Worst situation you survived?

04-30-10, 05:37 AM

Gee. I only remember the ones I didn't come out of.

gazpode_l · 04-30-10, 09:14 AM

Last night - surfaced right next to an ASW trawler and decided to duke it out with my deck-gun. He rammed me and ended up temporarily attached to me and took out all of my deck crew with one foul swoop.

I submerged to 90m and as I was doing so the contact broke up and sunk behind me. It was my worst situation i've lived through in lieu of losing 8 members of my crew. Later buried off the coast of long-ships.

Dissaray · 04-30-10, 12:00 PM

I was siting prity in '42 in a VIIc. Had just completed a devistating convoy attack, four shot and four struk near simultainous and left two large cargos and one large tanker sinking fast and a whale ship burning and listing. I dove to 20m runing flank away from the convoy and shot a magnetic lader runing torpido out the aft tube in a parthian shot that taged a medium cargo that later sank.

That last shot took the target from the other side of the target from me and managed to confuse half the escorts. Unfortuantly the other half were well on my sent, unbeknownst to me, even though I went silent after the last shot was made. I set my depth to 50m and put my stern to the bearing of the last known position of the nearest distroyer and made my bid for escape. That is when I heard engens and knew the game was afoot.

They were much closer than I knew and soon enuf I heard them pass over me and the phoneman called out depth charges in the water. Being far too confident I figured with such a small profile they could never get an accurate depth on me and maintaned course, speed and depth. The charges sounded and the boat was rocked hard and damage reports came flooding in.

The damage control screen was lit up like a Christmas tree and flooding was bad. I orderd the repair team into action starting where the flooding was worse, the forward crew quarters, and orderd back slow. I wanted to get more depth but not that quickly and that did just that. By this point the second distroyer in the attack formation made its run but fortuanatly missed my depth desptie all the noise.

I got the flooding under contorl and stabalized the depth at 100m. We danced with three distoyers for about an hour and were largly unmolested by further depth charge attacks. Despite my best efforts I couldn't shake my attackers. I was watching the action from the nav map so I could time the evasive manuvers with help of the hydrophones and noticed that two of the contact lines were geting much longer than the third. This was great news, I had out lasted the ammo suply of the enemy and cut engens to wait for the third to bugger off and set depth to 20m.

I was already making plans for my return course and the order of repair for my outer equpment, what little was left of it, as I drifted up. Then I heard the report again of ASDIC! falowed shortly by depth charges in the water. There was nothing I could do, the engens wouldn't be fast enuf to get me out of the way in time, the attack was coming from the bow. I quickly decided to go loud, blast flank speed and put the ruder hard to starbord. If I was giong to get hit I wasn't going to make it easy. To my suprize I dodged all but three of the charges. Three was enuf though. The stern torpido room was obliterated, one of the electric engens were shaterd and both of the desiles was distroyed utterly and both of the prop shafts were put out of service. Three crew dead, no one was in the stern torpido room. We were going down by the stern fast and with no power geting to the screws there was nothing I could do but wait for the crew to fix it. We hit 218m, had no compresed air to empty the balast tanks, and I though I was done. But the shafts were fixed and I got the one engen cranking at flank and it was enuf to keep me from going any ferther down.

The distroyer left us alone after that, likely out of ammo, though it stayed on station for a while befor leaving us all together. Without any deisles there wasn't much I could do and had to telaport back to base, but I lived.

flag4 · 04-30-10, 12:35 PM

...three of us where walking/climbing Ben Nevis 15 years ago and got caught in a White-Out. we were roped together and held ice axes in case of a fall. i could see no further than arms length and the point where the rope dissapeared into the snow.

after two hours of this there was a loud crack like glass breaking then the ground beneath us shifted - i felt the rope go taught and i dropped to my knees slaming the ice axe into the snow. my freinds had done the same. as it turned out an avalanche had broke ground starting to slide away with us on it, grumbling stone underneath. after about 10-15 meters it slowed and stoped. we got up, got together and made way to higher ground - quickly.

like fools, we had wandered off the path. i have no idea what was coming if the slide had continued. but i did s*** myself at the possibility of an untimely death!!

we all got thouroughly drunk that night.

sorry, no U Boat stories, have'nt played in ages.

Kemper Boyd · 05-03-10, 01:07 AM

In my first patrol with a brand new IXB, I had hunted down a small convoy and was looking for stragglers. The destroyer escort had gone away according to my hydrophone operator so I was feeling pretty safe when I rose to periscope depth and saw one of the ships sitting dead in the water.

Surfaced and realized I had surfaced about three meters from a V&W destroyer. No time to dive, so I manned the deck gun and started firing.

The destroyer got off one shot that missed, I got off three, before the destroyer sank. That was pretty tense.

timmy41 · 05-03-10, 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kemper Boyd

In my first patrol with a brand new IXB, I had hunted down a small convoy and was looking for stragglers. The destroyer escort had gone away according to my hydrophone operator so I was feeling pretty safe when I rose to periscope depth and saw one of the ships sitting dead in the water.

Surfaced and realized I had surfaced about three meters from a V&W destroyer. No time to dive, so I manned the deck gun and started firing.

The destroyer got off one shot that missed, I got off three, before the destroyer sank. That was pretty tense.

hahaha, bet you needed new pants after that one! WOW!

