I hit a mini-convoy, got spotted by a destroyer who stayed with the DIW merchant I'd just disabled. While trying to line up a shot, I gave myself away, and the destroyer landed a DC on my after deck. after using emergency blow combined with "hold depth" for long enough to know that my electrics were never coming back, and that I only had one diesel left, i decided to try my luck and shooting the merchant on my next bob up. Periscope up, emergency blow, hold depth at 12 meters, saw a destroyer turning, took my shot at the destroyer!
poof, no destroyer, limped home on one diesel. painful lesson: don't get caught.
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