How did it stay afloat

papa_smurf · 02-04-08, 02:56 PM

Okay had an unusual situation happen on my 3rd patrol in my type IIA.
Left kiel on my next patrol, not much sighted for about 4 days, I then get a hydrophone contact at long range and started to plot. Once the contact was identified (small freighter) and I was in a good firing position, I fired one eel at it set to magnetic, 1.5m under keel and got a direct hit. The vessel started to slow down and stopped dead after 12 minuest, then started to sink, BUT it got to within a few meters of sinking and stopped!

Last I saw it was still there, and still refusing to sink.
Anyone else had this happen to them?
(I know I could of used a second eel, but I was conserving my supply of torpedoes)

TomcatMVD · 02-04-08, 04:04 PM

An air bubble?
When boarding ships for scuttling, the U-boats crews would brake most of the glasses on the compartmens to prevent the forming of those.

nikbear · 02-04-08, 04:27 PM

I've had it happen all the time with passenger/cargo's

to the point that I don't even bother trying to sink them anymore

if only churchill knew GB's starvation worries would have been solved by a large fleet of the damned things

harzfeld · 02-04-08, 08:04 PM

No need to board on a merchant to break glasses, that what flak guns are for.

It would be nice if UBI or GWX work on modelling the glasses onto merchants in the next verisons, making them breakable using flak or deck gun to vent the air bubbles in order to help floating ships to sink, and to of course save torpedos.

GoldenRivet · 02-04-08, 08:16 PM

perhaps the water is very shallow? hahaha

did you get credit for the sinking?

CapZap1970 · 02-04-08, 10:05 PM

I don't know, but this POS stayed afloat for more than 50 hours...

i had to stay there as if nothing else would be important... At the end, weather became very rough and decided to leave, I suppose it finally sunk, but since I moved away from it, I was never credited the renown for this... you know!

The worst part is that I didn't have not one marble to throw at it to finish the job, I was tempted to load Bernard into tube Nbr. 1 and fire him :rotfl:
CapZap

GoldenRivet · 02-04-08, 10:17 PM

cap zap... did you have any AA amo? i have seen before that shooting the boxes on deck can sometimes produce enough of an explosion so as to be the straw that broke the camels back so to speak and finally force one of these things uner.

might try that next time?

Blacklight · 02-05-08, 12:20 AM

Quote:

Okay had an unusual situation happen on my 3rd patrol in my type IIA.
Left kiel on my next patrol, not much sighted for about 4 days, I then get a hydrophone contact at long range and started to plot. Once the contact was identified (small freighter) and I was in a good firing position, I fired one eel at it set to magnetic, 1.5m under keel and got a direct hit. The vessel started to slow down and stopped dead after 12 minuest, then started to sink, BUT it got to within a few meters of sinking and stopped!

Last I saw it was still there, and still refusing to sink.
Anyone else had this happen to them?
(I know I could of used a second eel, but I was conserving my supply of torpedoes)

The ship was carrying a much needed supply of cork to the battlefront.

Sniper_Fox · 02-05-08, 12:31 AM

cork sinks when wet for at least and hour... thats some damn good cork then!:rotfl:

papa_smurf · 02-06-08, 02:36 PM

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The ship was carrying a much needed supply of cork to the battlefront.

Must of been, but who for I wonder............:hmm:

Blacklight · 02-06-08, 03:53 PM

Wait.. I just intercepted this British coded message. It says "We still havn't recieved our shipment of 10000000000000000000000000000000 ping pong balls for use in the front. We fear the ship may be lost.." :hmm:

flag4 · 02-06-08, 04:03 PM

fill it's rear end with about 200 rounds from your flak gun - around the props, the stern area - it'll blow !!, but stay well clear coz i got blasted

down into the davy dark - dark grumbly sea - all hands.

Blacklight · 02-06-08, 04:51 PM

I actually had a watch crew member killed when a smoke stack blew off one of those ships, went airborn, and landed right on top of the conning tower !

It was a rather comical death.

02-06-08, 04:59 PM

I feel your pain. I once tracked a merchant for over three days. She'd been part of a convoy and I'd 'crippled' --Hah!-- three ships. I'd two torpedoes left, and after letting the rest of the convoy get about 14 km away I'd surfaced and started tracking the cripples. Two of them went down with a single torp each, and I'd kept following the last one, sure it would go down because it was heavily listing and only doing one knot.

It did one knot for over three days! I'd no more fish left, and the weather --of course-- was too rough to man the deck gun. I kept following hoping the weather would clear . . .which, naturally, it never did. And three and a half days later after eating that one torpedo . . . she suddenly just blew up and sank.

Got credit for it too!

flag4 · 02-06-08, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

I actually had a watch crew member killed when a smoke stack blew off one of those ships, went airborn, and landed right on top of the conning tower !

