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Gryffon300 · 08-02-13, 05:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by c13Garrison

Just a quick note from familial purgatory, I very much enjoyed "grandfather's" quip about Panamanian flags.

Carry on, my wayward sons!

You're right about that - it was very droll.

G

in_vino_vomitus · 08-02-13, 09:11 AM

Thanks

So far it seems like convoys are the default for allied ships. I haven't counted, but 15-20 ships seems a reasonable estimate, usually escorted by a cruiser and 2-4 destroyers. I installed the harder escorts mod, but even so in a reasonable swell, ASDIC doesn't seem up to much, but then it's only 1939. I fear Leutnant Beck is going to get all the excitement he can handle before much longer.......

One problem they've had has been missing shots they shouldn't have. Turns out that if the optics give you a correct height [range] reading, then the length [speed] is out. The captain pulled a few strings, cancelled some shore leave and got his boat included in a training exercise, where he could confirm range and speed numbers directly from the target ships, in return for helping train their hydrophone operators.

Once the Captain had the numbers it was simple enough to work out the correction, so the boat won't be late out on her scheduled patrol. But he wrote a strongly worded letter to Herr Professor Heisenberg at Zeiss, who designed the optics. What he will do in response is uncertain....

As for torpedoing a hospital ship. What manner of man would do such a thing? And to boast of it afterward beggars belief. It's frustrating to plan and execute an attack, only to identify the target as neutral, or non-combatant and be compelled to abort, but one has to respect neutrals. Of course if a ship in a convoy is flying a neutral flag, which we have seen, then that is a different matter entirely.....

Once again, thank you both for your kind words. I look forward to hearing of your latest exploits........

grislyatoms · 08-02-13, 11:54 AM

(I suspect, being a true Man of the Sea, that his father will disown him if he ever finds out.)

He sounds a like a true ol' Baltic salt.

in_vino_vomitus · 08-04-13, 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gryffon300

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Be courageous, my friend, but PLEASE, don't let me hear you come back like that dog Jurgens did last week boasting of sinking a Hospital Ship - the cheers and back-slapping made me ill. (I suspect, being a true Man of the Sea, that his father will disown him if he ever finds out.) I know you to be an honourable man. I have observed it in you often, so I'm sure you won't be like him and abandon your true spirit of martial chivalry!

May your spears fly true, my friend.

Gryff

It seems that, in response to a signal from The U-Boat responsible, ships in the area have been requested to lend assistance to a Panamanian vessel that was struck by two torpedoes off Northern Portugal last night. Details are scarce, but it appears that the ship was misidentified, although the attack took place in daylight. It's possible that the sea state was a contributory factor, although it's hard to imagine how the Captain could have failed to see the Panamanian flag.

No communication has been received from the stricken vessel. Possibly her radio equipment was damaged by one of the torpedo strikes. Certainly one of them has damaged her propellers. The Captain of U-43 reports her settling in the water and not under way, with some smoke coming from the area of her stern, but no flames visible. It's not clear at this time if the flooding can be contained, but the crew appear not to be making any preparations to abandon the ship.

There was some reluctance within the BdU to releasing the information, since to do so would give away the location of U-43. This was weighed against the political consequences of attacking a neutral ship. In the end it was decided to embargo the information for four hours, in order to allow U-43 to clear the area, and then inform the Panamanian and Portuguese governments. An unconfirmed number of vessels are currently en route to the last reported position of the stricken ship.

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Or to put it another way -

c13Garrison · 08-04-13, 07:38 PM

Eyes Only

To:

Executive Officer U-43

From:

BdU Oberfähnrich to Konteradmiral Donitz

Regarding The Porto Incident

Documents pertaining to the U-43's involvement in this affair have been requested by the office of Herr Ribbentrop.

Your food manifest has been forwarded from your last resupply. We trust our unfortunate mistake will be much appreciated by the officers of U-43.

Let us be assured such misfortunes do not repeat?

Schmidt

___

...I imagine it would have sounded a bit different, but I was briefly amused thinking of the communiques that such an accident would have caused.

Sounds like it will be a Noteworthy patrol!!

