Spray
03-17-07, 11:36 AM
Another 100K run which included the Prince Of Wales has been completed. Thos event has happened just after the schnarnhorst and will hopefully demoralize the enemy. Bottoms up to the crew of U-105 and to all the other sub skippers drinks are on me.
Ship sunk! HMS Mignonette (Flower Class) , 950 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Fort Cornwallis (Medium Tanker), 9845 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Kanbe (Medium Merchant), 5276 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Sea Mink (Large Cargo), 7735 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Sheldon Clark (Large Tanker), 8075 tons
Ship sunk! USS Marcus Island (Casablanca Class), 10400 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Petroheat (Large Tanker), 8187 tons
Ship sunk! S.S. Olmsted Victory (Victory Cargo), 7711 tons
Ship sunk! S.S. Guatemala Victory (Victory Cargo), 7714 tons
Ship sunk! S.S. R. J. Reynolds (Liberty Cargo), 7334 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Suamico (Large Tanker), 8228 tons
Ship sunk! HMS Prince of Wales (HMS Prince of Wales) , 35900 tons
All this after a months patrol the ending was pretty funny though and I got out of it all with 100% H.I this is the 3rd 100K patrol completed in U-105 so it must be a good luck charm. Anyway I was operating off West Africa pretty boring until I ran across an American Flower Corvette escorting a Medium Merchant and a Medium Tanker. 1 Torp settled the Flower Corvette then I used the deck gun on the unarmed ships (Late '43 WTF?). The next few kills were off 3 convoys where I developed a new tactic I would stop under water and position myself in the direction of the convoy then when they would be above me (im at 100m) id slowly rise with silent running. I'd be up at periscope depth at the back of the convoy with 1 or 2 ships behind me. 2 Back torps to ships behind me and 2 torps a peice to any ships infront then I kept silent turned 90 degrees and went under to 200m wasn't detected. So im out at Gibraltar 4 torpedoes left and about 70-80K tonnes and I say to myself god wheres those BB's when you need them. Right on Que a TF was trying to enter Gib from the south 2 Ansons and the Prince of wales with scattered DD's. I fired my last four torps going alongside the convoy (torps left tube and turned 90 degrees) then I turned another 90 to get away and started diving slowly. The Prince of Wales was mortally wounded after 4 torps hit along from front to back (including 1 prop torp hit) which tipped him left. His right props were still functional but soon ceased to work. The familiar sound of a DD passing overhead was heard and the Hydrophones man announced depth charges in the water. Keeping my sub at 10 degree turn for an evasive manuver I sped up to flank dropped decoys and set depth for 220m I lost the DD at 160m after bringing her back to silent running speed and changing course. DD didn't find me anymore depth charging the total crap outta what he thought was my sub while I got away. Difficulty at 74% (outside views and assisted aiming) also for those who saw my 1 million tonnage thread ive managed to get to 1.5 million tonnes and its late November 1943 I think I can make it to 2 million.
I was really lucky on this patrol that I didn't lose my men. Well just last patrol I got my first casualties 4 seaman and one petty officer all 5 serving at least 30 patrols. 3 seaman injured in the attack the sub pushed down to 270m and I thought this is it DiD is about to claim another victim and thought to myself well this is *******ing crap time to start over. Luckily my repair crew managed to stop the flooding and with a lot of blowing ballast I managed to maintain 270m at which I was slowly getting crushed and compressed air was running thin. Managed to get the props working again blew all remaining balast to periscope depth and blew some unlucky bastard all the way to the moon.
Come on guys share us your near death stories while sucking on those bottles of rum.
Ship sunk! HMS Mignonette (Flower Class) , 950 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Fort Cornwallis (Medium Tanker), 9845 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Kanbe (Medium Merchant), 5276 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Sea Mink (Large Cargo), 7735 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Sheldon Clark (Large Tanker), 8075 tons
Ship sunk! USS Marcus Island (Casablanca Class), 10400 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Petroheat (Large Tanker), 8187 tons
Ship sunk! S.S. Olmsted Victory (Victory Cargo), 7711 tons
Ship sunk! S.S. Guatemala Victory (Victory Cargo), 7714 tons
Ship sunk! S.S. R. J. Reynolds (Liberty Cargo), 7334 tons
Ship sunk! M/V Suamico (Large Tanker), 8228 tons
Ship sunk! HMS Prince of Wales (HMS Prince of Wales) , 35900 tons
All this after a months patrol the ending was pretty funny though and I got out of it all with 100% H.I this is the 3rd 100K patrol completed in U-105 so it must be a good luck charm. Anyway I was operating off West Africa pretty boring until I ran across an American Flower Corvette escorting a Medium Merchant and a Medium Tanker. 1 Torp settled the Flower Corvette then I used the deck gun on the unarmed ships (Late '43 WTF?). The next few kills were off 3 convoys where I developed a new tactic I would stop under water and position myself in the direction of the convoy then when they would be above me (im at 100m) id slowly rise with silent running. I'd be up at periscope depth at the back of the convoy with 1 or 2 ships behind me. 2 Back torps to ships behind me and 2 torps a peice to any ships infront then I kept silent turned 90 degrees and went under to 200m wasn't detected. So im out at Gibraltar 4 torpedoes left and about 70-80K tonnes and I say to myself god wheres those BB's when you need them. Right on Que a TF was trying to enter Gib from the south 2 Ansons and the Prince of wales with scattered DD's. I fired my last four torps going alongside the convoy (torps left tube and turned 90 degrees) then I turned another 90 to get away and started diving slowly. The Prince of Wales was mortally wounded after 4 torps hit along from front to back (including 1 prop torp hit) which tipped him left. His right props were still functional but soon ceased to work. The familiar sound of a DD passing overhead was heard and the Hydrophones man announced depth charges in the water. Keeping my sub at 10 degree turn for an evasive manuver I sped up to flank dropped decoys and set depth for 220m I lost the DD at 160m after bringing her back to silent running speed and changing course. DD didn't find me anymore depth charging the total crap outta what he thought was my sub while I got away. Difficulty at 74% (outside views and assisted aiming) also for those who saw my 1 million tonnage thread ive managed to get to 1.5 million tonnes and its late November 1943 I think I can make it to 2 million.
I was really lucky on this patrol that I didn't lose my men. Well just last patrol I got my first casualties 4 seaman and one petty officer all 5 serving at least 30 patrols. 3 seaman injured in the attack the sub pushed down to 270m and I thought this is it DiD is about to claim another victim and thought to myself well this is *******ing crap time to start over. Luckily my repair crew managed to stop the flooding and with a lot of blowing ballast I managed to maintain 270m at which I was slowly getting crushed and compressed air was running thin. Managed to get the props working again blew all remaining balast to periscope depth and blew some unlucky bastard all the way to the moon.
Come on guys share us your near death stories while sucking on those bottles of rum.