SHCE Loss of the Piranha January 1945 Yellow Sea

welk2 · 02-15-23, 04:53 PM

Would be great to create a specific scenario for this "battle"

Onkel Neal · 02-15-23, 08:39 PM

Cool, front page material.

JconradH · 03-16-23, 06:54 AM

SS Finback, on her 2nd patrol- 10th for its captain, was sent to the Yellow Sea. I'm starting to hate the Yellow Sea. Came across 3 merchants with 6 DD escorts, and intermittent land based air cover. I debated making the attack, but realized I needed to be the aggressive Captain that was given the Finback in October 42. I came up from 80 feet 600 yards out from the first merchant. I fired 3 fish from the bow tubes, planning to save the rest for the 6 DDs. 2 of the 3 were duds. I fired one more at the tanker running away - dud. Grr. All 6 DDs were racing towards me. 5 minutes of dodging them, and the aircraft, left 2 DDs sinking, and we were OK. A 3rd fish, a perfect shot (knowing low angle shots are better with these torpedoes) -another dud, so I fired last stern tube and 25 seconds later the call that its sinking. 3 down and now hard to port, full astern brings tube 1 to bear, I fired, a good shot, just as an aircraft drops it's bombs and we are gone.
Sad thing is, if I played this as a game, I would not have attacked, but I played in character. Duds probably killed too many boats. ☹

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02-15-23, 04:53 PM	#1
welk2 Seaman Join Date: Apr 2022 Posts: 32 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 5	Would be great to create a specific scenario for this "battle"

03-16-23, 06:54 AM	#3
JconradH Swabby Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 47 Downloads: 219 Uploads: 0	SS Finback, on her 2nd patrol- 10th for its captain, was sent to the Yellow Sea. I'm starting to hate the Yellow Sea. Came across 3 merchants with 6 DD escorts, and intermittent land based air cover. I debated making the attack, but realized I needed to be the aggressive Captain that was given the Finback in October 42. I came up from 80 feet 600 yards out from the first merchant. I fired 3 fish from the bow tubes, planning to save the rest for the 6 DDs. 2 of the 3 were duds. I fired one more at the tanker running away - dud. Grr. All 6 DDs were racing towards me. 5 minutes of dodging them, and the aircraft, left 2 DDs sinking, and we were OK. A 3rd fish, a perfect shot (knowing low angle shots are better with these torpedoes) -another dud, so I fired last stern tube and 25 seconds later the call that its sinking. 3 down and now hard to port, full astern brings tube 1 to bear, I fired, a good shot, just as an aircraft drops it's bombs and we are gone. Sad thing is, if I played this as a game, I would not have attacked, but I played in character. Duds probably killed too many boats. ☹