That's good to hear! In the 13 days or so that I played with health bars on and without the BRF mod I never saw the blue bar move once.

Though, come to think of it a lot of my early kills were tankers and those suckers are tough to sink even after all the mods! I've twice now nearly been sunk by armed merchants trying to deck gun down a stubborn tanker that I felt should have sunk by the two torpedoes I'd already hit him with!