Anybody ever even SEEN a Capital ship?

[Ducimus]

Have i ever seen a battleship? Oh yes indeedy!

21 Feb 1940 ,0555
Patrol 2
U-128, 2nd Flotilla, Karl Schmidt
Left at: February 21, 1940, 05:55
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid DH99
01 Mar 1940
1005 AM 49 Ship sunk! S.S. Gustaf Adolf (C3 Cargo), 5630 tons
1447 AM 73 Ship sunk! S.S. Rankin (C2 Cargo), 5322 tons
09 Mar 1940
1318 DH 93 Ship sunk! S.S. Gettysburg (Small Merchant), 3215 tons
19 Mar 1940
0932 CG 27 Ship sunk! S.S. Schie (Small Merchant), 3216 tons
20 Mar 1940
0126 CG 24 Ship sunk! S.S. Grado (C2 Cargo), 5323 tons
22 Mar 1940
0822 CG 24 Ship sunk! S.S. Crow Wing (C2 Cargo), 5324 tons
06 Apr 1940
0924 CG 15 Ship sunk! S.S. Algier (C3 Cargo), 5632 tons
10 Apr 1940
2357 CG 14 Ship sunk! S.S. Empire Kumari (Coastal Merchant), 2805 tons
17 Apr 1940
0702 CG 16 Ship sunk! HMS Revenge (Revenge Battleship), 28000 tons
0742 CG 16 Ship sunk! HMS Fiji (Fiji Light Cruiser), 10725 tons
0749 CG 16 Ship sunk! HMS Nelson (Nelson Battleship), 36000 tons
1025 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 11
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 111192 tons

The story of how it occurred:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=46558



I *think* improved convoys also improves the spawn rate of capital ships, so if your not using improved convoy's you may consider it. In 1940, you'll often enough see task forces coming from skap flow giong through gibralter, to port said i think, and from there to skapa flow.