UlyssesSGreezie
10-06-17, 04:08 AM
https://i.imgur.com/a/A71Dt
Thought I'd share my first (career) kill with you generally much more experienced guys, so you can share in my sense of accomplishment (or laugh at my expense!).
Sep 4, 1939, patrolling off the coast of Wales, I dove to check for sound contacts as I do fairly often, and pick up a merchant vessel moving slow, long range. I proceed to start following it crudely, drawing lines of where I think it'll go and adjusting it based on my sonarman's reports as I follow. As you can see, the Atlantic was raging, so I couldn't actually see the ship through my periscope until about a kilometer away.
I barely (if at all) used actual methods of tracking down a contact, but it still felt awesome to track it with the hydrophone, update my marks, and then readjust speed and heading accordingly. Eventually through this process I came within a kilometer and raised the periscope. I'm still too new and inexperienced to manually target for an attack, so I locked the ship and starting diverging parallel from it, going about 3 knots faster than it so I'd have room to turn and get an angle. After getting about 400 meters ahead of it, I slowed to 6 knots and turned perpendicular to the ship, trying my best to line up a 90 degree shot in the TDC before I launched tube 1 and split her in half almost perfectly.
It's probably not much of an accomplishment when you compare it to what you other captains have done, but the thrill of the chase and the immense satisfaction I got when I finally sunk her was immediately worth sharing to me. 1 Allied unit sunk so far, here's to many more. :up:
Thought I'd share my first (career) kill with you generally much more experienced guys, so you can share in my sense of accomplishment (or laugh at my expense!).
Sep 4, 1939, patrolling off the coast of Wales, I dove to check for sound contacts as I do fairly often, and pick up a merchant vessel moving slow, long range. I proceed to start following it crudely, drawing lines of where I think it'll go and adjusting it based on my sonarman's reports as I follow. As you can see, the Atlantic was raging, so I couldn't actually see the ship through my periscope until about a kilometer away.
I barely (if at all) used actual methods of tracking down a contact, but it still felt awesome to track it with the hydrophone, update my marks, and then readjust speed and heading accordingly. Eventually through this process I came within a kilometer and raised the periscope. I'm still too new and inexperienced to manually target for an attack, so I locked the ship and starting diverging parallel from it, going about 3 knots faster than it so I'd have room to turn and get an angle. After getting about 400 meters ahead of it, I slowed to 6 knots and turned perpendicular to the ship, trying my best to line up a 90 degree shot in the TDC before I launched tube 1 and split her in half almost perfectly.
It's probably not much of an accomplishment when you compare it to what you other captains have done, but the thrill of the chase and the immense satisfaction I got when I finally sunk her was immediately worth sharing to me. 1 Allied unit sunk so far, here's to many more. :up: