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[ijnfleetadmiral]

27 May 194o:
Goeben departed Wilhelmshaven on another raiding mission. Weather was excellent throughout patrol.

Results:
Returned to port on 29 May 1940, having sunk 11 warships for 13,606 tons in an attack on Dunkirk. Also shot down a single Hurricane...my boys' first fighter kill! The only reason we returned to port was to replenish our ammunition; the ammo for the port secondary guns had been completely expended.

1 Hawker Hurricane Fighter

1 Tribal-class DD
1 Bourrasque-class DD (our first French DD!)
2 C/D-class DDs
6 V/W-class DDs
1 Armed Trawler

[diluvian]

After a long break got back to playing SH3, was busy with SH5 but can't seem to really get into it even with mods added.

The only thing i want from sh5 is translucent water , but i dont think its possible in sh3:wah:

[Sailor Steve]

The only thing i want from sh5 is translucent water , but i dont think its possible in sh3:wah:
Which is why SH4 is better. It's basically SH3 with transparent water. :sunny:

[Kongo Otto]

http://www.abload.de/img/rr1ybale.jpg

[k2r]

Second patrol of Fritz Lemp and the U-110 (grid AM78) :

5 December 1940
20:18 / TO BDU / SITREP / OPENING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL / LEAVING LORIENT AND FOLLOWING ESCORT / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / RADIO SILENCE UNTIL PZ UNLESS SITUATION DEMANDS IT / U110

7 December 1940
23:47 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS MIRONYCH IN BF41 X 1869 GRT / FIRED ONE TORPEDO / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / U110

9 December 1940
12:51 / TO BDU / SITREP / PATROL ZONE REACHED / GOOD WEATHER CONDITIONS / U110

11 December 1940
10:12 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / GOOD WEATHER / U110

13 December 1940
01:15 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / GOOD WEATHER / REQUESTING NEW ORDERD / U110

14 December 1940
12:23 / TO BDU / GRID AM19 REACHED / BAD WEATHER / U110

16 December 1940
06:06 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN AM19 / BAD WEATHER/ HEADING N TO INTERCEPT CONVOY / U110

17 December 1940
16:47 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED LARGE CONVOY IN AM29 X SANK BRITISH WARSHIP HMS BUTTERCUP X 950 GRT / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES / EVADING WITHOUT DAMAGES U110

18 December 1940
15:46 / TO BDU / SITREP / BRITISH PLANE SPOTTED IN AM53 / CRASH DIVE / FOLLOWING CONVOY / U110

19 December 1940
08:20 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED LARGE CONVYO IN AM35 X SANK BRITISH CARGO SS TALTHYBIUS X 8084 GRT X BRITISH WARSHIP HMS KELT X 1100 GRT / FIRED FOUR TORPEDOES / DEPHTCHARGED DURING 1H X BATTERY AND HULL DAMAGED / U110
09:58 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH MERCHANT SS BORGFRED IN AM35 X 2229 GRT / ENGAGED WITH DECKGUN / BATTERY REPAIRED / U110
12:25 / TO BDU / CONTACT / BRITISH WARSHIP IN AM35 / CRASH DIVE / U110

20 December 1940
01:01 / TO BDU / CONTACT / HOSPITAL SHIP SPOTTED IN AM52 X HEADING W / U110

22 December 1940
15:37 / TO BDU / SITREP/ GRID BE63 REACHED / GOOD WEATHER / U110

23 December 1940
08:47 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS RATTLER IN BE63 X 5081 GRT / FIRED TWO TORPEDOES X COUP DE GRACE WITH DECKGUN / U110

25 December 1940
04:53 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN BE63 / GOOD WEATHER / MERRY XMAS / U110

27 December 1940
15:44 / TO BDU / SITREP / TROUBLES WITH BATTERY X UNABLE TO RUN SUBMERGED / REQUEST PERMISSION TO RETURN TO BASE / U110
16:01 / TO BDU / SITREP / RETURNING TO BASE AS FAST AS WE CAN X ESTIMED TIME 34H / U110

28 December 1940
15:51 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENTERING LORIENT X REQUESTING ESCORT IN / U110


Patrol GRT : 19319
Patrol days at sea : 23


Career GRT : 29855
Total days at sea : 69

[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 4th patrol - Dec. 1939 061902 - approaching the Orkney/Shetland gap homebound

Another disappointing patrol with much small frey. Finally bumped into a large convoy in the North-West Approaches but the largest ship was a medium cargo. Wasted two torps on it, the third did it. In the meantime the 2 Black Swan escorts made themselves felt. Both were sunk with fast G7's on magnetic fuze. Very short distance. The magnetic fuzes have a nasty habit of going off on long distances. Particularly in heavy seas.

The weather has been quite bad the last few days. Too bad since I planned to use up some deck gun ammo in the gap. We shall see how it turns out. I am not gong to sit here for very long to wait for better weather. Only have two aft torps left. Need to keep them for self-defense.

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 4th patrol - Dec. 1939 121600 - in Wilhelmshafen

Back in Wilhelmshafen after an exhausting and hectic patrol. Only the day after the first report here the weather turned to calm seas with sunny sky and we got the opportunity to use the deck gun plenty. After some sinkings in the Orkney gap we proceeded south along the British East Coast. Experienced for the first time some enemy air patrols - none came near us. Used one of the last torps to bag a Large Merchant after having gunned it first.

In the Thames Estuary we had the boat's first real unfortunate incident. Another Large Merchant approached us on an eastbound course out of London. I decided to use the last torpedo on it. Let it come quite close and sent a magnetic-fuzed torpedo under it on very short range. It worked excellently but the ship proceeded towards North-East with little loss of speed. We followed it for a while. A couple of MTB's turned up and hung around. As it seemed they were gone we surfaced and gave the victim the last gun shell and started to perforate its bows with the 20 mm FLAK gun. Suddenly one of the MTB's turned up and before we could dive it had killed one of the observer crews in the tower. The Merchant pressed on. After that I decided to pull out and proceed home, so we never saw the Large Merchant sink.
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[VONHARRIS]

Patrol 18

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I didn't enter in the patrol log all these dives after Metox warnings because it would take for ages to do so.

[k2r]

Third patrol of Fritz Lemp and the U-110 :

2 February 1941
21:12 / TO BDU / SITREP / OPENING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL / LEAVING LORIENT AND FOLLOWING ESCORT / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / RADIO SILENCE UNTIL PZ UNLESS SITUATION DEMANDS IT / U110

5 February 1941
13:13 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS GOLDEN FLEECE IN BF71 X 5081 GRT / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES 7 HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / U110

16 February 1941
05:30 / TO BDU / SITREP / PATROL ZONE REACHED / BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS / U110

18 February 1941
07:02 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / BAD WEATHER / U110

20 February 1941
00:34 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / BAD WEATHER / REQUEST NEW ORDERS / U110

21 February 1941
10:46 / TO BDU / CONTACT / BRITISH WARSHIP SPOTTED IN EK46 / CRASH DIVE / U110

26 February 1941
05:11 / TO BDU / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS MONA IN DH98 X 1869 GRT / FIRED ONE TORPEDO X COUP DE GRACE WITH DECKGUN / U110

5 March 1941
06:13 / TO BDU / SITREP / GRID BF41 REACHED / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X HEAVY RAIN / U110

8 March 1941
10:05 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN BF41 / GOOD WEATHER / 40% FUEL / U110

14 Marxh 1941
00:29 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC OR CONVOY SINCE LAST REPORT / BAD WEATHER / RETURNING TO BASE X ESTIMATED TIME 62H / U110

16 March 1941
08:33 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENTERING LORIENT X REQUESTING ESCORT IN / U110
29 FEB


GRT :6950

Days at sea : 43


Career GRT : 36805
Total days at sea: 112

[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 5th patrol - Feb. 1940 011600 - in Wilhelmshafen

Back in Wilhelmshafen again after a very quick patrol, left on the evening of Jan 28th. No transfer to larger boat type as Onkel Karl was not happy with the surface skirmishes on the previous patrol where a crew member was killed.

The assigned area this time was AM11, just South of Iceland. However, only half way across the North Sea we ran into a large convoy from Norway to England, more than 30 ships. They went without lights and escorted by naval vessels so they should be valid targets. When we returned we got very little credit for, as I see it, a rather good performance inside little more than an hour. Some of the targets were neutrals.

We approached the convoy from its forward port side. There were two destroyers, one on each side. They did not discover us before I fired a salvo at a Large Merchant and an Ore Carrier, 3 torps in all. All were duds! Before we could do anything else we had to defend ourselves against the approaching destroyers, going down to periscope depth. They were J&K's. Both were hit with G7's on magnetic fuze on minimum distance as they approached from the fore, they went down rather quick.

I then considered it safe to surface but then a third J&K popped up from the rear of the convoy. Down again, but only after we had received some damage. All the foward tubes were now empty so had to lure him on from the fore to sidestep and take him with an aft torp as he turned around behind us. Never fails!

After that it was totally Texas. We went up again and alternated between using the deck gun and torpedoes, sometimes both. In the end we were out of everything. As dawn approached we had followed two burning Ore Carriers for several hours but they refused to go down. I turned tail and proceeded back to Wilhelmshafen.

