I've Not Seen This Before

Seminole · 09-02-08, 06:38 AM

But you were right..I don't ever recall anything as weird as what you related..and there have been some strange reports indeed....

..yours will take the prize I think...unless a kraken should suddenly appear to pull down a fleetboat...

R1830 · 09-03-08, 06:01 PM

On the USS Tang's third patrol she ran into a 2 ship convoy with and smaller 1-2000 ton freighter armed with both guns and DC's escprting another larger 6-7000 ton freighter. That sounds like historically it was possible.

Seminole · 09-04-08, 08:08 AM

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when the torpedo hit the ship she vaporized, no debris, no nothing. One second she was there, then boom, she was totally gone. Wierd.

I don't know ...did the tang report anything like that too ?

...all sounds awfully George Nooryish to me...I'm staying away from Truck if I can help it...

bookworm_020 · 09-04-08, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by R1830

On the USS Tang's third patrol she ran into a 2 ship convoy with and smaller 1-2000 ton freighter armed with both guns and DC's escprting another larger 6-7000 ton freighter. That sounds like historically it was possible.

I remember something about that merchants were given a small number of depth charges that they could drop on any suspected sub contact. It was more for show than anything else, as they had no way of predicting the place or depth of the sub after they last saw it.

I don't believe that any sub was sunk by this method.

Brenjen · 09-05-08, 09:19 AM

I just posted in the RFB mod thread about an anomaly I encountered yesterday. I had just completed a mission to recon Tarawa & I got two radar contacts. It was night & raining heavily so I decided to stay on the surface, I eventually HIT the radar contact & the rain shrouded ship was obviously a merchant, but it wasn't actually there....the ship was invisible almost as if it had a cloaking device from star trek. You could see it if the rain was hitting it or after the rain stopped I fired my deck gun at it & the shell burst mist/smoke made the area visible (in outline only) for a second until the smoke & mist cleared. You could see the outline of the hull in the water but nothing else unless rain/mist/smoke etc. made the ghostly image visible. I took 7% hull damage when I bumped into it too, so something was there.

09-02-08, 06:38 AM	#1
Seminole Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,012 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	But you were right..I don't ever recall anything as weird as what you related..and there have been some strange reports indeed.... ..yours will take the prize I think...unless a kraken should suddenly appear to pull down a fleetboat... __________________

09-03-08, 06:01 PM	#2
R1830 Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 7 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	On the USS Tang's third patrol she ran into a 2 ship convoy with and smaller 1-2000 ton freighter armed with both guns and DC's escprting another larger 6-7000 ton freighter. That sounds like historically it was possible.

09-05-08, 09:19 AM	#5
Brenjen Machinist's Mate Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: I live in The U.S. South Posts: 127 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	I just posted in the RFB mod thread about an anomaly I encountered yesterday. I had just completed a mission to recon Tarawa & I got two radar contacts. It was night & raining heavily so I decided to stay on the surface, I eventually HIT the radar contact & the rain shrouded ship was obviously a merchant, but it wasn't actually there....the ship was invisible almost as if it had a cloaking device from star trek. You could see it if the rain was hitting it or after the rain stopped I fired my deck gun at it & the shell burst mist/smoke made the area visible (in outline only) for a second until the smoke & mist cleared. You could see the outline of the hull in the water but nothing else unless rain/mist/smoke etc. made the ghostly image visible. I took 7% hull damage when I bumped into it too, so something was there.