I've been in a similar situation before, with a TF of two Revenge BBs lined up.
Instead of firing at long range, I pushed up to flank 7knots when I was about 1.8km away. Sure, the alarm went up and hell broke loose but I was in a good position and I managed to cover about 900m before the escorts managed to close in.
The BBs were zi-zagging heavily but from less than 1km they stood no chance. I fired 2 slow torps to the closest one and two fast to the other one. Then I managed to swing a stern shoot as well before the destroyer closed in.
It caught me at 40m depth, I got some pounding, three bow tubes went out, but all torps hit. One Revenge (the one that took three hits) sunk in 10 minutes.
The second one I found in the morning dead in the water heavy listing on the starbord side. One more torpedo from the remaining tube finished her fate
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