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Kaptain Hans Wolf
02-09-08, 10:20 PM
Hi again folks. well instead of posting thread after thread of my patrols, im just going to run this one untill the end of the war, or if the destroyers end it for me.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

anyway, i will post all of my reports here, and try to get some screenshots up as well.

Patrol 7.
we left port and headed for our patrol square on the coast of norway. we patroled there, and never picked up a single contact. we headed for our favorite hunting zone, along the west coast of britan. our first contact was a small coastal merchant, which took only a single torpedo to sink.

our second contact was another coastal merchant, we fired 1 torpedo, which missed, then sunk her with a second torpedo.

our largest ship was the c3 cargo, which we sunk with a shot from our aft tube, and 2 from our bow tubes.

our next ship sunk was a small merchant vessel, bad weather made getting tdc information a nightmare. it took 3 torpedos to sink her, with the first two missing.

with 3 torpedo's left in the bow tubes, and two in the aft of the sub, we continued our course along the western coast of britan.

we encountered a large convoy, at least 4 collums wide, but the weather was still playing up. we launched two torpedos at a tanker, 1 at a c2 cargo, and a torpedo from our stern tube at a coastal merchant. the damm destroyers must have picked us up, because the whole convoy started to take evasive mavouvers, with all of my torpedos missing, exept for one which struck a t2 tanker, but did not sink her. we dived deep, to about 150 metres and loaded our rear tube with our last torpedo. the destroyers still hadent caught on to us, so we came back up to periscope depth to try and knock out the tanker that we had already struck.

as soon as we came to a depth of 10 metres, the destroyers came charging for us, there where at least 3 of them. we launched our rear torpedo at one of the destroyers, but he must have seen the trail of bubbles as they knuckled left and the torpedo missed.

we then dived again, and played cat and mouse with the destroyers. they stuck to us like glue, with two of them depth charging us while the other listened to our movements. we took hull damage and started to sink. luckily we were in shallow water, as we came to rest at the bottom of the ocean at around 170 metres. the pressure was gut wrenching, but we managed to hold. we were flodding fast, but we managed to patch her up, with the destroyers still pinging us and dropping depth charges very close to our position. the destroyers must have thought we were dead, as they returned to escort the convoy.


we sat on the bottom and repaired our eletric engines. with our oxygen levels fading, we had to surface. we blew our ballast, and started our engines. we slowly but surely made it to the surface. with no torpedo's left, we limped back to port.

we arrived home with 13, 564 tons to our name. the allies seemed to be getting a little smarter, we have to start being more carefull on the open sea's.

keep an eye out for my report for patrol 8, which will be posted in this thread.

fare well!:arrgh!:

Kaptain Hans Wolf
02-10-08, 06:39 AM
have completed 3 patrols since my last post, so reports for number 8 and 9 will be brief, just copied and pasted results from my silent hunter 3 commander add-on.

23 Jul 1940 Patrol 8
U-45, 1st Flotilla
Left at: July 23, 1940, 11:18
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN73
26 Jul 1940Ship sunk! C3 Cargo, 7020 tons
27 Jul 19407Ship sunk! Coastal Merchant, 2008 tons
28 Jul 1940Ship sunk! C3 Cargo, 7021 tons
29 Jul 1940Ship sunk! Coastal Merchant, 2056 tons2
Ship sunk! Coastal Merchant, 2057 tons
30 Jul 1940Ship sunk! C2 Cargo, 3856 tons
Ship sunk! C3 Cargo, 7022 tons
01 Aug 19400917Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 7
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 31040 tons

Kaptain Hans Wolf
02-10-08, 06:43 AM
29 Aug 1940 Patrol 9
U-45, 1st Flotilla
Left at: August 29, 1940, 13:37
From: Wilhelmshaven
04 Sep 19400941BF 31Ship sunk! C2 Cargo, 3856 tons
05 Sep 19400923Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 1
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 3856 tons

Abd_von_Mumit
02-10-08, 06:45 AM
You do several patrols a day?! :doh: That's what Unser Fuehrer calls Blietzkrieg, I think. ;)

Kaptain Hans Wolf
02-10-08, 06:58 AM
Kaptain hans wolf..U-45..2nd flotilla..

our tenth patrol, the first with our new flotilla, still sailing the mighty U-45.

we left Brest and headed for patrol grid AM23. on the way we encountered an electrik torpedo boat, which we sunk easily. next, we happened apon a large convoy, with three destroyers and an armed trawler as escort. we attacked at night, submerged. on our first attack run, we sunk a C3cargo and a C2 cargo. we then left to reload, and came back the next night to attack the same convoy, sinking a T2 tanker and a C3 cargo. we again left, after evading the destroyers for around half an hour.

we re-loaded, and came back to inflict more damage, which turned out to be a bad idea. when we finally got into a good position for an attack, it was early morning, and the destroyers still seemed to be on edge. however i craved for a couple more white pennants, so i pressed the attack. we launched our remaining two torpedo's at a T2 tanker, but both shots missed. the destroyers were on to us.

soon, the sky was swarming with planes, dropping plenty of depth charges, and the destroyers were hot on my tail. we evaded them, after nearly an hour of cat and mouse. our hydrophone was out of action, so were both of our periscopes, so we were blind. we surfaced, and to our horror an armed trawler was sitting behind us.

he started shooting, we launched our rear torpedo but i missed by far. instead of diving, we duked it out with him on the surface in a deck gun duel. eventually, we came out the victor.

we were out of eel's, so we flagged heading for our patrol zone, and went back to home port. the crew sang its a long way to tipperary, and for the old gal, the U-45, it must have been a long way. she was starting to show her age, and it wouldent be soon untill we were put to sea in an IXC. but fore now, the U-45 lives on, but with the allies getting smarter, im not sure how long!

Kaptain Hans Wolf
02-10-08, 07:02 AM
well today, we had a very short transit to our new base at brest, after destroyers tore us up. i normally only play on weekends, and i can usually pull out two patrols a day, but sometimes i like to be a bit lighter on the time compression and apreciate a good book.

untill next time herr kaulen!