U94 has a close call!!!

[ddiplock]

I encoutered a Large Convoy that was heading into the Straight of Gibralter. In my haste to score some targets, I had a VERY close call with an Ore Carrier freighter. I thought i'd post some screenies up here to share with everyone the excitement of the moment.

I really did think i was a gonner. The boat didn't seem to be diving fast enough, and i didn't want to increase speed at the risk of being detected. I ran the engines slow astern and managed to avoid a collision at 17mtrs depth. The freighter continued onwards, none the wiser about their close run at nearly crashing into my boat.

I then snuck U94 back upto Periscope depth, made a solution on a Liberty Cargo some 900mtrs off the bow and let loose two under keel shot torpedos. Searching out another close target, i bagged a crappy Small Merchant too, hey, tonnage is tonnage It was incredible though, both torpedos struck the ships at literally only half a second apart, I couldn't believe it. Two ships going up simultaneously, it was like a Uboat Blitzkrieg

The Liberty Cargo exploded in such a way that i've NEVER seen in destrying a ship. Explosions kicked off one by one along the deck followed again by a huge explosion that seemed to tear the top of the ship off. I was smiling like a little kid seeing the explosions, it was great

The escorts, because i was right in the convoy among the ships, couldn't get a bead on me. They dropped several strings of depth charges, but not near me. And there was no ASDIC either. Do frigates have ASDIC, or only destroyers? As i've never heard ASDIC from any frigates escorting convoys before, and its October 1941.

Anyway, here's the screeniesof my close call with the Ore Carrier. Enjoy fellow Kaleuns