Ciao StarLion,
I feel your pain! Something like that, only worse, happened to me not long ago. Caught by bombers while leaving port. I was on the bridge when my whole flak team (5 men) bought it. It happened so fast!
It was the biggest emotional shock I've had playing GWX -- I had something like survivor guilt, replaying the event in my mind, wondering how I could have saved these men. As a result I wrote it into a story for this year's Subsim contest.
BTW, you write with an accent that reminds me of Chekov from
Star Trek: "nuclear wessels"! I like it!