Visual range of destroyers?

[Mikey_Wolf]

Originally Posted by seafarer

It would make sense they can see further though. Their lookouts are posted at a vantage point much higher then those on your uboat, so their visual range should be considerably further over the horizon then you.

Not nescasserily!

What one must remember is that at great distance a U-Boat even in daylight is near invisible due to how low to the water it is. A lookout would see a smoke trail for sure of a regular ship, but a U-Boat moving at a slow speed on the surface should be practically invisible. It would take a very very good spotter to recognise a U-Boat on the Horizon.