Saw one once (a flaming ship, that is,) in the worst storm I've seen, in-game. It was so bad that I couldn't ID or lock the UZO on anything outside of 300 meters. I couldn't see the ship itself, just the outline of some crates on the deck outlined by flames. I don't know what caused them, but I assume the storm beat the ship to hell.
I closed on it, but by the time I got there it registered as sunk by...something else (in gray on the map.)
Curious what happened to it, or better yet, if it was part of a convoy, I started out roughly along the path it had been traveling. It lead me to one merchant...then another, and another. A convoy, which, because visibility was so bad, allowed me to torpedo my way through 4 or 5 merchants, surfaced, giving enough time to reload. Fired T1's at extreme close range, set at fast speed to pop just at their keel. Chalked up some good tonnage, all because I saw flames and went in to investigate. Had I not seen the flaming ship, I would have cruised right by the convoy without seeing anything but huge waves, heavy rains, dark skies, and a gray wall of invisibility at about 300 meters.
Yet another reason to love the game.
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