RE: [OT]The Mad Mountie

On Friday, March 29, 2002 9:12 PM, Alan and Carmel Brain
[SMTP:aebrain@webone.com.au] wrote:
> He eluded the SSN, penetrated the outer screen, dodged the sonobuoy
> fields, and then snuck up very close, VERY close at periscope
> depth to the closest escort to the carrier...
> 
> He then did the following:
> 
> CRASH SURFACE, fired Very pistols at the destroyer just 40 yards
> away, steered directly at the carrier, commanded "STAND BY TO RAM" (
not
> "collision alarm", he actually said "STAND BY TO RAM"), fired more
Very 
> pistol shots that actually landed on the flight deck of the CV, CRASH 
> DIVE, going beneath the Carrier by maybe a metre, but probably less...

I had heard this story before but only heard that they took photographs
of
the stern before sneaking out of the formation again.  I've heard
comment
that the old Oberon class submarines are a lot sneakier than the class
which
just replaced them.

Brendan
'Neath Southernskies