Admiral Halsey · 08-04-13, 09:07 PM

Just got back into Tulagi after the first Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. I got either the Hiei or Kirishima two Takao-class heavy cruisers that were stopped dead in the water from damage and would have had a Destroyer if not for the Mark 14 being the Mark 14. Now I just have to wait until the second battle to try and get the other Battleship.

in_vino_vomitus · 08-05-13, 02:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey

Just got back into Tulagi after the first Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. I got either the Hiei or Kirishima two Takao-class heavy cruisers that were stopped dead in the water from damage and would have had a Destroyer if not for the Mark 14 being the Mark 14. Now I just have to wait until the second battle to try and get the other Battleship.

That sounds like a serious amount of fun - If I ever make it back into TMO, I'll make a point of being there with you

Gryffon300 · 08-05-13, 06:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grislyatoms

(I suspect, being a true Man of the Sea, that his father will disown him if he ever finds out.)

He sounds a like a true ol' Baltic salt.

You have that right, Bear.

Cheers

Gryff

PS, If you are up for a think about the moral challenges that arise from loyalty to or rejection of an ideology or regime, they tell me that they are going to make the story about this incident into as movie or something, tentatively titled, 'Those Who are About to Die' (though, personally, I would prefer the Latin, 'Morituri'). If it ever gets made into a movie, or written up as a novel, it would be a great story to explore.

Admiral Halsey · 08-05-13, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by in_vino_vomitus

That sounds like a serious amount of fun - If I ever make it back into TMO, I'll make a point of being there with you

I look forwards to seeing you. Oh and I got the other battleship.

in_vino_vomitus · 08-05-13, 02:11 PM

It feels very good indeed to be back on dry land. And even better to know that when we begin our next patrol we won't be getting to know a new Captain. You heard of our Panamanian misadventure I assume? How it stayed out of the news is a mystery to me, but there are other channels, and I expect by now everybody with a relative in the Kriegsmarine will know that U-43 torpedoed a Panamanian cargo ship in the Golf von Biscaya. Have you heard the joke they're telling now? "What's the difference between the French flag and the Panamanian flag? - You don't know? - You must be the Captain of U43...." I have to say that it's not safe to repeat that in the presence of our crew, even though they have amused themselves at the Captains expense. I was forced to reprimand Stroesser and Dietrich for a piece of improvised theatre, whereby Stroesser, playing the Captain, saluted Dietrich and said "Mein Fuhrer, I have the honour to report a successful attack on a merchantman belonging to your enemies in Panama" To which Dietrich replied "You are mistaken - I have no enemies in Pamana." "You have now Mein Fuhrer." Returned Stroesser. It was well done and I'm sure my face betrayed me, when I told the chief to find them some more useful way to fill the time they obviously had too much of. Of course the crew will joke at the Captains expense - the punishment was for letting me catch them. Sailors should not be so careless.

As for the sinking. it was a rough sea and we were submerged. Grandfather's thinking was that a submerged attack, is in all cases preferable because a ship that can't see you, won't try to avoid you. He wasn't flying a flag at the masthead and the swell obscured the one at the stern. I won't tell you what Grandfather said when he saw it. One of the eels hit well astern and disabled the propellers. In all probability it flooded the engine room too. We radioed her position to BdU, but there was nothing else that we could do. At the time it wasn't clear that she was lost. She had settled in the water somewhat, and she wasn't making way, but it's not unknown for a ship to be torpedoed and not to sink, so we continued our patrol. Sooner or later, somebody was bound to do this. it's unfortunate that it should be us.

A consequence of this is that we now approach lone ships on the surface. If they are enemy ships we sink them with "Die Pistole" As the crew have taken to calling the deck gun. There's quite a rivalry between them and the torpedomen. On this patrol, the gunners sank four. I wonder how long it will be before the British start to arm their merchantmen? As it is, one tried to ram us. It's almost as if he didn't want to be sunk, and to give him his due - he almost wasn't.

