Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I have found that TC1024 is the most deadliest enemy in the game!!!! What I do to get out of the harbor is zoom in on the map where the port is I'm leaving. I set my waypoints to get out. I sit in the bridge and watch the senery or TC to 256/512.

I see d@rk51 has an issue in the open ocean. Yeah, well, I laid my waypoints around the northside of England. I was cruising along at TC1024 and bang/damage/flooding/crew member launched 500m off the conning tower....it would seem there was a tiny tiny really tiny island I missed on the map (I saw it after I zoomed in) that in the wide open north Atlantic and my crew rammed smack dab in the middle. I mean, what are the chances of that other than not paying attention. I scolded my watch and collected my crew off the beach that ended up there after the sudden stop. Tiny tiny really tiny island 1, U-boat 0..........crew left on island and searched for a new crew.

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"It was a very dark night in mid-1943, and the Edgar G. Chase was proceeding south along the Atlantic coast, running fairly close to the shoreline. She was operating in company with two navy patrol craft (PC) vessels, searching for enemy submarines.
Suddenly, a very bright light stabbed through the dark night off the starboard bow. Moving quickly from right to left, it would disappear, only to reappear intermittently. The captain of the DE, suspecting the very worst, immediately detached one of the PCs with orders to proceed dead ahead at full speed, investigate this very suspicious light and report his findings promptly.
Off into the night went this little ship, quickly disappearing from view. After what seemed to be an unusually long time, a signal light began to flash in our direction-