Early in the war, i usually sink the escorts first and then take care of the merchants with the deck gun.
Once, in a similar situation, i was out of torps while the only warship left was a Dido. I emerged and began to fire. It took about 80% of my integrity and almost 100 shells but it eventually went down. From range of 6000m, in a vertical position of the ship and manual deck gun firing of course.
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