I said once, that both sides would get better at this, and it's so satisfying to be proved right. The Captain of the British destroyer that almost sent us to the bottom, will likely never know he was the cause of my joy. We'd joined the convoy as usual, and hit a tanker and two freighters. We dived and stayed under them to reload tubes, and came back up to fire again. we finished off the tanker, hit another and dived once more. We had two torpedoes left for the forward tubes. Remember when Uncle Rudi told me why it was bad luck to take the third light off a match? Well that destroyer captain probably had an uncle Rudi too - An uncle Tommy perhaps? We thought we were pretty safe. We could still hear charges going off intermittently behind us and we were right in the middle of the convoy. Anyway, we came up to periscope depth, had a look around, and saw one of the freighters we'd hit earlier on fire. We turned towards it and dived to let one of its fellows pass over us, came back up and were preparing to shoot, when another ship passed in front of us. As it cleared our front, we heard PING!! PING!! PING!! PING!! and Dieter warned us of a warship approaching fast from astern. We dived, and went to flank speed and slalomed away from there like a champion skiier. Even so we took damage. Fortunately it seems their ASDIC can't reach us below 50 meters and we got away, but it seems that the British are trying harder now. So we must try harder too.

Your obedient Nephew

Philipp

c13Garrison · 08-05-13, 03:02 PM

"It was our 14th patrol, February of '44. We'd had some successes in the recent past, bagging an Ise south of Bungo, catching a lone Shoho-class in transit, and a small handful of merchantmen. We were the best boat in the fleet by almost 3x the tonnage of the #2 boat."

"On this patrol we had sailed south at high speed to be in position to greet a convoy arriving at Pelilu. We were well placed, the weather was awful, and after skirting too close to a patrolling escort 4 of them were searching for us 8 miles from where we were. The Captain ordered ahead standard- we would try to slip through the southern channel to investigate the anchorage, as the 21st had come and gone by an hour without our convoy appearing. Visibility was less than 300 yards- 0100, Heavy Rain, Heavy Fog."

" 'Course laid in Sir,' I announced."

"Very well Biggles, -"

"Captain Garrison! Captain Garrison! There's a protocol issue amidships! The Laundry requires your immediate attention!"

"The Captain left without a word. ...Well, he didn't order me to follow the course I'd laid in, and he didn't surrender the Con, so ...far be it from me to overstep my bounds. ...so, about 8 minutes later when we ran ourselves 30 yards up a beach at 11 knots, it must have been due to some brilliant plan of the Captain's."

...I see. ...We will continue this interrogation later, Lt. Biggles.

He sighed.

"...Watkins, Rikugun Chūsa, Lt. Watkins."

___

in_vino_vomitus · 08-05-13, 04:55 PM

Ask not for whom the bell tolls............

I hope he has a successor.....

c13Garrison · 08-05-13, 06:58 PM

He will, as soon as I download the Narwhal mod.

I would have reloaded from last save, but I had accomplished so much on this patrol that just "wiping the slate" felt ...disappointingly empty. So, Garrison & Biggles are interred, and now I will ruminate over a new Captain and Executive Officer personality. Can't be quite so comic I think. I'll mull it over.

Gryffon300 · 08-05-13, 09:16 PM

Thanks for sharing such great stories of late - some VERY funny incidents being reported. Its worth your time to keep us informed.

Regards

Gryff

Clean Sweep · 08-06-13, 08:56 AM

Finally a worthy story for me to present!

Last night I was on patrol in the South China Sea, just a little north by north easy of the Malaysia. Riding on the surface radar picked up four surface contacts and I move to intercept and go down to periscope depth, maintaining sound tracking. Once I was closer I got on the periscope and to my amazement saw a glorious ship, ID'd a "Huge European Liner." My mouth was watering I wanted this target so badly. She was moving right to left on my periscope at medium speed. Three destroyers were escorting her. One at the front, on at the rear and the third on her starboard, out of view.

I was still a decent distance away but well within sonar range of the destroyers. I kicked up to flank speed and got the attention of te forward and aft escorts. The rear escort was closing in much faster so I turned to meet her head on. At 700 yards I shot off two fish and crash dived to 300ft at flank speed. The destroyer was hit twice and sank. The other destroyer that was closing in came over me and made an attempt to depth charge me but I was already pretty deep and took no damage.

