Ghost Ships

emtmedic005 · 02-21-07, 08:22 AM

So i m about 200kms from the straits of Gibraltar and i get a radio report that a task force is comming towards me at a bearing of SSE and comming fast. So i head that way. My Watch Officer reports warship spotted so we dive down to PR depth and go silent. I listen using the Hydrophones and i got nothing, not engine sounds, nothing. So i put up the Scope and take a look. Again nothing found. Now its rainning and the waves are rolling but there is good visibibliy, just a rainy, windy day, but no fog. So i surface and prepare to crash dive. I did a 360 and again saw nothing. about to kill my WO i dive down to 20meters and shut the engines off and listen with the hydrophones. I do about 5 rotations with them and nothing. I found nothing. I was pissed so i made my way home and on the way i hit a convoy with 2 Flowers and 1 DD, sunk those and headed in, i got about 5 merchants then i noticed the Fuji Cruiser and took that out. I left the Convoy (no Ammo/Torpedos), they had 4 small merchants left. So that made up for the "ghost" ships.
Does anyone else have this problem? Trying to find ships that r right near u but cant be seen or heard?
O another Plus, on return to base i was promoted to Kapitänleutnant, or Lieutenant Commander after my 7th patrol, pretty good right.

02-21-07, 08:22 AM	#1
emtmedic005 Weps Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Andover, MA Posts: 361 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ghost Ships So i m about 200kms from the straits of Gibraltar and i get a radio report that a task force is comming towards me at a bearing of SSE and comming fast. So i head that way. My Watch Officer reports warship spotted so we dive down to PR depth and go silent. I listen using the Hydrophones and i got nothing, not engine sounds, nothing. So i put up the Scope and take a look. Again nothing found. Now its rainning and the waves are rolling but there is good visibibliy, just a rainy, windy day, but no fog. So i surface and prepare to crash dive. I did a 360 and again saw nothing. about to kill my WO i dive down to 20meters and shut the engines off and listen with the hydrophones. I do about 5 rotations with them and nothing. I found nothing. I was pissed so i made my way home and on the way i hit a convoy with 2 Flowers and 1 DD, sunk those and headed in, i got about 5 merchants then i noticed the Fuji Cruiser and took that out. I left the Convoy (no Ammo/Torpedos), they had 4 small merchants left. So that made up for the "ghost" ships. Does anyone else have this problem? Trying to find ships that r right near u but cant be seen or heard? O another Plus, on return to base i was promoted to Kapitänleutnant, or Lieutenant Commander after my 7th patrol, pretty good right.