Actually, i've had a similar encounter which is now placed in the "Museum of Oddities"
part of my brain.
The night was pitch black, the water was calm, no wind.
Couldnt see a Large Merchant on a 500m distance.
Anyways, i had damaged a destroyer but it didnt sunk.
The convoy was some kilometers away so i decide to approach that ship from the Bow
and shell it. Although i notice a shadow near me. It was a flower class which as by a miracle was heading back to the convoy, which sailed some km further, and at that time it was about 300m front left of me. After that bit of a shock, i decide to shell that first. I would take some shells too but that would go down first.
I fired at about the middle of the ship. The shell impacts and before the crew can load another round, the ship blows sky high.
After another omgshock, i shell the other destroyer and move on.
I caught up with the convoy and the sonarman reports a sinking.
A few mins later, another. The only thing i can imagine of is that the two remaining destroyers rammed each other as the alerted convoy was taking turns for quite some time.
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