desirableroasted
04-13-10, 08:40 PM
Wise people: give me your thoughts on tihis.
I was leaving Wilhelmshaven, January 1940, taking the usual path. Got about 20 km out. Full watch crew, doing 8 knots, at 1 TC, and suddenly I have dead folks everywhere and flooding in every compartment.
No explosions, no warnings, nothing out there. Clear skies, flat sea, little wind, 1300 or so in the afternoon.
I managed to turn the boat around, and we were pumping, but she sank about a minute later. All hands lost and I play dead is dead...so.
What gets me is that I was riding high and pretty, doing it by the book.
Drifting mine? Maybe, but why would that rip out my conn? Plane? How would it gut every compartment and we never saw it? And in Jan 1940?
Any ideas?
I was leaving Wilhelmshaven, January 1940, taking the usual path. Got about 20 km out. Full watch crew, doing 8 knots, at 1 TC, and suddenly I have dead folks everywhere and flooding in every compartment.
No explosions, no warnings, nothing out there. Clear skies, flat sea, little wind, 1300 or so in the afternoon.
I managed to turn the boat around, and we were pumping, but she sank about a minute later. All hands lost and I play dead is dead...so.
What gets me is that I was riding high and pretty, doing it by the book.
Drifting mine? Maybe, but why would that rip out my conn? Plane? How would it gut every compartment and we never saw it? And in Jan 1940?
Any ideas?