Most embarrassing reason for U-boat losses?

[jason210]

I fired a homer at a destroyer from the fwd tube of a VIIC as it approached me head on. After I fired, I ordered a hard a starboard and began a crash dive.

The torpedo missed the destroyer and begin swinging round it in a big arc to come back to the target. Meanwhile the destroyer had swung over to me in it's attack run, and was very close. I watched the torpedo coming and saw that there was now at risk I could get hit, so I stopped the engines and prayed that the torpedo would get the DD before I was DC'd. It was very close. Suddenly I saw the Destroyer passing right above my sub in the 3rd person view, and just as her stern passed over my stern, the torpedo hit the destroyer and knocked the prop and rudder off, but also knocked my stern down a few metres and caused severe flooding in my in the aft compartments. The flooding turned out to be unrecoverable, but before we all died I had the consolation of seeing the "Enit Unit Destroyed" message.

You could say I checked-mated myself...