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Old 07-07-20, 10:37 AM   #1481
Moonlight
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Back in the Office and no sight of any SJ Radar.
11th December 1942 USS Grayling (SS 209) GAR.
Equipment Loadout,
Mk14 Torpedoes,
20mm Machine Gun
4" Bow Deck Gun,
SJ, Surface Search Radar, (EMPTY)
Improved SD Radar, Air Search Radar
Half Cut Conning Tower

While out on patrol I noticed that we had 2 Deck Guns, a 4" on the bow and a 3" on the stern, the gun crew will only man the 3" stern gun, just another little problem that needs looking at Mr beanie.

Question.
Do any of these merchant ships have ASW equipment?, I ask because I had a strange encounter with a convoy with a Naka Light Cruiser and a destroyer as escort.
With only 3 ships left, a Large Modern Tanker which was disabled, a Modern Passenger Liner and the Destroyer I noticed that the Liner and the Destroyer were both actively searching for me. At one point the Destroyer was about 5,000 yards away but I was still being actively searched for by this Liner and it must have signalled a contact report to the Destroyer that it had found me and it came back to drop some more depth charges.

Needless to say Mr beanie I was a bit surprised to say the least, after about three hours a large task force came passing by and you guessed right, those bloody escorts came to join in the fun as well. There was nothing I could do as one of them was charging about all superhero like and the moment I went to ahead one third it pounced all over me.

This all began at 10:15 am and went on till 7:35pm that night, me and the boys were almost deaded that day.
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