New Convoy Tactic?

Captain Nemo · 03-14-08, 09:58 AM

Something out of the ordinary happened this morning. At night I managed to get past the escort screen and set up an attack on a Graville-type freighter. At a range of about 360 metres I fired a torp and hit it in the bow area, it went down a few minutes later. However, the reaction from the rest of the convoy was somewhat chaotic in that they started to do 360 degree turns and were all over the place. Not such a bad tactic as it screwed up my attack on a second Granville. Submerged I pulled away from the convoy to a distance of about 7-8kms. By this time the convoy had re-grouped and were sailing along in a nice orderly fashion. This was my second attack on this convoy, the first time they just zig-zagged after I had put a couple of large merchants down. The Convoy Commodore probably thought that this new tactic would avoid futher immediate losses, which it did.

Here goes with my third attack.

Nemo

03-14-08, 09:58 AM	#1
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	New Convoy Tactic? Something out of the ordinary happened this morning. At night I managed to get past the escort screen and set up an attack on a Graville-type freighter. At a range of about 360 metres I fired a torp and hit it in the bow area, it went down a few minutes later. However, the reaction from the rest of the convoy was somewhat chaotic in that they started to do 360 degree turns and were all over the place. Not such a bad tactic as it screwed up my attack on a second Granville. Submerged I pulled away from the convoy to a distance of about 7-8kms. By this time the convoy had re-grouped and were sailing along in a nice orderly fashion. This was my second attack on this convoy, the first time they just zig-zagged after I had put a couple of large merchants down. The Convoy Commodore probably thought that this new tactic would avoid futher immediate losses, which it did. Here goes with my third attack. Nemo __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________