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Gryffon300 · 02-24-11, 11:42 AM

Sometimes, it pays to actually go to your assigned grid. We were out in AN13 on our 4th patrol when we picked up a small convoy across in AN14.

We closed to find 6 escorts for 2 Medium Merchants - something suspicious about that so I decided to go at them. Got a torp into each of the Merchants, from less than 1 km, but then the escorts were all over me. Took out a Tribal & a V&W within 10 mins of each other. (I later found out one of them was Canadian!), but then had to disengage and evade - for many, many hours).

Shadowed them and late the next afternnon got another torp into a Merc - they tell me it was only carrying coal! The next two days were cat & mouse around the cripled other Merc (which could only do 1 knott) - I've never heard of such an extended engagement. Took out a C&D - another Canadian! - before finally nabbing the Merc, which I now learn was carrying aircraft - mystery solved!

The next day it was almost an anti-climax to see two Auxilary Cruisers steam over the horizon with only a single escort! Took them both out with two torps each, and the escort hardly even bothered to come looking for us! Extraordinary.

Anyway, that was a lot better, with 9 ships for 47,439 tons. Weird, but fun.

Your shout.

02-24-11, 11:42 AM	#2198
Gryffon300 Engineer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 213 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	Here's to you, Kaleuns! Sometimes, it pays to actually go to your assigned grid. We were out in AN13 on our 4th patrol when we picked up a small convoy across in AN14. We closed to find 6 escorts for 2 Medium Merchants - something suspicious about that so I decided to go at them. Got a torp into each of the Merchants, from less than 1 km, but then the escorts were all over me. Took out a Tribal & a V&W within 10 mins of each other. (I later found out one of them was Canadian!), but then had to disengage and evade - for many, many hours). Shadowed them and late the next afternnon got another torp into a Merc - they tell me it was only carrying coal! The next two days were cat & mouse around the cripled other Merc (which could only do 1 knott) - I've never heard of such an extended engagement. Took out a C&D - another Canadian! - before finally nabbing the Merc, which I now learn was carrying aircraft - mystery solved! The next day it was almost an anti-climax to see two Auxilary Cruisers steam over the horizon with only a single escort! Took them both out with two torps each, and the escort hardly even bothered to come looking for us! Extraordinary. Anyway, that was a lot better, with 9 ships for 47,439 tons. Weird, but fun. Your shout.