Great!!!!!!!!!

[StarLion45]

:D Hi there everyone !
I have been transfered to "La Spezia" in july '43 .
And I was ordered to patrol grid "CH73" for 24hrs .
And when I was cruising down to "CH73" I had to pass the grid area CH82-84 ,
and suddently my watch officer scream "ship spotted , sir" , and I realize I was very close to a convoy with only one " Hunt class" and he didn't knew I was there ( thank god):roll: I ordered periscope depth , and full speed ahead and I was about 3500 mtrs when I ordered "silent running" , and there I saw her "S.S. Ibelin" ( HMT Aquitania ) 45557 tons .
She was only 3000 mtrs away when I ordered to fire 2 torps . Two explosions and down she goes , but the " Hunt class" didn't find me:cool: And there was another ship there too that I want to sink " S.S. Empress of Britain" so I ordered to more torps , and there she goes too , I took a screenshot of Empress of britain , but with "S.S. Ibelin" it happens to fast to take a screenshot.
But it's so strange with only one "Hunt class" to guard the ships so late in the war ?!

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7207/screenshotempressofbritnw2.jpg

[Task Force]

In early war Ive seen the same thing. Two aux cruisers and a single distroyer. Was so easy to take it all out. Sank the aux cruisere and the distroyers. (patrol before I sank the warspite, and eight distroyers.):rock:

[baggygreen]

It may seem odd but was common practice through the med for there to be small, lightly armed convoys like the one you stumbled across. this was mainly due to numbers i've been led to believe, there werent enough destroyers around to cover the huge number of shipping lanes as well as the troop convoys and task forces

[Jimbuna]

Liners coverted for troopship duties nearly always travelled unescorted because of the high speeds they could perform.

As time went on Aquitania grew older and was scheduled to be replaced by RMS Queen Elizabeth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth) in 1940 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940). This plan was shattered with the coming of World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II). In 1940 Aquitania was in New York awaiting further orders. For a time she was tied up alongside RMS Queen Mary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary), RMS Queen Elizabeth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth) and the Normandie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie) and the four ships made an impressive sight amongst large liners. Shortly after Aquitania sailed for Sydney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney), Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia), in her Cunard colors, to become a troop transport. Aquitania served valiantly as a troop transport, just as she had in World War I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I). Later in 1940 Aquitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, SS Ile de France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ile_de_France) and other ships sailed in a magnificent convoy out of Sydney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney), Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia). In November 1941 Aquitania was in Singapore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore) (then still a British colony) getting a drabbish grey paint job and later set sail to take part indirectly in the loss of the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Sydney_%281934%29). The Sydney had engaged in battle with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_auxiliary_cruiser_Kormoran). There has been much unsubstantiated speculation that Kormoran was expecting Aquitania, after spies in Singapore had notified Kormoran's crew of the liner's sailing, and planned to ambush her in the Indian Ocean west of Perth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth%2C_Western_Australia) but instead encountered Sydney on November 19 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_19). Both ships were lost after a fierce battle and a short time later Aquitania arrived on the scene to pick up survivors of the German ship, the captain going against orders not-to-stop for survivors of sinkings. There were no survivors from the Sydney. In her eight years of further military work, Aquitania sailed more than 500,000 miles, and carried nearly 400,000 soldiers, to and from places as far afield as New Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand), Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia), the South Pacific (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania), Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece) and the Indian Ocean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean).

In late August 1939, the Queen Mary was on a return run from New York to Southampton. However, the international situation led to her being escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Hood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood_%2851%29). She arrived safely, and set out again for New York on 1 September (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1). By the time she arrived, the Second World War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_World_War) had started and she was ordered to remain in post until further notice alongside the Normandie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie). In 1940 the Queen Mary and the Normandie were joined in New York by Queen Mary's new running mate Queen Elizabeth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Elizabeth) fresh from her secret dash from the Clydebank. The three largest liners in the world sat idle for some time until the Allied commanders decided that all three ships could be used as troopships (unfortunately, the Normandie would be destroyed by fire during her troopship conversion). The Queen Mary left New York for Sydney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%2C_Australia), where she, along with several other liners, was converted into a troopship to carry Australian and New Zealand soldiers to the United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom). Eventually joined by the Queen Elizabeth, they were the largest and fastest troopships involved in the war, often carrying as many as 15,000 men in a single voyage, and often travelling out of convoy and without escort.