Trying to sink a BB at sea is pretty iffy, I was just plain lucky and did it once. Saw a DD on the horizon and submerged, on sonar, a whole pile of contacts could be seen so I set up an intercept course. Raised scope and saw four or five BBs doing about 20 knots, so targetted the last one and gave it four fish from nearly 5 km away, two hits which must have hit the engines as it stopped dead in the water. Evaded the DDs and finished off the BB when it was alone.
Loch Ewe is always good (and very easy to penetrate early in the war), usually a Nelson in there. It sits at the back of the harbour on the left (i.e. as you look into the harbour from the entrance). It is away from the docks so you needed to look around a little. And if you don't sink it with your first salvo, it has on occasion just brought up steam and moved over to the docks and parked again.
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