While that destroyer began to circle around I came back up to periscope depth, still at flank speed to keep distance on the destroyer now at my aft. The liner was at about 3,000 yards at this point dead ahead of me. I kept a track going to maintain a solid firing solution. At 2,500 yards I fired a spread of four fish to the liner, and shot one aft at the pursuing destroyer and crash dived once more. The destroyer at my rear took the hit but was damaged only, and not sunk.

The line took four of four hits and exploded before sinking. At 300ft I rigged for silent runnin leaving the last two destroyers baffled and searching while I quietly slipped out of the area.

Was a great run!

08-02-13, 09:11 AM	#4442
in_vino_vomitus XO Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Preston, Lancs, UK Posts: 418 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	Thanks So far it seems like convoys are the default for allied ships. I haven't counted, but 15-20 ships seems a reasonable estimate, usually escorted by a cruiser and 2-4 destroyers. I installed the harder escorts mod, but even so in a reasonable swell, ASDIC doesn't seem up to much, but then it's only 1939. I fear Leutnant Beck is going to get all the excitement he can handle before much longer....... One problem they've had has been missing shots they shouldn't have. Turns out that if the optics give you a correct height [range] reading, then the length [speed] is out. The captain pulled a few strings, cancelled some shore leave and got his boat included in a training exercise, where he could confirm range and speed numbers directly from the target ships, in return for helping train their hydrophone operators. Once the Captain had the numbers it was simple enough to work out the correction, so the boat won't be late out on her scheduled patrol. But he wrote a strongly worded letter to Herr Professor Heisenberg at Zeiss, who designed the optics. What he will do in response is uncertain.... As for torpedoing a hospital ship. What manner of man would do such a thing? And to boast of it afterward beggars belief. It's frustrating to plan and execute an attack, only to identify the target as neutral, or non-combatant and be compelled to abort, but one has to respect neutrals. Of course if a ship in a convoy is flying a neutral flag, which we have seen, then that is a different matter entirely..... Once again, thank you both for your kind words. I look forward to hearing of your latest exploits........ __________________ Forget death - I'll take dishonour! [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] TMO 2.5 1.5 Optical Targeting Correction 031312 for TMO 2.5 1.5 OTC Realistic Scopes for TMO TheDarkWraith_DC_Water_Disturbance_v2_0_SH4 Improved Stock environment v3_TMO&RFB TMO_Alt_engine-sounds TMO_Alternate_JS_Radar_performance TMO17_19_different_smoke

08-02-13, 11:54 AM	#4443
grislyatoms Medic Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 169 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	(I suspect, being a true Man of the Sea, that his father will disown him if he ever finds out.) He sounds a like a true ol' Baltic salt. __________________ "Na Männer...alles klar?"

08-04-13, 09:07 PM	#4446
Admiral Halsey Best Admiral in the USN Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: USS Enterprise (CV-6) Posts: 1,740 Downloads: 298 Uploads: 0	Just got back into Tulagi after the first Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. I got either the Hiei or Kirishima two Takao-class heavy cruisers that were stopped dead in the water from damage and would have had a Destroyer if not for the Mark 14 being the Mark 14. Now I just have to wait until the second battle to try and get the other Battleship. Last edited by Admiral Halsey; 08-04-13 at 09:31 PM.

