Just today, actually, I had a similar experience.
It was about one o clock in the night, with dence fog, and mildly heavy sea. I had just manouvered away from a task force when all of a sudden I bump in to a convoy of six or seven ships, no escorts. It was crossing my path at a lovely 90 degrees bearing, but having wasted all my torpedoes earlier on two tankers (I was using an obviously flawed mod, sending torpedoes in all kind of strange directions), I called to man the deck gun. Just then, I ran into a fog bank, and I started to lose sight of the convoy.
I knew that the task force was very close, and that I hade only a few minutes at max before they would all be here. I turned up to flank speed, and as I sighted what I thought was the silhouette of a tanker, I fired a high explosive shell in that direction. It was a direct hit at the ships bridge, and the fireworks revealed more silhouettes in the fog. Preserving HE shells, I went for the waterline with AP rounds, and in about a minute, the tanker went down in an inferno of flames.
At this time, the deck watch spotted the task force heading for us. However, keen on seeing some more tonnage go down, I decieded to press the stakes. Two more british freighters was sent to the bottom of the sees by my deck gun, and every single shell used, as I crash dived into the dark seas to the wheeze of rounds from the task force. I rigged for a silent run, as I turned 180 degrees, and passed directly under the warships, and headed for the nearest safe port.
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