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Originally Posted by Adlerkopf
Wow, So I take it that in the case of a flower corvette or clemson destroyer it's ok to go shot-for-shot with them on the surface? Are there any DD's that this approach would "not work so well" with?
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Having just read The Cruel Sea (excellent book by Nicholas Monserrat), which is based on the war time exploits of a flower class corvette, they had a 4 incher up front, a couple of light machine guns on the beam, and a two pounder right aft, in addition to the depth charges. Post refit, they had a pom-pom (4 bofors 20mm cannon made into a quad mounting, basically a flak vierling), lots more machine guns and cannon, and 'Squid' depth charges, plus traditional depth charges, plus a much more advanced Asdic system added to it. At-a-glance differences are the mast on the pre-refit flower is forrard of the bridge (very un-Royal Navy like), and in the post refit, the mast is abaft the bridge.
If you are going to go shot-for-shot with a Flower, place your boat abaft their beam (about 20 degrees), and take out the pom-pom or two pounder, whilst raking the upperworks with machine gun fire. After getting rid of whatever may harm you the most, take the sensible course of action, and give her some new scuttles around the water line, and put a shell into the bridge as well, as there was no scondary command facilities on board the flower.
Try not to get so that she can train her 4 incher onto you, or else, for you, the war is over....