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Originally Posted by Krait
In my current career (April, 1940) I'm about to intercept a convoy. In 13 hours it will be dark and I will probably find out the hard way that it's impossible to close a DD to 100 meters..
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A few careers ago in 1939/40 (I can't remember the exact year but it was early on) I was shadowing a convoy at night. I was attemting to overtake the convoy on it's right flank when the DD covering the right side of the convoy decides to do a search pattern further out from the main body of ships. He came real close, so close in fact that we had a minor collision. I thought I was a goner but the DD just sailed on unaware that I was there. So I say you can get within 100 metres of a DD in the early war years.
Nemo
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