How did it stay afloat

Blacklight · 02-06-08, 03:53 PM

Wait.. I just intercepted this British coded message. It says "We still havn't recieved our shipment of 10000000000000000000000000000000 ping pong balls for use in the front. We fear the ship may be lost.." :hmm:

flag4 · 02-06-08, 04:03 PM

fill it's rear end with about 200 rounds from your flak gun - around the props, the stern area - it'll blow !!, but stay well clear coz i got blasted

down into the davy dark - dark grumbly sea - all hands.

Blacklight · 02-06-08, 04:51 PM

I actually had a watch crew member killed when a smoke stack blew off one of those ships, went airborn, and landed right on top of the conning tower !

It was a rather comical death.

02-06-08, 04:59 PM

I feel your pain. I once tracked a merchant for over three days. She'd been part of a convoy and I'd 'crippled' --Hah!-- three ships. I'd two torpedoes left, and after letting the rest of the convoy get about 14 km away I'd surfaced and started tracking the cripples. Two of them went down with a single torp each, and I'd kept following the last one, sure it would go down because it was heavily listing and only doing one knot.

It did one knot for over three days! I'd no more fish left, and the weather --of course-- was too rough to man the deck gun. I kept following hoping the weather would clear . . .which, naturally, it never did. And three and a half days later after eating that one torpedo . . . she suddenly just blew up and sank.

Got credit for it too!

flag4 · 02-06-08, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blacklight

I actually had a watch crew member killed when a smoke stack blew off one of those ships, went airborn, and landed right on top of the conning tower !

It was a rather comical death.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

02-06-08, 03:53 PM	#1
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Wait.. I just intercepted this British coded message. It says "We still havn't recieved our shipment of 10000000000000000000000000000000 ping pong balls for use in the front. We fear the ship may be lost.." :hmm: __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

02-06-08, 04:03 PM	#2
flag4 Watch Officer Join Date: May 2007 Location: as far away as possible Posts: 1,625 Downloads: 147 Uploads: 0	fill it's rear end with about 200 rounds from your flak gun - around the props, the stern area - it'll blow !!, but stay well clear coz i got blasted down into the davy dark - dark grumbly sea - all hands. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] ' We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.' Kurt Vonnegut

02-06-08, 04:51 PM	#3
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	I actually had a watch crew member killed when a smoke stack blew off one of those ships, went airborn, and landed right on top of the conning tower ! It was a rather comical death. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

02-06-08, 04:59 PM	#4
Albrecht Von Hesse Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I feel your pain. I once tracked a merchant for over three days. She'd been part of a convoy and I'd 'crippled' --Hah!-- three ships. I'd two torpedoes left, and after letting the rest of the convoy get about 14 km away I'd surfaced and started tracking the cripples. Two of them went down with a single torp each, and I'd kept following the last one, sure it would go down because it was heavily listing and only doing one knot. It did one knot for over three days! I'd no more fish left, and the weather --of course-- was too rough to man the deck gun. I kept following hoping the weather would clear . . .which, naturally, it never did. And three and a half days later after eating that one torpedo . . . she suddenly just blew up and sank. Got credit for it too!