Crocodile crawl...

[Folducker]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I read in one book, do not remember which one, were the sub had a dc dropped right on top of them. The sub was shallow enough were the detonator did not go off. The dc went banging down the deck from the sail to the stern and finally fell over the side. All ahead full because sooner or later the dc would be at the proper depth to explode

Another interesting story I recently read was about a British sub running on the surface during WWI. The Captain was in his cabin when he heard a shout from the deck crew followed by a loud clang coming from outside the ship. Upon investigation, it seemed a German sub fired two torpedoes, one passed under the sub, the other was set for “0” depth. The sea action caused it to broach a number of times. On one of those broaches, it landed flat on the deck of the British sub between the aft deck gun and the conning tower, a very narrow space and just about the only place where the nose wouldn’t have hit anything! It exited out the other side of the British sub and kept right on going. I will look up the story again, but I don’t think that after that patrol, the sub captain ever went out again.