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RConch 03-15-12 12:59 PM

Ships you have never hit
 
Aside from some classes of escorts, I have never hit a carrier or an ocean liner.
I finally got an ammunition ship off the bucket list.:rock:

flag4 03-15-12 03:48 PM

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/1...forthehood.png

...the one that got away!
north of scotland, i have the feeling it was alone - but i doubt it.
i was coming home with no eels - all expended :cry:
and in the starry night out she came all alone, bobbing along. i turned to ninety degrees and crept away untill out of sight. no idea about escorts or anything - she was just there - thats it. just there, like a great dark ghost....

...the frustration.....!

Fubar2Niner 03-15-12 04:54 PM

@flag4

Hit that beauty, but never a carrier................ as yet :03:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...er/Hood3-1.jpg


http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...er/Hood2-1.jpg


Sorry for the HUD

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

Raptor 03-15-12 05:26 PM

@RConch:

Go to ED98 and wait.
Many big 24,400 GRT ocean liners heading to Port of Spain
Many large tankers outbound

Tinman764 03-15-12 05:56 PM

Fired a total of 7 eels at the Nelson over the course of 2 attacks recently - only 1 of them actually made the distance to her and even that one missed, all the others blew up enroute. :damn:

Gargamel 03-15-12 07:13 PM

Sad to say, I myself am not on that list.

I would 'like' to encounter a Q ship someday.

andwii 03-15-12 08:30 PM

havnt killed one of those ship service things, saw one once.

Raptor 03-15-12 08:57 PM

There's always a French Small Depot ship parked in AN84 at the intersection of AN81/82/84/86 before the war begins. It is 6,250 GRT but it's not an easy kill. You'll need 2 or 3 eels to sink it. Beware, it is armed and will shoot back.

krashkart 03-15-12 09:30 PM

Two Fiji class cruisers with light escort. I took a shot at each of them and scored hits, but one hole apiece wasn't enough. Wasted a good number of fish on those buggers when they jinked away. The group was moving too fast for me to pursue and I had to give up.

It was an exciting encounter, though. My first task force intercept. :yep:

BossMark 03-16-12 08:08 AM

HMS Hood is one that defiantly have not sunk

VONHARRIS 03-16-12 08:46 AM

I have yet to sink : a Prince of Wales class battleship and a London class heavy cruiser.

I am lucky enough so far to have sunk an Essex class fleet carrier , an Illustrious class carrier and the SS Queen Mary liner (83K tons)

flag4 03-16-12 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinman764 (Post 1855752)
Fired a total of 7 eels at the Nelson over the course of 2 attacks recently - only 1 of them actually made the distance to her and even that one missed, all the others blew up enroute. :damn:


now that. is a serious bummer :down:

bad luck Tinman, better luck next time :yep:

David I 03-17-12 03:13 PM

I haven't seen or sunk a Queen Mary Liner. Got a torpedo into the Hood once but she shrugged it off and sailed on.

Once I, almost, sank two battleships in one patrol:

I hit the Revenge, moving in the middle of a convoy at 5 knots, with 3 torps and she went down like a rock:

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/7...sinminutes.jpg

Then towards the end of my patrol (4 torpedoes left) I came across the Rodney under similar conditions (middle of the convoy moving 8 knots):

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2...hitsrodney.jpg

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/957...hitsrodney.jpg

She went dead in the water, started to settle be the bows and then just floated there. I waited until the rest of the convoy sailed on, rose to periscope depth and waited some more. And waited, and waited. I finally took a stern shot at her with my last torpedo. The torp premed about 100 meters short. I waited around for two days but she just laid there. I was so frustrated that thought of ramming her went through my mind (very briefly).
Finally I sailed home.

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8...usestosink.jpg

Raptor 03-17-12 05:12 PM

David:

Surface next to her in the dead angle of her guns and send her down with your 88mm. It would probably only take a couple of rounds.:yeah:

Think of the bragging rights back a the O-club!:hmmm: All those smart-aleck Kaleuns who brag of successfully duking it out with a destroyer will go crawl off into a corner and sulk.:rotfl2:

Missing Name 03-17-12 05:47 PM

An Iowa class battlewagon. Now THAT'S a beauty of a ship to sink!


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