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I'm goin' down · 03-04-11, 06:37 PM

July, 45 - sank a Ise anchored in Tokyo Bay. Wahoo! It took 5 torpedoes, including two cuties, before it went down. I still had my remianing forward torpedo and all reserve forward torpedoes, so I decided to hunt a captital ship, as I had not seen any before this missisn, and I was running out of time because the rumors were that most of the Jap Navy was out of action. So, I sailed off to the Bungo Straights, where I came upon a four ship TF force composed of two dds, a cruiser, and, lo an behold, one gigantic Yamato. The TF was in single file, the Yamato was second in line, and its speed calculated over 6 minutes was 17.75 kts. It was late and the sun was beginning to set. I went to manual targeting and fired when it was at 4,500 yds. A five topedoes salvo (I forgot to fire the sixth torpedo), with each set to run at a depth of 25 ft. concluded with five hits with M14s at a range of around 3,900 yds! (Thank god for nicolas and ddgrn and their Easy Aob mod.) However, its not dinner until its in the pan, as the cowboys say. The 5 hits did not sink Mr. Yamato much to my amazment

, and only started a small fire which did not last long. I submerged to avoid the dds. By the time I came up for air the Yamato had looped arojund my boat and headed back into the straights. I tried to follow, but eventually the Yamoto worked itself up from 10 to 15 kts., and I lost it.

This reminds me of the time I was fishing in the Persian Gulf. We were catching 2-3 foot sharks. All of sudden I felt a couple of jerks on my fishing line, so I jerked back hard. A fish took my line. I must have pissed him off because he took off. Because I had light tackle, he had run out the line in 20 -30 seconds. My pole started to bend, and someone said, "Either the pole is going to break or the line will." I tried to grab the line as it was running ran off the spool, and it almost sliced open my hand, as the fish had departed at warp speed (The Starship Enterprise would have been impressed.) The line broke. For several days, my mates said I did not know how to fish, etc. Then, a few days later, at dinner, the most experienced fisherman amongst us said when their was a lag in the conversation, "Weren't no human being going to stop that fish." That Yamato was not going down.

03-04-11, 06:37 PM	#3050
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	darn, double darn, !@#$%&!!! July, 45 - sank a Ise anchored in Tokyo Bay. Wahoo! It took 5 torpedoes, including two cuties, before it went down. I still had my remianing forward torpedo and all reserve forward torpedoes, so I decided to hunt a captital ship, as I had not seen any before this missisn, and I was running out of time because the rumors were that most of the Jap Navy was out of action. So, I sailed off to the Bungo Straights, where I came upon a four ship TF force composed of two dds, a cruiser, and, lo an behold, one gigantic Yamato. The TF was in single file, the Yamato was second in line, and its speed calculated over 6 minutes was 17.75 kts. It was late and the sun was beginning to set. I went to manual targeting and fired when it was at 4,500 yds. A five topedoes salvo (I forgot to fire the sixth torpedo), with each set to run at a depth of 25 ft. concluded with five hits with M14s at a range of around 3,900 yds! (Thank god for nicolas and ddgrn and their Easy Aob mod.) However, its not dinner until its in the pan, as the cowboys say. The 5 hits did not sink Mr. Yamato much to my amazment , and only started a small fire which did not last long. I submerged to avoid the dds. By the time I came up for air the Yamato had looped arojund my boat and headed back into the straights. I tried to follow, but eventually the Yamoto worked itself up from 10 to 15 kts., and I lost it. This reminds me of the time I was fishing in the Persian Gulf. We were catching 2-3 foot sharks. All of sudden I felt a couple of jerks on my fishing line, so I jerked back hard. A fish took my line. I must have pissed him off because he took off. Because I had light tackle, he had run out the line in 20 -30 seconds. My pole started to bend, and someone said, "Either the pole is going to break or the line will." I tried to grab the line as it was running ran off the spool, and it almost sliced open my hand, as the fish had departed at warp speed (The Starship Enterprise would have been impressed.) The line broke. For several days, my mates said I did not know how to fish, etc. Then, a few days later, at dinner, the most experienced fisherman amongst us said when their was a lag in the conversation, "Weren't no human being going to stop that fish." That Yamato was not going down. Last edited by I'm goin' down; 03-04-11 at 10:43 PM.