Disappearing Ships

scrapser · 09-16-05, 10:46 PM

Maybe this has been covered before. I just hit two tankers and they went dead in the water. The seas were rough and the escorts never picked up my trail, so I thought I'd wait until the convoy moved off and finish off the tankers. I had my scope up watching them in case they sank and suddenly, they both just vanished! This is a first for me. BTW, I'm nowhere near the endpoint of a convoy route so I doubt they were taken off the map because the rest of the convoy reached its destination.

scrapser

Twelvefield · 09-17-05, 01:50 AM

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm

Above is a link to the US navy which may explain your issue. Other than that, I can only think that the ships somehow got into thinking that they were at the end of their convoy run, even if they really were not.

09-16-05, 10:46 PM	#1
scrapser Captain Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 530 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Disappearing Ships Maybe this has been covered before. I just hit two tankers and they went dead in the water. The seas were rough and the escorts never picked up my trail, so I thought I'd wait until the convoy moved off and finish off the tankers. I had my scope up watching them in case they sank and suddenly, they both just vanished! This is a first for me. BTW, I'm nowhere near the endpoint of a convoy route so I doubt they were taken off the map because the rest of the convoy reached its destination. scrapser

09-17-05, 01:50 AM	#2
Twelvefield Planesman Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 186 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm Above is a link to the US navy which may explain your issue. Other than that, I can only think that the ships somehow got into thinking that they were at the end of their convoy run, even if they really were not.