Your greatest escape from a Destroyer

Jimbuna · 11-15-12, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BossMark

No doubt it'll be Newcastle brown

No a daft bugga....they would be beer bottles

postalbyke · 11-17-12, 03:42 PM

I hit a mini-convoy, got spotted by a destroyer who stayed with the DIW merchant I'd just disabled. While trying to line up a shot, I gave myself away, and the destroyer landed a DC on my after deck. after using emergency blow combined with "hold depth" for long enough to know that my electrics were never coming back, and that I only had one diesel left, i decided to try my luck and shooting the merchant on my next bob up. Periscope up, emergency blow, hold depth at 12 meters, saw a destroyer turning, took my shot at the destroyer!

poof, no destroyer, limped home on one diesel. painful lesson: don't get caught.

Jimbuna · 11-17-12, 03:46 PM

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!

Vipre · 11-17-12, 04:46 PM

Cool to me don't know about anyone else...

At night cruising south on the surface at 64TC toward a distant target, bad idea to start, I get the warship spotted popup and drop to realtime about 1-1.5 km from a destroyer heading north. Luckily he hasn't seen me but I'm feeling froggy so I turn into him and fire off a tube. It's looking good until about halfway through the torpedo's run when his spotlights come on.

He pours on the power and turns toward me, now within 700m when BOOM the torp hits him just behind the bow on the port side and he looks like a sub himself as he glides beneath the surface. The water was just deep enough that only the top of the mast was left visible flag still dry and waving.

jscharpf · 11-17-12, 05:33 PM

I think these are all cool stories!

STEED · 11-17-12, 07:16 PM

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Your greatest escape from a Destroyer

Only last night I had to take a phone call, so I switched off SH3.

TabbyHunter · 11-20-12, 07:02 AM

Cruising north of Ireland, heavy storm, 15 meter visibility, if that.

I get a feeling, and dive. Not 300 meters away, sonar gets a destroyer contact. I dive, and bottom out (It has actually worked for me in the past) Well, this guy drops ashcans on me to the point I'm heavily damaged. I figure, "Wait till he starts his next run, surface, and flank dead south". Somehow or another, I surface with him no where to be seen, get away, back to St. Nazarie.

Jimbuna · 11-20-12, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

Only last night I had to take a phone call, so I switched off SH3.

Shoulda put the patrol on hold

11-17-12, 03:42 PM	#2
postalbyke Chief Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: In the past... Posts: 321 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 1	I hit a mini-convoy, got spotted by a destroyer who stayed with the DIW merchant I'd just disabled. While trying to line up a shot, I gave myself away, and the destroyer landed a DC on my after deck. after using emergency blow combined with "hold depth" for long enough to know that my electrics were never coming back, and that I only had one diesel left, i decided to try my luck and shooting the merchant on my next bob up. Periscope up, emergency blow, hold depth at 12 meters, saw a destroyer turning, took my shot at the destroyer! poof, no destroyer, limped home on one diesel. painful lesson: don't get caught. __________________ God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -Voltaire

11-17-12, 03:46 PM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,265 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-17-12, 04:46 PM	#4
Vipre Seaman Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 34 Downloads: 71 Uploads: 0	Cool to me don't know about anyone else... At night cruising south on the surface at 64TC toward a distant target, bad idea to start, I get the warship spotted popup and drop to realtime about 1-1.5 km from a destroyer heading north. Luckily he hasn't seen me but I'm feeling froggy so I turn into him and fire off a tube. It's looking good until about halfway through the torpedo's run when his spotlights come on. He pours on the power and turns toward me, now within 700m when BOOM the torp hits him just behind the bow on the port side and he looks like a sub himself as he glides beneath the surface. The water was just deep enough that only the top of the mast was left visible flag still dry and waving.

11-17-12, 05:33 PM	#5
jscharpf Frogman Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Bucharest, Romania Posts: 296 Downloads: 325 Uploads: 0	I think these are all cool stories!

11-20-12, 07:02 AM	#7
TabbyHunter Ensign Join Date: May 2010 Location: Pandora. Not the blue cat people Pandora... Posts: 227 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Cruising north of Ireland, heavy storm, 15 meter visibility, if that. I get a feeling, and dive. Not 300 meters away, sonar gets a destroyer contact. I dive, and bottom out (It has actually worked for me in the past) Well, this guy drops ashcans on me to the point I'm heavily damaged. I figure, "Wait till he starts his next run, surface, and flank dead south". Somehow or another, I surface with him no where to be seen, get away, back to St. Nazarie.