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Originally Posted by immortal44
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Originally Posted by momo55
When i attack a ship ..i attack the ship and here cargo ...not the crew on it.
I'm always surprised when i see that no ship in a convoy will attempt to save those poor men in there lifeboats . They just sail on ...leaving there fellow countrymen behind...strange behavior  :hmm: |
Would you stop where another ship has just been blown out of the water by an enemy sub?  |
No sane captain would. In fact there were often ordered not too. Allied convoys sometimes had designated rescue ships, but for normal ships the risk of stopping with a submarine about was far too great to chance. Take the example of the
Queen Mary and
HMS Curcoa, the high speed troopship rammed and sank her own escort, but could not risk stopping to rescue survivors because of U-boats in the area. It was a trade off of the loss of 338 Royal Navy men against the potential loss of 5,500 American soldiers, as well as the sailors.