November 14 1942

USS Pollack

Received message about enemy convoy and task force yet again heading for Guadalcanal. Positioned sub as picket near savo island. Before midnight detected enemy force. Closest was a lone contact making speed sweep counterclockwise around Savo Island. Turned out to be a destroyer. Ordered a dive and had perfect setup from 1000 yards on DD making 34 knots. Fired four Mark 14's, three prematurely exploded alerting the DD, the final one ran deep In spite of being set shallow as possible). DD changed course came in fast pinging. Went to 275 feet, charges exploded as passed 175. Minor damage, leaks mostly, some damage to conning tower bulkhead, tdc, sonar stack. All repaired.

Soon could hear sound contacts from all around in distance as well as heavy explosions and gunfire. Came back to scope depth to see DD adrift and burning. In distance could make out US vessels. Two battleships were most distinguishable (USS South Dakota and Washington) along with some destroyers.

Five minutes later, they opened up with main batteries at something else. Came to radar depth, there was an enemy battle line in distance.Visual inspection revealed pagoda mast structure of japanese battleship in distance, confirmed by the flash and glow of its main battery. Large shell splashes visible via scope.

Battle went on...massive explosions in distance. By time was a ble to close in submerged, the battleship was a flaming wreck which capsized. Found a burning slowly creeping away. Finished it off with torpedo.


Surfaced around 0400. As passed Tassafarronga area, spotted a beached freighter in distance. Part of the enemy convoy that made it through, beached itself. Too shallow for torpedoes, finished off from 6000 yards with deck gun as sun rose over Savo Sound.


This was the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. still rather impressive to watch the massive gunfights unfold in sim.See how it the battle plays out vs history. Have them at historical time and place. Just need to get AI torpedoes finally working in TMO, would add a whole new element.

December 1941

USS Seal SS-183
Class : Salmon


Departed Manila on the 8th December

went on a 10 day patrole close to singapore

got orders from Headquarters that a landing force was gathering near the Lingayen Gulf

went Full speed ahead and arrived 2 days later,

sneaked past 4 destroyers guarding the Gulf entrance

finally i found a huge landingforce with 10+ ships unloading soldiers and war materials

fired 1 torpedo at 4 different targets

3 hits and 1 dud , 3 ships sunk!

retreated, but got caught by two enemy destroyers near the bay entrance.
they made 4 runs with depht charges, suffered minor damage.

managed to slip away and headed for surabaya in the java sea for refueling

USS Pollack SS 180

5th patrol.

Overdue and Presumed Lost off Hokkaido, Japan. (Struck a mine off Northern Honshu, 12 January 1943)


Sunk Zinbu Maru January 8 1943.

On eternal Patrol

R.I.P

Fotrsu V. 1.21 with harder AI lvl 2


April 26th 1942
USS Seal SS-183
Salmon Class

Radio Report


En route to the Luzon Strait

Spotted a two ship convoy at night, in The Mindoro Straight

Submerged and closed for attack

Fired 4 torpedoes

Sunk 1 Passenger Cargo-freighter 5248 tons

Sunk 1 Modern Passenger freighter 11893 tons


Continuing north west towards the Luzon Straight

Will remain radio silence until dawn

October 1942.
USS Greyling.
Gar Class
SS-209.

Departed Brisbane with a unit of Australian Coast Watchers.
Successfully inserted to the Central Solomon's.

Conduct anti-shipping operations off the Eastern coast of New Guinea, proved unproductive.

10-30-42.
Received orders to shift patrol area to the Bismarck Sea.

11-1-42
Sonar detects single Merchant entering Bismarck sea on a SE course, at 18:00 hours.
Determined speed of 12 knots and set up intercept course.
Identify merchant as Nagara Maru.
Initial attack 1500 yards-3 torpedoes fired. Two duds, one center hit.
Heavy listing.
Quick follow up attack -2 Torpedoes fired. One miss one dud.
Open range to 2500 yards, surfaced and engaged with deck gun, took 16 rounds of HE to put her down.
Ordered Full speed ahead to clear area before daybreak.
Weather remains clear.
Continuing patrol of assigned area.

