On my second patrol out of Pearl Harbor with a porpoise class submarine, orders to go to the Marshall Islands for patrol for five days. Upon arrival to the objective star on the navigation map, noticed a lot of aircraft with pylons. Discover a seaplane tender inside the lagoon near by the star on the map. Got inside the lagoon, setting up an attack run on the warship which was ID as a 'Seaplane Tender Chituse class'. The weather was not the best to stay hidden in shallow water, fifteen meter waves, light fog and no precipitation. Before launching torpedoes, the warship sunk. Only thing left was a red symbol on the navigation map. A day or so later, still noticed a lot of float planes in the area. After reconnoiter the area around the lagoon, discover another seaplane tender, ID as same class of ship in the exact position and in the same orientation as the sunken warship earlier. After seven torpedoes, which three detonated before reaching the target, only thing above water was the bow of the warship. Later in the patrol, still noticed a lot of float planes patrolling during daylight hours forcing the submarine under to avoid detection. Once again another seaplane tender of same classification was in the same location as the other two warships. With map contacts on, the black dot was sitting on top of the red icon of the sunken ship. Warship was sunk after four torpedoes hitting the target. Left the area after the objective was complete and low on fish, checked the captain log to discover that no listing of sunken ships.
Location: Long 162°E. 20'N Lat 11°24'N. And/or 2649.0 nm from Pearl Harbor at a heading of 255°.
Date: February 16, 1942.
Included is a picture of navigation map, thanks to Propbeanie for his help.
Great job FOTRS Ultimate, enjoying every moment of this awesome mod. One question, using nothing but the v0.71 edition. Can the mod Big Better Protractors be used. Hard to see the numbers on the map compass with these old eyes!
Larry