08-05-13, 02:11 PM	#4450
in_vino_vomitus XO Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Preston, Lancs, UK Posts: 418 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	Dear Aunt Grethe It feels very good indeed to be back on dry land. And even better to know that when we begin our next patrol we won't be getting to know a new Captain. You heard of our Panamanian misadventure I assume? How it stayed out of the news is a mystery to me, but there are other channels, and I expect by now everybody with a relative in the Kriegsmarine will know that U-43 torpedoed a Panamanian cargo ship in the Golf von Biscaya. Have you heard the joke they're telling now? "What's the difference between the French flag and the Panamanian flag? - You don't know? - You must be the Captain of U43...." I have to say that it's not safe to repeat that in the presence of our crew, even though they have amused themselves at the Captains expense. I was forced to reprimand Stroesser and Dietrich for a piece of improvised theatre, whereby Stroesser, playing the Captain, saluted Dietrich and said "Mein Fuhrer, I have the honour to report a successful attack on a merchantman belonging to your enemies in Panama" To which Dietrich replied "You are mistaken - I have no enemies in Pamana." "You have now Mein Fuhrer." Returned Stroesser. It was well done and I'm sure my face betrayed me, when I told the chief to find them some more useful way to fill the time they obviously had too much of. Of course the crew will joke at the Captains expense - the punishment was for letting me catch them. Sailors should not be so careless. As for the sinking. it was a rough sea and we were submerged. Grandfather's thinking was that a submerged attack, is in all cases preferable because a ship that can't see you, won't try to avoid you. He wasn't flying a flag at the masthead and the swell obscured the one at the stern. I won't tell you what Grandfather said when he saw it. One of the eels hit well astern and disabled the propellers. In all probability it flooded the engine room too. We radioed her position to BdU, but there was nothing else that we could do. At the time it wasn't clear that she was lost. She had settled in the water somewhat, and she wasn't making way, but it's not unknown for a ship to be torpedoed and not to sink, so we continued our patrol. Sooner or later, somebody was bound to do this. it's unfortunate that it should be us. A consequence of this is that we now approach lone ships on the surface. If they are enemy ships we sink them with "Die Pistole" As the crew have taken to calling the deck gun. There's quite a rivalry between them and the torpedomen. On this patrol, the gunners sank four. I wonder how long it will be before the British start to arm their merchantmen? As it is, one tried to ram us. It's almost as if he didn't want to be sunk, and to give him his due - he almost wasn't. I said once, that both sides would get better at this, and it's so satisfying to be proved right. The Captain of the British destroyer that almost sent us to the bottom, will likely never know he was the cause of my joy. We'd joined the convoy as usual, and hit a tanker and two freighters. We dived and stayed under them to reload tubes, and came back up to fire again. we finished off the tanker, hit another and dived once more. We had two torpedoes left for the forward tubes. Remember when Uncle Rudi told me why it was bad luck to take the third light off a match? Well that destroyer captain probably had an uncle Rudi too - An uncle Tommy perhaps? We thought we were pretty safe. We could still hear charges going off intermittently behind us and we were right in the middle of the convoy. Anyway, we came up to periscope depth, had a look around, and saw one of the freighters we'd hit earlier on fire. We turned towards it and dived to let one of its fellows pass over us, came back up and were preparing to shoot, when another ship passed in front of us. As it cleared our front, we heard PING!! PING!! PING!! PING!! and Dieter warned us of a warship approaching fast from astern. We dived, and went to flank speed and slalomed away from there like a champion skiier. Even so we took damage. Fortunately it seems their ASDIC can't reach us below 50 meters and we got away, but it seems that the British are trying harder now. So we must try harder too. Your obedient Nephew Philipp __________________ Forget death - I'll take dishonour! [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] TMO 2.5 1.5 Optical Targeting Correction 031312 for TMO 2.5 1.5 OTC Realistic Scopes for TMO TheDarkWraith_DC_Water_Disturbance_v2_0_SH4 Improved Stock environment v3_TMO&RFB TMO_Alt_engine-sounds TMO_Alternate_JS_Radar_performance TMO17_19_different_smoke

08-05-13, 03:02 PM	#4451
c13Garrison Ensign Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Chicago-ish, USA Posts: 223 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	The End of Captain Garrison... "It was our 14th patrol, February of '44. We'd had some successes in the recent past, bagging an Ise south of Bungo, catching a lone Shoho-class in transit, and a small handful of merchantmen. We were the best boat in the fleet by almost 3x the tonnage of the #2 boat." "On this patrol we had sailed south at high speed to be in position to greet a convoy arriving at Pelilu. We were well placed, the weather was awful, and after skirting too close to a patrolling escort 4 of them were searching for us 8 miles from where we were. The Captain ordered ahead standard- we would try to slip through the southern channel to investigate the anchorage, as the 21st had come and gone by an hour without our convoy appearing. Visibility was less than 300 yards- 0100, Heavy Rain, Heavy Fog." " 'Course laid in Sir,' I announced." "Very well Biggles, -" "Captain Garrison! Captain Garrison! There's a protocol issue amidships! The Laundry requires your immediate attention!" "The Captain left without a word. ...Well, he didn't order me to follow the course I'd laid in, and he didn't surrender the Con, so ...far be it from me to overstep my bounds. ...so, about 8 minutes later when we ran ourselves 30 yards up a beach at 11 knots, it must have been due to some brilliant plan of the Captain's." ...I see. ...We will continue this interrogation later, Lt. Biggles. He sighed. "...Watkins, Rikugun Chūsa, Lt. Watkins." ___

