SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged)

commandosolo2009 · 06-06-11, 04:49 PM

So here we are,

After a fine maiden patrol to the East China Sea, a few charges that rumbled and not even shook our boat, and a persistence to get BuOrd to supply out boat with SJ. Not even closer.

Now we ship out from Surabaya, Java, and the seas are unusually calm. Well, its just so before the storm. So a few days have passed since we were located to the Java strait, and SO reports a faint whoosh some 30 miles Northwest, closing. A distinctive, unprecedented whoosh is amongst the sounds and we think to our selves, it could be a cruiser complement.

Flank speed and intercepting we come across what is best termed as the ticket to a better boat. A Taskforce is in sight, and my OOD and HM both deligintly working hard to get us clear of the oncoming escort port the plotted track. We are 5 kilometers apart from two eye-candy, Takao and Mogami cruisers, but only had time for the latter. We decided to call an angle of 93 port on bearing 0 relative and 14.4 knots on the speed.

"Standby for constant bearings!" on 1MC on my order.
"Range - mark!" , "Bearing - mark!"

We had her by the boilers and 4 minutes, 43 seconds late, came 4 loud rumblings, we were in shallow waters, when suddenly, a destroyer came to and started pinging..

Well, we heard her own screws on top of our heads, and my exec recommended a change of course to the North. We launched our decoy and bought a few minutes off and decided to secure our sound heads, moving at ahead slow to minimize whoosh specially in these shallow waters, at least to make it to a nearby puddle of 10 meters deep. I had the con, and it was time to surface after six hours of distant rumblings, four hydrophone sweeps, and a lot of burden from the seabed underneath.

We came up, exactly 34 kilometers from the approach and decided to not stick around anymore, for a Betty or a Zeke, would certainly scan this area after our near brush with death.

And so we moved across the Java strait, and onto the depths of Sulu sea, we arrived.

It was morning on April 8th, when our Radioman came to the mess hall as we were busy on our bacon and eggs and handed a report from ComSubPac, an Ultra designating a lost cruiser to the Japs at the Java strait area. We decided to hold off communications until we could foresee what will happen at Sulu sea, which was of friendly depths, and so as we crossed the 100 fathom curve, we were on comms with ComSubPac when we got a message over Fox traffic about a convoy southwest of our position, with course estimated Northeast. We went on a 2-engine speed, and our sound head were deployed. For we were eager to get more ships in this area.

to be continued....

06-06-11, 04:49 PM	#3862
commandosolo2009 Grey Wolf Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Egypt Posts: 819 Downloads: 132 Uploads: 0	April 1942, USS Pickerel, Patrol 2 part 1 So here we are, After a fine maiden patrol to the East China Sea, a few charges that rumbled and not even shook our boat, and a persistence to get BuOrd to supply out boat with SJ. Not even closer. Now we ship out from Surabaya, Java, and the seas are unusually calm. Well, its just so before the storm. So a few days have passed since we were located to the Java strait, and SO reports a faint whoosh some 30 miles Northwest, closing. A distinctive, unprecedented whoosh is amongst the sounds and we think to our selves, it could be a cruiser complement. Flank speed and intercepting we come across what is best termed as the ticket to a better boat. A Taskforce is in sight, and my OOD and HM both deligintly working hard to get us clear of the oncoming escort port the plotted track. We are 5 kilometers apart from two eye-candy, Takao and Mogami cruisers, but only had time for the latter. We decided to call an angle of 93 port on bearing 0 relative and 14.4 knots on the speed. "Standby for constant bearings!" on 1MC on my order. "Range - mark!" , "Bearing - mark!" We had her by the boilers and 4 minutes, 43 seconds late, came 4 loud rumblings, we were in shallow waters, when suddenly, a destroyer came to and started pinging.. Well, we heard her own screws on top of our heads, and my exec recommended a change of course to the North. We launched our decoy and bought a few minutes off and decided to secure our sound heads, moving at ahead slow to minimize whoosh specially in these shallow waters, at least to make it to a nearby puddle of 10 meters deep. I had the con, and it was time to surface after six hours of distant rumblings, four hydrophone sweeps, and a lot of burden from the seabed underneath. We came up, exactly 34 kilometers from the approach and decided to not stick around anymore, for a Betty or a Zeke, would certainly scan this area after our near brush with death. And so we moved across the Java strait, and onto the depths of Sulu sea, we arrived. It was morning on April 8th, when our Radioman came to the mess hall as we were busy on our bacon and eggs and handed a report from ComSubPac, an Ultra designating a lost cruiser to the Japs at the Java strait area. We decided to hold off communications until we could foresee what will happen at Sulu sea, which was of friendly depths, and so as we crossed the 100 fathom curve, we were on comms with ComSubPac when we got a message over Fox traffic about a convoy southwest of our position, with course estimated Northeast. We went on a 2-engine speed, and our sound head were deployed. For we were eager to get more ships in this area. to be continued....