Got the Nelson last night!

[maillemaker]

BF17, late 1939. One escort for the whole convoy, HMS Nelson in the center.

I put a full spread of 4 torpedoes into her side. Every one hit. I shot from 500m.

The escort never even pinged me.

It was a surgical strike!

I then did an end-around on the convoy and fired my last 3 torpedoes at targets in the convoy and missed them all!

Steve

[pickinthebanjo]

Well done. I got her sister ship the Rodney about a month ago. It was pretty well the same, get in, strike, then get out undetected. It was my first battleship, have found around 5 more since. You find those battleships in harbors all the time, but I've never ran into the Nelson, i'd like to put her under also

[sergei]

Good work maillemaker

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by pickinthebanjo

Well done. I got her sister ship the Rodney about a month ago. It was pretty well the same, get in, strike, then get out undetected. It was my first battleship, have found around 5 more since. You find those battleships in harbors all the time, but I've never ran into the Nelson, i'd like to put her under also

Try Gibraltar.

[Tachyon]

Great job mate!

Now , I'd like you to go into Scapa Flow with a Type II-B and send one of those Tommies to the depths.

(Okay, not really possible as far as depth is concerned, considering that the seabed is dangerously low)

I did that , and by God..it was a nightmare retreating away from there. Oh yeah , do what Krashkart said as well

[Immelman]

Originally Posted by pickinthebanjo

You find those battleships in harbors all the time, but I've never ran into the Nelson, i'd like to put her under also

I nailed the Nelson in May 1942 of the Coast of Alexandria at night 4 TI all hit and send her packing to the deep. I made three new friends that hang around for 5 hours trying to get me. Other then rattling my nerves and breaking some dishes they caused no damage to U-83

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by Immelman

I nailed the Nelson in May 1942 of the Coast of Alexandria at night 4 TI all hit and send her packing to the deep. I made three new friends that hang around for 5 hours trying to get me. Other then rattling my nerves and breaking some dishes they caused no damage to U-83

How deep were you? I'm currently in mid 41' and I go to 160m and turn on the records and start counting the bangs
Seems to be below there max depth which I guess to be around 140m at that time

[pickinthebanjo]

I think I hit that rodney in a convoy but I can't remember but it seems that the two ships are very similar, and tough I think I put at least three into her

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by pickinthebanjo

I think I hit that rodney in a convoy but I can't remember but it seems that the two ships are very similar, and tough I think I put at least three into her

Nelson class battleships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_class_battleship

[Immelman]

Originally Posted by pickinthebanjo

How deep were you? I'm currently in mid 41' and I go to 160m and turn on the records and start counting the bangs
Seems to be below there max depth which I guess to be around 140m at that time

I managed to get to 90m before the first DC run which was way off. I progressively worked my way down to 200m. Its a b**** with three DDs one makes a DC run while the other two drift an listen so you have no idea where they are you can't pick them up on the hydrophone until they start moving. Then they switch roles and so on. You never know which way to run to evade all three.

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by Immelman

I managed to get to 90m before the first DC run which was way off. I progressively worked my way down to 200m. Its a b**** with three DDs one makes a DC run while the other two drift an listen so you have no idea where they are you can't pick them up on the hydrophone until they start moving. Then they switch roles and so on. You never know which way to run to evade all three.

Yeah I had to evade afew about a week ago. I find that they have a limit of depth charges but I'm not 100% on that, somewhere around 50-75 in 39'-41'
But then again I may just be getting lucky and thats when they decided to leave so if anyone else knows about this better feel free to correct me

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by krashkart

Nelson class battleships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_class_battleship

Wow the Rodney sunk the Bismark, I did not know that. Those are amazing ships

[pickinthebanjo]

[krashkart]

^^ Nice.

Found another cool link at that Wikipedia page:

http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/medi...x.php?cat=1075
http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/media/index.php

The first link covers the King George V and Nelson class battleships. The second link takes you to the MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia, which is where the first link is located.

Nice work!