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[FDNYFAN]

Mine was an Armed Trawler.
I fired a torpedo under his keel and he jumped up before going down.

[deKoven]

Originally posted by legodragonxp:
1939 Neutral Coastal Merchant off the coast of Norway. Single torp. What do you mean 'neutral ship destroyed?' Doh!

Yep, been there, done that. That describes MY first patrol exactly. Didn't even know there were neutrals in the game. I don't know what my second was but the first was even before hostilities had been declared. I think I killed the patrol before I even finished it. Ah, me; learning experiences.

<--My buddy, after watching this whole debacle.

[Jack_Stern]

Mine was sooooo long ago (Mar 16th 05) I can't even remember.....

[koskit]

small merchant

[sebastian_732]

my first kill was a merchant ship it went up like a christmas tree.from sebastian_732

[Clarkey80]

Yeah mine was bit of a mistake as well jumped right into the game without doing tutorials or reading the manual, failed to identify target...the result was a nice two torp strike on a german destroyer...donitz was pissed

[captsteubie]

My first victim was a coastal merchant. Gotta love that 88! Muhahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

[danwilkie]

A Destroyer, I think it was a Tribal. I sailed U-45 (my Type VIIB) up the English channel to get to my patrol zone just of the West coast of Eire. The weather was clear and it was a moonless night. I ordered her up from 20m to periscope depth and scanned around, only to spot the destroyer just outside 1000m (I was being a n00b and had nobody on sonar... *sigh*

He was steaming at 7 knots pretty much 90 degrees off my bow, so I came up with a quick solution, set the torps on fast, and closed the range down to 900m. I opened the bow doors and let him have it with a full spread, in eager anticipation of the imminent fireworks display.

Alas it was not to be. I didn't know about the differnet fuses/depth settings, so it was set to magnetic. Out of the 4 torps, one went wide, one went deep, and 2 thumped into the side of the ship and failed to explode.

Suddenly I felt trapped as he started pinging frantically and coming hard to port so I crash dived, right into the sea floor. I pulled myself back up to periscope depth and came to ahead flank, foolisly trying to outrun the DD. In a fit of panic, raised the scope and looked behind to see him barreling down on me from directly astern and closing the distance fast.

I fired tube 5 and he must have crossed a wave or something, because the fish went directly under him and exploded close against the hull. I am presuming it exploded under the magazine or something because there was a huge explosion and the ship broke in two. I proceeded at flank speed out of the channel and escaped to Wilhelmshaven for repairs.

Since then, I've (a) - read the manual and (b) - take the long way round to get into the atlantic

[twistedpretzel]

Myself



La Spezia, before 1.3 so i couldnt see my dock on map, figured it would be a straight shot out..... 17 knts into the concrete at a right angle..... SMUSH.