charlie

New Member Here --First Post --Happy New Year
Looking for this movie for many years. Help S.O.S.

It is about a British destroyer during WW2 that gets torpedoed by a german U-Boat. The Destroyer is sunk and the German sub surfaces and shoots some of the sailors in the water.The captain notes the number of the sub and after he and some of the crew return to England,the captain is given a new destroyer and when he puts to sea again he is determined to find that sub and send it to the bottom. In ensuing action he is wounded and while lying in his bunk he hears the pinging of the sonar when they find a sub.
They home in on the sub and drop depth charges,fire Y-guns. The sub has to surface and the captain sees that number again. The sub that sunk his ship. They eventually ram the sub and send it to the bottom.

Details might be a little thin,but that is basically the story line.
I keep placing Jack Hawkins or Trevor Howard as the Captain.
My wife of 51 years remembers it as well.

Thanks for your help,
Charlie

Sea Stories Are My Cup Of Tea

DB7

Maybe The Cruel Sea?

Hugo

You could try THE SUBMARINE FILM WEBSITE which lists every submarine film from 1939 to the present on www.wepwawet.nl/submarine/

MikeA

I'm not sure what the film is, although it does sound familiar. However, I can confirm that it isn't The Cruel Sea.

.....mine has gin in it.....

Angry Hector

Sounds somewhat like that Peter O'Toole flick from the early 1970s, "Murphy's War"?

penfold

If you swap the destroyer idea for a merchant ship, you have the exactly the plot for Action in the North Atlantic, a 1943 Warner Bros. film starring Humphrey Bogart....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??