[UKönig]

Picture the scene:

Night, flat enough seas for d/g use, sky clear, dark.
Surfaced.
Exiting straits of gibraltar at 20 kts, next to the african coast, I mean, we're hugging the coastline so that the u-boat silhouette blends in with the background. Radar picks up incoming pulses, but brazenly, like a pirate, we try to stand our ground, so to speak.
Ahead, bearing, 345 deg, at 1000m and closing, an elco torpedo boat. He's no threat, ram him if he gets in the way. But, now 3 more shapes are closing in from the right. 2 V/W class destroyers are shelling us with artillery. 1 is at bearing 015 and about 2 km away, the other is bearing 025 and is about the same distant. The third, a C class or tribal class (i forget exactly), is running hell for leather right at us, bearing 045-050. Firing the whole time. I try to take evasive action by throwing hard lefts and rights, but it's no use. Now, I know the gig is up and I am boned either way, (surfaced or diving) but I see it through to the inevitable end. The 2 V/Ws hang back, while the Tribal lays it on, and yes, he plowed into us at 34 knots. Impact point, about where the seamen's mess is. It rolled us over in the water, like, twice, because I thought the bridge crew should have been flung all over the place, and the next message was "U-boat destroyed by collision".
But I don't know, it just seems that everytime I try to run a gun battle with destroyers, eventually, if they haven't shelled us to pieces before they get within visual range and I'm still on the surface, as a last resort, they always try to ram. If I am under, or make it under in time, then yes, down comes the hail of wasserbom. But if I stick it out on the surface, I get run into. It just seems too coincidental, that's all.