Poor little tug-boat..

[She-Wolf]

There I was, wandering around , having come up from the Channel, round behind the sub base at Lerwick and then turn south-east a bit after Scapa Flow looking for a nice juicy merchant and finding nothing at all. It seemed as if I was the only boot on the briny and I still had three torps left. Can't go home until your empty!

Then.. I hears the faint sound of a screw turning. Whey-hey Dinner! So I put the nose to the trail and patiently follow the sounds for several hours, stopping engines every now and then to check the bearing, popping up to the surface to get a wriggle on in between. I notice that there is a bit of a swell, but my boys don't have wet weather gear on and the skies are not thunderous, so I pay no great mind to that

then... a visual! I grab the legs of a passing albatross to go over and give the target the close-up. To my disappointment it is just a tug, but hey - every little helps ( as they say), however, something is not right! the boat is..wallowing.

I go closer and see that waves are actually breaking over the stern.. hmph. I dive below the surface ( still attached to my albatross) and see that there is no visible damage to the hull, no marks, no holes. What can be the matter?

Well, I got back in Das Boot and upped the peri and peered at the tug for sometime wondering what to do. Didn't really want to waste a fish on such a small prize, and if its sinking anyway... and it did.

Without me laying a finger on it it quietly slid beneath the waves - and I don't know why.

I love these little touches of unpredictability in SH3 and I am not in the least annoyed at my wasted hours of tracking a dying target, but I wonder why this boat was sinking and if any one else has had the same experience.

[Brag]

Yup, ships do sink on their own due to heavy seas. I like your albatross cheater. LOL.

[She-Wolf]

ahh, thanks Brag