[the.terrabyte.pirate]

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If we're going down, we're going down fighting. We were submerged at peri depth and travelling at 3 knots, waiting for it to get dark to surface and make a final run out of the west end of the channel at flank. Suddenly my hydro operator picked up a merchant sailing at slow speed towards us. When it gets close I pop up the peri and see a small french merchant. I position the boat next to his path of travel, and wait. His path of travel takes him within 700 meters of our position, so we wait till he reaches 90 degrees from our angle of bow, rev the engines to ahead full, surface the boat, and then start pumping deck gun shells into him as we travel on a parallel path next to each other. In less than a minute he's sinking towards davy jones locker while we're running on the surface at flank speed, getting the hell out of dodge before we'll drop to peri depth and crawl away.

1 merc sunk on the first day of the war with France. Not to shabby, but there's still a lot of channel to go.