Argh Matey!
Now ears a true pirate ship for yee landlubbers!
USS COD SS 224
Gato class equiped with a 5"/25 deck gun and 2 40 mm AA Bofors.
After refitting at Guam between 29 May and 26 June
1945, COD put out for the Gulf of Siam and the coast of
Indo-China on her seventh war patrol. On 9 and 10 July, she
went to the rescue of a grounded Dutch submarine, taking its
crew on board and destroying the submarine when it could not
be gotten off the reef. Between 21 July and 1 August, COD
made 20 gunfire attacks on the junks, motor sampans, and
barges which were all that remained to supply the Japanese
at Singapore. After inspecting each contact to rescue
friendly natives, COD sank it by gunfire, sending a total of
23 to the bottom. On 1 August, an enemy plane strafed COD,
forcing her to dive leaving one of her boarding parties
behind. These men were rescued 2 days later by another
submarine.
I wonder after boarding all those boats if they made any of em walk da plank!:rotfl:
I am thinking they could include boarding parties? Maybee you could have some of the crew carry cutlasses and of course the skipper would have to have an eye patch and a parrot!
BTW: It took 2 torpedoes and 16 5 inch shells to sink the O 19 not to mention the placed charges. Of course, that might have been because the Dutch sub was lodged on a reef. There is a film somerwhere around documenting the incident. Anyone know where I could find that?