Ahoy, team...
Got 1 for ya, that is weird... well, 2 things.. BUT I shall begin with the ship 1st & its weird behavior...
Am on 4th patrol... at end of the 3rd, on recog of My past patrols & the tonnage that I have sunk, to date.. got selected to go from the Sargo class boat the USS Seadragon, to a Tambor class boat.
All's good there, so no worries.
Issue is, am patrolling the Sulu Archipelago area, is May of 42, the 31st to be exact... & have sank 1 Fishing boat, 3 large sampans, 1 Destroyer Escort B class...
shortly after sinking the DD escort B class... got report of sonar contact.
Got a definitive base course of it & not needing to do any course changes, have it lined up for an aft tube attack, & waited for the contact to get in closer.
On doing so, popped scope to take a quick look see to ID the target.. & it is a Destroyer escort Tachibana... when I 1st got a lock on it, it was making 12 knots. Over the course of time, waiting for it to get closer, I noted the speed had dropped to 6 knots & then down to 4... so...
It piqued My curiosity, & I did a free cam look see to see what was going on... I get in close & drop below to see what's up... & the props are NOT moving.... yet, a look see at the aft end, shows a rooster tail being thrown up behind it... enough to suggest it's making hmm...
6 to 8 knots perhaps... at the outside guess.
Having seen reports of some ships being stationary & such... thought I'd report in on this...
Now, on to the other thing noted...
Same class boat as above... Tambor class..
En route to My patrol area, ended up in a pisser of a storm, rain falling, high waves & winds... daylight, I noticed this, which I took a snap shot of it. This was discussed some time back, so is possible it got missed in other class boats by chance.. can't recall if this issue was resolved or not... but here is the snap...
Other than these 2 items of note.. am doing alright after that hiccup with the CTD on clicking map to start next patrol issue...
M. M.
