Was in the South China Sea was smack in the middle of a huge convoy of merchants and a very large passenger liner had three mark 14s left two in the bow and one in the stern. The escorst were on to me, had made several passes already. The slop buckets at the stations were about to spill over from all the diving up and down. Finally caught a break fired two shots less than 600 yrds, dead on the liner perfect shot. Both struck portside the right under the stack. And whouldnt you know it both were duds
Escorts coming at me from all directions dived under the liner came out the other side and ran like a scalded dog. about 2500 yards away with the liner at a bearing of about 210 I fired my last fish and hit him right on the stern. Sat there and watched him grind to a stop. Must have got his running gear. Anyway nothing I could do. Three escorts circling. Had to bug out batts were down to about 15% and CO2 was rising. Had to leave 18,000 tons siting there. Once I got far enough away I radioed in. Sooooo sad.