Two days later:

When analyzing the patrol, based on B-dienst intelligence, one or more of the 3 first torps must have had some effect. No hits were observed or heard but a fire was observed on the first Large Merchant.

Patrol 5 - page 1:

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Patrol 5 - page 2:

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[CaliEs]

My first 100 min as a u-boat commander - the navigation exam


Logbook:
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Passing Äro-Sund:
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Calcultions of the navigator:
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17:43, Ship at 327.6R/147.6T, identified as type 34 class, friendly
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Kurs Distanz Koordinate
Start N55°15.692' - E9°43.305'
1. 165.71° 0.83nm N55°14.885' - E9°43.666'
2. 164.82° 1.30nm N55°13.635' - E9°44.261'
3. 180.00° 1.07nm N55°12.562' - E9°44.261'
End N55°12.562' - E9°44.261'
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Distanz 3.20nm

[CaliEs]

duplicate post

[andwii]

I dont think this thread is ever gonna die, why isnt it stickied lol

[diluvian]

An alright first patrol, still on the low end compared to the other uboats in my current flotilla

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t118/divesrq/public/SH032.jpg

[andwii]

Dont worry m8 its the begining of the war, not much for ships to sink, suprised you found an S class to be honest.

[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 7th patrol - Apr. 1940 080203 - Outside Narvik

We left Wilhelmshafen on the evening of Mar 31st. Patrol 6 was aborted due to technical problems. After having spent 24 hours in the mission area (AN36) we received new orders to proceed north along the Norwegian coast. Operation Hartmuth is on - part of Unternehmen Weserübung - the invasion of Denmark and Norway! The North Sea and Skagerak is crawling with German naval and transport units. Our mission: To secure the German naval assault on Narvik. The British are bound to react violently!

There are at least three other German U-boats in the area. On our way in the Vestfjord we bumped into a Norwegian guard ship but quickly threw him off in the bad weather.
Norwegian Armed Trawler:

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Present position:

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[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 7th patrol - Apr. 1940 100122 - Outside Narvik

Yesterday morning several Kriegsmarine transports passed us on their way in to Narvik. The occupation force was already in place. We have been warned of an approaching enemy task force, obviously on their way to Narvik, too. We just recently picked up echos of five enemy ships proceeding at high speed in our direction and the first one can already be seen in the periscope - a J&K.

Yesterday German transports passed us on their way to Narvik:

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Five solid sonar echos - the first one can be seen:




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A few minutes later - this does not look good. One destroyer was hit but the others avoided their torpedoes when they all turned in our direction. I should have known on that range.

No torps in the forward tubes - the crew work as fast as they can. I might get one with my aft torp, then I have to go down to reload. Problem is they will hear us working.

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[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 7th patrol - Apr. 1940 100245 - Outside Narvik

Back on the surface! Phew, that was a close one. As it was they hindered each other and with some fancy turning I was able to put the aft torp into one of them before we went for the depths. I chose not to reload but go on silent running. These guys were not very clever at sub-hunting but the heavy seas also probably helped us. We were able to get out of the circle quite fast. They gave up half an hour ago and proceeded towards Narvik. So now only 3 RN destroyers can pester our forces there. We are reloading as fast as we can.


Back on the surface:

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[aj906]

19 Juni 1941
02:10 uhr
DT6571

THOMSEN!!!!!!!!!


(Couldn't help. Been at see 21 days for a single freighter (7,000 tons) and on my way to Freetown. My course is 177 degrees, when out of the mist comes Typ IX uboat (with double flak towers!) I just yelled out "Thomsen" when I id'd the contact. The dog look at me rather strangely! He is on a course of 242 degrees - no idea where he is off to, perhaps looking for targets NNW of Kapverden.)

[VONHARRIS]

Patrol 19

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[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 7th patrol - Apr. 1940 100245 - Outside Narvik

Back on the surface! Phew, that was a close one. As it was they hindered each other and with some fancy turning I was able to put the aft torp into one of them before we went for the depths. I chose not to reload but go on silent running. These guys were not very clever at sub-hunting but the heavy seas also probably helped us. We were able to get out of the circle quite fast. They gave up half an hour ago and proceeded towards Narvik. So now only 3 RN destroyers can pester our forces there. We are reloading as fast as we can.

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 7th patrol - Apr. 1940 180900 - Wilhelmshafen

Only a few hours later the three remaining RN destroyers returned from Narvik (Originally two further were sunk and one heavily damaged in the fjord by the German detroyers). They went straight into our ambush, one was sunk right away, the others after some extensive use of torpedoes. As it were when we surfaced again I had only one torpedo left. What to do? Wait for more RN units or return home to reload with one torpedo for self-defense.

Anyway, after having taken a day's break and starting up again........CRASH TO DESKTOP..!!! We had probably been too close to the large landmass. One never know about these.

So, on it again - this is then the second Patrol 7! Went North again and took up position further inside the fjord, having sunk a British Medium Cargo on our way in. Morning April 10th and the historical RN destroyer flotilla pushed towards Narvik. We were able to sink all 5 within 18 minutes. They behaved very badly, had obviously no idea who they were up against....:)....

We stayed in the area to guard the Narvik inlet. Three days later there was plenty of action again. Steaming in the fjord came a large flotilla of RN destroyers - and a Battleship! HMS Nelson! Well, anybody with the faintest knowledge of military history know that historically it was HMS Warspite that went to Narvik, but who cares?

I concentrated on the Nelson, let the the first destroyers pass. As was already instructed from the BdU I first fired one impact and one magnetic fuze torp with a proper spacing. Both were duds! Then the circus started again! We were able to hit three of the escorting destroyers. After a short hunt the remaining followed Nelson towards Narvik.

Well, it had to return. When they showed up again we had positioned ourselves farther in the center of the fjord. Weather fortunately had deteriorated, not easy to detect our periscope as we used it only intermittently. Two torpedoes left, they were for Nelson! I decided to fire one as early as possible albeit with good enough angle to be sure the impact pistol detonated. It hit! No reactions to see, though, except from the escorting destroyers. Now I had decided to just lay still and hope not to be discovered. The earlier destroyers had not been very skilled at hunting us and I had used an electric torpedo so that its track could not be traced back to us.

It worked! They passed us, following the Nelson westwards. It steamed on, its speed a little slowed down, but still too fast for us as we turned after them on slowest speed, submerged.

As their outlines disappeared in the rain-filled mist we surfaced and increased speed, hopefully to catch up with the Nelson in case it developed any problems caused by our hit. At the entrance of the fjord a new problem arose. There were British destroyers on guard. They were close to the shores and it took some while for them to start a chase but in the meantime we had been fired upon and had to dive again with a consequent loss of speed. At one time we had to turn in again to throw them off. Strangely, only one of them only used asdic once or twice.....

So, we had to take the slow course, went out in the middle of the fjord again and proceeded submerged westwards with constantly diminishing battery power. Finally, after having turned a sound we surfaced again to proceed at max. speed south-west out the Vestfjord, hoping to catch up with HMS Nelson. No luck, though, at our way we received several air reconnaissance messages transmitted via the BdU that Nelson kept the distance. Also, that there were a string of RN destroyers going in the same direction, heading for their home ports in England. Twice we were caught up and had to dive to let them pass.

I finally decided enough was enough and set course for home.

Burning RN destroyers in the Ofotfjord:



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Not too much tonnage but never-the-less. For once our assigned targets were enemy naval vessels. Sorry no Nelson on the list. Big disappointment:

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[Paulebaer1979]

