Why U657 is my U-boat of choice

[Venatore]

When my love for German U-boats began, I wanted to attach myself to one particular U-boat and I was finding this very difficult due to the amount of U numbers.

In the end I thought I'll count the amount of letters in my first, middle, and surname, and this is what I came up with;

D***** S**** V******
6 5 7

Since then I have researched U657 so much, that I now know all the real life crews names, all the crew back ground history, all the patrols of the boat, where she was built, her bases, it's emblems (x 2), colour scheme, and sadly the way she perished and where her internal tomb lays today.

U657 is my U-boat of choice and it's the only number I use in the SH3 world, whats yours and why?

[Stierlitz]

Hey Venatore,

I just used the same method like you and came to the conclusion that "my" u-boot would be...

U-659 :)

It seems that U-659 sunk after colliding with U-439...
"Sank at 0030hrs on 4 May, 1943 in the North Atlantic west of Cape Finisterre, in position 43.32N, 13.20W, after a collision with U-439. 44 dead and 3 survivors"
http://uboat.net/boats/u659.htm

How unlucky have you got to be to crash into another u-boot in the middle of the Atlantic? :rotfl:

[Torplexed]

I just go with the U-Boat that's the same as my easy-to-remember luggage locker combination number. ;)

U-123

[q65]

111 the s**thouse. It a bowling term I know and it seem apt to uboat life

[U49]

I thought it appropriate to continue the sequence of
U-47 (Scapa Flow)
U-48 (Most successful boat)

with a formerly unknown U-49: http://www.uboat.net/boats/u49.htm

History books can now be corrected :lol:

[HikeMacD]

Hey V,
If I used your method I would end up with U-666. :dead:

Back to the drawing board. :D

[GreyBeard]

Hey V,
If I used your method I would end up with U-666. :dead:

Back to the drawing board. :D

What's wrong with that? :lol:

[PavelKirilovich]

Probably superstition. If I'm within 250km of the UK I dive every day between 1200 and 1400 hours. That got started when I was bounced by half of the RAF sometime in 1943.

U-Boat numbers were random the first time for me. U-48 was an unintentional designation for my Type VIIB. I might stick with U-568, name of my highly successful Type VIIC that survived the war. Got a good reference book handy for the data on both.

[Brag]

I just accept what the game issues me. It is interesting to see how others adopt boats. :up:

[baggygreen]

I tend to go with whatever boat, at least until more recently when i tried taking U48 through the war. That stopped in the middle of the North Atlantic.....

If i was to go with ven's method, i'd end up with U475, a pissy little boat that never sank a ship - was used in a training flotilla it seems...

[Sailor Steve]

I use SH3 Commander, and when I select a flotilla and get the drop-down list of available boats, I count them and roll a die. Totally random.:sunny:

[CaptainNemo12]

U-52 for me!

A while, a friend and I were cooperating on a project which involved building a large scale model of a Type VII U-boat, when it came time to pick a number for the boat, we decided to simply combine our lucky numbers and see what comes up.

As it turns out, U-52 was indeed a Type VIIb, and I'm still very involved in the project today.

[Monty9]

U-299 for me. Got it from my birthday 29/9

[Fusek]

U-23 for me, or numbers like 303, 505 123 etc... I find it hard to get emotionally attatched to just some random number.

[Stealth Hunter]

U-93 shall always be mine.

BUT, if I were to do what you did, my U-boat ID would be U-645.:rock:

[Venatore]

If i was to go with ven's method, i'd end up with U475, a pissy little boat that never sank a ship - was used in a training flotilla it seems...

Baggygreen,

I think you would be interested to know if you use my method as you say U475 would be your wolf. I'm unsure where you got your information from but it is totally wrong. This is the true U475;

U475 Type VIIC

Commander: Oblt. Otto Stoeffler

Born: 12th March, 1910, Dusseldorf.

Decorations: Nil

U475 Type: VIIC

U475 War Patrols: x 4 = 102 days

U475 Posting/Bases:

5th Flotilla (Training Boat)
8th Flotilla (Front Boat)
4th Flotilla (front Boat)U475 Successes: x 2


1 warship sunk for a total of 720 tons (KIA)
Soviet Landing craft
(At 16.25 hours on 31 Oct, 1944, U475 fired a Gnat at an escort vessel off Osmussaari in the Baltic Sea, observed a hit after 8 minutes 13 seconds and the sinking of the ship. The vessel attacked was probably the Soviet Landing craft.
1 warship damaged for a total of 56 tons (WIA)

Soviet Patrol Craft (A/S) (MO-class)
(At 03.18 hours on 28 Jul, 1944, the Patrol Craft was badly damaged by a torpedo from U475 in the Viborg Bay).
U475 was scuttled on 3 May, 1945 at Kiel-Wik in position 54.19N, 10.10E. Wreck broken up in 1947.
There are 8 x crew members known to have survived the war (8), thats eight men Captain of U475 brought home.Baggygreen;

I hope you think that U475 is pissy no more, my beloved U657 only scored one kill for the war and no one came home.

I hope you play U475 from now on, in the Silent Hunter III world.

[Stealth Hunter]

Englebert Endrass served aboard U-93 at one point, lol.:88)

[Heffalump]

Using Venatore's logic I'm the proud captain of U-744. I then had fun reading about it at http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-257INT.htm
(http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-257INT.htm)

[Sledgehammer427]

well, if i went by birthday mine would be U-220
a type XB

or, by name, it would U-465
a type VIIC

which was sunk a little under a year after it was built....surely because it was a u-boat commanded by a captain who had no training... or very little:nope:

[baggygreen]

Now i wonder what i was looking at then... I musta clicked an extra link or something somewhere...

cheers ven! my next boat will be 475, when i finally give up on trying to see out the war!!!:lol:

[Umfuld]

U-33


Cuz I grew up watching Larry Bird throw a round ball into a metal hoop