Wolfshead1972
10-12-2008, 09:18 AM
Right. So, I've snuck into Loch Ewe, eeled a Fiji and a Tribal for good measure, admired the seamanship of the other Tribal DD captain who parked his ship through one of the pontoons and I'm sneaking out.
"Could be dicey sir" says Akermann, my exec officer. I like Ackermann. Always states the bloody obvious.
"We passed four destroyers on the way in. All British." He's consistent, too. You've got to love that in a weapons officer.
We hugged the Western shore of the inlet thingy and crawled towards the open sea. Two blazing wrecks behind us, and a whole lot of grief in front of us. Or so we thought.
We snuck out past a C Class whose hydrophone operator may or may not have been my late nan (she was deaf as a post) and an angry V&W that came steaming into the channel to find me. The V&W clearly demonstrated what he intended to do to me if he ever found me by ramming the coast line and staying there looking surly. The C-Class just bimbled about to and fro as if nothing had happened. Maybe it was bring your parnter to work day and they were all "otherwise occupied". Who knows?
As I exited the inlet, there were two Hunt class DD's doing exactly the same thing as the V&W. Bows into the shore, engines running ahead. Is this some sort of mass protest amongst HM Navy's DD Captains against the unsporting nature of u-boat warfare?
Perhaps they were hoping my crew would injure themselves laughing. I nearly did.
The only one who seemed to have any sense at all was the captain of the armed trawler who was at least keeping it in the wet bit doing what he was paid for.
Figuring natural selection would most likely take care of the other 4 DD's at some point in the not-too-distant future, I addressed the only serious threat. I surfaced and let my deck gun crew play with the armed fishing vessel.
Now, as an Englishman myself, I am rather proud of the Royal Navy. They've had their embarrassments, certainly. But this? I know it's only July 1940 and they get a whole lot better at ASW, but what were they thinking?
"Quick, climb that hill, we'll have a better vantage point. Soon spot the blighter?"
Ackermann summed it up rather well.
"The British Destroyers don't seem to be particularly competent, herr kaleun."
Stock SH3 with Sub Commander 3.13.
"Could be dicey sir" says Akermann, my exec officer. I like Ackermann. Always states the bloody obvious.
"We passed four destroyers on the way in. All British." He's consistent, too. You've got to love that in a weapons officer.
We hugged the Western shore of the inlet thingy and crawled towards the open sea. Two blazing wrecks behind us, and a whole lot of grief in front of us. Or so we thought.
We snuck out past a C Class whose hydrophone operator may or may not have been my late nan (she was deaf as a post) and an angry V&W that came steaming into the channel to find me. The V&W clearly demonstrated what he intended to do to me if he ever found me by ramming the coast line and staying there looking surly. The C-Class just bimbled about to and fro as if nothing had happened. Maybe it was bring your parnter to work day and they were all "otherwise occupied". Who knows?
As I exited the inlet, there were two Hunt class DD's doing exactly the same thing as the V&W. Bows into the shore, engines running ahead. Is this some sort of mass protest amongst HM Navy's DD Captains against the unsporting nature of u-boat warfare?
Perhaps they were hoping my crew would injure themselves laughing. I nearly did.
The only one who seemed to have any sense at all was the captain of the armed trawler who was at least keeping it in the wet bit doing what he was paid for.
Figuring natural selection would most likely take care of the other 4 DD's at some point in the not-too-distant future, I addressed the only serious threat. I surfaced and let my deck gun crew play with the armed fishing vessel.
Now, as an Englishman myself, I am rather proud of the Royal Navy. They've had their embarrassments, certainly. But this? I know it's only July 1940 and they get a whole lot better at ASW, but what were they thinking?
"Quick, climb that hill, we'll have a better vantage point. Soon spot the blighter?"
Ackermann summed it up rather well.
"The British Destroyers don't seem to be particularly competent, herr kaleun."
Stock SH3 with Sub Commander 3.13.