1.7.41 1707 Feindfahrt 8
U-65, 7. Flottille
Ausgelaufen: Juli 1, 1941, 17:07
Von: St. Nazaire
Einsatzbefehle: In Planquadrat BE33 patrouillieren
4.7.41
0039 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! HMS Vega (V&W Zerstörer), 1188 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Mannschaft: 120. Mannschaftsverluste: 99
0055 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! MV Regent Lion (Großer Tanker), 19023 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Rohöl. Mannschaft: 41. Mannschaftsverluste: 24
0058 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! USS Barker (Clemson Zerstörer), 1190 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Mannschaft: 119. Mannschaftsverluste: 96
0150 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! HMS Cape Palliser (Vorpostenboot), 610 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Mannschaft: 44. Mannschaftsverluste: 31
0153 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! SS Robin Sherwood (Standardfrachter), 6548 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Post/Pakete. Mannschaft: 45. Mannschaftsverluste: 20
0156 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 1737 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Getreide. Mannschaft: 46. Mannschaftsverluste: 6
0159 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 1733 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Papierprodukte. Mannschaft: 55. Mannschaftsverluste: 20
0200 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! SS Kara (Trampdampfer), 1778 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Nahrungsmittel. Mannschaft: 24. Mannschaftsverluste: 20
0202 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! MV British Energy (Standardtanker), 8229 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Rohöl. Mannschaft: 58. Mannschaftsverluste: 37
0204 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! SS Noonday (Standardfrachter), 6547 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Kupfererz. Mannschaft: 47. Mannschaftsverluste: 28
0207 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! SS Mironych (Trampdampfer), 1781 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Stahl. Mannschaft: 28. Mannschaftsverluste: 23
0208 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! SS Tingsang (Trampdampfer), 1780 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Schrott. Mannschaft: 35. Mannschaftsverluste: 21
0210 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! SS Isac (Trampdampfer), 1777 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Phosphate. Mannschaft: 20. Mannschaftsverluste: 20
0212 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 1736 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Zucker. Mannschaft: 56. Mannschaftsverluste: 6
0214 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 1735 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Kupfererz. Mannschaft: 57. Mannschaftsverluste: 9
0216 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! SS Tynwald (Trampdampfer), 1779 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Kohle. Mannschaft: 34. Mannschaftsverluste: 26
0218 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 1738 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Kohle. Mannschaft: 41. Mannschaftsverluste: 16
0220 Planquadrat BE 39 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 1734 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Holz. Mannschaft: 80. Mannschaftsverluste: 68
1008 Planquadrat BE 36 Schiff versenkt! SS Idraet (Trampdampfer), 1782 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Lastwagen. Mannschaft: 29. Mannschaftsverluste: 26
7.7.41
0519 Planquadrat AM 29 Schiff versenkt! SS Margarita (Belize-Class-Dampfer), 1735 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Maschinen. Mannschaft: 31. Mannschaftsverluste: 26
8.7.41
0544 Planquadrat AM 33 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Küstendampfer, 1188 BRT(HS), TO(KS)
0547 Planquadrat AM 33 Schiff versenkt! SS Canadian Reefer (Passagier- und Frachtschiff), 1744 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Getreide. Mannschaft: 30. Mannschaftsverluste: 26
0551 Planquadrat AM 33 Schiff versenkt! SS Cape St. Andrew (Kolonialfrachter), 2657 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Kohle. Mannschaft: 69. Mannschaftsverluste: 22
0556 Planquadrat AM 33 Schiff versenkt! MV Rion (Großer Fischkutter), 78 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Textilien. Mannschaft: 18. Mannschaftsverluste: 17
0606 Planquadrat AM 33 Schiff versenkt! SS British Scout (Küstentanker), 1283 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Benzin. Mannschaft: 23. Mannschaftsverluste: 14
9.7.41
1545 Planquadrat AN 16 Schiff versenkt! HMS Wild Swan (V&W Zerstörer), 1188 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Mannschaft: 108. Mannschaftsverluste: 87
1546 Planquadrat AN 16 Schiff versenkt! HMS Dunvegan Castle (Hilfskreuzer), 12367 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Mannschaft: 185. Mannschaftsverluste: 75
1626 Planquadrat AN 16 Schiff versenkt! Schw.Kreuzer HMS Norfolk, 13300 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Mannschaft: 1000. Mannschaftsverluste: 590
1707 Planquadrat AN 16 Schiff versenkt! Tankschiff (EC-Klasse), 5446 BRT(HS), TO(KS)
1716 Planquadrat AN 16 Schiff versenkt! SS Empire Razorbill (HogIsland-Typ Frachter), 4754 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Kohle. Mannschaft: 77. Mannschaftsverluste: 70
10.7.41
0204 Planquadrat AN 16 Schiff versenkt! HMS Ceylon (Leichter Kreuzer Fiji), 9000 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Mannschaft: 808. Mannschaftsverluste: 129
1022 Planquadrat AN 13 Schiff versenkt! MV Regent Tiger (Großer Tanker), 19024 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Flugbenzin. Mannschaft: 78. Mannschaftsverluste: 44
1903 Planquadrat AN 11 Schiff versenkt! Küsten-Schoner (Motor), 935 BRT(HS), TO(KS)
13.7.41
1739 Planquadrat BE 33 Schiff versenkt! SS Erinpura (Kolonialfrachter), 2662 BRT(HS), TO(KS). Fracht: Getreide. Mannschaft: 38. Mannschaftsverluste: 33
14.7.41
2003 Planquadrat BF 43 Schiff versenkt! Fischfabrikschiff, 5584 BRT(HS), TO(KS)
16.7.41
0751 Ergebnisse
Verluste: 0
versenkte Schiffe: 35
zerstörte Flugzeuge: 0
versenkte Tonnage: 147370 Tonnen


Playing SHIII with Living Silent Hunter 5.1 @ 88% realismus on Intel Core2Quad 2,83Ghz, Ati 4890, 4GB Ram, Windows Vista HP 64Bit

Sonar pettyofficer on S190, S196 and S183

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[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 9th patrol - July. 1940 050130 - Wilhelmshafen

Ready to depart on Patrol 9. Patrol 8 was rather confusing. We were assigned a patrol area just west of the Shetlands. However, on our way there we were instructed to support Operation Juno, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau's foray against the Allied withdrawal convoys from Northern Norway. We proceeded almost North to the Vestfjord with a good hope of intercepting some fat convoys but nothing essential turned up.

Proceeded down to the Western inlet of Scapa Flow. Finally, a fat target. The battleship HMS Rodney accompanied by a V&W destroyer and a Southampton class cruiser heading towards the Scapa inlet. While proceeding surfaced on AK to achieve a good position we were discovered and had to dive, the V&W firing and turning towards us. When we finally had him down Rodney and the cruiser had started maneuvering violently. The cruiser got away but Rodney was hit twice by our torpedoes. The cruiser proceeded at max. speed towards Scapa. As Rodney was lying half-submerged, but still not registered as sunk, it suddenly disappeared. The cruiser, too. So, no credit for HMS Rodney. We returned for home, going through the Orkney/Shetland gap, bagging a couple of enemies on our way.

Our present assigned patrol area is the south-western part of the Rockalls.

HMS Rodney with its consorts in the far distance:

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[Obltn Strand]

Decided to pop my nygm virginity...

Patrol 1
U-45, U-Flotilla Wegener
Left at: September 1, 1939, 08:18
From: Kiel
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM18

3.9.1939
17:38 Ship sighted, cargo vessel on NNE course. AN 4929
20:02 Fired warning shot across the bow. No reaction. Shelled target until it stopped. Fired tube V. G7a, range 700m, speed 0 kts, AoB green 80, depth 6m. Detonated well behind the target. Sunk with gunfire. AN 4687
4.9.1939
17:16 A/c, crash dive. AN 4126
18:19 A/c, crash dive, depth charged. AN 4125
20:17 A/c, crash dive, strafed and depth charged. Minor damage. AN 4122
5.9.1939
05:24 A/c, crash dive, depth charged. AN 1632
12:27 A/c, crash dive, depth charged. AN 1467
21:04 A/c, crash dive, depth charged. AN 1453
6.9.1939
03:20 Passed between Orkneys and Shetlands. Heavy a/c patrols. AN 1273
05:40 A/c, crash dive. AN 1196
06:40 A/c, crash dive, depth charged. AN 1196
08:11 A/c, crash dive, depth charged. AN 1195
14:45 A/c, crash dive, depth charged. AN 1194
21:20 A/c, crash dive. AN 1159
8.9.1939
00:23 Ship sighted. Small steamer heading SSW. AM 3348
01:04 Fired tube I. G7a, range 1300m, speed 7 kts, AoB red 90, depth 6m. Miss
01:23 Fired tube II. G7a, range 800m, speed 5 kts, AoB red 80, depth 6m. Definite detonation failure. AM 3372
01:56 Sunk with gun fire. AM 3374
9.9.1939
01:30 Arrived operations area. AM 1833
15.9.1939
13:40 Took external torpedoes on board.
18.9.1939
09:20 /From Bdu: Patrol grid AM 54/
20:40 Arrived operations area. AM 5411
23.9.1939
22:53 Ship sighted. Tanker heading NE. Extremely unfavourable weather. Will try anyway.
23:37 Fired tubes II and III. G7a, range 1500m, speed 9 kts, AoB red 100, depth 7m. One hit, other missed. Target sunk after twenty minutes. Interogation of survivors revealed target to be 4000 ton ore carrier. AM 5481
2.10.1939
20:30 Low on fuel and provisions. Started return trip. AM 5412
4.10.1939
10:14 Two destroyers sighted on NE course. Dived to avoid detection. AM 3331
9.10.1939
15:25 Docked at Kiel.

Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 3
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 14362 tons

Ships sunk:
SS Mormacisle (LARGE CARGO), 8552 tons.
SS Aberhill (COASTAL FREIGHTER), 1900 tons.
SS Argun (ORE CARRIER), 3910 tons.

Oberleutnant Siegfried Küster

U-45 Type VIIB (1 patrol)

Career tonnage: 14 362 tons

[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 9th patrol - July. 1940 200004 - North-Western Approaches

Proceeded directly towards our assigned patrol area - The Rockalls. Nothing happened there. Set course Eastwards to see if we could ambush something in the North-Western Approaches. Was informed of a large eastbound convoy by the BdU, managed to make contact and pass it.

In the bad weather we were able to pierce the escort screen from its starboard side. Halleluja, in the middle of it a battleship, probably Renown or Repulse. However, we had torpedoed two ships already so the escorts were now upon us. While evading and defending ourselves the convoy got away. At one time we had to descend to max. depth which at the place was no more than approx. 60 meters. We got out of it and restarted the pursuit. That battleship shall go down!

We have now achieved a good position on the convoy's forward starboard side again. We are at the narrowest point of the Approaches, not very deep here. There is a Black Swan in the front of the convoy, much of the escort has been diminished by our earlier contacts - see the sheet. Weather is excellent for our venture, choppy seas and the light at its darkest for this time of they year.

