I had recently sunk a small cargo hauler which had belonged to the Netherlands on my way back to Kiel. I was perhaps a day or so from safe waters, so I cranked that time passage meter to a 512 and went away to make a cup of tea.
5 minutes later I returned to find a trauler ripping my IIA with machine gun fire. With a shallow depth of 30 below keel, she sunk me quick, from diving periscope and repairing whilst taking on water, to blowing ballast in order to negate taking on water but being raked with fire on the surface. It was a frustrating and embarrassing experience.
And who owned that armed trauler?
The Netherlands.
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