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Originally Posted by akula_krieg
There was a Black Swan out on the perimeter, he came at me a couple times but the the ocean was high enough that he never quite zeroed my position. If you and I are currently ripping apart the same convoy, the other escort is a corvette (last I saw him he was trailing about 1500-2000 meters behind the convoy). After three end-arounds, I managed to down three C3s, one C2, and the cruiser; one torp went awry, it hit something but I'm not sure what. Was down to one torp, the crew was too tired to do anything more, so I broke off contact and am on the bottom giving the men a good rest.
Good luck with the rest of that convoy, U-48 will be moving south. 
-akula- |
I got the Fiji Class, a T3 Tanker and a C3 Merchant before being spotted by the Black Swan and DC'ed to 80meters. I'd snuck right into the middle of the convoy and just waited them to come into range.
It was in very rough seas, heavy fog and rain but I managed to socre a hit with all five torps, using the impact pistol set to hit a couple of meters above the keels of the enemy ships to account for pitch and roll. I loosed two salvo shots on the T3 and the C3 respectively from 700-900meters out ,then peered aft to see if the was anything in range I could shoot the stern tube at and there was the Fiji making 9knots less than 800meters away. One torp amidships broke her in two immediately. Too bad I'd been detected by the enraged Black Swan Frigate and ended up being DC'ed down to 80metres. I was chased out of the area and decided not to give chase to save fuel for heading home.
Instead I wormed my way up the Irish Sea to the ports of Holyhead and Liverpool where Bdu sent a contact report of a large convoy not 100km from my position, moving E at 6knots(around about the 15th of September). I intercepted their track, and managed to score another 4 hits, a two torp salvo shot on a C3, which sunk and another salvo shot on a second C3, only one of which struck hardly slowing her down! Again I had a check to see what my stern tube could engage and we spot a Dido class cruiser which again we managed to sink using only one torp. So, out of 10 torpedoes we fired, we scored 9 hits!! I would have recommended my torpedo officer for a medal and a promotion if the other escorts(still unidentified) hadn't detected and sunk me.
Not bad considering it was my first ever convoy engagement in my first ever career patrol. Up until recently I was an avid SHII fan, and just got the third installment last week and been playing around with the single missions until starting my first career. Pity it was such a short one!! 34 odd thousand tonnes sunk sunk and I let a silly little escort DC me to hell in 1939. Oh the shame!!