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Where they pattern runners or plain vanilla straight shooters?
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Two Type I and two Type II torpedoes, I seem to recall.
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Did you have manual TDC on or off?
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Off.
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What speed were the DD's doing when you fired? If they were running fast then you might get them scew to one side to get in position?
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I wasn't even locked on to either of them. I pointed my periscope between them.
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Also how fare from them were you when you fired?
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Several kilometres.
Thing is, this has happened to me before. I sit aside a crippled merchant with automatic targetting turned on. I've got a perfect shot lined up and she's dead ahead, dead in the water, stationary. I line up the periscope so that it points straight ahead, 0°, and fire a torpedo. It heads off the left, missing by more than a merchant-lenght.
It's also reflected in the TDC screen: The brown line that marks the torpedoes' trajectory upon launch is turned not in the way the periscope or UZO is turned, but in some other direction. I don't know what's going on, but I seem to recall it only happens after submerging. Maybe if, say, your torpedoes are aimed to 45° before diving, they'll be at 45° after surfacing, too, regardless of where your scope is headed, until it's locked on to something again? It feels so sometimes...