Why do...?

[Yorktown_Class]

Originally Posted by moscowexile

Why do the escorts, an RN armed trawler and a destroyer, in the convoy attack training suddenly begin to slug it out, the destroyer going under as the result of this very uneven duel?

Why does the Clemmson destroyer convoy escort in the first individual mission suddenly go under as though hit by a torpedo?

That's what's just happened to me as I was dogging the convoy after having emptied all my forward tubes.

Never fired a shot at the at the four-stacker, yet down she went.

I have seen DDs sunk by there own depth charges,and sunk by there own planes too.
Are you saying they turned on each other??