Caribbean Rhumba

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Our arrival in the Caribbean made us popular. 3 Destroyers and an Elco kept dancing circles around us. No sooner we'd sink a ship, B-24s, TBMs and PBYs would joing the party.

With all this attention, it was difficult to surface and charge batteries. 10 minutes with decks awash and the Elco would show up. The moment we'dive, we'd get 2 or 3 destroyer sound contacts.

We never saw the buggers, but our sonar man keept twisting his wheel full circle.

At dawn of 27 July 1942, we caught one of the destroyer on our scope. A Fletchie at 1800 meters, doing 12 knots. Bad angle for our schnozzle eels.

We did the world famous Caribbean, conga arse wiggle and sent a T2 greeting from tube 5.

Very appreciatively, the Fletchie responded with a grand fireworks display.

With the American destroyer busy exploring the bottom of the Caribbean, we were able to surface in response to a sound contact.

Half hour later, we were at PD with a Modern Medium Tanker on our crosshairs.
One torpedo and we followed this ship for a while until it sank. Like a conga line, the simbols for wrecks on the chart, mark the passage of our Sumbie in the Caribbean. Pretty straight despite all the dancing.