Quickstart Boilers, cheating AI

[Bronzewing]

Ok, has anyone else ever torpedoed a ship at anchor only to have it spot the eel coming and suddenly start moving, causing a carefully aimed shot either miss altogether or hit in a non-critical location?
This happens to me fairly often as I port raid a lot. I recently tried to sink a C class destroyer at anchor, I fired from just over 1000m, it spotted the medium speed T1 at about 800, and then went from 0-25 knots in about 4 seconds.
I find this HIGHLY annoying, and inaccurate. I can just accept it if it were something small like an Elco, but I've seen Auxiliary cruisers suddenly spot an incoming T1 and start moving ahead trying to dodge. The vast majority of world war two era ships had steam engines, you can't just turn a key and hit the accelerator. They had to raise steam first. Even for a destroyer that'd take 5-10 minutes or so. For those cruisers it'd probably take over half an hour. There is no way they could just up and move from a cold start if they saw a Torpedo comming.