Well, ran into another one of these "large Cargo" ships just before dawn at the end of this same patrol, early 1940 northeast of Scotland. I had only 1 torp left, and it was in my aft tube. Fortunately, the weather was reasonably calm (borderline, 7m/s wind), so after closing to short range at periscope depth to make sure she wasn't a neutral and wasn't armed, I surfaced and decided to try to slow her down or stop her if possible with my deck gun, then finish her off with my last torp.
After an agonizingly long time (even at a reset 20 sec reload time), pumping all 40 AP and my last 45 or so HE into her bridge and waterline (although about 1/3rd of my shots went wild, I guess because of the fairly heavy seas - I didn't realize RUB 1.43 modeled that), I finally had her stopped and listing to port.
I then circled around to set up a stern shot from about 600m out, set to 5m impact amidships, and let fly - cracked her right in half and sent her flaming to the bottom - a beautiful sight and, unlike the first "fake" version I ran into, this large cargo actually gave me a little over 12K tons on my log. Life is good again :P
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