12-01-06, 07:30 PM
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Stowaway
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Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper
Which is a huge pain when operating in the Norwegian fjords. In reality, the resistance's MTBs zoomed around in the narrow passages with ease, going where bigger ships couldn't go and using the terrain and knowledge of the geography to their advantage. In Silent Hunter III, they just run themselves aground.
But then why are they reluctant to run themselves aground if land is such an ethereal, non-existant thing to them? They usually sit and rock back and forth for half an hour before building up the courage to run themselves aground. I can just picture the bridge crew: "Aw, naah, I don't know", "Oh, c'mon captain Dinsdale, don't be such a pussy", "Er...", "Floor it, Dinsdale!", "But...", "C'mon, you canna cook with the big boys, get outta the kitchen!", "er, OK". [Destroyer plows into solid rock and explodes]
Does it have to do with depth, then? "If depth ahead is less than so and so, stop"?
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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-
W-E H-A-V-E I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-T-E-D T-H-E L-I-G-H-T
I-T I-S A-N A-U-T-O-M-O-B-I-L-E A-N-D
W-E A-R-E A-G-R-O-U-N-D
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