Synthfg
04-02-09, 06:29 AM
Summer 1940, Sailing south down the east coast of the UK in U-48 (VIIB), a few miles off Lowesoft when I run Smack Bang into a Convoy coming north, Send a Contact report and go to Periscope Depth, Take out 2 V/W's and an A/B that are forming the front Escort then Take out an Empire Type Freighter and a Ore Carrier, on my forst pass through, missing out on a 2nd ore carrier because of a straight dud eel :wah:
Now have the remaining escort (a single A/B and 3 echo's closing in on me) miss the A/B with my last 2 internals and think I'm in the dreck, when a couple of Goering's boys turn up in HE-111's and whilst they concentrate on the Merchies rather than the A/B which would have been more useful, the distraction allows me to slip away inshore, tho the A/B get's one of the HE's
Once clear I surface, reload the 2 externals before charging off in a looping path around what I project the convoys path will be) only to run smack bang into that A/B comming south, thought I'd missed him with my last forward torp, but it explodes jsut behind him and obviously breaks something because he comes to a halt.
I charge off north again surface as soon as I am out of range and soon come up behind the convoy, several ships buring due to the earlier Air attack,
The echo's have dissapeared and the convoy is unescorted, My gun crew has a field day, helping itself to an empire freighter ( that fired back the b'$£%") an Large Merchant and 3 small merchies, before the ammo ran out,
Sailing through a scene of devistation, burning hulks still going down, life rafts all ofver the shop and the large merchant having settled to the bottom with its top works still showing I was wondering what to do about the last 4 merchants when another 8 or 9 He's turn up and treat me and my crew to an display of precision bombing,
With only one torpedo remaining in the aft tube, decided proceeding to my assigned patrol grid was pointless so made course for Kiel, home for tea and medals :DL
Unfortunatly forgot to get screen shots,
Now have the remaining escort (a single A/B and 3 echo's closing in on me) miss the A/B with my last 2 internals and think I'm in the dreck, when a couple of Goering's boys turn up in HE-111's and whilst they concentrate on the Merchies rather than the A/B which would have been more useful, the distraction allows me to slip away inshore, tho the A/B get's one of the HE's
Once clear I surface, reload the 2 externals before charging off in a looping path around what I project the convoys path will be) only to run smack bang into that A/B comming south, thought I'd missed him with my last forward torp, but it explodes jsut behind him and obviously breaks something because he comes to a halt.
I charge off north again surface as soon as I am out of range and soon come up behind the convoy, several ships buring due to the earlier Air attack,
The echo's have dissapeared and the convoy is unescorted, My gun crew has a field day, helping itself to an empire freighter ( that fired back the b'$£%") an Large Merchant and 3 small merchies, before the ammo ran out,
Sailing through a scene of devistation, burning hulks still going down, life rafts all ofver the shop and the large merchant having settled to the bottom with its top works still showing I was wondering what to do about the last 4 merchants when another 8 or 9 He's turn up and treat me and my crew to an display of precision bombing,
With only one torpedo remaining in the aft tube, decided proceeding to my assigned patrol grid was pointless so made course for Kiel, home for tea and medals :DL
Unfortunatly forgot to get screen shots,