Something's missing here...
This is a nice Medium Modern Composite Freighter I sank this afternoon, put one torp in the engine room which brought her to a dead stop and within minutes she took on a 40 degree starboard list but absolutely would not sink. So I surfaced and closed to about 800 yards on her starboard side for a little deck gun exercise.
Put about 10 - 15 rounds of HE into her at the waterline and she was still floating. So I decided to see if I could get some cargo on the foredeck to detonate and speed things along. Easy enough as the list had her deck facing toward me.
Well 2nd round fired, I got a
big suprise! Hit right at the base of her foremast, and blew the mast clean off!!! It launched up in the air, tumbling, came down and hit the deck and broke apart before sinking
That was a sight to see!
Hmm, can I blow off the aft mast too? Yep, 4 or 5 shots and the aft mast followed.
I've sunk a lot of ships with the deck gun but I've never seen
that before... Can't help but wonder if there's other bits that can be blown off with a well-placed shot? Funnels? Life boats? Deck houses?
I'm looking forward to my next gunnery practice
DH