How did he do that?

Phobus · 05-27-08, 03:10 PM

Hi, heres the thing.

It's 27 Dec 1939. I'm in square AM52, I've gone down to 120mtrs 0kts, listening, when I hear a warship; Moving slow, long range, closing, brg 332. Then I hear merchants closing as well. It looks like it might be a convoy. I'm ahead of it. I wait, then -

We're being pinged sir! next thing I'm taking damage and go down to 234mtrs before I get things under control, one dead.

Two thoughts occur to me. I thought the British DCs did not go below 350ft ( c100mtrs) and their asdic was only able to get an azimuth bearing but not depth until later in the war and its range was limited to about 2000yds in good conditions. Weather was 8m/s.

So how did he do it?

05-27-08, 03:10 PM	#1
Phobus Gunner Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Poole. Dorset UK Posts: 93 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	How did he do that? Hi, heres the thing. It's 27 Dec 1939. I'm in square AM52, I've gone down to 120mtrs 0kts, listening, when I hear a warship; Moving slow, long range, closing, brg 332. Then I hear merchants closing as well. It looks like it might be a convoy. I'm ahead of it. I wait, then - We're being pinged sir! next thing I'm taking damage and go down to 234mtrs before I get things under control, one dead. Two thoughts occur to me. I thought the British DCs did not go below 350ft ( c100mtrs) and their asdic was only able to get an azimuth bearing but not depth until later in the war and its range was limited to about 2000yds in good conditions. Weather was 8m/s. So how did he do it?