New problem for the boffins.

[Phobus]

Curious fault whilst on patrol.

I’m on patrol NW of Scapa Flow when I sight two Aux cruisers with an escorting DD. After a lot of chasing I manage to hit one of the Aux Cruisers. The DD is after blood.

I won’t go into the boring details of how, having been hit on the head with a can of beans thrown overboard by the DD and at 975ft 6 ¾ ins depth, I managed with just a ball of knotted string and a hammer with a broken handle, to make a set of replacement bearings for the port diesel whilst carrying out a successful lobotomy on the CE. (I modestly won't mention my broken arm)

Suffice to say when the DD and cruiser had left, I managed to get back to periscope depth with just the deck gun destroyed and damage to the conning tower and flak gun.

Now for the serious bit.

All internal compartments are shown as intact but I could not place an officer in the after rest compartment. Each time I tried I got the message that the compartment was destroyed. I could however place ORs (enlisted men) in there. I put my Repair qualified PO in the damage control area to see if I could do anything but then found that I could not move any of my crew at all! All frozen where they were. I surfaced but this made no difference so I had to abandon the patrol.

I’ve never read of anything like this before.

GWX 3.0; 16k vis; No medals; light harbour traffic installed.