Sunk with one fish!

07-16-07, 02:17 PM

Has anyone else managed to sink the huge european liner with just one torpedo?
I was on patrol off Honshu, mid june 1942, just SSE of Yokosuka, Hit her from about 2000m, torpedo depth of 20. The torpedo struck between the smoke stacks, 5 seconds later one huge explosion and "enemy unit destroyed" is reported, when the second fish I had launched hit home a few seconds later the liner took a noesdive and was completely below the waves within a minute.
USS Drum out of Pearl, now on her 3rd mission. Headed to the patrol the seas off the Mariana Islands

orangenee · 07-16-07, 02:28 PM

It's not unheard of, you probably got a sweet spot or an ammo storage area or something like that but one hits on big targets like that are rare though.

Suicide Charlie · 07-16-07, 02:47 PM

It'd be interesting if somebody put together some kind of program or outside add-on that recorded your torpedo and deck gun shell activity (fires, hits, misses) as well as linked it to a layout of modified Recogintion Manual file that showed the division of each ships compartments and your percentage of hits within compartment parameters. Perhaps a spread sheet of what each compartment is thought to contain and a log of what each sunken merchant was carrying.

It would help captains out in finding weakspots and characteristics of each engaged ship and review their patrols. Kind of like a self de-briefing.

07-16-07, 02:17 PM	#1
simonb1612 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Sunk with one fish! Has anyone else managed to sink the huge european liner with just one torpedo? I was on patrol off Honshu, mid june 1942, just SSE of Yokosuka, Hit her from about 2000m, torpedo depth of 20. The torpedo struck between the smoke stacks, 5 seconds later one huge explosion and "enemy unit destroyed" is reported, when the second fish I had launched hit home a few seconds later the liner took a noesdive and was completely below the waves within a minute. USS Drum out of Pearl, now on her 3rd mission. Headed to the patrol the seas off the Mariana Islands

07-16-07, 02:47 PM	#3
Suicide Charlie Wild Night in Bangkok Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 179 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It'd be interesting if somebody put together some kind of program or outside add-on that recorded your torpedo and deck gun shell activity (fires, hits, misses) as well as linked it to a layout of modified Recogintion Manual file that showed the division of each ships compartments and your percentage of hits within compartment parameters. Perhaps a spread sheet of what each compartment is thought to contain and a log of what each sunken merchant was carrying. It would help captains out in finding weakspots and characteristics of each engaged ship and review their patrols. Kind of like a self de-briefing. __________________

07-16-07, 02:28 PM	#2
orangenee Engineer Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 211 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It's not unheard of, you probably got a sweet spot or an ammo storage area or something like that but one hits on big targets like that are rare though.