USS Seal SS-183

June 24th 1942

Japanese papers claim that one of their task forces where attacked by an American Submarine in the Java Sea


They threw depth charges in the water , and saw wreckage and oil


The only sub we had in the area was the USS Seal
And she has been overdue for more than a month and are therefore presumed Lost with all hands

1510: Tracked target southwest through Luzon Straights. Sighted large tanker Nippon Maru (10,000 tons).

1547: Fired three torpedoes at 1500 yards. 60 deg AOB, fish set to slow speed, contact, depth 10 feet, Three degree spread.

Observed two hits. On aft of amidships the other forward amidships. Target burned and sank immediately. No lifeboats.

Cleared the area to the west.

March 1943
USS Drum out of Brisbane.

Initial assignment was patrol off Bougainville . Sunk a large troopship and a DD off Rabaul. Moved to attack enemy reinforcement convoy heading from Rabaul to Lae . Made contact March 3 40 /NM east of Lae as convoy rounded Huon Peninsula. While closing USAAF and RAAF aircraft arrived and savaged the convoy sinking six transports and 5 DD. Observed but unable to get into proper firing position.

Currently en route to new patrol area. Truk Rabaul shipping lanes N of Kavieng/Bismark chokepoint.

December 12th
1941

USS S-27 SS-132
S 18 Class


Departed Cavite naval base on December 9th orders where to act as an Coastal Defence Submarine

In the navy’s mind we are just a training unit and obselete in front of the newer fleet boats

we have even heard they are building a new type called the Gato class with 6 torpedo tubes at the bow, and even watertight bulkheads in the engine room !

Wow that sure sounds like a solid boat


But for now as a young commander I am in charge of S-27 and I’ve told the crew that this ship is a warship and not some training unit shooting at dummies ...

No , this is for real and the war has come


We reached San Bernardino strait on the 12th and spotted an enemy task force!

Called for battlestations and closed in while submerged

Spotted Takao Class cruiser

Closed to 1200 meters and suddenly we where spotted !

With bullets raining all around us we fires all our fish at the Cruiser

Setting the depth for 4.5 meters

We hit here right when she rolled on a wave and broke her back!

15870 tons sunk

Then came the escorts
We received heavy damage and flodding to the engine room

But with great skills and manuevring we managed to escape

Now heading for Cavite to inspect the damage and to load on more torps

The base won’t hold
On for long so we are steaming at best speed


-CO S-27

July 1942

USS Stingray SS-186
Salmon



After our third patrol I got transferred to the Stingray

in late May I left s-27 at the dock and walked right down to my new boat


Leaving my crew behind well knowing they where headed for the East coast so the old
Boat could Commence her final service as a training boat
Allot of the crew Have Been transferred too numerous new fleet boats ,
so they are in good hands


Me and my new crew left Brisbane on the 20th of June and headed for Truk where we sank four ships totaling 11654 tons

The rest of the patrol proved uneventful and we returned to Brisbane on July the 24th

April 11/12 1943.

TMO 100 realism. no external cam. No map contacts.

Departed Brisbane April 6. Dropped off an Australian coastwatcher on Bougainville on April 10. Heading for assigned area SE of Palau in the Palau-Rabaul shipping lanes.

Evening of April 11 2300 SJ contact at 6 NM 50 NM NE of Manus Island . Although en route to my area, sent contact report and decided to attack. Reply from command said to target escorts. Dark evening so closed in on surface on the minesweeper type escorting 4 merchants. Fired 3 torpedoes from 2800 yards. Two prematurely exploded 50 yards from target. Alerting target but it was too late, the third hit but no explosion. DUD! Turned to starboard to speed away saw a perfect setup on a SEITO MARU (5151 tons) tanker. Escort fired star shells but seemed to not know where was exactly, but was turning towards direction in which torpedo came from. Target had slowed speed and was zigging also fired deck gun and machine guns in my direction. Fired 3 torpedoes from bow and turned away dodging. Two prematurely exploded but one hit. Tanker must have been loaded with fuel as a massive explosion followed by large secondary explosions with large fireball erupted. SEITO MARU sunk 0019 12 April 1943 0 53 N 146 49 E.