Here goes!

Excellent position:

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Much of the escort has already been put out play by us:

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This one is going down!:


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[Fubar2Niner]

Hi Kaleuns.

Just reformatted my rig and thought what the hey, I'll start from afresh! So here is my albeit short career so far..........

I'm with the 7th/13th Flotilla sailing from Konigsberg. My first patrol was needless to say uneventfull, but I managed to give the crew a thorough shakedown in preperation for hostilities should they come.

Second patrol sailed from Konigsberg, August 22nd, '39 12:24. Mission orders were merely a repeat of my first patrol. After reaching my patrol grid and completing my mission orders, I thought I'd sail clear of the bay and explore the local waters. After several days at sea, practising crash dives, vessel recognition etc. The radio started to crackle into action. Action being the operative word ! Hostilities with Poland had begun. My orders to my new crew.......... Make for Danzig!

I have to report the crew of U-47 performed beyond my expectations, see my patrol report below..........

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Returned to Konigsberg September 2nd 1939, BDU informed me I had been awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. Not a bad way to enter hostilities. My crew are eagerly awaiting the next patrol. Stocking up on eels and provisions, we head out again shortly. :arrgh!:

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Leandros]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 9th patrol - July. 1940 200004 - North-Western Approaches

Proceeded directly towards our assigned patrol area - The Rockalls. Nothing happened there. Set course Eastwards to see if we could ambush something in the North-Western Approaches. Was informed of a large eastbound convoy by the BdU, managed to make contact and pass it.

In the bad weather we were able to pierce the escort screen from its starboard side. Halleluja, in the middle of it a battleship, probably Renown or Repulse. However, we had torpedoed two ships already so the escorts were now upon us. While evading and defending ourselves the convoy got away. At one time we had to descend to max. depth which at the place was no more than approx. 60 meters. We got out of it and restarted the pursuit. That battleship shall go down!

We have now achieved a good position on the convoy's forward starboard side again. We are at the narrowest point of the Approaches, not very deep here. There is a Black Swan in the front of the convoy, much of the escort has been diminished by our earlier contacts - see the sheet. Weather is excellent for our venture, choppy seas and the light at its darkest for this time of they year.

Here goes!

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 9th patrol - July 1940 251600 - Wilhelmshafen

Safely back in Wilhelmshafen. Well, the battleship didn't "go down". I believe we had mr. Murphy onboard. First, I should have learned by now not to use the G7e on magnetic fuze in choppy seas. It pre-ignited after a few hundred meters. The second one, with impact pistol, hit a small-fry freighter that came between. At that time the Black Swan was warned and approached us fast. The third torpedo missed as it, it was HMS Revenge, had started maneuvering. I disregarded the approaching Black Swan and continued at max submerged speed towards the battleship. A fast G7 finally did it from less than 700 meters. I turned the boat around and also gave it the last one from the aft tube. Good hit! No more torps and, as it was, our close encounter with the major ship and the Black Swan had them destroy both of our periscopes. No vision and no weapons, I went for the deep, which was about 90 meters. With the choppy seas and a lot of other sonar confusion around the large convoy should give us a chance. Not to speak of a damaged battleship to take care of.

The Black Swan didn't hang around for long. When we surfaced we followed the convoy eastwards for a while to see if there was any sign of a heavily damaged battleship. Nothing to see so I turned around to take the safest road home. No weapons (except the deck gun, of course) and no under-the-surface vision called for a minimum of heroics. I chose a long northward swing away from land.

Nevetheless, when we encountered a large freighter in the Orkney/Shetland gap the temptation was too great. We started intercepting it with the intention of using the gun. We had only just started firing when an Elco MTB turned up in the horizon. Diving was an instinctive reaction which I regretted right away but as it approached fast I could not countermand the order. We turned and started following the freighter submerged, homing on its sonar signals. Then, at a time when MTB was out of contact we made a quick surfacing, manned the guns and started up on the freighter. The MTB was not far away but now we were ready for it.

I should have learnt from last time, when we lost a crew member in the exchange of fire, but this time we expedited it without such misfortunes. It was a tough one, though. They usually are. At the time we were safely through the gap we had an Ore Carrier to our credit, too.

Approx. 32.000 tons in total, then. With the Revenge it would have been 70.000. According to the B-dienst it made it back home.

Oh, yes: 25% Hull Integrity upon arrival in Wilhelmshafen......:)

[ijnfleetadmiral]

31 May 1940:
Goeben departs on another raiding mission. Intended to head into Dunkirk to see what mischief we could cause there, but after receiving message of a convoy in our vicinity, decided to try our luck with that.

Results:
Returned to port 3 June 1940 to replenish ammo, having sunk 15 ships (the entire convoy we decided to go intercept instead of visiting Dunkirk) for 53,678 tons. Would have go on to Dunkirk but we'd expended all ammo for the starboard secondary guns, and the main guns were running low on ammo as well. Time to reload!

1 Large Merchant
1 Empire-type Freighter
4 Granville-type Freighters
2 Passenger/Cargo Ships
1 Small Freighter
3 Coastal Freighters
3 J/K-class DDs

[LemonA]

U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 9th patrol - July 1940




Good read. Nice pictures.

[Kapt Z]

5th Patrol

U-97, Type VIIC
7th/13th Flotilla, St. Nazaire
Assigned Grid: ET21
Departed: 20Apr41
Returned: 27May41

3 Merchant ships sunk
1 small freighter damaged

8992 tons

All internal torpedoes expended
No damage sustained

Oblt. Ernst Walzer(knight's cross)

[Leandros]

Good read. Nice pictures.

Thank you!

Fred

[Leandros]

U124 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 11th patrol - Jan 1941 231600 - off Lorient

Just left Lorient, our new base, with an almost completely new boat, the U124 - a Type IXB. It has only had 3 patrols before so practially just run-in. The torpedo load-out is impressive compared to my earlier boat. Also has a twin-20 mm FLAK and a 37 mm gun on the aft deck. My whole crew has followed me over, having just had to add a few new ones to cater for the handling of the somewhat larger boat. Two of my officers are soon to receive their own boats.

Patrol 10 was quite succesful compared to the one before. This mission was also a transfer leg to our new base in Lorient. Went through the Orkney/Shetland gap and hit a terrible weather which lasted for the rest of the mission. We hang around the area between the Rockalls and the North-Western Approaches for several days. Then messages started coming in on an eastbound convoy that had already been set upon by a wolfpack.

We picked up its accoustic signature in extremely bad visibility, 200-600 meters, and just had to let it roll over us. After having hit a couple of merchants what pops up out of the heavy rain....?....HMS Rodney! And not an escort in sight. We had him on our port side, going in the opposite direction. I made a sharp starboard turn and gave him a stern shot at minimum distance. No fiddling now, a fast G7 on impact pistol. When it hit him we had already continued the turn and started lining him up along our bow tubes. When stabilized I gave him two more. Before the third torpedo hit him the others had done the trick.

From there on there was sort of anti-climax. While reloading two Large Merchants passed near by and we set off a casual pursuit to catch them when ready. In the meantime we were chased off once by escorts (Flowers..), but lost them fairly quickly - in an outboard turn we surfaced when they were out of sight and set off at max. surface speed, dispensing of battery loading for the time. With that weather they had real problems detecting us and we could outrun them.

70.000 tons inclusive of the HMS Rodney. And some Brilliants added to my Knight's Cross...:)

Our mission area is now BF17.

U-124 - beautiful boat:

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[Leandros]

U-124 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 11th patrol - Jan 1941 290800 - Bristol Channel

Only a short while after we had established ourselves in the assigned patrol area we received a message from the BdU - a large convoy had passed us by and was quite a distance North-East of us, heading into the Bristol Channel. We made pursuit and caught up with it in the South-Western corner of AM97. We slipped through the escort screen which wasn't very impressive. In short sequence an Ore Carrier, Large Merchant and some others were hit before the escort interferred. We were eventually pushed under but not for long. As we surfaced we could see a Empire-type freighter lying on its side, looking rather done for, some distance away. We approached it to finish it off with the gun. It put up an unexpectedly ferocious fight and almost immediately the officer of the bridge, Oberleutnant zur See Arthur Kopp, was hit by shrapnel and killed. He was to have his own boat at our return to Lorient.

We dived, only in time to observe that two escorts had been warned by the gunfight. However, when they had reached our area we had sidestepped them by a quick, deep dive and change of course. Soon they went away back to their convoy.

When we surfaced we found ourselves suddenly quite close to the freighter again. It started firing again! This time I dived immediately and spaced out to give it a torpedo. No more fiddling.

We then went into pursuit again and have now loaded down the spare torpedoes and shall soon have catched up with the convoy. It's just over the horizon to the North-East.

Well, that was that. A CTD is one thing - a TCC a totally different thing. Saved missions, modifications, upgrades, JoneSoft - all gone. Do I want to start up again? Maybe I should wait till I get a new computer - mine is 8 years old, even if with a few upgrades. I do need some better capacity to run the movies made in the mission creator, too. I'll have to see - for now I am comforting myself with a simple mission around Malta - without any trimmings.

