Finally I've had the chance to take on a Flower Corvette.... and won. Sank the little sh*t with our deckgun. The gunnars all deserve a medal for it too.
Mind you this occured on 7th patrol Dec 16th, 1940 at 23:10 in Grid AL6. We'd just sunk another nosey FC in AM15 just before this, and this FC comes looking to see what happened. We had started to outrun it but being the idiot I am, turned to fight. Seeing the range was over 5000 meters we turn into it with gun crew at the ready. At 3800 meters I had them open fire on the Command deck and then her guns. She turned tail to run but then turned back to face us giving us a great broadside to shoot at. A few of her shots got thru and did some damage to Control Tower and Hull. We tried to turned away to open up the distance a bit, continued to fire scoring numerous hits, but she turned into us to close the distance. Finally at 23:12 Observers on the bridge shouted "She's Going Down!".
Never tried this before and figured this was as good a chance as any to see how good the gunners were. They did alright for firing on their own, but even when it was sinking they wanted to keep on firing.
Now it's on to jump ahead of the convoy to nail that big Revenge Class Battle Wagon, a Great Lakes Transport and a nice fat juicy Whaling Factory ship.
To be continued.... I hope.