Your ship is on convoy escort duty in mid-Atlantic. There is heavy fog and visibility is severely limited. In the early afternoon a lookout on another escort vessel spots a submarine conning tower in the distance. Two ships investigate, launching over thirty depth charges, but without any apparent result. Around 6:00 pm, in poor light, one of your radar operators reports a contact. Your lookout then reports a possible surfaced u-boat - at a range of 2000 metres, to the starboard side. The object then disappeared into the fog and radar contact was lost. Your captain tries to plot the likely speed and course of the unidentified ship, in case it is a U-Boat. He reduces the ship's speed to make sure your ship does not over run the target. Suddenly, the ship leaves the fog bank and there is the U-Boat - barely 400 metres away on the starboard side! There is no action on the submarine's deck, but the U-Boats bridge crew has clearly just spotted your ship. It's a mutual surprise! Your ship goes to action stations. The U-Boat's gun crew is coming onto the deck to open fire with their cannon.



What should your captain do?

A. Open fire at close range with the ship's main cannons. Their shells are powerful enough to blow holes in the side of the sub, and eventually to sink it.

B. Increase speed to pull away from the sub and then use your side-mounted "k-guns" to launch depth charges at the sub. A near miss or hit could break the sub in two

C. Fire your torpedoes at the sub

D. Use your light 20 and 40 mm guns to riddle the sub's deck and kill the gun crew. The sub's cannon could do serious damage to your ship.