Yay! My first fleet carrier!

Steel_Tomb · 07-17-07, 11:37 AM

The drinks are on me tonight lads! I've had a few escort carriers before, even one or two BB's...but never a Illustrious class fleet carrier! Was patroling around Narvik, sighted a HMS Nelson, sent four fish at her but must have miscalculated the speed/AOB as all missed. However the first fish hit home on a DD escort which sent the whole task force into a panic. Was heading south away from the DD's hunting me..."sound contact, warship, closing!". Up scope....bah...only a DD. Wait a sec...its a whole task force, and the carrier was completely open on her starbord side no escorts. Four fish hit her engine room...I dive to 100m and sneek away they never even got close to me.

Back down towards Scapa Flow hoping to catch something...sank a Large Cargo, surfaced..."depth charges in the water" ????

ALLLLLAAAARRRMM!!! Bloody string bags are bombing me!

Great first patrol methinks! A few pics below.

HMS Indefatigable after taking four fish to her engine room, slowly slipping under the waves.

Low on fish so using the aft tubes, Fuer funf! LOS!

Result, a broken back for the merchant

Really miffed about missing HMS Nelson, would have put me up to roughly 70k tonnes! But hey there are many more fish in the sea to send to ol' Davey's locker!

07-17-07, 11:37 AM	#1
Steel_Tomb Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire - UK Posts: 1,128 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yay! My first fleet carrier! The drinks are on me tonight lads! I've had a few escort carriers before, even one or two BB's...but never a Illustrious class fleet carrier! Was patroling around Narvik, sighted a HMS Nelson, sent four fish at her but must have miscalculated the speed/AOB as all missed. However the first fish hit home on a DD escort which sent the whole task force into a panic. Was heading south away from the DD's hunting me..."sound contact, warship, closing!". Up scope....bah...only a DD. Wait a sec...its a whole task force, and the carrier was completely open on her starbord side no escorts. Four fish hit her engine room...I dive to 100m and sneek away they never even got close to me. Back down towards Scapa Flow hoping to catch something...sank a Large Cargo, surfaced..."depth charges in the water" ???? ALLLLLAAAARRRMM!!! Bloody string bags are bombing me! Great first patrol methinks! A few pics below. HMS Indefatigable after taking four fish to her engine room, slowly slipping under the waves. Low on fish so using the aft tubes, Fuer funf! LOS! Result, a broken back for the merchant Really miffed about missing HMS Nelson, would have put me up to roughly 70k tonnes! But hey there are many more fish in the sea to send to ol' Davey's locker!