strait out of das boot...

[Kaleun Volk]

I left Kiel on Nov. 17th. sunk 14k of light shipping on the way with 3 eels and some 5' :up: on the way to my grid.

then, something happened that i never thought i'd make it out of. I went after a task force operating in my grid. I figured 'what the heck, it's 1939 lets go for it!'.
Bad decison.

After a sucessfull backbreak on a DD, the others immediatly surrounded me.:o depth charges left and right, and no external view to cheat out of the way. took 2 at medium range and started to take on water. deeper, deeper, uncontrolable dive. i levled out just as i skimmed the bottem. at ahead slow, the impact stoped me right on the floor.:-?

after about 3 hours of repair, we managed to blow to the surface, and lipm the long way (aroung GB) home. only lost 1 seaman. one patrol this kaleun will never forget.

any one with a similar experience?


NOTE: only running vanella SHIII
:rock:

[ddiplock]

Yes i've had a patrol like that.

Severly damaged boat. Attack & Obs scopes both destroyed, radio destroyed, hydrophone destryoed, stbd diesel destroyed, stbd electric destroyed....90mtrs getting depth charged. 3 seamen dead on the return jouirney.

I didn't sink a single ship....but BDU did award me the Knights Cross for my efforts in saving my boat and crew and getting them home safely :)

[Kataki]

Wow, very intense :) pretty amazing you only lost one man.

How deep did you go?

[Kaleun Volk]

Well, i hit the bottom at about 155, but everthing was so heavily dammaged that i couldent use the nav officer to get exact depth.

on a ligher note we made it home unscathed after that incedent, with 20% hull integ. :arrgh!:

[Spytrx]

Just finished a patrol in the Meds - totally uneventful, three weeks of trying to catch the contacts... on the way home we got spotted by a lone search plane which promptly changed course to attack. Thought I give my crew something to do and engaged, killed the bastard, too... shame that he slammed right into the boot :damn:

destroyed the tower completely and lost me two sailer, two NCO's and one officer on his last (15th) patrol... :stare: limped back into port on 33% Hull integrety... :nope:

Lesson learnt? -- Nah... :D

[TarJak]

Good to hear Spytrx. The Med is great fun, shallow water lots of DD's and aircraft. not to mention the lovely sunny weather, hanging around the Greek Isles. Bliss!:D

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Only time like that I ever had was in the area where all the convoys going to and from Liverpool are. I tryed to get to the Atlantic but I just hid on the bottom and it gave up after 4 HOURS of depth charges!!! Not cool man!!!!!:nope: