Sunk with one fish!

[simonb1612]

Has anyone else managed to sink the huge european liner with just one torpedo?
I was on patrol off Honshu, mid june 1942, just SSE of Yokosuka, Hit her from about 2000m, torpedo depth of 20. The torpedo struck between the smoke stacks, 5 seconds later one huge explosion and "enemy unit destroyed" is reported, when the second fish I had launched hit home a few seconds later the liner took a noesdive and was completely below the waves within a minute.
USS Drum out of Pearl, now on her 3rd mission. Headed to the patrol the seas off the Mariana Islands

[orangenee]

It's not unheard of, you probably got a sweet spot or an ammo storage area or something like that but one hits on big targets like that are rare though.

[Suicide Charlie]

It'd be interesting if somebody put together some kind of program or outside add-on that recorded your torpedo and deck gun shell activity (fires, hits, misses) as well as linked it to a layout of modified Recogintion Manual file that showed the division of each ships compartments and your percentage of hits within compartment parameters. Perhaps a spread sheet of what each compartment is thought to contain and a log of what each sunken merchant was carrying.

It would help captains out in finding weakspots and characteristics of each engaged ship and review their patrols. Kind of like a self de-briefing.