Strange Sinking

bill clarke · 08-17-05, 09:33 PM

Hi guys, had a good last patrol in my VIIc 18,000 tons sunk. Anyway, I snuck in to Southern port in England, under cover of a dreadfull storm, absolute buckets of rain, I found a tanker moored dockside, I had my scope up but there was no target information, on the screen so I fired a fish at it, the fish hit the side and bounced of and exploded on the sea bottom, fired another one, same result, a little voice inside me said, "Dumkop, you are too close" at that point I went all back 1/3. then all of a sudden target info appreard and sure enough I'm only 230 mts from the tanker. So I backed out to 380mts and fired another fish, this one impacted but the tanker did not sink, damm, having only 2 external reloads I headed out to sea to reload.
As I was leaving a sunken ship icon appeared in the port, but it was black not red as is usual. I reloaded and headed back in to the port, and to my surprise I find the tanked broken in two, and burning at either end, I checked the kapitains log and no credit for the kill for me, anyway I found another ship anchored and again looking at through the scope there was no target info, I motored in and eventually the info came up on the screen, I found I was too close so I backed out and the target info dissappeared again, slowly headed back in and the info came back up (it was still raining buckets, with poor visibility) put a fish in to her and down she went.
I'd really like to know what happened with the tanker, and why there was a problem with the target info not appearing straight away, coud it have something to do with the weather ?
Cheers guys.

August · 08-17-05, 11:02 PM

It's seems common to stationary ships in port. No target name until you lock on it and id. If you drop the periscope and raise it again you might have to repeat the process.

gorilliamos · 08-17-05, 11:58 PM

I thought you were having a strange sinking feeling about something.

nattydread · 08-18-05, 12:46 AM

sounds like it was primarily sunk by the storm. Often times a mortally wounded ship wont provide info since its technically dead before you hit it.

08-17-05, 09:33 PM	#1
bill clarke Captain Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia Posts: 519 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Strange Sinking Hi guys, had a good last patrol in my VIIc 18,000 tons sunk. Anyway, I snuck in to Southern port in England, under cover of a dreadfull storm, absolute buckets of rain, I found a tanker moored dockside, I had my scope up but there was no target information, on the screen so I fired a fish at it, the fish hit the side and bounced of and exploded on the sea bottom, fired another one, same result, a little voice inside me said, "Dumkop, you are too close" at that point I went all back 1/3. then all of a sudden target info appreard and sure enough I'm only 230 mts from the tanker. So I backed out to 380mts and fired another fish, this one impacted but the tanker did not sink, damm, having only 2 external reloads I headed out to sea to reload. As I was leaving a sunken ship icon appeared in the port, but it was black not red as is usual. I reloaded and headed back in to the port, and to my surprise I find the tanked broken in two, and burning at either end, I checked the kapitains log and no credit for the kill for me, anyway I found another ship anchored and again looking at through the scope there was no target info, I motored in and eventually the info came up on the screen, I found I was too close so I backed out and the target info dissappeared again, slowly headed back in and the info came back up (it was still raining buckets, with poor visibility) put a fish in to her and down she went. I'd really like to know what happened with the tanker, and why there was a problem with the target info not appearing straight away, coud it have something to do with the weather ? Cheers guys.

08-17-05, 11:02 PM	#2
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It's seems common to stationary ships in port. No target name until you lock on it and id. If you drop the periscope and raise it again you might have to repeat the process. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

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08-17-05, 11:58 PM	#3
gorilliamos Sailor man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 45 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	I thought you were having a strange sinking feeling about something.

08-18-05, 12:46 AM	#4
nattydread Captain Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 498 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	sounds like it was primarily sunk by the storm. Often times a mortally wounded ship wont provide info since its technically dead before you hit it.