Has an armed merchant ever...

[SteamWake]

Has an armed merchant ever scored a sub kill in real life?

Last night I was on a patrol not much going on on the open water so I decided to raid a harbor. Long story short The DD picket went down along with a Large modern, and four other merchants sank at their moorings.

Pleased with ourselves and only one mark 10 left (lots of misses from bad solutions and that pesky DD) we set back out for the patrol center to kill time then head home.

Of course along the way we run accross a large composite. We line her up and take the shot with our last torpedo. Deep runner ... So as I was bored and... "Well the weather is fine lets surface and duke it out with the deck gun" .

We exchanged rounds and well the merchant won sinking us after at least an hour of gun battle.

Yes of course I should have broke off much earlier but as I said I was bored and just wanted to see if we could get 'one more kill'. :rotfl:

Im just wondering if an armed merchant scored a sub kill in WW2.

Oh... RFB & RSRD