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C-4 · 09-10-06, 08:28 PM

I was trying to pass through the English Channel on my current patrol. After I passed something like 7 DDs and PTs at periscope depth, the patrols must have picked me up and gathered around an area 5 nm behind my position. As I was laughing at them for looking for me in all the wrong places, my crew reports damage, and my boat was going down. Turns out my fuel tank was destroyed, and I lost all my fuel in a matter of seconds. Radio/hydrophone room soon got flooded all the way to the ceiling, while lots of other equipment were destroyed. My best men on repair detail were unable to control the flooding.

My periscope was up, and there's no way a DD somehow got my position without me knowing. It must have been a mine.

I tried the same thing again, with similar effects. I probably will never go to the entrance to the Channel again. Those mines are devastating. One will usually do the job.

09-10-06, 08:28 PM	#4
C-4 Watch Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Somewhere in the universe Posts: 30 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I was trying to pass through the English Channel on my current patrol. After I passed something like 7 DDs and PTs at periscope depth, the patrols must have picked me up and gathered around an area 5 nm behind my position. As I was laughing at them for looking for me in all the wrong places, my crew reports damage, and my boat was going down. Turns out my fuel tank was destroyed, and I lost all my fuel in a matter of seconds. Radio/hydrophone room soon got flooded all the way to the ceiling, while lots of other equipment were destroyed. My best men on repair detail were unable to control the flooding. My periscope was up, and there's no way a DD somehow got my position without me knowing. It must have been a mine. I tried the same thing again, with similar effects. I probably will never go to the entrance to the Channel again. Those mines are devastating. One will usually do the job.