What was that sound off our hull?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Pablo

I wonder if a submerged submarine was ever hit by a sinking hulk. Since the sub would probably not survive data might be a bit scarce.

Actually, the highest scoring submarine ace ever, World War 1 Germany's Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, reported at one time having a sinking merchant land on top of his boat and drag it down. He said that they escaped at all was pure luck.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Actually, the highest scoring submarine ace ever, World War 1 Germany's Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, reported at one time having a sinking merchant land on top of his boat and drag it down. He said that they escaped at all was pure luck.

http://uboat.net/history/wwi/part4.htm

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...5/ai_n16061337

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

http://uboat.net/history/wwi/part4.htm

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4442/is_200405/ai_n16061337

Interesting reading Jim.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Wolfehunter

Interesting reading Jim.

I've mote on him....tis just a matter of digging it out

[mcf1]

Here is another one happened yesterday. too close if you ask me

[Sailor Steve]

During his war time career, he fired only four torpedoes (one miss) and sank his victims (194 ships totalling 454,000 tons) always strictly according to prize rules with his boat's 88 mm deck gun. His patrol performance was outstanding: in April/May 1916 he sank 23 ships, totalling 68,000 tons on a five week patrol and in July/August 1916 in four weeks he sank 54 ships, totalling 91,150 tons.

I talked to U-boat.net's proprieter years ago and I thought he had fixed that. According to Edwin Gray's U-boat War: 1914-1918 la Perriere fired a lot more than four torpedoes during his career. It was on the four-week, 54-ship, 91,150-ton patrol that he only fired four. Still a major accomplishment, but not quite the same thing. Also, he fired over 900 rounds from his deck gun, so he has to have docked somewhere several times, because there's no way he could carry that many.

[GoldenRivet]

The book "torpedo junction" contains a part where one of the paukenschlag boats had a sinking ship coming down on top of them.