My First Career Capital Ship

[Ancient Mariner]

Well it's been a long time coming...finally bagged a capital ship and it was tough.

I came across a mid Atlantic convoy heading toward liverpool rough 500km west of the Rockallbanks,thinking it was gonna be a cake walk I closed in from the SSW,the weather was poor but in the distance i made ou a shape of a BB,the Nelson infact surrounded by a few merchants and with what looked like no escorts,mint I thought a real treat.

What i hadn't noticed was an escort(A&D) coming up fast from the West,by the time i had closed to round 3km from the nelson it was nearly upon me and had radio'd it's mate,now the chase was on.I slipped to 60m @ quiet running,but when i saw the the target getting away I got the proverbial "white line fever" and went hell bent for leather. I slipped through a ew depth charge attacks and got into position,fire tubes 1,3,4 running at 1m with impact fuses,"los!" time ran out and 1 had hit.

After some hair raising manouvers and a wait that seemed like hours i had another 2 ready,same setup,"LOS!!" just i got 2 of 2,cool she had 3 in her,the list was bad,one screw wasn't turning but those pesky DD's were raining hell on me.

Then wasserbomben & bang i was hit,tubes 2-4 were destroyed heavy flooding in forward torp room,good thing i have a great damage control crew. I decided to shadow and wait for darkness.

I ended up getting away and ahead of the convoy around 19.00 and waited,had I been spotted?not yet,then in what would be a dumb move i surfaced and was seen!!! The DD's raced in,i was at periscope depth,i ran to the center of the convoy hoping they'd get stuck in the confusion,but instead i got rammed & lost my scopes

So i turned and blindly shot off an eel,now again luck is with me cause after 30 seconds,there was a massive explosion followed by "she's going down!" Yuss,i had taken a DD by sheer luck. I retreated again to reload my solitary tube and repair damage sustained.

When tube1 was ready a cam in again,fired at the Nelson but the fish bounced off Hastily with a last relaod and a better AoB I opened fire from around 1800m away and time dragged until with a splash and an explosion i hit her again in the listing side,I knew she was now doomed and didnt think that she would turn and fire at me She got off 2 salvoes in my direction minor machine gun hits but nothing significant(yes i was attacking on the surface with my UZO,no scopes),she went down finally I bagged a career capital ship ,a promotion,an Iron Cross,medals all round for the crew and a bit of work for the dock workers.

Oberleutnant z S Joseph Becker
21 Nov '39
3rd patrol-70726 Tons
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80% Realism
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