End of U-48

[ddiplock]

A brave crew, gone to a hero's end in the Irish sea.

lol. sunk in 1939....how embarassing for me :|\

I tried the "sitting on the bottom of the seabed" approach to avoid detection, destroyer came right over my head and DC'd me....U-48 and her brave sailors are dead. With only 5 kills to their name.

RIP U-48 :arrgh!:

[Dowly]

R.I.P. U-48

[ddiplock]

terribly embarassing to be in a VIIB and get sunk in 1939. lol

bet that hasn't happend to anyone else :up:

[Dowly]

Well, I didnt sink, but I had to abandon my patrol as I rammed the harbor wall back in 1.0. :damn:

[hakkikt]

terribly embarassing to be in a VIIB and get sunk in 1939. lol

bet that hasn't happend to anyone else :up:

It happened to *real* U-boats, that should be enough.

[Gammel]

Rest in peace, brave crew of U48.

I also lost my career in the irish sea (1940).
Too shallow waters there...

[SmokinTep]

Crew of U-110 will toast our fallen comrades.

[Kaleun]

Hi,

Jürgen Weiss and the crew of U-45 send their condolences!

Kaleun

[U-104]

Crew of U-110 will toast our fallen comrades. as does U-101.

[FAdmiral]

Skippers, to avoid these unpleasent episodes during your
campaign, you must realize just how the sonar works on the
enemy DDs. An active ping, once it hits your sub and bounces
back to the DD will give away your position no matter what
you are doing and where you are !! You have to immediatly
make changes in depth, speed and direction. This is the ONLY
way to survive. For how long depends on how good you are
at doing this and how many DDs you have looking for you....


JIM

[Dowly]

Skippers, to avoid these unpleasent episodes during your
campaign, you must realize just how the sonar works on the
enemy DDs. An active ping, once it hits your sub and bounces
back to the DD will give away your position no matter what
you are doing and where you are !! You have to immediatly
make changes in depth, speed and direction. This is the ONLY
way to survive. For how long depends on how good you are
at doing this and how many DDs you have looking for you....


JIM

As soon I hear that damned 'PING' sound, I change direction so that my stern faces the enemy => smaller target for the sonar.

[Laughing Swordfish]

Condolences to U-48, we'll miss you at the Chat Noir.

Although I always keep lively when I'm pinged, I've never quite understood how a destroyer's asdic can tell whether it's a u-boat sitting on the bottom, or just a big lump of seabed jutting out?

Laughing Swordfish, U-46

[Floater]

Big lumps of seabed don't create oil-slicks when they're depth-charged. :D

Seriously, though, an experienced sonar operator can distinguish between the sound of an ASDIC ping returning from a metal hull and other returns.

What's always amazed me is that the Bold decoy was so successful - often the only way it could be distinguished from a submarine was by its lack of movement over time. That's a bunch of bubbles that sound like steel. Weird.

[ddiplock]

thank you all for you're support fellow skippers. I'm sure the crew of U48 would have appreciated it.

now, to reinstall SH3. the heavy harbour traffic mod has doped up my game unfort :S

gotta start from scratch now....again