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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
You know of course if they could really have done it that way they would have. Decks Awash greatly increased the chance of flooding the engines (literally). It was usually used to lower the profile while approaching enemy traffic in calm seas at night, and necessitated the use of batteries and low speeds.
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I am currently listening to an Audio Book called "Wolfs Of the Sea" Its written by 2 Swedish Historians, and is absolutely awesome! Its the stories from "Prien" to "Johny Walker" all is there. And the episode when "Otto Kretschmer" meets hes destiny with HMS Walker and HMS Vanoc, he attacks a convoy exactly like this. Night, calm sea, only the turret above the surface...decks awash
But Kretschmer was a fox that sort of invented night time surface attacks...in the end he caught it because of an officer that missundertood an order and ordered to dive. The "U-Boot" was directly picked up by "ASDIC" and that was that. He spent 5 years as a prisoner of war in Canada. Back to topic