I was on a patrol heading south (northwest of the Spanish coast). The seas were calm and I was steaming along at 9 knots in my IXC using time compression. I got a ship sighted message and went up to the UZO to look. It was the dead of night and pitch black but I did find the ship using the bearing the watch officer reported...it was a medium merchant.
I was hunting for capital ships and didn't want to waste any torpedoes, so I decided to ignore it. But just then I got another ship sighted. I looked again to find another merchant. Apparently, I was on the trailing edge of a 6 knot convoy. As I stood there contemplating whether to attack the convoy, there suddenly was a load explosion and the bow torpedo room reported flooding.
I shifted to bridge view and turned to my right just in time to see a Flower Corvette about to ram the boat! It did and everything rocked back and forth a few times. Since the weather was calm, I quickly manned the deck gun and brought it around pointing at the hull of the Corvette which was now stuck against my boat. I fired one round and the ship exploded into a ball of fire right in front of me! It took a couple minutes for it to sink and slipped off my boat as it went under.
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