[Einzelganger]

Kapitänleutnant Horst Luddecke was killed on his 9th patrol today (12Jul1940) while attacking a convoy in grid BE98. All hands aboard U-101 were lost.

Somehow i've missed a V&W escort coming at me from behind. I took heavy damage to the conning tower as soon as we collided & the following depth charges must have landed right on top of me. In my dying seconds i saw the V&W had also taken heavy damage but i suffered heavy flooding in almost all compartments & it was over before i could blink my eyes again. At least i did manage to hurt the convoy in two previous attacks on it.

I've just returned to SHIII after a few years and have been working my way up again from a Type II & did my last 3 patrols in a Type VII. I suppose i shouldn't be too unhappy with my first career but still.... :nope:

[Paulebaer1979]

That´s the reason why i first attack and sink the escorts. After that i surface and sink the convoys with the deck gun. It´s funny with the 10,5 of my type IXb :yeah:

Greets Paul

PS: In correct German it is "Den .... wenn ich bitten darf."


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[Einzelganger]

I know that routine from way before there were any mods & i just had the game :D

Now that i've returned to GWX again going deck gun to deck gun with the escort screen is a bad idea :dead: & i'd rather spend my torpedoes on some heavier tonnage. Anyway my second career since dusting off SHIII is now underway again with a VIIIC & already i've had some succes during operation Juno.

As for the signature ( loved the moment it was used in the movie ) guess i shouldn't have trusted the Internet for the actual print :rotfl2: Plus, my German is ok but certainly isn't good enough to pick out the finer mistakes.

[Paulebaer1979]

As for the signature ( loved the moment it was used in the movie ) guess i shouldn't have trusted the Internet for the actual print :rotfl2: Plus, my German is ok but certainly isn't good enough to pick out the finer mistakes.

No problem. You´r welcome. It would be very nice, if someone would correct me school-english, too :D It´s a couple of years since i was in school.

Back to topic:

I always search for convoys and than i attack the escorts submerged. In the first view years that´s easy. Later it becomes harder :) But it´s no problem for a ex-submariner :yeah:

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[Einzelganger]

Your school English looks pretty decent i'd say, no worries there mate :yeah:

Early in the war i usually leave the escorts alone (unless there's 1 or maybe 2) as i like the idea of sneaking in, doing damage & leave everyone wondering where i've gone to next. Late war i'll maybe try & open up a gap by taking out 2 escorts with acoustic torpedoes. That usually leaves me with some more room on my next approach :D

With my previous career i was stuck right in the middle of the convoy & the escort that nailed me was hidden from my sight & sonar behind other merchants until he came rushing at me.

Anyway after not having played SHIII for 3 or 4 years at least i can say i'm not that rusty. Plus there's some better eye candy available now too. Right now i'm loving the diesel room from the interior mod :rock:

[Obltn Strand]

Kapitänleutnant Siegfried Küster

U-45 Type VIIB (2 patrols)

Career tonnage: 20 664 tons

Patrol 2
U-45, U-Flotilla Wegener
Left at: November 26, 1939, 09:31
From: Kiel
Mission Orders: Patrol grid BE83

28.11.1939
12:53 Ship sighted. Large steamer on W course. AN 3478
14:03 Fired double fan from tubes I and II. G7e, range 1400m,
speed 6 kts, AoB red 90, depth 6m. Both hits. Target sunk 15 min later. AN 4375
30.11.1939
08:37 A/c, crash dive. AF 7883
09:38 A/c, crash dive. AF 7883
16:14 A/c, crash dive. AF 7821
18:21 Two destroyers sighted, heading south. AF 7813
1.12.1939
09:25 A/c, crash dive. AF 7775
10:24 A/c, crash dive. AF 7775
17:30 A/c, crash dive. AN 1121
7.12.1939
05:30 Arrived operations area. BE 8333
11:22 Steamer sighted, heading NE. BE 8323
12:09 Fired tubes III and IV. G7e, range 1400m, speed 6 and 5 kts, AoB green 80, depth 7m. Both hit despite unfavorable weather conditions. Target sunk in ten minutes.
15.12.1939
08:24 /From Bdu: Patrol grid CG13/
16.12.1939
14:40 Arrived operations area. CG1311
25.12.1939
07:30 Low on fuel. Started return trip. CG1342
26.12.1939
09:07 Warship sighted. Destroyer heading SSE. BE 6912
09:10 Multiple propeller sounds heard. Convoy coming closer.
09:22 /From: U-45 Convoy at BE 6912 heading SSE at medium speed. Request permission for immediate attack/
09:50 Perfect opportunity to conduct submerged attack against convoy's outer column.
09:52 Fired tube V. G7e, range 2200m, speed 7 kts, AoB red 90, depth 7m. Miss.
10:00 Fired tubes I through IV against three separate targets. G7a, range 2000m, speed 7 kts, AoB green 100, depth 7m. Two detonated prematurely, two missed.
11.40 Faint contact with hydrophone. Not enough fuel for high speed chase. Resumed original course. BE 6912
4.1.1940
07:45 Very low on fuel. Will be in Wilhelmshaven tommorw morning. AN 6358
5.1.1940
07:27 Docked at Wilhelmshaven.

Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 2
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 6302 tons

Ships sunk:
SS Santa Cecilia (MEDIUM CARGO), 4756 tons.
SS Empire Merchant (SMALL MERCHANT), 1546 tons.

Meagre christmas present for Küster:down:

[Dbledip]

Patrol 6
U-64 IX, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: January 31, 1940, 23:48
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid BE29


Clear Weather - Caught a small Freighter alone used Deck gun

SS Crawford Ellis (Small Freighter), 2228 tons. Cargo: Coffee. Crew: 23. Crew lost: 14


Clear night A&B Class slowly patrolling channel too good of a chance to pass up, hit with one of 2 eels fired

HMS Acasta (A&B classes), 1350 tons. Crew: 146. Crew lost: 18


Clear night/full moon lone merchant both eels hit aft of main stack


SS Empire Ability (Large Merchant), 10616 tons. Cargo: Explosives. Crew: 57. Crew lost: 27

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Foul Weather/heavy seas/driving rain/poor visibility

Ran into convoy barely able to make out two Large merchants

for firing solution Fired 4 eels 2 at each merchant

Hit 1st ship

SS Clan Urquhart (Large Merchant), 10618 tons. Cargo: Explosives. Crew: 63. Crew lost: 22
Completely missed 2nd merchant - both eels hit ship coming out of heavy rain.

SS Bradfyne (Granville-type Freighter), 4707 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 89. Crew lost: 63
Turn a 180 and fired rear tubes at 2nd merchant both missed and hit another ship - Dove deep and lost DD's in squall

SS Talthybius (Ore Carrier), 8083 tons. Cargo: Phosphates. Crew: 60. Crew lost: 58


Able to find convoy again fired all bow tubes at two targets and dove deep,

SS Menelaus (Large Merchant), 10617 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 95. Crew lost: 47
SS Empire Housman (Empire-type Freighter), 6780 tons. Cargo: Mail/Packages. Crew: 35. Crew lost: 35

Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 8
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 54999 tons

[Obltn Strand]

Kapitänleutnant Siegfried Küster

U-45 Type VIIB (3 patrols)

Career tonnage: 20 664 tons

Patrol 3
U-45, 7th Flotilla
Left at: February 2, 1940, 16:45
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM32

6.2.1940
09:20 A/c, crash dive. AF 7466
11:20 Surprised by a/c. Strafed and depth charged. Minor damage. AF 7468
17:24 A/c, crashdive. Strafed and depth charged. Severe damage. Reduced diving capability, starboard diesel and torpedo tube V out action. Cannot be repaired at sea. Will return to Kiel. AF 7491
18:25 A/c, crash dive. AF 7467
11.2.1940
14:14 Docked at Kiel

Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 0
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 0 tons

:nope: Agressive those nygm planes.

[Kapt Z]

U-97 was sunk by gunfire from SS Empire Sun(large tanker) 17JUL41.

Oblt. Ernst Walzer(knights cross) and 14 crew members rescued from sinking u-boat.

In seven patrols U-97 sank 21 ships for 106,016 tons.

Ernst Walzer was sent to a POW camp in Scotland where he spent the rest of the war. Walzer became a successful businessman in Hamburg. He died on 28 September 1996.

[dalagan]

U - 53 Type 7B with 43 crew
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[Hinrich Schwab]

SH3 Commander just gave me this message:

ObL Z.S. Schwartzritter to report immediately to KIEL for reassignment to training duties. Relinquish command of U-96 to your Exec.

Apparently, I did well enough to get put out to pasture.

18 Patrols, 252 Sea Days. 27,726 Tons. 67 Merchants, 4 warships.

"After his duty at the front, Schwartzritter was a training officer in the 22nd and 27th flotillas. Schwartzritter joined the Bundesmarine in 1955, retiring in 1967. He died on 26 February 1990."

[Leandros]

Up and going - the urge is strong!


