First Patrol, after action report

[CherryHarbey]

Originally Posted by USNSRCaseySmith

So I head off in that direction, carefully using my hydrophones to pinpoint the position of the merchant and get ahead of it. Suddenly, I hear warship bearing xxx, it was running with the merchant this whole time and my sonar man hadnt picked it up!

I used my free cam and confirm my worst fear, a destroyer, and not only was there one, but he knew I was there as he was headed straight at me. Time to test my metal with my first real destroyer encounter in GWX, I knew from timely checks before that I had about 130 M below keel at P depth so I dove down to 100 with the destroyer coming head on and rigged for silent running, as well as set my speed to one knot. (I was far enough out that I could get to depth before he even came near me,

Good work! Sounds like you he lost you once you slowed up and dived, he was just depth charging your last known position.

And be careful of travelling at periscope depth as I believe aircraft can still spot your wake in good conditions (certainly true in real life). So if you are going to make use your unlimiteds for long distance transits, I'd go a bit deeper if I were you.