View Full Version : Convoy dropped out of the sky
ironkross
02-19-06, 04:44 PM
I was on patrol in grid AL67. I recieved a radio contact update of a convoy to the NW of my position moving E/NE. I went to full speed and relocated to a position to intercept the convoy. I went to periscope depth and listened but heard nothing. I started back along the most likely route the convoy was on still at PD and slow.
About 20 minutes later With No Warning I simultaneously recieved a radio contact update of the convoy at my position and sustained a collision with a flower corvette. My hydrophone operator was also starting to report sounds of merchant engines. Tried to crash dive but the corvette began dropping charges and it was all over. Where did these guys come from? It seemed they literally dropped from the sky. Maybe it was a secret British stealth weapon.
ironkross
02-20-06, 12:58 PM
I need to check in here more often.
its a known bug
Not so, in 1941, Coastal Command, working alongside the Royal Navy came up with the Air-Dropped Ship (ADS) program, known to the Kreigsmarine as the 'Luft-Konvoi'.
Below is a rare picture of the Luft-Konvoi being tested by a specially modified Wellington off the Suffolk Coast at the Orford Ness testing grounds.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1145/ads7nt.jpg
Now you see why Oberon was kicked out of MI6. He just can't keep a secret.
Didnt they drop a u-boot by air in to some lake in america :hmm:
Sailor Steve
02-21-06, 01:05 PM
Show me any WWII-era plane that could lift 750 tons of ship and I'll give you my life savings.
The Avon Lady
02-21-06, 01:29 PM
I was on patrol in grid AL67. I recieved a radio contact update of a convoy to the NW of my position moving E/NE. I went to full speed and relocated to a position to intercept the convoy. I went to periscope depth and listened but heard nothing. I started back along the most likely route the convoy was on still at PD and slow.
About 20 minutes later With No Warning I simultaneously recieved a radio contact update of the convoy at my position and sustained a collision with a flower corvette. My hydrophone operator was also starting to report sounds of merchant engines. Tried to crash dive but the corvette began dropping charges and it was all over. Where did these guys come from? It seemed they literally dropped from the sky. Maybe it was a secret British stealth weapon.
Did this happen while you were using time compression or were you playing at 1x when it occured?
Oberon, I just have to ask this-- Is that 'photo' edited?? :)
Sure looks like it.
Type XXIII
02-21-06, 03:02 PM
Perhaps some of these pictures can add to the discussion.
http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/odd/index4.htm
Especially notice the airborne patrol craft.
Show me any WWII-era plane that could lift 750 tons of ship and I'll give you my life savings.
(its a joke someone made in another thred.)
err....about a year and a half ago
jasondef
02-21-06, 03:53 PM
I believe you are all mistaken. The British got hold of a Klingon cloaking device, uncovered from a foiled attempt by the Klingons three hundred years from now to go back into Earths past and destroy the human race.
jasondef
02-21-06, 03:55 PM
Dowly, where can I get the camoflage skin for my U-Boat? Pretty cool, comes in handy I bet for land invasions!
Dowly, where can I get the camoflage skin for my U-Boat? Pretty cool, comes in handy I bet for land invasions!
It´s my edited version of the Isitol´s skin. Hack in to my computer & download it and BRAVO, you have it! :D
Dowly, where can I get the camoflage skin for my U-Boat? Pretty cool, comes in handy I bet for land invasions!
It´s my edited version of the Isitol´s skin. Hack in to my computer & download it and BRAVO, you have it! :D
I take that as a challange :arrgh!:
jasondef
02-21-06, 04:20 PM
To what challenge do you refer to? Hacking his computer, or the U-Boat land invasion! ;)
:huh: *Double checks the firewall and wrotes a note to himself; do NOT download anything made by Letum-- might contain spyware*
:-j
Oberon, I just have to ask this-- Is that 'photo' edited?? :)
Sure looks like it.
It's a combination of three pictures, one of a Wellington, one of a Flower corvette and one of the sea :up:
VonHelsching
02-21-06, 04:58 PM
Show me any WWII-era plane that could lift 750 tons of ship and I'll give you my life savings.
I have to confirm the first post of Oberon. After all, silence does not matter since more than 50 years have passed:
Similar experiments have been conducted by the Luftwaffe in the Greek Aegean sea. The codename of the Operation was Himmel Donnerschiffe "Thunder-ships from the sky", also known as the Convoischlag Blitz "Lightning Instant Convoys", where small tankers (full with diesel) were transported by air means and dropped to their destination.
But if I'm to disclose additional information, I'm afraid I'll have to kill you. :-j
ironkross
02-21-06, 09:10 PM
Did this happen while you were using time compression or were you playing at 1x when it occured?
Yes, I think I was- maybe 8x but not much.
Dallass_Drake
02-21-06, 09:27 PM
Presumably the crew were going for some kind of gag whereby you, their commandant would be associated with Flower Corvettes for the rest of your career which would from then on be full only of ridicule and questions regarding your sexuality. But we all know about the German sense of humour, likely they couldn't devise an amusing way to complete their scheme and froze, caught between a quickly passing opportunity for light hearted if highly dangerous humour or admitting to their superior that they've just sailed themselves straight into the face of certain death, the dreaded Flower Corvette, no longer would they mock its girly name.