U-515 - Oblt.z.S. Hans Jäger - 3rd patrol - Jan. 1944 171644 - 150 NM West of Dakar

U-515 is now homebound just west of Dakar. All 3 patrols had assigned an area down by Cape Good Hope but as usual something happened along the route. Some convoys and soon we had to go home again for torpedo replenishment. This time we made Freetown but as no instructions on eventul Milchkuhe arrived we had to turn North again. Has had some skirmishes with enemy warships. We brought along 3 Falkes, has one left. We swung into Freetown in the dark and found two modern tankers anchored. Needed 5 torps to finish both. A tramp steamer went down there, too. A large troopship hid behind the pier. We have in all 11 torps left. Hope to find a large convoy further North. Very depressing with the constant stream of lost ship's messages.

[Lorient]

Well, I think it's my 8th patrol, started from the beginning of the war, I'm in the spring of 1940 now. Up to now no close calls, just dive to 170+ meters and no depth charges reach you. About 200,000 tons at the moment. Mostly individual ships but some from convoys. Sunk HMS Nelson in a convoy with two other ships. 100 % realism GWX 3. Made me wonder at some point is there a bug in the game, since in real life my tonnage should be a fraction of what it is now... :06:

The last two patrols have been short and weird ones. West of Gibraltar, in the middle of grids CG94/CG97 there are numerous French ships cruising without escorts. Or a small convoy of three fat freighters with an armed trawler that you can blow out of the water with your deckgun. Just resupply at Thalia, and the hunting continues. 20-50,000 tons quite easily. Is this a bug or are the French just goofing around? :hmmm:

Really, there's no challenge in there "battles". I'd prefer a good thrilling convoy battle. I guess I'm heading to SW of England... :shifty:

[Kapt Z]

There are far too many ships, sorry I mean targets, floating around the SH3 world compared to what it was like in the real war. All you have to do is look up random u-boats on the uboat.net page to see that most didn't even sink a ship. If the game was that 'realistic' it would bore even the hardcore of subsimmers here.

Personally, I try and keep my tonnage within limits by the following-

1) Ignore single ship contact reports. Only attack single ships my own watch sees or my soundman hears.

2) At anything larger than 3000 tns gets two torpedoes even when I know I could get away with only one. Makes me go through my torpedoes faster, therefore less tonnage.

3) Spend patrol in general area I am assigned even if it is a slow grid. No galavanting thousands of miles to known rich areas or harbor raids.

4) Run my diesels at slightly higher speed than ideal fuel economy speed so that having to return to base low on fuel becomes a real concern.

Most of the time if I have a successful patrol that means 3-6 ships sunk for 15m-30m tons unless I sink a large warship. This is still higher than most historical numbers, but gives me a nice balance between what feels right and arcade numbers.

[Sailor Steve]

Very good, Kapt Z. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who stays in his assigned grid. I stay there for a week and then roll a 6-sided die. On a 1 I move to an adjacent grid. Anything else and I wait another week and then move on a 2. I had one patrol where I patrolled around an empty grid for three weeks and then reassigned myself to one (also randomly rolled) that was even worse.

I got tired of gaming years ago. These days it's all about the history and the machinery.

[Lorient]

Thanks guys. Yep, I think I'll ignore the indications of individual ships and pick them up only if I sight them on my regular route. But I gotta tell you: no way I'm gonna stay in one grid for more than a week. Makes me nuts! :dead:

[BossMark]

February 12th 1940
U-123 as just finished patrol 5, sinking a Auxiliary cruiser and 3 merchants for 26.000 tons.

[Calapine]

19th September 1939

Oberleutnant z. See Heinrich Schmidt finished his first patrol in U-14, a Type II boat. One British Merchant (Quadrant AN 48 - 9022 BRT) sunk, also had a night encounter with a battle group of 3 destroyers. A salvo of three torpedoes on the leading ship missed and U-14 was able to slink away unnoticed.

Calapine :arrgh!:

[Kapt Z]

Thanks guys. Yep, I think I'll ignore the indications of individual ships and pick them up only if I sight them on my regular route. But I gotta tell you: no way I'm gonna stay in one grid for more than a week. Makes me nuts! :dead:

Experimenting is the fun part. You'll find what works for you. No judgements here.

Good Hunting!

[Lorient]

Experimenting is the fun part. You'll find what works for you. No judgements here.

Good Hunting!

Didn't mean to jugde eather, I appreciate all opinions! Good hunting! :up:

[dinnemesis]

Just want to add that the most of the ships sunk during WWII were sailing alone...

[Kapt Z]

1st Patrol

U-76, type VIIB
U-Flotilla Wegener, Kiel
Departed- 06SEP39
Returned- 06NOV39
Assigned Grid- BE96

9 Merchant ships sunk
1 Tanker sunk

45,777 tons

All internal torpedoes expended
All deck gun ammo expended
No damage sustained

Oblt. Gunter Klauth

[u35_captain]

My campaign....I am utterly in love with the Type IX. And I'm slowly perfecting raiding ports with them. Pick off the defenders, move in under cover of darkness.

So far I've raided Key West and Scapa. I'm not on high difficulty, so this may be how it is possible. Either that or the Royal Navy just think the idea is silly so they weren't looking for me.

The sad part being I got into Scapa, after great effort and lots of nail-biting...and only find a light cruiser. I'll admit, the Type IX is not a great harbour raider (I do love the Type II for it...just wish she came with more torpedoes.) but the more I upgrade it, the more daring things I can pull off. It has the range, the firepower, and now with upgrades, the speed. The Type XXI is going to have to be utterly amazing to displace the Type IX in my heart.

I admit, this is my first-ever campaign. Took me forever to get SHIII (and it's a Steam one, so only basic version) but I'm falling for this game hard.

[Frenchy849]

Um,you know you can actually install mods for it even if you have it installed on steam?

[u35_captain]

Um,you know you can actually install mods for it even if you have it installed on steam?

Well *now* I do :P Teaches me to listen to stuff I hear in other forums :P

[Leandros]

Up and going - the urge is strong!


U-515 - Oblt.z.S. Hans Jäger - 3rd patrol - Jan. 1944 171644 - 150 NM West of Dakar

U-515 is now homebound just west of Dakar. All 3 patrols had assigned an area down by Cape Good Hope but as usual something happened along the route. Some convoys and soon we had to go home again for torpedo replenishment. This time we made Freetown but as no instructions on eventul Milchkuhe arrived we had to turn North again. Has had some skirmishes with enemy warships. We brought along 3 Falkes, has one left. We swung into Freetown in the dark and found two modern tankers anchored. Needed 5 torps to finish both. A tramp steamer went down there, too. A large troopship hid behind the pier. We have in all 11 torps left. Hope to find a large convoy further North. Very depressing with the constant stream of lost ship's messages.

U-515 - Oblt.z.S. Hans Jäger - 5th patrol - May. 1944 110908 - South-West of the Canaries

Just picked up several radar signals direction South-South-West, probably a large convoy.

Our 3rd patrol turned out rather scaringly. Homebound I made a swing up towards the Bristol Channel where we found a fat convoy. Ended up being hunted for hours and came back with 51% hull integrity. Only hard work by the repair crew saved us.

Much the same happened on the 4th patrol. Tried to get into a convoy South-West of Ireland but was constantly chased by the escorts. After having sunk 5 of them and damaged one we were hit in the tower, both periscopes destroyed. After some scary maneuvering and repair work the hunters gave up and we could limp back to Lorient.

I'd hoped to get myself a Schnorkel but have used my goodwill with the Quartermeisters to get the most possible homing torpedoes. I have saved up some for the next trip now, if there is going to be one.....:(....

Now to the mission in hand......hmmm...it's daylight and no homing torps....

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[Frenchy849]

Just finished my first campaign today.
After his duty at the front, Wilhelm Hanke became the commander of the 24th Flotilla in Memel. This was the training Flotilla for future Commanders-to-be. After the war Wilhelm Hanke spent three months in British captivity. In July 1956 he joined the newly formed German navy (Bundesmarine). In 1960 at Charleston, South Carolina he commissioned the destroyer Z-6, the former US destroyer USS Charles Ausburne. In March 1963 he became commander of the 3. Zerstörer- geschwader (3rd Destroyer Squadron). Before he retired in 1970, he spent his last five years as garrison chief of Hamburg.
Rank:Oberleutnant
Iron cross 1st and 2nd class.
Tonnage sunk:145774

[Alpha Von Burg]

I plan to go all the way through the war starting from '39 this time.

Current U-Boat U-52
February 12, 1940

Just finished our third patrol lasting 23 days now docking at Wilhelmshaven.

This was our longest patrol with a total tonnage of 44000. Our given orders were to patrol CG79, but we sank more ships on the way than we could ever imagine, and ran out of torpedoes by the time we were some where near France or Ireland.

:salute:

[andwii]

Patrol number: 13
Uboot: U-123
Year: 1944-45 (task force attack in 45)
Realism: 100%
max TC used: 128
Tonnage: 38228
Aircrafts:0
Days at sea: 14
had a chance to attack convoys, but when I went to attack a ship and I needed to go deep, the dive planes gave out like those of U-96. We managed to blow ballasts. Then level off, but we knew we could not attack a convoy. On the return trip we ran into a task force, and thankfully I had a few homing torpedoes loaded, they did alright and in the end saved us. with one destroyer left we snuck off, but at what cost. We could have lost the ship in this attack. Command is getting to hopeful of a turn around and risked one of our only XXI boats to attack a task force, but luckily we made it out.


