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Originally Posted by brando
Kind of obvious really - he orders the depth charges deployed. The logic is brutal and the decision painful, but he commands a warship, not a lifeboat.
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Load of bullocks... Thats the Senior Service... The Royal Navy, not some pond rowing club, thats never the captain of a RN destroyer... You lot have no idea. He wouldn't have done it. A u Boat submerged could only do about 6 Knots MAX and making a right old racket too! That destroyer could do about 30! Weaving too! No chance of being attacked by torp, not at full battle stations like that. Its a pure theatrical performance. Pick up the servivors quick sharp and charge about pinging, thats what it would have done.
Once the sub is under water its fairly useless... especially when being persued or searched for by a destroyer...
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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger
I would think the biggest threat would be the other pack members that they don't know about.
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If they were there but yea, U boat captains were after tonage not destroyers a 4k GRT. Why not have a merchant at 7,8 or 10k GRT? After all that is actually what they were there for. Now a task force with a Battle ship, or aircraft carrier, now there is a real target! 20 - 40K GRT!
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Originally Posted by jayrc
As soon as he starts picking up the men in the water the uboat would blow ballast and use dive planes to get out and away, perfect setup for a stern torpedo shot, he made the right decision
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As for it turning around... pffff what you think it is a motorbike? do you know how long it would take a submerged uboat to turn 180 and be out of range of the arming distance? NO... Blow balasts? Are you off you head? A destroyer armament Vs a freshly submeged U Boat at 100 -200 yards in broad daylight? Torp arming is around 350 yards... Not to mention the depth issues with torpeades dotanators and deapth keeping problems. The U boat would not even be able to open the tubes much below periscope depth...
Sorry guys but its Pinewood Studios drama - nothing more... More likly Merchant crews and RN gunners assigned to merchant ships were left to die in the drink from sunk merchants, especially at night...