During a recent early war patrol I fired two torpedoes, under calm conditions at two auxilliary cruisers. Three were steaming in line and thoughts of Otto Weddigen flashed through my head, but they were too far off when I first spotted them to make an attack on all three feasible. I had two electrics and two steamers loaded; the range was too great for the electrics, so I fired one steamer at each of the two trailing cruisers. The first magnetic prematured and the second one passed just aft of the second. In the meantime, I swung my stern and fired another steamer at the last one; it hit but the cruiser kept on sailing. I lost sight of them. The last I saw the trailing cruiser had fallen behind, but she was still too fast for me to catch submerged and there's no way I was going to risk surfacing in daylight for a high speed end-around. She may have sunk beyond my visible range, but I never did get any notification.
C'est le guerre!
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