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[Leandros]

U-515 - Oblt.z.S. Hans Jäger - 8th patrol - Oct. 1944 192100 - Trondheimsfjorden

Just left Trondheim, assigned patrol area AM68. We have beein ousted from France and transferred to 7/12th flotilla based in Trondheim, Norway.

The last couple of patrols have been genuine nightmares, almost impossible to get near a convoy before a dozen or so (it seems so, anyway) of escorts are walking all over you. Even with a max. load of homing torpedoes they are hard to keep off. On the last patrol we hit a convoy just west of the Scapas. In between chasing off the escorts, and sinking 5 of them, we were able to hit 2 Victory transports. Then the game was over and were chased towards the North-West - first by several, then by one Flower frigate. It went on for hours till it was empty of D/C's, then it continued to ping us every 5 minutes. In the end we just lay still and let it keep on with it. After some hours it went away. At that time both our scopes were destroyed and we had to limp back to Trondheim with plenty of torps left.

I would have like to have the new rubber coating for the hull but haven't had enough leverage to get it. Instead my goodwill has been spent on homing torpedoes. As it is the chance only diminishes to build up any points.

[Leandros]

U-515 - Oblt.z.S. Hans Jäger - 8th patrol - Oct. 1944 192100 - Trondheimsfjorden

Just left Trondheim, assigned patrol area AM68. We have beein ousted from France and transferred to 7/12th flotilla based in Trondheim, Norway.

The last couple of patrols have been genuine nightmares, almost impossible to get near a convoy before a dozen or so (it seems so, anyway) of escorts are walking all over you. Even with a max. load of homing torpedoes they are hard to keep off. On the last patrol we hit a convoy just west of the Scapas. In between chasing off the escorts, and sinking 5 of them, we were able to hit 2 Victory transports. Then the game was over and were chased towards the North-West - first by several, then by one Flower frigate. It went on for hours till it was empty of D/C's, then it continued to ping us every 5 minutes. In the end we just lay still and let it keep on with it. After some hours it went away. At that time both our scopes were destroyed and we had to limp back to Trondheim with plenty of torps left.

I would have like to have the new rubber coating for the hull but haven't had enough leverage to get it. Instead my goodwill has been spent on homing torpedoes. As it is the chance only diminishes to build up any points.


U-515 - Oblt.z.S. Hans Jäger - 8th patrol - Oct. 1944 242355 - West of the Orkneys

Engine problems. The boat only achieves approx. half speed in both surfaced and submerged mode. We return to Trondheim.

[RConch]

U-48 is at KM Grid CG 86.
June 6, 1940.
8th War patrol.

Lots of bad weather getting to my assigned patrol grid which was DJ 13.
Only 7300GRT for four weeks at sea.
Weather has improved, hoping for a good score.:arrgh!:

[Leandros]

U-515 - Oblt.z.S. Hans Jäger - 8th patrol - Oct. 1944 242355 - West of the Orkneys

Engine problems. The boat only achieves approx. half speed in both surfaced and submerged mode. We return to Trondheim.

Returned to Trondheim after patrol 9 on Dec. 23rd. Took 3 weeks to repair the engine problems that occured on patrol 8, we left for patrol 9 on the 17th.

This was a quickie! I had decided to take up position in the Orkneys-Shetland gap picking up loners. We came in from North-West. Almost there we received intelligence on a large convoy approaching our position from West and we established a nice position almost right in their course line. Finally, a convoy with less escort, only 1 J&K, 1 Hunt, 1 A&B, 2 Flower corvettes and 2 Black Swans. I had 3 Falkes and mostly fast air-driven torps. When all was over all the escorts were down together with 4 large transports, in all 40.000 tons. In that is not included 2 other large transports (Victory) we did not get credit for as it was too shallow so they were not registered as sunk. They just disappeared. Nice work in less than a week. Which Onkel Karl obviously appreciated, too. He gave me my diamonds.

The feeling of being launched on suicide missions is only increasing...:(...

[Missing Name]

June 10, 1941. Heavily garbled, weak unencrypted radio signal from U-108 (?).
U..8...R_B..._ANG...........RCH_FLUG......WE...... ........RA.... ..G9..3.....TOT.....WERE_SC.......N..ORT_DIE...... ...AD.._ANT..... ..RDE_V...U.HE....._Z.....IEN..
Intercepted RAF radio traffic west of Gibraltar mentions an attack on a uboat but there is no confirmation of a kill. No oil slick detected.

[Kapt Z]

2nd patrol

U-76, type VIIB
U-Flotilla Wegener, Kiel
Departed: 20NOV39
Returned: 30DEC39
Assigned grid: B13

6 Merchant ships sunk
2 Tankers sunk

30,631 tons

One torpedo remaing
No damage sustained

Oblt. Gunter Klauth

[VonApist]

U-33
July 31, 1940
Kaptltnt Dietmar Kloss

Back at Wilhelmshaven after a 4 week patrol
Patrol Grid: BF-21
Tonnage: 43,671
Warships: 1
Tankers: 1
Merchants: 6

Hull Integrity 100%

GWX+SH3Commander + Realism 90%

[Harald_Lange]

Just had a rough time of it.

Feb 18th 1940 in my TypeIIA. Tracked and intercepted a convoy protected by 2 Black swan Class, had only 3 eels remaining.

Launched them and managed to sink a large tanker and bring a large merchant to a stop. The tanker went up spectacularly, but the merchant refused to sink. I waited for the rest of the convoy to leave the area and surfaced at close range to open up with my only other weapon, the flak gun.

Turned the merchant into a floating bonfire but I attracted the attention of the 2 Black Swans. Was so focused on sinking this merchant I hid behind it to protect myself from the incoming shells. Very reckless I know but I was determined to add another 10,000t to my tally.

Big mistake as I narrowly escaped with a crash dive into only 40m of water. Spent the next night dodging wabo's on my way to deeper water.

Both Periscopes destroyed, Conning Tower severely damaged, severe damage to my radio room and worst of all the blast killed my Hydrophone operator. :nope:

Managed to finally make it to 70m water and miraculously my pressure hull held out despite all the damage. Shook them off and returned to port. Never managed to sink the burning merchant, but at least I survived for another Feindfahrt.


Patrol results|Crew losses: 1 dead|Ships sunk: 2|Aircraft destroyed: 0|Patrol tonnage: 13013 tons.

[matti95]

24 august 1941, CG 85.
U-94 Is getting in position for a torpedo attack on a granville freighter.
Last night 2 small merchants were sunk by U-94.

[Missing Name]

8-2-1941.

From: Befehlshaber der U-Boote
To:Kapitänleutnant Werner Rzepka, commander of U-108.

As a result of your continued reckless behavior, you are removed from command and facing possible demotion.

Even after repeated warnings and the loss of four your crew in June, you still take foolish gambles with the Navy's boat and personnel. Charging surfaced into a heavily armed convoy in broad daylight, well within the air coverage of Gibraltar is both suicidal and directly against your training. That everyone made it back alive is nothing short of a miracle.

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I have been informed that it is not economically feasible for U-108 to be repaired this time.

However, it is true that you have caused a great deal of damage to the enemy shipping routes. It is only for this reason that I have yet to decide whether you will be permanently removed from duty or be reassigned to a new boat. You are not allowed offshore while I make my decision.

[u35_captain]

Just brought U-105 back to Lorient after a long patrol in the Carribean, October 1942.

Total of 67,000 tons shipping sunk. I managed not to miss with a single torpedo from my Type IX. Raided three ports on the way and my flak gunners nailed a half-dozen Avengers.

I doubt I'll ever have a better mission. A box full of medals to award to my crew, and two promotions.

Thankfully, didn't see a single one of my arch-enemies, the Sunderlands of Coastal Command.

[Tinman764]

10 Sept 1939 - Depart Wilhelmshaven

13 Sept 1939 - Contact with Merchant AN44, Steamer sunk.

14 Sept 1939 - Contact with Merchant AN14, Freighter sunk.

14 Sept 1939 - Contact with Merchant AN14, Steamer sunk.

20 Sept 1939 - Contact with Large Convoy BF16
One ASW escort observed, HMS Nelson seen in centre of convoy.
HMS Nelson attacked with spread of 4 forward tubes.
Two premature detonations close to UBoat causing no damage. One premature detonation closer to convoy and
lost contact with final torpeado. No hits.

Second attack made on HMS Nelson with remaining 3 forward tubes.
Two premature detonations inside the convoy and one miss.
UBoat attacked by HMS Nelson - minor damage recieved.

Lost contact with convoy.

26 Sept 1939 - Contact with Merchant AN14, Freighter sunk.

26 Sept 1939 - Contact with Merchant AN14, Steamer sunk.

29 Sept 1939 - Returned Wilhelmshaven
Nil Injuries
Nil Deaths
5 Merchants sunk for 11911 tons

OBERLEUTNANT Z. S. Hans Kramer.
U-32

[Osmium Steele]

I thought I was in perfect position to hit the Nelson and the Rodney, 3km away, but the visibility was so poor, by the time I could see them it was too late!!

If I hadn't told the watch officer to bugger off, I could have put 4 fish in one of them at least.