Anyway, you should load a save game and liquidate them all for their insolence, just because you can. Pass by some air coverage and send them up to man the binoculars until all have been strafed and bombed, then dive down the deepest depths of the ocean laughing hysterically and die in a blaze of glory rather than at the hands of a Flower Corvette.
ironkross
02-21-06, 09:50 PM
I have to confirm the first post of Oberon. After all, silence does not matter since more than 50 years have passed:
Similar experiments have been conducted by the Luftwaffe in the Greek Aegean sea. The codename of the Operation was Himmel Donnerschiffe "Thunder-ships from the sky", also known as the Convoischlag Blitz "Lightning Instant Convoys", where small tankers (full with diesel) were transported by air means and dropped to their destination.
But if I'm to disclose additional information, I'm afraid I'll have to kill you. :-j
Here's what I believe happened after very extensive research on a subject that has been clouded in mystery. It was called the "Stonehenge Experiment". (Loosely paraphrased from the hypothetical. )
The "Stonehenge" Experiment, otherwise known as Project Elbow, has been a subject of long controversy and debate. It was an attempt by the Royal Navy to create a ship that could not be detected by magnetic mines and-or radar.
There was also talk of invisibility projects and mind control experiments. The truth behind this project will never be known to the public.
However, results of these experiments became far different and much more dangerous than the Royal Navy ever expected. Although the story itself seems too bizarre to be true, far too many coincidences have occurred for it to not be based upon some small iota of truth. The technical data that has also been presented upon the subject hold far too much credence to be ignored. Many of the stories associated with this infamous experiment are wild: whispers of men 'freezing' in time for months, rumors of men traveling through time, and horror stories of men becoming stuck in bulkheads or even the floor of the ship itself.
In 1943 the (British)government conducted a test using domestic animals on a ship. The ship that was eventually used for the experiment, the HMS Drawbridge, was commissioned at the York Navy Yard on August 27,1943 (Department of the Royal Navy). The animals were placed in metal cages on the HMS Drawbridge. The ship became invisible but when it materialized many of the animals were missing on had radiation and other burn marks on them. Humans were not to be tested.
Yet on August 12, 1943 the HMS Drawbridge with a full crew aboard reportedly underwent the Stonehenge Experiment. The men did not know what was to happen. The generators were fired up. The switches were thrown. The ship disappeared and all seemed well.
Four hours later it returned to its original place. There was a greenish haze on deck. Some of the sailors were on fire. Some seemed insane. All were sick. Some had heart attacks. Some were dead. Some were part of the super structure of the ship, buried in the deck or walls of the ship. Some reports said that men just seemed to disappear and were never seen again.
But where had the ship gone for 4 hours?
Now I know. :shifty: It was on top of my frickin U- Boat! :dead:
jasondef
02-22-06, 12:53 AM
Didn't the Americans do a similar "Stonehenge" experiment, documented in a 1984 movie "The Philadelphia Experiment"? I don't remember much, saw it when I was a kid, but I remember the end of the movie the ship reappeared with men half in the bulkheads and stuff. Supposedly these were based on actual secret events in 1943.
its a known bug
Not so, in 1941, Coastal Command, working alongside the Royal Navy came up with the Air-Dropped Ship (ADS) program, known to the Kreigsmarine as the 'Luft-Konvoi'.
Below is a rare picture of the Luft-Konvoi being tested by a specially modified Wellington off the Suffolk Coast at the Orford Ness testing grounds.
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :up:
The Avon Lady
02-22-06, 06:12 AM
Did this happen while you were using time compression or were you playing at 1x when it occured?
Yes, I think I was- maybe 8x but not much.
See this thread (http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=44614).
winters
02-22-06, 07:25 AM
Whenever weird things like that happen just say to your self "Self, a wizard did it" :rotfl:
ironkross
02-22-06, 09:37 PM
Didn't the Americans do a similar "Stonehenge" experiment, documented in a 1984 movie "The Philadelphia Experiment"? I don't remember much, saw it when I was a kid, but I remember the end of the movie the ship reappeared with men half in the bulkheads and stuff. Supposedly these were based on actual secret events in 1943.
Pay close attention to the line: (Loosely paraphrased from the hypothetical. ) Cut & pasted from article on Philadelphia experiment, while loosely substituting British terms for comedic effect. In other words- just kidding.
:rotfl:
ironkross
02-22-06, 09:48 PM
Did this happen while you were using time compression or were you playing at 1x when it occured?
Yes, I think I was- maybe 8x but not much.
See this thread (http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=44614).
Speed was slow, periscope depth (with periscope raised and hydrophone operator on station), weather was cloudy but no fog. Time was late afternoon but before twilight. That's an interesting set of benchmark tests though. While your test sub were surfaced, mine was running slow and submerged so my question was why didn't my hydrophone detect something as large as a convoy? If it was really there before the collision occurred.
I have a save game from just before I recieved my first contact radio report. I could go back and try to recreate this mess.
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