3rd time's--the charm

[don1reed]

Using RUb 1.43 only.

Boat: Typ 7B, heading to BE31 passed Fair Isle through Shetland/Scapa Flow gap.

Date: 31.10.39 @ 12:40 GMT.
Posit: AM 7289
Course: 270, Speed: 0, Depth: 12m.

In front of large convoy heading north @ 6 knots. Lone DD patroling in front detects and sinks the Uboat. Thats strange for being so early in the war. Hmmm.

I decided to try this again, just for the learning experience...reloaded and proceeded to the exact spot only this time went to 50m depth. and was again detected and killed using the same Uboat parameters above.

...on the third try from the same location, only this time...

Uboat course 180, Speed 3, Depth 12m, Running silent.

It seems that if the Uboat is moving it is less detectable, as I was able to come within 200m of the DD and remain undetected at PD. An interesting lesson; but, dead is dead--so back to the beginning.

cheers,