08-04-13, 07:38 PM	#4445
c13Garrison Ensign Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Chicago-ish, USA Posts: 223 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Eyes Only To: Executive Officer U-43 From: BdU Oberfähnrich to Konteradmiral Donitz Regarding The Porto Incident Documents pertaining to the U-43's involvement in this affair have been requested by the office of Herr Ribbentrop. Your food manifest has been forwarded from your last resupply. We trust our unfortunate mistake will be much appreciated by the officers of U-43. Let us be assured such misfortunes do not repeat? Schmidt ___ ...I imagine it would have sounded a bit different, but I was briefly amused thinking of the communiques that such an accident would have caused. Sounds like it will be a Noteworthy patrol!!

08-05-13, 04:55 PM	#4452
in_vino_vomitus XO Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Preston, Lancs, UK Posts: 418 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	Ask not for whom the bell tolls............ I hope he has a successor..... __________________ Forget death - I'll take dishonour! [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] TMO 2.5 1.5 Optical Targeting Correction 031312 for TMO 2.5 1.5 OTC Realistic Scopes for TMO TheDarkWraith_DC_Water_Disturbance_v2_0_SH4 Improved Stock environment v3_TMO&RFB TMO_Alt_engine-sounds TMO_Alternate_JS_Radar_performance TMO17_19_different_smoke Last edited by in_vino_vomitus; 08-05-13 at 06:17 PM.

08-05-13, 06:58 PM	#4453
c13Garrison Ensign Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Chicago-ish, USA Posts: 223 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	He will, as soon as I download the Narwhal mod. I would have reloaded from last save, but I had accomplished so much on this patrol that just "wiping the slate" felt ...disappointingly empty. So, Garrison & Biggles are interred, and now I will ruminate over a new Captain and Executive Officer personality. Can't be quite so comic I think. I'll mull it over.

08-05-13, 09:16 PM	#4454
Gryffon300 Engineer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 213 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	Thanks, Lads Thanks for sharing such great stories of late - some VERY funny incidents being reported. Its worth your time to keep us informed. Regards Gryff

08-06-13, 08:56 AM	#4455
Clean Sweep Seaman Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Louisiana Posts: 35 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	Finally a worthy story for me to present! Last night I was on patrol in the South China Sea, just a little north by north easy of the Malaysia. Riding on the surface radar picked up four surface contacts and I move to intercept and go down to periscope depth, maintaining sound tracking. Once I was closer I got on the periscope and to my amazement saw a glorious ship, ID'd a "Huge European Liner." My mouth was watering I wanted this target so badly. She was moving right to left on my periscope at medium speed. Three destroyers were escorting her. One at the front, on at the rear and the third on her starboard, out of view. I was still a decent distance away but well within sonar range of the destroyers. I kicked up to flank speed and got the attention of te forward and aft escorts. The rear escort was closing in much faster so I turned to meet her head on. At 700 yards I shot off two fish and crash dived to 300ft at flank speed. The destroyer was hit twice and sank. The other destroyer that was closing in came over me and made an attempt to depth charge me but I was already pretty deep and took no damage. While that destroyer began to circle around I came back up to periscope depth, still at flank speed to keep distance on the destroyer now at my aft. The liner was at about 3,000 yards at this point dead ahead of me. I kept a track going to maintain a solid firing solution. At 2,500 yards I fired a spread of four fish to the liner, and shot one aft at the pursuing destroyer and crash dived once more. The destroyer at my rear took the hit but was damaged only, and not sunk. The line took four of four hits and exploded before sinking. At 300ft I rigged for silent runnin leaving the last two destroyers baffled and searching while I quietly slipped out of the area. Was a great run!