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Old 09-26-20, 10:33 AM   #1903
Mios 4Me
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Originally Posted by torpedobait View Post
Something mentioned above about stopped ships stood out for me.

On my 2nd patrol, first out of Surabaya in Spearfish (Sargo), early-mid January, I encountered 2 such vessels (both Japanese, one a large split freighter (looks like a Fast Freighter) in the relatively shallow water ENE of Surabaya on the way to the Makassar Strait. It was night time, early January, and they were not moving. I torpedoed the larger one of the two. It stayed unmoving while the other one scooted away.

Later in the 3rd patrol starting May 4, 1942, this time out of Fremantle, I found anther large split Freighter in the East China Sea between Cam Ranh bay and the Balabac Strit.
Yes, in at least two of my three cases, it was a Split Merchant. The other may have been a Fast Merchant or one of the Hansa versions, but I'm not sure.
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