Worst situation you survived?

[timmy41]

Whats the worst situation you have ever survived? stuck in the english channel bottomed out with ASW boats taking turns? tracked by k-ships and PBY's until you've gone insane? Let bernard take the helm only to have him navigate you into another ship?

tell your story!


I think my worst so far has been being stuck with my electric engines non-functioning and my pumps damaged, flooding in most compartments, 200m under in a VIIC. was able to repair the pumps and pump out enough to repair the engines and scoot on out of there, and meet up with a supply ship for a new pair of underwear.

[Immelman]

As always in my trusty VIIB being stuck under for several hours after a convoy attack in late '44 while 5 DD proceeded to drop God knows how many hedgehogs and an uninterrupted supply of depth charges

Got hit on the trum by a hedgehog Ob scope kaput, radio antenna kaput, one flak kaput one damaged, radar warning device damaged. Thankfully my pressure hull was not perforated and I managed to sneak away after they run out of everything to throw at me 8 hours later...

[timmy41]

a B in 1944?

[Immelman]

What can I say I love my VIIB its fast and nimble. I do have a house rule where if the sub damaged more then 40% hull damage when I get back to base I "scrap" it and get a new boat. This simulates reality, they would not spend a lot of man hours and material to majorly overhaul an old boat. They would just give you a new one.

[timmy41]

I thought the C was more nimble than the B except it was .6 knots slower? at least in game it is.

[Weiss Pinguin]

I've been caught with my Type VII in enemy ports several times... Scary to have depth charges dropped on you in less than 50 meters of water, but even scarier is when you've been under for half a day and escorts are still circling above.

[Doolar]

There I was , mid May 2010 , my grass was a foot high and my wife put "CUT THE GRASS" on my orders list and went to the food store . Knowing shes going to be an hour and a half or so , I used my "FREE TIME COMPUTER" ( FTR ) , put in 1.5 hours + 3 beers , and came up with a solution of 45minutes , before I had to start on the lawn . PREFECT ! Thats 45 minutes to play SH III Well one thing led to another and the next thing I knew , she was home . I don't know whats worse the sound of a ping from sonar or the front door opening but anyway . She must of circled me for about an hour before I figured out , that if I start the lawn mower , I won't be able to hear her and she'll loose interest and go away . It worked ! Its in the manual . LOL .

All kidding aside . It was mid May 1940 , just off the southern approaches when I got a call from my hydrophone man of a warship contact . Went to check it out and discovered , he was an escort of a nice convoy . Well I plotted a course to place me well ahead and set up an ambush . After arriving at the sweet spot , I waited and waited ... nothing . I decided to head north , which was my original heading anyway , and BINGO there it was . I either miscalculated or it turned , but anyway , due to impatience , I made a 5kt sumuraged run at it and got detected . Well for the next 2 hours , I got hammered . I used many of the tactics that I've read about here on the forum on making my escape . Luckly I got away with only minor damage and no loss of life . I have since read many threads on convoy attacks and will use them as best I can . All I need now is a convoy and a food store in the next state . So as they say impatience and not getting the lawn cut , can kill you !

[maillemaker]

LOL, I have been busted by wife coming home, too!

[krashkart]

I'm not sure if this classifies as a "survived" situation. I was sailing a Type IX in one of my power-gamer careers, with a full load of homing torpedoes. At some point I was presented with the opportunity to use one against the enemy, and it might have worked had I remembered to back off the throttles before firing. The top speed of the torpedo was 24kts, the top speed of my boat was ~32kts. I ran the Uboat right over top of the torpedo, which triggered the magnetic pistol, which in turn resulted in a resounding "WTF???" from me.


I estimate that the torpedo detonated somewhere underneath the diesels, as both were completely destroyed. Home plate was too far away to use batteries, and I was forced to scuttle that career. Technically, I could probably say that we did survive long enough to be released from captivity after the war ended.

"With kaleuns like Krashkart, we have little to fear from the Allies."