It was a rather comical death.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

02-04-08, 02:56 PM	#1
papa_smurf Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: High Peak, Derbyshire Posts: 2,851 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	How did it stay afloat Okay had an unusual situation happen on my 3rd patrol in my type IIA. Left kiel on my next patrol, not much sighted for about 4 days, I then get a hydrophone contact at long range and started to plot. Once the contact was identified (small freighter) and I was in a good firing position, I fired one eel at it set to magnetic, 1.5m under keel and got a direct hit. The vessel started to slow down and stopped dead after 12 minuest, then started to sink, BUT it got to within a few meters of sinking and stopped! Last I saw it was still there, and still refusing to sink. Anyone else had this happen to them? (I know I could of used a second eel, but I was conserving my supply of torpedoes) __________________

02-04-08, 04:04 PM	#2
TomcatMVD Weps Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: MVD, UY Posts: 359 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	An air bubble? When boarding ships for scuttling, the U-boats crews would brake most of the glasses on the compartmens to prevent the forming of those. __________________

02-04-08, 04:27 PM	#3
nikbear Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Northampton,UK Posts: 1,859 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 0	I've had it happen all the time with passenger/cargo's to the point that I don't even bother trying to sink them anymore if only churchill knew GB's starvation worries would have been solved by a large fleet of the damned things __________________ 'It is not surely known when the grey wolf shall come upon the seat of the gods' Ericksmal.

02-04-08, 08:16 PM	#5
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	perhaps the water is very shallow? hahaha did you get credit for the sinking? __________________

02-04-08, 10:05 PM	#6
CapZap1970 Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: La Paz, Bolivia Posts: 1,965 Downloads: 276 Uploads: 51	I don't know, but this POS stayed afloat for more than 50 hours... i had to stay there as if nothing else would be important... At the end, weather became very rough and decided to leave, I suppose it finally sunk, but since I moved away from it, I was never credited the renown for this... you know! The worst part is that I didn't have not one marble to throw at it to finish the job, I was tempted to load Bernard into tube Nbr. 1 and fire him :rotfl: CapZap __________________

02-04-08, 08:04 PM	#4
harzfeld Electrician's Mate Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 135 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	No need to board on a merchant to break glasses, that what flak guns are for. It would be nice if UBI or GWX work on modelling the glasses onto merchants in the next verisons, making them breakable using flak or deck gun to vent the air bubbles in order to help floating ships to sink, and to of course save torpedos.

02-04-08, 10:17 PM	#7
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	cap zap... did you have any AA amo? i have seen before that shooting the boxes on deck can sometimes produce enough of an explosion so as to be the straw that broke the camels back so to speak and finally force one of these things uner. might try that next time? __________________

02-05-08, 12:31 AM	#9
Sniper_Fox Engineer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North of Malta, shadowing your pretty little C3 Cargo! Posts: 212 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	cork sinks when wet for at least and hour... thats some damn good cork then!:rotfl: __________________ Im a one U-boat wolfpack. Ive hit the bottom of the Mediterranian at 250 metres in my VIIC and brought that babe back up, and still made it back to La Spezia. Ive sunk more destroyers than I have merchants...youll wish you never sailed into U-87s hunting grounds. When you pull into port, dont lull yourself into a false sense of security, your mines and subnets are just a petty challenge for my crew and I.

02-06-08, 03:53 PM	#11
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Wait.. I just intercepted this British coded message. It says "We still havn't recieved our shipment of 10000000000000000000000000000000 ping pong balls for use in the front. We fear the ship may be lost.." :hmm: __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

02-06-08, 04:03 PM	#12
flag4 Watch Officer Join Date: May 2007 Location: as far away as possible Posts: 1,625 Downloads: 147 Uploads: 0	fill it's rear end with about 200 rounds from your flak gun - around the props, the stern area - it'll blow !!, but stay well clear coz i got blasted down into the davy dark - dark grumbly sea - all hands. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] ' We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.' Kurt Vonnegut

02-06-08, 04:51 PM	#13
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	I actually had a watch crew member killed when a smoke stack blew off one of those ships, went airborn, and landed right on top of the conning tower ! It was a rather comical death. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

02-06-08, 04:59 PM	#14
Albrecht Von Hesse Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I feel your pain. I once tracked a merchant for over three days. She'd been part of a convoy and I'd 'crippled' --Hah!-- three ships. I'd two torpedoes left, and after letting the rest of the convoy get about 14 km away I'd surfaced and started tracking the cripples. Two of them went down with a single torp each, and I'd kept following the last one, sure it would go down because it was heavily listing and only doing one knot. It did one knot for over three days! I'd no more fish left, and the weather --of course-- was too rough to man the deck gun. I kept following hoping the weather would clear . . .which, naturally, it never did. And three and a half days later after eating that one torpedo . . . she suddenly just blew up and sank. Got credit for it too!