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Submarines could be a hard target to confirm sinking. They could try to trick the navy into thinking it had sunk it by releasing debris and oil from its torpedo tubes. Mr Carroll describes a night that the ship he was on with the HMCS Sackville, a corvette, were credited with a "maybe" in the sinking of an enemy sub.
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The old Sackville . . . she's tied up down at the museum, there. She was a corvette and I, we were with her the night she sunk the sub. And that was quite a get together. There was a huge fleet of submarines. I guess they call . . . I forget what they call them now. Some kind of a pack, wolf- pack. They attacked the submarine, they attacked the merchant ships and the . . . I don't know how, but she sunk one, anyway. It was sinking the ships that was on it's way back. We went over mid-ocean to, to meet the convoy, and we got a . . . It was ( inaudible ) run by the British, the Witch. Between the Witch and the Hamilton, they got a navy. We could see the sub on the surface, way behind the convoy and we went after it and got contact with the ra . . ., the astics. And we all dropped charges on it and got oil up. We'll say . . . shoot things out through the torpedo tubes, so it's to think you sunk them, oil and old bits of clothing and stuff like that. And that you think you'd sunk them, so we only got a "maybe".