Crocodile crawl...

[Sailor Steve]

Good thing you can magically step outside the sub and look around, too.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by quietguy52

I was able (barely) to ease by that dang mine.. glad there was only one. Odd that it was set sooooo deep eh?

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Avoid the mine

Yes, that is deep. We will just chalk it up to a hurricane that dragged it out sea. Now, just imagine the cable scraping down the side of your sub as you slink by at 1 knot. Tell me the sailors did not break out in a cold sweat.

[quietguy52]

"Tell me the sailors did not break out in a cold sweat."

Lotta wet tennis shoes..

[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

[quietguy52]

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.

Speaking of books, I received my copy of "Thunder Below" Friday... I have one book to finish then I'll start it - can't wait.

[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.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Folducker

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.

I have not read any books on the WWI subs. That is an interesting story and I would dare say, I would not go out again either!

[Armistead]

There was a sub that surfaced and had a unexploded depth charge stuck in the con tower....they threw it overboard...talk about lucky.