Worst situation you survived?

[timmy41]

Whats the worst situation you have ever survived? stuck in the english channel bottomed out with ASW boats taking turns? tracked by k-ships and PBY's until you've gone insane? Let bernard take the helm only to have him navigate you into another ship?

tell your story!


I think my worst so far has been being stuck with my electric engines non-functioning and my pumps damaged, flooding in most compartments, 200m under in a VIIC. was able to repair the pumps and pump out enough to repair the engines and scoot on out of there, and meet up with a supply ship for a new pair of underwear.

[Immelman]

As always in my trusty VIIB being stuck under for several hours after a convoy attack in late '44 while 5 DD proceeded to drop God knows how many hedgehogs and an uninterrupted supply of depth charges

Got hit on the trum by a hedgehog Ob scope kaput, radio antenna kaput, one flak kaput one damaged, radar warning device damaged. Thankfully my pressure hull was not perforated and I managed to sneak away after they run out of everything to throw at me 8 hours later...

[timmy41]

a B in 1944?

[Immelman]

What can I say I love my VIIB its fast and nimble. I do have a house rule where if the sub damaged more then 40% hull damage when I get back to base I "scrap" it and get a new boat. This simulates reality, they would not spend a lot of man hours and material to majorly overhaul an old boat. They would just give you a new one.

[timmy41]

I thought the C was more nimble than the B except it was .6 knots slower? at least in game it is.

[Weiss Pinguin]

I've been caught with my Type VII in enemy ports several times... Scary to have depth charges dropped on you in less than 50 meters of water, but even scarier is when you've been under for half a day and escorts are still circling above.

[schlechter pfennig]

Worst I ever survived was in a VIIC, mid '43, with both electric engines destroyed, watchtower destroyed, both the attack and observation scopes destroyed, deck and flak guns destroyed, radio destroyed and radar warning destroyed.

I still have no idea how we made it back to port!

[STEED]

Dead in the water...engines and batteries smashed with no hope at all.

[Rhodes]

Mid 43 or 44 I think, had to go to 235m to escape 2 destroyers that were trying to get me. At 2 kn silent running, the boat began to sink slowly... Manage to survive that depth.

[pickinthebanjo]

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

I've been caught with my Type VII in enemy ports several times... Scary to have depth charges dropped on you in less than 50 meters of water, but even scarier is when you've been under for half a day and escorts are still circling above.

I hear that. 50m is an overstatment in an enemy port. Usually lucky if it's deeper than 20. When I attacked Gibraltar I got pinned under the bow of a southhampton that refused to completly sink. I was there for over 6 hours before deciding to just make a run for the minefield. Mafe it out though and with three battleships sunk and for my efforts I was demoted

[Task Force]

When I was pinned down by 5 DDs after sinking the warspite. Lasted for about a hour. (in Narvik)

[Renesco]

took on a convoy from the rear off the coast of canada with no forward torpedoes left, only a IX B with the deck gun (1941), surfaced next to a destroyer and sank it in quick order, 2 more destroyers came charging in, one was going for a ram, I headed directly away from it at top speed and got it with a poxy rear torpedo shot as it closed, the third was farther away and tried the same thing, done the same thing and headed directly away and fired off my last two rear torpedo's, one hit square on and sank it, that was 3 out of the 4 destroyers guarding the convey dead.

The 4'th destroyer came out of nowhere seemingly, I only spotted it when it was 2,000 metres and closing fast, engaged it with the deck gun but it was too damn close and was chewing me up, was taking some serious damage and it was closing fast so I crash dived, it connected at ramming speed anyway as I was crash diving, making crap of my conning tower, deck gun and flak guns, then came 90 minutes or so (in real time) of being depth charged repeatedly

by the time I snuck away I had no conning tower left (to speak of) no deck gun or flak guns, 1 diesel engine, broken bow planes, every compartment had been flooded and repaired at one stage, malfunctioning aft tubes (no torps left anyway to fire) and about 30% hull integrity

That was only the last part of the best patrol I ever done that saw me engage 3 convoys among other things, downed a bunch of planes and sank 19 ships, and limped home in pieces.

The other bad situation I can think of is a full speed collision in the middle of the atlantic with a c3 cargo in heavy fog and rain at night, the crew management screen said I had 00% intergrity left after the collision, according to the AAR I had 0.4% hull left when I finished the patrol.

[klh]

I attacked a convoy in late 1940 with my VIIB. I got greedy and tried to stay near the surface while reloading. Two destroyers closed in on my position and DC'd me like crazy.

Major damage to the hull, flooding in the forward compartments, and going down by the bow. I blew ballast, but I was still going down. Went Flank Reverse on the engines, and it was just enough to keep me above 200m.

I focused repairs on the flooding while the depth charges were still falling around me. Fortunately my constantly changing depth kept them off guard because they sure could hear me.

Finally the flooding stopped and I was able to trim the boat level and start maneuvering. After over an hour of cat and mouse, I was able to break contact. After surfacing, I completed what repairs I could and limped home. Forward tubes destroyed, periscopes destroyed, but all alive and well.

[toodrunk]

Originally Posted by klh

Went Flank Reverse on the engines, and it was just enough to keep me above 200m.

Farking genius! Way to keep your head level when your boat is anything but.

[maillemaker]

My best one was tonight.

I was dueling with a destroyer and he blew both my periscopes away.

I used the hydrophone to nail his ass with a magnetic torpedo! Took 2 shots, but I got him!

Steve