Your greatest escape from a Destroyer

Liam C · 11-15-12, 12:46 AM

Anyone have any cool stories about a near miss with a destroyer, I have one.

So three are chasing me, one starts pinging me. I fire my aft torpedo and it hits him and it sinks. It swerves in front of another so that one has to stop.
I flank speed ahead for a while until the aft torpedo is ready again.Another destroyer pings me, fire aft torpedo and he's sunk.
so now I have just one destroyer left, I hard to starboard and so does he. I stopped to avoid going right under him and reverse. Now he is in front of me so I fire tube 1 and 4. Both hit him and sink him. I surface the the boat and return to base safely.

11-15-12, 03:22 AM

Doesn't sound like it was greatest to me

Liam C · 11-15-12, 05:30 AM

Or coolest.

Red October1984 · 11-15-12, 07:29 AM

I've got some good ones posted somewhere

One was how I escaped 2 destroyers and 3 frigates in 30 meters of water.

The other was how I managed to crash 2 destroyers together.

Jimbuna · 11-15-12, 12:39 PM

I tend to surface and throw empty beer cans at them...that usually does the trick.

BossMark · 11-15-12, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

I tend to surface and throw empty beer cans at them...that usually does the trick.

No doubt it'll be Newcastle brown

Jimbuna · 11-15-12, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BossMark

No doubt it'll be Newcastle brown

No a daft bugga....they would be beer bottles

postalbyke · 11-17-12, 03:42 PM

I hit a mini-convoy, got spotted by a destroyer who stayed with the DIW merchant I'd just disabled. While trying to line up a shot, I gave myself away, and the destroyer landed a DC on my after deck. after using emergency blow combined with "hold depth" for long enough to know that my electrics were never coming back, and that I only had one diesel left, i decided to try my luck and shooting the merchant on my next bob up. Periscope up, emergency blow, hold depth at 12 meters, saw a destroyer turning, took my shot at the destroyer!

poof, no destroyer, limped home on one diesel. painful lesson: don't get caught.

Jimbuna · 11-17-12, 03:46 PM

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!

Vipre · 11-17-12, 04:46 PM

Cool to me don't know about anyone else...

At night cruising south on the surface at 64TC toward a distant target, bad idea to start, I get the warship spotted popup and drop to realtime about 1-1.5 km from a destroyer heading north. Luckily he hasn't seen me but I'm feeling froggy so I turn into him and fire off a tube. It's looking good until about halfway through the torpedo's run when his spotlights come on.

He pours on the power and turns toward me, now within 700m when BOOM the torp hits him just behind the bow on the port side and he looks like a sub himself as he glides beneath the surface. The water was just deep enough that only the top of the mast was left visible flag still dry and waving.

jscharpf · 11-17-12, 05:33 PM

I think these are all cool stories!

STEED · 11-17-12, 07:16 PM

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Your greatest escape from a Destroyer

Only last night I had to take a phone call, so I switched off SH3.

TabbyHunter · 11-20-12, 07:02 AM

Cruising north of Ireland, heavy storm, 15 meter visibility, if that.

I get a feeling, and dive. Not 300 meters away, sonar gets a destroyer contact. I dive, and bottom out (It has actually worked for me in the past) Well, this guy drops ashcans on me to the point I'm heavily damaged. I figure, "Wait till he starts his next run, surface, and flank dead south". Somehow or another, I surface with him no where to be seen, get away, back to St. Nazarie.

Gerald · 11-20-12, 09:04 AM

I love DD,they are gullible

Jimbuna · 11-20-12, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

Only last night I had to take a phone call, so I switched off SH3.

Shoulda put the patrol on hold

11-15-12, 12:46 AM	#1
Liam C Swabbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 11 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Your greatest escape from a Destroyer Anyone have any cool stories about a near miss with a destroyer, I have one. So three are chasing me, one starts pinging me. I fire my aft torpedo and it hits him and it sinks. It swerves in front of another so that one has to stop. I flank speed ahead for a while until the aft torpedo is ready again.Another destroyer pings me, fire aft torpedo and he's sunk. so now I have just one destroyer left, I hard to starboard and so does he. I stopped to avoid going right under him and reverse. Now he is in front of me so I fire tube 1 and 4. Both hit him and sink him. I surface the the boat and return to base safely.

11-15-12, 07:29 AM	#4
Red October1984 Airplane Nerd Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Texas Posts: 6,243 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	I've got some good ones posted somewhere One was how I escaped 2 destroyers and 3 frigates in 30 meters of water. The other was how I managed to crash 2 destroyers together. __________________

11-15-12, 12:39 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,500 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I tend to surface and throw empty beer cans at them...that usually does the trick. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-17-12, 03:42 PM	#8
postalbyke Chief Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: In the past... Posts: 321 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 1	I hit a mini-convoy, got spotted by a destroyer who stayed with the DIW merchant I'd just disabled. While trying to line up a shot, I gave myself away, and the destroyer landed a DC on my after deck. after using emergency blow combined with "hold depth" for long enough to know that my electrics were never coming back, and that I only had one diesel left, i decided to try my luck and shooting the merchant on my next bob up. Periscope up, emergency blow, hold depth at 12 meters, saw a destroyer turning, took my shot at the destroyer! poof, no destroyer, limped home on one diesel. painful lesson: don't get caught. __________________ God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire

11-17-12, 03:46 PM	#9
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,500 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-15-12, 03:22 AM	#2
Troublous_Haze Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Doesn't sound like it was greatest to me

11-15-12, 05:30 AM	#3
Liam C Swabbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 11 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Or coolest.

11-17-12, 04:46 PM	#10
Vipre Seaman Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 34 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	Cool to me don't know about anyone else... At night cruising south on the surface at 64TC toward a distant target, bad idea to start, I get the warship spotted popup and drop to realtime about 1-1.5 km from a destroyer heading north. Luckily he hasn't seen me but I'm feeling froggy so I turn into him and fire off a tube. It's looking good until about halfway through the torpedo's run when his spotlights come on. He pours on the power and turns toward me, now within 700m when BOOM the torp hits him just behind the bow on the port side and he looks like a sub himself as he glides beneath the surface. The water was just deep enough that only the top of the mast was left visible flag still dry and waving.

11-17-12, 05:33 PM	#11
jscharpf Frogman Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Bucharest, Romania Posts: 296 Downloads: 325 Uploads: 0	I think these are all cool stories!

11-20-12, 07:02 AM	#13
TabbyHunter Ensign Join Date: May 2010 Location: Pandora. Not the blue cat people Pandora... Posts: 227 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Cruising north of Ireland, heavy storm, 15 meter visibility, if that. I get a feeling, and dive. Not 300 meters away, sonar gets a destroyer contact. I dive, and bottom out (It has actually worked for me in the past) Well, this guy drops ashcans on me to the point I'm heavily damaged. I figure, "Wait till he starts his next run, surface, and flank dead south". Somehow or another, I surface with him no where to be seen, get away, back to St. Nazarie.

11-20-12, 09:04 AM	#14
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	I love DD,they are gullible __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie