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Originally Posted by woodenboat

Because he was under orders to meet another German ship but I don't know the reason.
Your son is correct, though. In The Art of War, Master Sunzi emphatically states one of his most important mandates:

"NEVER BECOME PREDICTABLE!"

PRECISELY! The USS Haynes, a Buckley class destroyer escort, also makes that mistake turning to port after each depth charge attack and suffers an eel hit as a result. Ironically, and to have a movie I suppose, Buckley class destroyer escorts were equipped with hedge-hogs just aft of the A mount battery...I don't recall one being used in the movie In the flick: The u-boat is on its way to rendezvous with a German merchant raider in the South Atlantic Ocean; hence returning to a constant course. Depth charge wise; what wallop!

Up to 200 DC's were carried. Two sets of double rails each side of the ship at the stern, each set held 24 charges; eight (two on Captain-class British units) K-gun depth charge throwers each holding 5 charges, were situated each side of the ship just forward of the stern rails. On Captain-Class ships, just forward of these double sets of ready racks were fitted along each side of the ship extending to midships, each set holding 60 depth charges.

But if they'd used that hedge-hog we would'nt have much of a movie....