Well, it was my first time playing on 100%. I was returning from patrol, cant remember the grid. It was some 2000km west of Freetown. And I play on 64x TC, so it was a somewhat long patrol (and boooriiing!!! Only 1 sound contact that I lost in the storm).
So, there I was returning to St. Nazaire on my IXB. First I had merchants sound contact, I started to track it towards Gibraltar. Then around 800km west from Gibraltar I heard atleast 3 different warship sounds. I got to the periscope depth too see, if I could find the merchant. It was storming, again, heavy fog and rain.
Suddenly I saw a figure, that looked like a warship, bigger than normal DD. Didn`t have time to identify it, cos it was less than 600m away from me. So, I rigged to silent running, went down to 50m and waited. Then it started; PING..........PING.........PING.....PING..PING.PIN GPINGPING!!
The first DCs exploded too far away, then as I was trying to run away, the other three warships came to play. I was almost constantly under attack. I holded for awhile, then, I think it was a direct hit from DC or hedgehog. As my boat listed heavily to it`s right side. And that`s it, Bow torpedo & quater room was flooding heavily, can´t remember how much I lost from the hull integrity.
After awhile the boat was sunk, because of the flooding. I`ve been thinking... have anyone spotted taskforce near Gibraltar. I`ve never seen three warships moving together, like a convoy.
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