I Got Lucky!!! Scratch one Carrier!!!

[bookworm_020]

How lucky am I!!! I was 100 km west of Scapa when I got a contact report a warship heading east at medium speed, I guessed I had a chance, so I put the hammer down and worked out an intercept course. 6 hours later I get a contact, a destroyer! I dive to periscope depth and pick up more contacts that are hidden by light fog, I may get a crusier if I'm lucky was my best guess.

I then spot a Fiji cruiser, then a southampton cruiser, so I get to double my pleasure! then it appears! an Illustrious Carrier!!! In a good shooting position to boot!!

Stuff the cruisers, there a dime a dozen, all four tubes are open with t1's set to high speed as I want to give as little warning as possible. I fire a four torpedo spread and start counting down the seconds, Damm, I hate the wait! so I strat to turn so I can pop of my aft tube at a cruiser.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Three hits!! The fourth misses, but I forgive it, as a crewman yells "she's going down" I pop my scope up for a look and she being torn apart by internal explosions! I break out the Becks after we have a shot a the cruiser, which is 500 meters away. I fire the aft tube and count down the seconds till impact. Boom! hit amidship! but she still steams away.

I'm in trouble as one of the escorting destroyers has got a scent of me, and the water is only 80 meters deep! I cop some damage from one of his runs, but more from impacting the sea bed. I manage to bring all leaks under control and patch up the damage, as well as avoid the depth charges!

This single destroyer is realy got it in for me! Over a day he keeps dropping charges, and when he runs out he calls in aircraft to help him. I have tried every method to throw him off but no dice.

I then remember someone saying that at two knots they can't hear you, I'm doing three in silent running, so I drop to two knots and dive to 150 meters (I had worked my way to deeper water by this time) and I gave him the slip.

Got a nice little medal and a promotion when I got home!!:p

[Von Hinten]

Sounds like a well deserved medal for you captain, well done.

[bigboywooly]

Sweet
You didnt expect the DD to give up did you
You just sank one of the RN very scarce units

Nice sinking

[azn_132]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Sweet
You didnt expect the DD to give up did you
You just sank one of the RN very scarce units

Nice sinking

Remember by the ended of the war the USA almost have a hundred carriers.

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by azn_132

Remember by the ended of the war the USA almost have a hundred carriers.

I belive BBW was reffering to the ROYAL NAVY not the US NAVY

[azn_132]

Originally Posted by mr chris

I belive BBW was reffering to the ROYAL NAVY not the US NAVY

What if he attacked a task force of like 25 carriers? And sry but the US Navy did almost have a hundred of carriers.

[bookworm_020]

A small task force was hard enough, but 25 carriers would want me wishing for a bigger torpedo room!

That's if I could get past the escorts!!

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by azn_132

What if he attacked a task force of like 25 carriers? And sry but the US Navy did almost have a hundred of carriers.

Yep but don't think many gangs of US carriers were hanging around in the East Atlantic

[Kapitan_Phillips]

I know, they all hang around the "westsiiiiide"


..couldnt resist.

[andy_311]

Originally Posted by azn_132

Remember by the ended of the war the USA almost have a hundred carriers.

Make that 98 I sank 2 in a Task Force last night.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by azn_132

Remember by the ended of the war the USA almost have a hundred carriers.

Including escorts maybe
Pretty sure the uk had only 8 at outbreak of war with another 2 finished days after

mind you by the end they had a lot more 70+ with escort carriers - not including Bookworms kill :rotfl:

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by azn_132

What if he attacked a task force of like 25 carriers? And sry but the US Navy did almost have a hundred of carriers.

I know the USA had lots of carriers towards the end of the war but BBW Was talking about the ROYAL NAVY not the USA NAVY. At the end of the war the USA had a massive lead in the size of there fleet compared to the British.

[Iron Budokan]

Good job, Kaleun!

[danurve]

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by azn_132

What if he attacked a task force of like 25 carriers? And sry but the US Navy did almost have a hundred of carriers.

"During the war twenty-two U.S. Navy fleet carriers (CVs) and nine small aircaft carriers (CVLs) served in World War II. Eight ships were built before the war started and the rest were built during the war.

During the war two classes of ships were built:

• The Essex Class - largest class of carriers ever built (26 were completed)
• The Independence Class - most were converted from light cruisers during construction (9 were completed) "

By my count that's 66. Not including those sunk during the war. Not quite 100.