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Seminole 07-27-06 07:51 PM

After All This Time Of Playing....
 
....I finally ran across a Task Force in the open Ocean that was in range....while I still had torpedoes on board that is. :o


Fact was, I dived and tried to evade....going in the opposite direction. For some reason the Task Force did an unexpected turn and so inadvertently crossed my T at 500 meters and a Revenge Class Battleship was just too much of an opportunity to pass up....especially presented on a platter.

As it was it took me a couple of hours to escape the pounding and allow the escorts to clear the area so I could return and finish off the old girl. The first four ells all hit but she as loath to down.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9...2146375dc6.jpg




http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7...1264343tt8.jpg




http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/4...2638296ms8.jpg



I recall Captain Henry's words to his son Briny from Herman Wouk's Winds of War: It isn't every day you get to sink a battleship!


Amen to that..:yep:

Curval 07-27-06 08:26 PM

That's a cool story. :up:

I can't see the pics though.:nope:

<edit>...wait...yes I can. They were re "x"s but when I posted I could suddenly see them.

Wilko 07-28-06 05:27 AM

Wish that would happen to me :arrgh!:

bigboywooly 07-28-06 08:35 AM

Nice one :up:
Its a pity that in RL they wouldnt have left a battleship dead in the water and sailed off
Still that was to your advantage
Kudos
Rare to come across those beasts in open water

Rilder 07-28-06 01:41 PM

Wow shes a beauty, the only things close to a battleship i've seen is a Hipper Heavy Cruiser anchored up in Kiel, and she was a beauty... :D


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