.

Once again as prepared to attack, was thwarted as an enemy escort making a wide sweep preventing us from closing. Decided(as Jack was forced to do in real life, on a night surface attack). On the next zig, was in a good position and closed in toward starboard side of convoy. Counted 15 ships in two columns in main body witth 13 escorts(!) on radar. Made inside screen and ready to shoot from 3700 yards on two very large troopships. when suddenly a Kamikaze class destroyer turned turned us at high speed. No way could have seen us from this distance, guessing he has radar(did not have boat equipped with radar warning equipment yet) . Reset TDC as targets while still making a medium speed, were zig zagging. However while waiting for ideal firing time. A shell splashed close by. Forcing a crash dive. Before sub went under, sent final bearing to TDC and fire. Using spread knob to spread out the fish.

All six fish sped away as we went under and to silent running, as escorts closed. External cam off by soon heard a torpedo impact and many seconds later, another one. Two out of six impacted something. Soon we were at 300 feet, taking a pretty intense depth charging. Forcing Jack to 375 to get under the large patterns being laid down. Some close ones caused flooding in after torpedo room, damaged stern tubs, compressor, pumps, diesels and electrics as well as batteries. Flooding was soon controlled. After about two hours, escorts lost contact. Surfaced and began the run back to get into position. Obvious we would have to fire from long range(as Jack did in real life). Set up aft next zig, closed to 7100 yards and set up to fire. Fired at center of first column, aiming for large troopships, zigging making 10.5 knots.Turned for stern shot(although number 8 torpedo tube was not operational yet) and fired three more.


After a long torpedo run, three hits in quick succession, set the large ship on fire and from TBT, could see it settling in the water. Two stern torpedoes impacted a large ship in second column as well. Soon, the large troopship was sinking(later identified as Kotobuki Maru 18,000 tons). Other was on fire but not sinking.Not bad for such long range shooting on zigging targets Raced away and reloaded last four bow tubes and my the the operational stern tubes.

Prepared for a follow up night surface attack but was spoiled by convoy zigging away and alert radar equipped escorts forcing me to pull away in lieu of diving.

As dawn approached dove deep and closed in at high speed, planning to shoot from 1,000 yards. All torpedo tubes now operational. After reaching predetermined point, sound checked, came to scope depth. Convoy had moved a little sounth, I was 2400 yards from desired point and an enemy escort was near.I went deep but soon he was close and started pinging. Other escorts closed in, unleashing a serious attack.

Rudder transmission was knocked out, leaving turning ability limited, batteries, pumps, compressor damaged, stern tubes damaged. Prop prop shaf damaged.Forced 400 feet and eventually 450 to get out from under.Finally around 0700, lost them. Crew was exhausted with fatigue levels high and damage to repair. Surfaced and prepared to shadow convoy and attack later in the day or in evening. Stern tubes were revealed to be destroyed and rudder transmission repairs were taking a long time. Lost contact with convoy.

Headed back to patrol area and made contact with a southbound convoy that night. With just four bow torpedoes left and stern tubes non operational, this was last attack before heading home. Convoy was 10 ships and 4 escorts. Moved in on surface after dark. Flank escort forced to fire early but targeted a large merchant(NAGARA MARU), scoring four hits, she quickly sank. We raced away with Type C escort in pursuit, but was able to pull away.

Arriving in Balabac Strait found some fishing boats which opened fire on us, obviously pickets. Quickly dispatched them with 40 MM and 4 inch deck gun fire. While making the transit, encountered an armed tug on patrol. Closed in quietly in darkness and at 3,000 yards, opened fire, setting it ablaze and quickly sinking her.

Made run for Lombok Strait arriving. Evaded North patrol but was constantly hounded by a fast moving vessel which soon revealed to be an enemy PT boat, which reported us as the South guard was on radar and moving towards our location. Seas were heavy so only manned 40 MM guns turned towards the PT boat which shined a spotlight on us and opened fire with automatic weapons. Scored hits on the PT with 40 MM guns, causing large explosions and she sank quickly. Avoided the in rushing patrols and exited the South of Lombok Strait before dawn. Forced to dive multiple times due to air patrols after dawn.

Arrived at Fremantle few days after. few screenshots I remembered to take.

Can I ask what mod do you use, which give a name to the sunk ships? Like in the SH3 Commander.

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Solyom2

Can I ask what mod do you use, which give a name to the sunk ships? Like in the SH3 Commander.

