The Only Underwater Submarine Сombat in History
Submerged submarines have sunk many of their kind on the surface; but, in history, there has only been a single instance of one submarine sinking another when both boats were dived - and that was towards the end of World War .
The victim was U-864 and the attacker, HMS VENTURER. Neither boat had sophisticated sensors by today’s standards, except for excellent periscopes. VENTURER’S instruments were, as usual, made by Barr and Stroud with brass tubes which vibrated abominably at speed. But, to avoid a tell-tale feather, no British commanding officer worth his salt would use the stick at more than three or four knots unless the sea was rough - and then only sparingly. On 9 February 1945 at midday, when the attack took place, the wind was Force Two from the southwest, Sea State 3, visibility 7 with broken clouds. Thus, the captain of VENTURER, Lieutenant James (Jimmy) S. Launders, used his periscope with due caution; but not so Korvettenkapitan Rolf Reimar Wolfram of U -864, who evidently had scant regard for proper periscope drill.
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