[melnibonian]

Originally Posted by Dead Meat

On my second patrol I encountered a lone polish merchant coasting along all fat and happy. I was quite a bit from my patrol zone, but I figured I may as well take my opportunities where I can find them, ran an Intercept and gave 'er all three torpedoes! (I'm in a TypeIIA.)

Continuing on to my patrol I spotted another good target! "Yay!" thought I, "Another kill!"

That's where the trouble began. I had no torpedoes! Frantic, I demanded an answer from my weapons officer (Bubba)

"guh-huh-huh Torpedo 1 is in queue sir! Torpedo 2 is in queue sir! Torpedo 3 is in queue sir!)


Frantic, I dashed to the bow torpedo room. I had 2 petty officers (one of them a torpedo man, and 4 sailors in there, but the efficiency was non-existent. Frantic I filled the entire compartment with petty officers and put my Weapons officer in to over-see them... no noticeable effect.


Long story short, I reached my patrol zone (AN47), patrolled for 24 hours, and then went back to Kiel. They never reloaded the torpedoes, not even after I took away their grog... We missed no less than 3 lone merchants, because I had nothing to shoot them with, and I had to run most ignobly from 2 lone armed trawlers, for the same reason.


As soon as we got back to base, I got the chicken for my Conning tower, My boat is now U-15, Chicken of Shame, and let that be a lesson to them!

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How true