I read a few books where in heavy sea's light fog etc a ship would be taken out by a wolf and no one in the convoy would notice till the next day....creepy. They say due to the wind noise, large waves, fog, most of the crew were inside the ship and not outside due to safety reasons of loosing a man overboard, alot of ships would go to the death either unseen or not heard or both, thats why so many saliors where lost if they survived the intitial torpedo hit. Escorts would back track to try to find them, but there would be no sign of wreckage....the wolf would be still stalking after having a snack and now the hunter would move in again because a poor mistake by an escort to leave the convoy to look for the missing ship had now weakened the defence of the convoy.
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