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Originally Posted by KeptinCranky
I'll keep saying it BBs do not belong in the middle of convoys going less than 10 knots, that's just asking to get sunk, so that's what I'll do if given half a chance  |
I like them there. U-99 just bumped into an inbound convoy on July 30th, 1940, northwest of Ireland. Visibility was bad (heavy rain, heavy fog), and after I shot all my torpedoes at 2 tankers in front of me and 1 medium freighter behind me (the first good targets I could see), the next ship I saw was the Rodney.
After some depth charge evasion, running around the convoy on the surface reloading tubes, only to find out it changed course, catching up with it again, I made another submerged approach, and found the Rodney steaming nicely straight ahead in the exact same position in the convoy. How considerate of her.
15 minutes later she joined her sistership Nelson (U-99's big score during operation Hartmut) on the bottom of the Atlantic with 4 torpedo holes in her port side.