KL-alfman · 05-03-10, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kemper Boyd

I had surfaced about three meters from a V&W destroyer.

you could have saved your HE and boarded the DD!

taking over a British DD would have made you immortal in the history-books.

maillemaker · 05-03-10, 11:28 AM

LOL sounds like you were so close they could not depress their guns to hit you!

04-30-10, 12:35 PM	#4
flag4 Watch Officer Join Date: May 2007 Location: as far away as possible Posts: 1,625 Downloads: 147 Uploads: 0	...three of us where walking/climbing Ben Nevis 15 years ago and got caught in a White-Out. we were roped together and held ice axes in case of a fall. i could see no further than arms length and the point where the rope dissapeared into the snow. after two hours of this there was a loud crack like glass breaking then the ground beneath us shifted - i felt the rope go taught and i dropped to my knees slaming the ice axe into the snow. my freinds had done the same. as it turned out an avalanche had broke ground starting to slide away with us on it, grumbling stone underneath. after about 10-15 meters it slowed and stoped. we got up, got together and made way to higher ground - quickly. like fools, we had wandered off the path. i have no idea what was coming if the slide had continued. but i did s* myself at the possibility of an untimely death!! we all got thouroughly drunk that night. sorry, no U Boat stories, have'nt played in ages. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] ' We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.' Kurt Vonnegut**

04-30-10, 05:37 AM	#1
Snestorm Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Gee. I only remember the ones I didn't come out of.

04-30-10, 09:14 AM	#2
gazpode_l 中国水兵 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Chelmsford, Essex Posts: 280 Downloads: 50 Uploads: 0	Last night - surfaced right next to an ASW trawler and decided to duke it out with my deck-gun. He rammed me and ended up temporarily attached to me and took out all of my deck crew with one foul swoop. I submerged to 90m and as I was doing so the contact broke up and sunk behind me. It was my worst situation i've lived through in lieu of losing 8 members of my crew. Later buried off the coast of long-ships.

04-30-10, 12:00 PM	#3
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	I was siting prity in '42 in a VIIc. Had just completed a devistating convoy attack, four shot and four struk near simultainous and left two large cargos and one large tanker sinking fast and a whale ship burning and listing. I dove to 20m runing flank away from the convoy and shot a magnetic lader runing torpido out the aft tube in a parthian shot that taged a medium cargo that later sank. That last shot took the target from the other side of the target from me and managed to confuse half the escorts. Unfortuantly the other half were well on my sent, unbeknownst to me, even though I went silent after the last shot was made. I set my depth to 50m and put my stern to the bearing of the last known position of the nearest distroyer and made my bid for escape. That is when I heard engens and knew the game was afoot. They were much closer than I knew and soon enuf I heard them pass over me and the phoneman called out depth charges in the water. Being far too confident I figured with such a small profile they could never get an accurate depth on me and maintaned course, speed and depth. The charges sounded and the boat was rocked hard and damage reports came flooding in. The damage control screen was lit up like a Christmas tree and flooding was bad. I orderd the repair team into action starting where the flooding was worse, the forward crew quarters, and orderd back slow. I wanted to get more depth but not that quickly and that did just that. By this point the second distroyer in the attack formation made its run but fortuanatly missed my depth desptie all the noise. I got the flooding under contorl and stabalized the depth at 100m. We danced with three distoyers for about an hour and were largly unmolested by further depth charge attacks. Despite my best efforts I couldn't shake my attackers. I was watching the action from the nav map so I could time the evasive manuvers with help of the hydrophones and noticed that two of the contact lines were geting much longer than the third. This was great news, I had out lasted the ammo suply of the enemy and cut engens to wait for the third to bugger off and set depth to 20m. I was already making plans for my return course and the order of repair for my outer equpment, what little was left of it, as I drifted up. Then I heard the report again of ASDIC! falowed shortly by depth charges in the water. There was nothing I could do, the engens wouldn't be fast enuf to get me out of the way in time, the attack was coming from the bow. I quickly decided to go loud, blast flank speed and put the ruder hard to starbord. If I was giong to get hit I wasn't going to make it easy. To my suprize I dodged all but three of the charges. Three was enuf though. The stern torpido room was obliterated, one of the electric engens were shaterd and both of the desiles was distroyed utterly and both of the prop shafts were put out of service. Three crew dead, no one was in the stern torpido room. We were going down by the stern fast and with no power geting to the screws there was nothing I could do but wait for the crew to fix it. We hit 218m, had no compresed air to empty the balast tanks, and I though I was done. But the shafts were fixed and I got the one engen cranking at flank and it was enuf to keep me from going any ferther down. The distroyer left us alone after that, likely out of ammo, though it stayed on station for a while befor leaving us all together. Without any deisles there wasn't much I could do and had to telaport back to base, but I lived.

05-03-10, 01:07 AM	#5
Kemper Boyd Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 5 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	In my first patrol with a brand new IXB, I had hunted down a small convoy and was looking for stragglers. The destroyer escort had gone away according to my hydrophone operator so I was feeling pretty safe when I rose to periscope depth and saw one of the ships sitting dead in the water. Surfaced and realized I had surfaced about three meters from a V&W destroyer. No time to dive, so I manned the deck gun and started firing. The destroyer got off one shot that missed, I got off three, before the destroyer sank. That was pretty tense.

05-03-10, 11:28 AM	#8
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	LOL sounds like you were so close they could not depress their guns to hit you!