[Zedwardson]

Well, mine was tonight's patrol. (using GWX)

Late 1939, and Karl Myer and "Unlucky" U-17 are in the middle of a gale, and even when he is able to hunt down a ship using hydrophones, they only become visible within 300 meters, too short for a torpedo to arm. So Karl talks to his officers and decides to do something with kahunas, as the last patrol was cut short by having a A&B pop out of a storm and kill three crew in the resulting depth-charging.


U-17 is going to scapa flow. Even if its just a cruiser, it would be high marks to take one out early in the war. So In the gale, and timeing the by nightfall, U-17 slips into Scapa flow.

And there not a ship to be found. Unlucky U-17 bad luck strikes again.

Now, after searching, and no signs of even a tanker to put to the bottom, U-17 needs to slip back out, and near the exit, the Hydrophone operator detects one near, so Karl lifts the scope up to see what is there.

at 1200 meters is a V&W broadsides, in a almost ideal 90degree angle, So Karl launches 1 and 2, aiming for a double hit. This is the first target in two patrols, so he a bit aggressive as he does not want to loose his command. just as the second eel is out, and just as he about to order a crash drive, he sees the V&W turn to U-17, so Urban stays calm, and waits till it finishes it turn, and unleashes the third eel at the V&W, and orders a crash dive.

The third Eel goes deep, however the pistol was set for mag, and there is a nice BOOM as the torpedo hits true. The U-boat is rocked by the first round of or depth charges, and then odd, loud explosions rip though the water. Then the Hydrophone operator informs that the target is sunk. Apparently, cordite went up in smoke, and the ship broke in two and slid into the sea.

Of course, being Near Scapa flow, means there was a rally towards the sunken ship, and they found me.

Four hours later, I finally have escaped, Seven of my men lay dead, including my watch officer, and another officer is wounded, I had flooding in the bow (and as a nice touch, the boat leans towards the flooding. I try to rise to scope depth, as a gale is chased off the escorts. I am not rising. Not sure if it was the damage or if I had the planes set down for some reason, but I called for a emergency blow. ever so slowly I poped to the surface and headed back home.

had 37 percent hull left, and afterwords found out that I had sunk the HMAS Vampire with 76 of 100 hands lost at sea.

[tankeriv]

My most exciting I experienced to date was in my Type 9 1 may 45 not far from the Irish coast.

I was stalking a convoy for a while and I had successfully managed to destroy about four enemy tankers then I withdrew because it was getting a little too hot for me. I wanted to survive this because to my feeling the entire royal navy was getting on my arse to nail me.

After a while of sit and wait and running at low speed my battery was running dry and my oxygen was also running low.

So I surfaced and decided to charge my batteries.
I run for about an hour what is in no way enough to fully charge my batteries again.

Then all of a sudden hell broke loose again as now it seemed like the whole RAF was trying to its utter best to help me reach heaven.

I took two planes by surprise by nailing them with my M42 double but I had to dive because a whole swarm of birds was heading my way.

I dove as quick as I could do made a quick turn to evade the bombs.

I thought I had now had been through all of it as two sound contacts were reported.
Two DD´s closing and FAST!!

I switched to silent running as I still heard the birds overhead pounding the heck out of me. The two DD´s were approaching and again ANOTHER TWO SOUND CONTACTS! What the F*!!??

In absolute no time the initial two destroyers had tracked me down and were trying to kill me.

Not much later the two initial sound contacts seemed to be two Flowers but both armed with hedgehogs were also aiming for me.

They managed to score a few hits forcing me to leave my depth of 180 metres and search for a safer depth of 100metres.

As if not enough another sound contact came in.

In the mean time I got totally crazy of the pinging and I did all I could to get out!
Full speed whilst DC's exploded, slow speed quickly afterwards, decoys.
After one hour of desperate trying finally I managed to shake off.

In the mean time I had only 60% hull integrity left. But I managed to slip away.

Whoo what a day.....