Sboat stationed at Brisbane, Receive orders to Patrol Bismark Sea, Patroled assigned area completed, did not sink anything so sent Patrol Status report and rec'd new orders to do a photo Recon of Raboul, Aircraft Carrier in Vicinty.Set course for Raboul, approaching the harbour a Akzuki DD is patroling area around 2 Shokaku Fleet Carriers. In order to take photo dedided DD had to be sunk.Waited for DD to come across my bow and fired a spread of two fish.Both Fish are hits and the Akzuki sinks.Move sub in closer for photo shot and there is a couple of armed trawlers scooting about, they pose no threat.Take my photo shot of first carrier, The sub camera actually takes pretty good photos. Here is actual camera photo shot.
Anyhow, after completing photo shot, decided to attack first carrier, sent a spread of 4 fish, waited for reload and sent two more fish her way.All 6 fish were good hits and she listed heavily, she would not sink, so made depth decks awash and used Deckgun to finish her off. Took 60 salvos and finaly sunk. Now for second carrier, with 4 fish left, sent a spread towards last carrier. With four gaping holes in her starboard below waterline, she didn't even have a slight list after waiting hours.
Went home with around31,000 tons and somewhat dissapointed couldn't sink second carrier.
