Strange Sinking

bill clarke · 08-17-05, 09:33 PM

Hi guys, had a good last patrol in my VIIc 18,000 tons sunk. Anyway, I snuck in to Southern port in England, under cover of a dreadfull storm, absolute buckets of rain, I found a tanker moored dockside, I had my scope up but there was no target information, on the screen so I fired a fish at it, the fish hit the side and bounced of and exploded on the sea bottom, fired another one, same result, a little voice inside me said, "Dumkop, you are too close" at that point I went all back 1/3. then all of a sudden target info appreard and sure enough I'm only 230 mts from the tanker. So I backed out to 380mts and fired another fish, this one impacted but the tanker did not sink, damm, having only 2 external reloads I headed out to sea to reload.
As I was leaving a sunken ship icon appeared in the port, but it was black not red as is usual. I reloaded and headed back in to the port, and to my surprise I find the tanked broken in two, and burning at either end, I checked the kapitains log and no credit for the kill for me, anyway I found another ship anchored and again looking at through the scope there was no target info, I motored in and eventually the info came up on the screen, I found I was too close so I backed out and the target info dissappeared again, slowly headed back in and the info came back up (it was still raining buckets, with poor visibility) put a fish in to her and down she went.
I'd really like to know what happened with the tanker, and why there was a problem with the target info not appearing straight away, coud it have something to do with the weather ?
Cheers guys.

08-17-05, 09:33 PM	#1
bill clarke Captain Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia Posts: 519 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Strange Sinking Hi guys, had a good last patrol in my VIIc 18,000 tons sunk. Anyway, I snuck in to Southern port in England, under cover of a dreadfull storm, absolute buckets of rain, I found a tanker moored dockside, I had my scope up but there was no target information, on the screen so I fired a fish at it, the fish hit the side and bounced of and exploded on the sea bottom, fired another one, same result, a little voice inside me said, "Dumkop, you are too close" at that point I went all back 1/3. then all of a sudden target info appreard and sure enough I'm only 230 mts from the tanker. So I backed out to 380mts and fired another fish, this one impacted but the tanker did not sink, damm, having only 2 external reloads I headed out to sea to reload. As I was leaving a sunken ship icon appeared in the port, but it was black not red as is usual. I reloaded and headed back in to the port, and to my surprise I find the tanked broken in two, and burning at either end, I checked the kapitains log and no credit for the kill for me, anyway I found another ship anchored and again looking at through the scope there was no target info, I motored in and eventually the info came up on the screen, I found I was too close so I backed out and the target info dissappeared again, slowly headed back in and the info came back up (it was still raining buckets, with poor visibility) put a fish in to her and down she went. I'd really like to know what happened with the tanker, and why there was a problem with the target info not appearing straight away, coud it have something to do with the weather ? Cheers guys.