Sped away on surface escort pursued but eventually turned away. Proceeded on to assigned patrol area.

1300 while on surface SJ made contact at 7 NM. Overcast skies medium fog approached on surface at GQ. At 1000 yards a freighter could be made out in fog and we were directly in his path. Ordered hard port rudder to get off his track and dive. At periscope depth identified a KASIGASAN MARU freighter. Fired one torpedo from stern tube. Torpedo impacted, ship broke in two and sunk. Surfaced continued on to patrol area.

April 14 1943, still en route to patrol area.

TMO w custom mods/ Traffic.

April 15 1943

Patrolling SE on the Palau-Rabaul shipping lanes. Overcast with moderate to heavy seas and light fog. Beginning 0800 heavy air activity in area. Expecting possible convoy did best to stay on surface and cover likely routes. At 0900 after diving again sound detected heavy, fast props at long range. Closed at high submerged speed before SJ sweep. Surfaced made S?J contact at 0940 7 NM.

Low visibility made it difficult to spot targets but at 5.5 NM was able to make out the flat deck of a large carrier. Soon was able to see a CA or CL and 2-3 DD. Racing ahead at best speed was able to dive and close at high speed on the Task Force making 18-20 knots.

At 1011 was 1500 yards from a Hiyo Class CV, a Naka Class CL, three unknown DD;s. Course 150 19 knots. Fired 6 torpedoes at the CV at 10 second intervals for a nice spread. Three torpedoes detonated prematurely. Three hit, both failed to explode. Duds. Took a couple close depth charges on first run but heavy seas helped hide from the DD's. Unable to regain contact after surfacing.

April 27 April 1943

0500 Off southern entrance to Palau Anchorage . 20 NM east of Peleliu. SJ contact at 9000 yds. Sound cant pick it up even with engines stopped. Dark night no visual. Dive to periscope depth and GQ.

Soon a Kamikaze Class Destroyer is in visual and suddenly audible on sonar. Terrible setup would waste a torpedo and give position away.

Now deep, running silent getting depth charged because of course the magic destroyer picks us up even though was at 350 ft when he passed over. Inept crew members lol

Great Harmony is now fishbait
 

Off the southern coast of Mindanao patrolling in USS Gudgeon (SS-211).
Ran into a TF with a Yamato.
Took a beating (52%) but we got the bad-boy.

Going....
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.....Going....
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.....Gone
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:Kaleun_Salute:

KaleunMarco,
Did you finish her off with the deck gun ??? :haha:

Nice job !!!

Good job


Rumor of Your Victory , has spread around the Allied forces

Perhaps a medal og Honor is waiting at port

no, we surfaced to watch her go down.

Nice job. How many torpedoes did it take? I revamped the Yamato for TMO recently,. Takes a lot of punishment to sink it. I put ten torpedoes into it, stopped it but was out of fish and unable to complete the job.

I added the air attack that destroyed her in April 45. Counted 21 torpedo hits and 15-25 direct bomb hits plus numerous near misses before it sunk. The one I put representing Musashi in Sibuyan Sea in October 44 took 18 torpedo hits from aircraft and 20-30 bomb hits.

don't remember exactly. less than ten. the last one hit between the stack and superstructure and she blew up like the fourth of July.

not long ago, we tangled with a protected convoy. sank a few merchies, went deep and waited out the escorts.
when the DC calmed down and the escorts thinned out, we came to PD and saw a damaged heavy cruiser. we were out of torpedoes.
so, we opened the range to 8km, surfaced, manned the deck gun and i poured every shell we had left into that sucker. me, personally, manned the gun. she would not sink.
oh well.
we counted our blessings and headed home...grateful that our mission-returns equaled our missions.