Enemy Ship Disappears After Loading
 

I can't find any help on the matter. When I gain visual on a ship, I save the game so that when I mess up, I can reload the save and try again. (I'm new)
The problem is when I load up that save, the ship is gone. I know for certain I didn't lose contact as I had visual and was only a few hundred feet away. How can I stop this?

That's a new one for me. Have you had any problems with saving? Next time try saving in a new file.

Thanks for responding! I have not had issues with saving and have tried saving in multiple different files. One time I even crippled a ship with a torpedo, saved the game, loaded it, and the ship was gone. I'm baffled.

Welcome to the boat mate. :salute:

I had that issue a very long time ago. Playing stock V1.4 I think.
It happened one or two times, never really figured out what caused it but it seemed like the game saved 10 or 15 minutes earlier than it really was.
I was tracking a convoy and upon reloading a save it disappeared. What I did was just sit there and run up time compression and what do you know here comes my convoy.:06::06::06:

You didn't say what game you're playing but you need to be playing at least SH IV v1.4 It's best if you get V1.5 U Boat missions addition.
You can see what version you have in the lower right corner of the load screen.

Magic

as mentioned sometimes saves dont catch everything right up to the latest moment so its good to trail a ship for 5 or 10 minutes to avoid what happened. my guess is it was too close the the ship spawning and when reloaded it didnt respawn because that spawn wasnt saved