It's my own ship pack I put together to use in TMO/RSRD.Ships from FOTRS, renamed plus ships from Miner's ship pack 1.

The "Kotobuki Maru" is the Conte Verde Liner. I simply copied, renamed, and added it. Japanese renamed the Conte Verde Kotobuki Maru in late 42. While not an actual part of the Take Ichi Convoy in real life, I added two to represent the large troopships that were part of the 15 ship+13 escort convoy and add to importance.


I plan to release the ship pack since it's required for my forthcoming upgrade to RSRD.

[Solyom2]

Oh okay, I see
Thank you!

[Bubblehead1980]

TMO RSRD USS Drum War Patrol 3

100 difficulty. Cams off, contacts on.

Order to patrol Philippine Sea in support of Operation Forager(invasion of Mariana Islands) . departed June 1, 1944 from Pearl Harbor. Refueled at Johnston Island. Headed en route to area at 12 knots to arrive by 6-17-1944 as ordered.

Arrived in area night of June 16th and began patrolling within 50 NM of assigned coordinates as ordered.

June 18- 2004 hours:Radar contact made with large group of ships moving East at high speed. Closed and dived off track at 2150 hours, avoiding the forward destroyer screen.


After a "high speed" run of 6 knots at 350 feet, came to scope depth quietly to find myself in middle of a Japanese task force. 5 or so large columns roughly 3500 yards between ships. Heavy cruisers, escorts carriers, battleships. Soon the large silhouette and pagoda mast structure of a battleship caught my attention in the setting sun so went to 100 feet and paralleled course between the two columns. Went deeper to avoid a marauding destroyer.

Came back to scope depth after 10 minutes, could see the large battleship in scope now at 7,000 yardsand in perfect position to set up on a Yamato Class Battleship. Several observations and speed had slowed from 20 to 12 knots, but no zigging, not alerted. Set all 6 Mar 14's in forward tubes for 25 feet and Mark 18's in stern tubes as well. Next observation a plane was spotted, dipped down to 100 feet, then back up.Opened outer doors as TDC data checked perfect.Came to port to line up for a shot, 1000 yards off port side would be the firing point.

Fired 6 Mark 14's from exactly 1000 yards. The Yamato BB attempted to evade once spotted the wakes but unable, all six torpedoes hit home. Immediately turned to bring stern tubes around. The battleships smoking, slowed to 4.8 knots. Fired all four stern torpedoes. Went to 100 feet, reloading tubes while coming about for another bow shot. Before torpedoes hit, plane dropped two close bombs and sound had a distant DD roaring in.

3 of four Mark 18's hit the the target.While at flank speed now attempting to overtake the slow moving ship(going on sound) . Came back to scope depth. Discovered a second Yamato Class BB trailing the one just torpedoed, coming up fast, suddenly turned towards us, would run us over, forced a dive to 100 feet.Listened as second Yamato roared overhead.

Back to scope depth after Yamato had cleared, we had now pulled ahead of the first Yamato class BB. Would have to hurry, Two DD's from two different directions were rushing in. Luck was on Drum's side, as seas began to pick up, they were coming close, dropping charges but not locating me just yet.

Fired more torpedoes. All hitting and causing large explosions. The Yamato stopped her engines and listed developed. The Destroyer's rushed in pinging, forcing us deep. A few depth charges dropped, just one or two close.

We had fired 15 torpedoes with 14 hits.About 15 minutes after last torpedo hit. A massive series of explosions were heard.Drum was at 400 feet and about 4000 yards from last marked position of the target. Could soon hear breaking up noises and more explosions. Ship reported as sunk. Coming back to surface, could see see her burning, sinking, and large debris field. Went to 300 feet and evaded destroyers.

Surfaced but unable to locate task force as had sped away.

Continued patrol in area, contacted a Task Force on June 19, 1944 around 2000 hours but numerous planes prevented closing on surface.One dropped bombs, prompting two destroyers to coming hunting. Attempted down the throat shot but DD managed to avoid. The pair never came close with charges but hunted us for 5 hours before heading away at high speed.

Upon surfacing ordered to remain in area until 0000 hours on June 20 then return to base. Set course for Pearl Harbor. Arrived on June 8, 1944.


Fun patrol. Believe it's only second time in all years played RSRD had a real shot at Yamato. Tough target.Definitely lucked out being in right place at right time.