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Originally Posted by Harmsway!
Last night I was on my third patrol with RSRD_RFB when my crew spotted a single merchant at dawn. I had already sunk two others but it's been a week since our last action. Well it's about time I thought.
It took a few hours to set up the attack, submerged and wait. She took two fish but was taken too long to take on water for my taste. So a third fish went in for the kill. Sure enough she started to flood. Her decks were awash and I foolishly surfaced to gloat on the final demise. Well those boys must have had their wet gear on because the began blowing me to bits with canon fire.
Sure enough we both sunk. Yes, I saved just before the battle but I think I'll let dead be dead and continue with my Battle of the Baltic career for awhile.
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yea never a good idea to surface when close unless youre SURE as in report from crew that shes done. I remember reading in CLEAR THE BRIDGE by Richard O Kane that a merchant kept firing her guns as she sank into the Yellow Sea in June 1944 after TANG torpedoed her.