Thanks for that link Capt Cox, most interesting. I see that in some instances destroyers escourted subs home, pity that is not modelled into the game.
And here I always thought that it was only the U-boats that practiced killing off sailors in the life boats of ships they had sunk.
"Returning to periscope depth,
Wahoo observed the first target had sunk, the second target was still moving, evidently with steering trouble; and the transport,
Buyo Maru, was stopped but still afloat.
Wahoo headed for the transport and fired a bow tube; the torpedo passed directly under the middle of the ship but failed to explode. She then fired another torpedo which headed right for the stack and blew her apart her midships. The submarine then headed for the crippled second target which had joined with a tanker.
Wahoo decided to let these two ships get over the horizon, while she surfaced to charge her
batteries and destroy the estimated twenty lifeboats now in the water. (Controversy still attaches to this action and the extent that troops in the water were deliberately targeted by the Wahoo crew.)"
Was this only Morton that did this or did all US sub captains do this if the opportunity presented itself?
I remember on the the boards of SH111 when it came out, some players were asking for life boats and it was felt that the devs did not want to put them in as it would be kinda sick to go around shooting them up.