[Bubblehead1980]

In USS Nautilus Narwhal Class in TMO Update.

Feb 28 1944, being depth charged by two escorts after sinking a 3790 ton freighter in convoy, area Corn Field N of Palau.


Have been hunting me about three hours... mostly ineffective but a lucky charge came close. Depth is 385 feet, about as deep as want to go with this type of boat.


Charge went off (external cam is off) I believe just below control room/engine room. I heard a crack, the usual noise of air lines busted, water leaks, multiple damage reports but a report of "compressed air reserve down to zero sir!" This went from 100 to 0, well 21/100, which soon bled down to 0

Seems my compressor is damaged but intact, so can produce more upon surfacing, if have any banks to store it. So obviously this air is important for sub operations. How much trouble would a actual WW II submerged submarine be in? Survivable ? first time ever had this happen in all the depth charge attacks taken in this sim lol , except for when boat is destroyed.



Update:

After several hours of depth charging, managed to get away. Ordered surface after dark, boat struggled to rise from 390 feet to surface, had to use flank speed and hard rise on planes to get there. Once broached boat had difficult time blowing dry, lingered at 25 ft depth, near decks awash for a good 3.5- 5 minutes before completely surfacing. Compressor was repaired and able to put compressed air reserve back to 12 percent, but never rose above that level for rest of patrol. Noticed that on regular dives to avoid aircraft en route home, 2-4 percent of air was used up on each dive, the boats air lines and banks were obviously severely damaged.