We had a close call after attacking a TF, thought everything was working out well got away clean, took out 3 of 4 of the Destroyer escorts with a crazy manuever. They start closing in on my position one at a time from their patrol points, weaving in pinging, slowly closing, set the fish for fast, shallow and influence, pop the periscope wait till they cross the thousand yard threshold and time out the turns and fire one. By the time they spot the torpedo its too late. Well the last Destroyer decides to come back and look for me after traveling 9,000 yards away. This Captain must be ticked cause he's coming at 26 kts.
Back to battle stations we have one mk10 and one mk14 forward and one mk10 aft, same drill except this guy is not swerving or slowing down, 900 yards out fire the mk10, Now at this point a smart Captain would dive quickly just in case, not me, to overconfident three for three doing this . The fish is a friggin' dud Steep dive ahead flank hard to port, crud prop sounds, not good, splashes, oh **** not good.
We got lucky. But he scratched the paint on my boat and a dent, my turn to be ticked blow ballast, periscope depth, hurry not much time. Set for shallow open tube 7, sonar contact moving slow and away, perfect. Pop the scope, there he is moving at 3 kts at 170 fire tube 7. Put a dent in my boat will ya (even though it was my fault) Big Explosion with a massive secondary empty lifeboat. Satisfaction
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