The Black Swan

Redshirt · 07-22-07, 03:58 PM

Had a similar experience in heavy fog south of Spain was trying to hunt down what I thought was a single merchant/cargo I had glimpsed through the murk. So I was plowing along on the surface when out of the fog tracers start wizzing past and some rather large pointy shells

ALARM - crash dive, just as im sinking under the waves I spot my attacks through th fog two rather pissed destroyers. The next 45 minutes was a crazy frenzy of dodge weave, depth changing and plugging the leaks those damn pointy shells had made in my boat during the crash dive.

Interesting and rather sobering experience, im guessing the solo ship I thought I had spotted was actually one from the tail end of a convoy

Note to self - use hydrophones more often and heavy fog = bad mmm k

bigboywooly · 07-22-07, 05:19 PM

Stalking a convoy many moons ago in GW 1.1 1940 off the Spanish coast
Lost visual contact in the fog so dived to find the heading then surfaced to race ahead

Must have buggered up my working out as ran straight into the middle of the convoy
Unfortunately for me had a BB in the middle

Boom Boom
Crash dive

Serious flooding
No scopes left\Hydraphone gone and no guns
Basically topside was gone
Watch crew dead and only one engine

Escorts never found me though as weather was cr@p
Black Swans missed out that day

Took me over a month to get to Vigo and wait for the tanker
No way going back through the channel on one engine with no eyes or ears

07-22-07, 03:58 PM	#1
Redshirt Bosun Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Auckland, NZ Posts: 64 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Had a similar experience in heavy fog south of Spain was trying to hunt down what I thought was a single merchant/cargo I had glimpsed through the murk. So I was plowing along on the surface when out of the fog tracers start wizzing past and some rather large pointy shells ALARM - crash dive, just as im sinking under the waves I spot my attacks through th fog two rather pissed destroyers. The next 45 minutes was a crazy frenzy of dodge weave, depth changing and plugging the leaks those damn pointy shells had made in my boat during the crash dive. Interesting and rather sobering experience, im guessing the solo ship I thought I had spotted was actually one from the tail end of a convoy Note to self - use hydrophones more often and heavy fog = bad mmm k __________________ Reds under the bed!

07-22-07, 05:19 PM	#2
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Stalking a convoy many moons ago in GW 1.1 1940 off the Spanish coast Lost visual contact in the fog so dived to find the heading then surfaced to race ahead Must have buggered up my working out as ran straight into the middle of the convoy Unfortunately for me had a BB in the middle Boom Boom Crash dive Serious flooding No scopes left\Hydraphone gone and no guns Basically topside was gone Watch crew dead and only one engine Escorts never found me though as weather was cr@p Black Swans missed out that day Took me over a month to get to Vigo and wait for the tanker No way going back through the channel on one engine with no eyes or ears __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41