My daftest death.

I'd loosed a couple of eels at a large Merchant and she was refusing to sink, so I surfaced and started using my deck gun on it. A few shots later and my WO shouts "ship spotted". I'm thinking "I know there's a ship numpty, I can see it!" So I carry on shelling the ship. The next thing the WO shouts is that the ship is under attack.It's 1940 I can see that the Merchant is unarmed. Just as I'm thinking about throwing the WO overboard, shells start exploding all around. I look in the direction that they are coming from and see a destroyer hurtling towards me, shooting all cannons.

30 seconds later and I'm dead. :oops:

Now when my crew are using their deck gun, I'm scanning the horizon looking for trouble.

I did the same Robbo. Surfaced shooting at a merchant WO 'screams ship spotted'...DUH!.....we are shooting at it you, you, you BERNARD! I found out just like you....DD coming to the rescue :dead: I got away though on that first patrol.

I had almost the same experience. I fired a couple of torpedoes to a couple of Tankers and they were on fire. I was getting restless so I ordered the boat to the surface to finish them off with my deck gun. The only problem was that as I was breaking to the surface a couple of planes were already above me. I didn't even have time to man the flak guns or crash dive. Four bombs all direct hits and we went down again:shifty:

With all this talk of convoy's, it reminds me of another unfortunate fate. I was in the thick of a convoy in my IXB; sunk a few merch, wounded a few others. It was at night and my scope eventually got spotted from a merchant. In come the DD's. I contemplated the idea of driving myself deep when I remembered not too long back I hit a T2 in the screw, leaving her dead in the water. I figured I'd do the old hide under the merch trick. After taking a few DC's at 30m I finally reach my safe haven, and sure enough, the DD's lost me. Now call it luck or karma, but not 5 minutes after arriving to my clever hideout, I guess the T2 decided she had enough. Not only did she sink on top of me, but the explosion she made doing it sent me to the bottom (oh man was it loud). An eye for an eye I suppose. :shifty:

Oh man, that was hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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and file what can we learn from that?
Nothing ! but it was pretty darn hilarious:rotfl: :rotfl:

Maybe he was trying that Down Periscope thing... Too bad it didn't work...:smug: