Talk:P.A.N.Z.E.R./@comment-10905876-20150811171733/@comment-10905876-20150814233404

-Hotel in Hamburg-

The OSA operatives are in their hotel room discussing their next move. They have found the battleship Nassau, but they don't have enough explosives to sink her.

Carter: "We could torch the powder in the magazines. That would certainly be devastating."

Dawson: "And suicide, we can't toss a match in there and hope to get out Scott free! Even with a remote detonator, we'd have to be on the ship. Have you seen the casualty rates for ships that blow up?"

Clary: "What about scuttling charges?"

Caine: "No, those are only enough to start flooding, all the watertight doors have to be open for it to work. We could flood some of the ship, but it won't sink it."

Carter: "If only there was a way to get it stuck, so that the flooding would be enough...."

Dawson: "The steering gear! The ship will have to navigate several islands after exiting the river, if we jam the rudders we could crash in to them. Once the ship is aground, we can blow the scuttling charges, and leave the ship hard aground for months!"

Carter: "That will work! And we could steal a boat in the confusion to meet the Dallas. The explosives we have should be enough to gum up the works."

The men make final preparations, and then sleep an uneasy sleep until morning. Then, with new papers to get them in, they head off once again for the shipyards....