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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
Details on the the above encounter, please.  |
Okay. I'll share it again.
I was transiting the mighty Pacific Ocean until I was in one of the straits (can't remember which, it was in the South Pacific). It was around 0200 so i decided so run at decks awash through the strait. At 0300 I surfaced completely and ran for a little bit until suddenly, my boat was hit in the bow by a shell from a shore battery some ways off. I quickly dived to radar depth to check the area....and then it started....
I was sinking by the bow.
SURFACE! Next, I changed speed to ahead standard to keep from sinking. I was just
almost done with pumping water out of the bow and diving back to radar depth when sonar reports a warship
short range, moving fast, closing!
$%#($*%&#$(!
Well...I was able to make it to a tolerable periscope depth. I couldn't see the subchaser....my boat was still at a bit of an angle so when I face the periscope rearward i'm looking down at the water. It was off in one of my blind spots.
So I dived, not knowing how close it was only to have depth charges drop not 10 minutes later. I'm still running at ahead two thirds to keep a normal angle. I still had flooding and the angle was getting bad again. I was sticking out of the water at this point.
Depth Charges Galore!
More flooding, more damage, more sinking.
Now, I was at like 70 degrees up angle and I was running at ahead flank to stay up.
I knew then, I had to surface.
I surface and managed to actually kill the thing with my deck gun! (That big gun on the Gar class is awesome) And I started to move away.
Then, I sank. Right there on the surface. Sank like a rock.
I was making something like 45 knots when I died from sinking so fast.
There's the short version of what happened in that patrol.