I don't have that many as it caught me off guard. From near as I can tell I launched it too soon and it locked onto my sub instead of the attacking destroyer. I didn't even know that was what sunk me until I watched the footage of the after battle report.(I had thought that the destroyer had gotten a lucky shot with a depth charge.)

If it helps I believe you're not the only one. I er.... have a friend who fired off a cutie and forgot to turn his engines off......

A "friend"?

I just remembered Captain Glenn's final tour had a moment which qualifies as embarrassing.

I was trolling around Luzon Straits between missing the first convoy and missing the 2nd, just picking off the solos that tried to pass through. There was a medium/small merchant coming, and given the purple hearts the prior metchant had given me I decided surfacing across his path at 1500 yards would eventually cause me to regret the tactic. So, I set up for a torpedo shot. I figured 2 would do it.

I sat there in perfect position, and then had the thought, "you know, you have Time, and its alone; maybe use the stern tubes, and preserve forward options for later?" So, at almost the lastt moment I reversed the shot, and at an increasing range and angle I fired 5 & 6.

But, wait a minute... time to track 6 minutes??? - Doh! :/\\!! :dead: ...I forgot, I had loaded 2cuties. So, they eventually ran it down, but of course didn't sink it, and rather than waste a 3rd torpedo on it I ended up running after it and gunning it down anyway.

Dang Cuties!!!! If only someone was working on a Mk28 torp mod... *looks at JoeFremont*

:D

Yes..... A friend....... Not me ... Definitely somebody else......

Sure it was.

In the words of a former President: "I have no recollection of it at this time....."

I have one last thing to say. Who knew that 95 pounds of torpex was so dangerous?

Another fun moment in the Solomons. Think it was the day after the Battle of Savo. I had taken damage and had DD's all over me. I had a Kongo dead on the water, so hid under it. The DD's wouldn't leave and US planes started bombing the Kongo. It finally hit me, the Kongo could blow, so I risked taking off. I had got about 50 yards away when a US plane scored big and the Kongo blew, killing me.

Probably worse, I was hiding under a enemy ship in a convoy, using it as a block in shallow water. A jap plane trying to bomb me, hit the merchant, which was loaded with ammo and blew it up, killing me also.

Why didn't you try to dive deeper? That plus having gone 50 yards might have been just enough to save you.

Sub was bad shape, dived deep as I dare.

I suspect a promotion would be in order - destroying the ship in order to save it is pretty hardcore...........

I couldn't count the times exploding ships have killed me in my earlier days, worse, in storms.

Heck, my last storm battle, I was shooting by bearing at a ship with my 40's, then the ship came out of the fog, so deck gun fired, ship loaded with ammo, blew and killed us. You need to be about 300 yards min not to die when a loaded ship explodes.

That reminds me of a 3 day battle in a storm I once had. I used the hydrophones to get the bearing of the ship and using that information I would surface and take pot shots with the gun while not even seeing what I was shooting at. Of course on the last day I finally got the ship to sink and it was closer then I realized and when it blew up it sank me.