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Originally Posted by exponent8246
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WEBSTER: Again, I agree with you. Its just that if I can fire 5 screws in broad daylight with perfect visibilty, less than 1000 mtrs from a destroyer with the bubbles from my torps showing for all to see and still have time to swing around (at ahead slow, silent running) and sink the (still not moving destroyer) is a bit of a joke!!!
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Well, I'm not sure how unrealistic that is - unless the destroyer happened to have steam up and was sitting on ready for some reason even though it's sitting quietly at anchor in a presumably safe harbor, I would not expect it to be able to get cranked up and moving at all in the time it would take you to swing your sub around and fire at him - that probably took you less than 5 minutes, whereas it would take a lot longer than that to get a cold ship's engines/boilers fired up and get the ship underway. The fact that the stationary ships stayed that way doesn't strike me as at all unrealistic. I think the only unrealistic-sounding thing about that encounter may have been the absence of any other harbor patrolling ships that would have already been underway, on alert and ready to move against you once you made your presence known.