Humorous SHIII picture thread

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Missing Name

Not when returning to port from the ocean...

On the one hand I was referring to the navigations lights on the ship itself, so that's my mistake. On the other hand in Gargamel's picture the ship is to the right of the red bouy, and he's aground, which means he's obviously wrong, so .

[Matador.es]

Originally Posted by Missing Name

Not when returning to port from the ocean...

There is an easy way to remember. When you sail inland, or against the current;
"A seamen leaves sea with a bleeding hart"
Since the hart is at your left... when red is left, your going inland. When green is left, your heading to sea

PS, i just came back to the SH3 part since a long time. This because i just decided i will abondon SH5 and get back to SH3 with GWX-G.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Missing Name

Originally Posted by Matador.es

There is an easy way to remember. When you sail inland, or against the current;
"A seamen leaves sea with a bleeding hart"
Since the hart is at your left... when red is left, your going inland. When green is left, your heading to sea

Does that mean the picture is wrong? The vessel is heading inland but has the green buoy on the left/port/red side.

[Missing Name]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Does that mean the picture is wrong? The vessel is heading inland but has the green buoy on the left/port/red side.

The picture is American navigation procedure. The buoys are placed so that ships leaving the harbor have correctly aligned lights.

So in other words, yes, it's wrong.

[Apehanger]

I've been reading Hitler's U-Boat war, by Clay Blair.

Today I read about U-570;

It was rushed through Agru Font in Norway where the boat bottomed and incurred some damage....
“After a rousing farewell party in Trondheim, where much beer and wine had been consumed, U-570 sailed at 0800 hours on August 24. She was not shipshape: The diesels were not properly tuned, the air compressor was on the blink, some batteries were not properly strapped down, the four spare torpedoes in the bow compartment were not securely stowed, one bow torpedo tube leaked. The hydrophones, knocked out when the boat bottomed, had not been repaired because no one in Norway knew how.
When the boat reached open sea, a large proportion of the crew became desperately seasick. The retching and revolting odours inside the confined pressure hull touched off an epidemic of seasickness..... Some of the improperly stowed torpedoes worked loose and rammed against the torpedo-tube inner doors”
The chaotic patrol was ended 3 days later when they surrendered unnecessarily to a Coastal Command Hudson, who was only armed with machine guns!

The reason this story appealed to me?
The First Watch Officer's name was ..... Bernhard Berndt, crew of 1935.

[Sailor Steve]

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-570.htm

[Matador.es]

Originally Posted by WikipediaO, U-570 spent much of the morning submerged. She had been four days at sea and this was to give respite to a crew that was suffering acutely from seasickness (several had been incapacitated). She surfaced at position 62°15′N 18°35′W at around 10:50 am, and was immediately detected by the radar of a nearby RAF Lockheed Hudson bomber of 269 Squadron operating from Kaldaðarnes, Iceland.[6

Rahmlow, who had climbed out onto the bridge, heard the approaching Hudson's engines and ordered a crash-dive. But the aircraft reached the submarine before she fully submerged and dropped four 250-pound (110 kg) depth charges—one detonated just 10 yards (10 m) from the boat.[7]
The U-boat quickly resurfaced and around ten of the crew emerged. The Hudson opened fire on them with machine guns, but ceased when the U-boat crew displayed a white sheet. An account of what happened was subsequently given to British naval intelligence interrogators by the captured crew members—the depth charge explosions had almost rolled the boat over, knocked out all electrical power, smashed instruments, caused water leaks and contaminated the air on the boat. The inexperienced crew believed the contamination to be chlorine, caused by acid from leaking battery cells mixing with sea-water, and the engine-compartment crew panicked and fled forward to escape the gas. Restoring electrical power—for the underwater electric motors and for lighting—would have been straightforward, yet there was nobody remaining in the engine compartment to do this.[8] The submarine was dead in the water and in darkness. Rahmlow believed the chlorine would make it fatal to stay submerged so he resurfaced. The sea was too rough for the crew to man their anti-aircraft gun so they displayed a white flag to forestall another, probably fatal, depth charge attack from the Hudson—they were unaware the aircraft had dropped all its depth-charges.
Most of the crew remained on the deck of the submarine as the Hudson circled above them. A radio request for help saw it being joined by another Hudson and a PBY Catalina flying boat of 209 Squadron, with a full load of depth-charges.[8] The German crew radioed their situation to the German naval high-command, destroyed their radio, smashed their Enigma machine and dumped its parts overboard along with the boat's secret papers

Lol, surrendered to an Airplain, with no ammo at all

Never heard this story.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Matador.es

Lol, surrendered to an Airplain, with no ammo at all

Never heard this story.

You should watch the movie of the same title 'U-570'...your missing a treat

[4saken]

The first half sunk 30 minutes ago.

http://yfrog.com/f/dyhalfcargoj/

[Jimbuna]

Good assessment.

[Missing Name]

What the heck? I pull into port, exhausted after patrolling and I don't get a welcome home party? What is this? I should -



OH.

[Apehanger]

NO, NO, NO!
That definitely ISN'T Lerwick. There are no buildings, or cranes, that big up here.
Although the weather is about right

[VONHARRIS]

Kaluen Missing Name
What did you bring us from your last trip?

I think you went shopping!

BdU.

[Missing Name]

BdU:

I brought back some British tank shells from the depot ship. We can't use them, but hey! They'll make nice paperweights.

Can you make my next patrol grid Dover?

Missing Name, U-127

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Missing Name

and I don't get a welcome home party?

Hang on, they're comin'...