Can you successfully target ships from underwater without using your periscope?

[bell117]

I'm on auto and want to attack targets in a storm can't see **** doesn't even recognize the ship, other then a gray outline, I use sonar to send bearings doesn't lock on. I tried everything else even the target map and still not locked on and i did find a way to line up a shot but it just bounced right off and with duds off "?"