0300 hours, high seas, overcast, manual targetting. Curse my inexperience! :damn::damn:

On the other hand, on the surface, desk awash, and watching a Hunt sail by less than 1km off my bow without being seen had a nice pucker factor! :yeah:

[andwii]

Patrol number: 18
Uboot: U-123
Year: 1939
Realism: 100%
max TC used: 128
Tonnage: 61021
Aircrafts:0
Days at sea: 09
managed to pull off the scapa flow raid.
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[Brag]

Balz is in the dreaded BoMüller Triangle. :D

[Harald_Lange]

Currently having the time of my life in the Denmark Strait. Whilst fully laden with eels, I encountered a large convoy.

I don't know whether I'm getting better at this lark, or if its just luck, but I've taken out 3 of the 4 escorts and sunk a large merchant, and 2 modern tankers. I've managed this by joining the middle of the convoy and shadowing a merchant whilst picking the tankers off with magnetic pistols at odd angles.

The last escort cottoned onto my game and threw me a few water bombs my way. Not bad timing though as I've doubled back a few miles to where I stopped a couple of merchants dead in the water. I've since reloaded my eels with the deck reserves, picked the merchants off with my deck guns, and I'm off back into the thick of it. If I can take out the last escort, I'm going to have a field day with my deck gun, it will probably melt.

This is quite simply the best game I've ever played, and I've played a few. :arrgh!:

EDIT: I've just been clicking around in SH3Commander, I didn't realise it actually shows you how many lives were lost for each ship sunk, the poor buggers...:doh:

[lightingstrike2]

This will be my first voyage.. on silent hunter 5. i am hopeing i have learned alot from Frontier :) so im hopeing i can do him proud will do a lets play as soon as i get my coppy of SH5 :) till then im doing as much sub and ship reshurch as i can get my mitts on

till next report

Lightingstrike2 out :salute: :ping:

[Tigershark624]

I'm currently on my second patrol, mid-September 1939. I've sunk five ships so far for just over 16,000 tons. I have three eels in the forward tubes, one in the stern and one stern reload. I just spent four hours of game time shadowing a large merchant, waiting til dusk to move in for the attack. I went to periscope depth at dusk and pulled up perpendicular to her course. I popped the attack scope up and immediately noticed the floodlights on her flag. NEUTRAL! :damn:

It was a large tanker, too. I was planning to fire my last three eels and go home. Back to Frigging Around for a time.

[Tinman764]

Mid-Patrol Report
U-32
Hans Kramer OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.

Patrolling designated area of the Rockall Banks.... weather foul.... no contacts for 5 days... request weather infomation or permission to patrol the SW approaches... out.

[Kapt Z]

3rd Patrol

U-76, type VIIB
7th/13th Flotilla, Kiel
Departed: 21JAN40
Returned: 04MAR40
Assigned Grid: BF11

5 Merchant ships sunk
2 Tankers sunk

37,860 tons

One torpedo remaining
No damage sustained

Oblt. Gunter Klauth(Knight's Cross)

[Tigershark624]

An update to my second patrol: As I watched the neutral tanker sail by I started getting hydrophone reports of a merchant off my port beam. With no time to turn around I engaged emergency speed reverse and readied tube 5. The other merchant turned out to be a Granville type freighter flying a British flag. I hit her in the engine room, surfaced and finished her off with the deck gun. This brought my patrol tonnage to roughly 21,400 tons. I set a southwesterly course and less than an hour later my watch crew sighted another merchant. I turned toward her and sighted two more darkened ships, sailing one behind the other. It's a good thing I still have three torps in the bow tubes. Sometimes things just work out. This will be my first multi-ship attack so hopefully all will go well.

[matti95]

U-94:s most successful patrol.

6.4.42.
1227 Patrol 9


U-94, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: April 6, 1942, 12:27
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid ED98

17.4.42.
1137 Grid ED 95 Ship sunk! MV Teakwood (Modern Tanker), 10761 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 56. Crew lost: 48

18.4.42.
1723 Grid ED 98 Ship sunk! SS Scythia (Ceramic-type Ocean Liner), 14595 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 1420. Crew lost: 411

19.4.42.
0133 Grid ED 98 Ship sunk! USS Black (Fletcher class), 2325 tons. Crew: 360. Crew lost: 79

0212 Grid ED 98 Ship sunk! MV Inversuir (Large Tanker), 9944 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 45. Crew lost: 9

0219 Grid ED 98 Ship sunk! MV Rio Bravo (Small Tanker), 2014 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 24. Crew lost: 16

0255 Grid EN 32 Ship sunk! MV Athelprincess (Large Tanker), 9945 tons. Cargo: Gasoline. Crew: 66. Crew lost: 45

20.4.42.
0240 Grid ED 83 Ship sunk! SS Marie-Louise le Borgne (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 23. Crew lost: 3

1911 Grid ED 51 Ship sunk! MV Tarascon (Small Tanker), 2051 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 25. Crew lost: 19

2.5.42.
1312 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 8
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 53504 tons

[andwii]

Patrol number: 25
Uboot: U-123
Year: 1940
Realism: 100%
max TC used: 128
Tonnage: 50150
Aircrafts:0
Days at sea: 09
On way back from Gibralter attempted to stop the evacuation of dunkirk.
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Patrol number: 26
Uboot: U-123
Year: 1940
Realism: 100%
max TC used: 128
Tonnage: 72140
Aircrafts:0
Days at sea: 10
Proper intel and good luck favored me this patrol. Did the most daring thing a commander can do, snuck into the port of Gibraltar on the surface (all be it later in the day and during a storm) and waited for a clear shot. Snuck out undetected and docked at supply ship for fuel.
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[matti95]

Patrol number: 25
Uboot: U-123
Year: 1940
Realism: 100%
max TC used: 128
Tonnage: 50150
Aircrafts:0
Days at sea: 09
On way back from Gibralter attempted to stop the evacuation of dunkirk.
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Patrol number: 26
Uboot: U-123
Year: 1940
Realism: 100%
max TC used: 128
Tonnage: 72140
Aircrafts:0
Days at sea: 10
Proper intel and good luck favored me this patrol. Did the most daring thing a commander can do, snuck into the port of Gibraltar on the surface (all be it later in the day and during a storm) and waited for a clear shot. Snuck out undetected and docked at supply ship for fuel.
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Not so bad to sink the hood :up:
How many torpedoes did you shoot at her before she sunk?

[andwii]

Not so bad to sink the hood :up:
How many torpedoes did you shoot at her before she sunk?

Took 6, was surprised thought it would take 8 or so, but 6 could have been overkill, I just fired everything loaded and got out of there lol.

[STEED]

Down under eating rice with the locals and getting banged up on ever patrol. Last patrol mid July 1944 wiped out a small convoy at a cost, bridge crew and AA crew were all killed. I hear Hideki Tojo is going to pin medals on my crew.

[matti95]

23.10.42.

1904 Patrol 12
U-94, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: October 23, 1942, 19:04
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AK11

29.10.42.
1319 Grid AK 23 Ship sunk! HMS Striker (Bogue class), 15390 tons. Crew: 908. Crew lost: 708

30.10.42.
0151 Grid AK 23 Ship sunk! HMS Transylvania (Auxiliary Cruiser), 13850 tons. Crew: 147. Crew lost: 111

8.11.42.
1858 Grid AK 54 Ship sunk! SS Washington (Empire-type Freighter), 6782 tons. Cargo: Trucks. Crew: 65. Crew lost: 2

1859 Grid AK 54 Ship sunk! SS Bretwalda (Granville-type Freighter), 4708 tons. Cargo: Foodstuffs. Crew: 64. Crew lost: 24

10.11.42.
1516 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 4
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 40730 tons

Sunk my first carrier on this mission :woot:

[STEED]

Late July 1944

Hideki Tojo flew in to penang to pin medals on me and my crew and why?

Bag my very first passenger ship NW of Australia. :woot:

Sunk the Queen Mary. :yeah:

First ever passenger ship I clapped eyes on down under all these years and wow get to sink it as well. :D

The crew and I are going to get drunk tonight. :()1: :()1:

[Fubar2Niner]

Late July 1944

Hideki Tojo flew in to penang to pin medals on me and my crew and why?

Bag my very first passenger ship NW of Australia. :woot:

Sunk the Queen Mary. :yeah:

First ever passenger ship I clapped eyes on down under all these years and wow get to sink it as well. :D

The crew and I are going to get drunk tonight. :()1: :()1:


Congrats Kaleun.
Already line(r'd) up on the bar :03: :()1:

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[matti95]

9 January 1943
U-94 now on the bottom of the atlantic (all hands lost)


TOTALS: 13 patrols (228 days)

Merchants/warships
SHIPS SUNK: 55 (45/10)


Merchants/warships
TONNAGE: 309671 (251086/58585)

[VONHARRIS]

Sunk the Queen Mary. :yeah:
The crew and I are going to get drunk tonight. :()1: :()1:

Way to go!
You deserve every bottle of beer you can drink.

[VONHARRIS]

9 January 1943
U-94 now on the bottom of the atlantic (all hands lost)


The crew and Kaleun of U-538 morn for the loss
Your death will not be in vain!

[Jonny]

U126 Holds 2 mins of silence to rememer how U94 fought tot he very end. The next ship is in your memory!

Jonny:salute:

[Osmium Steele]

We hit a large cargo ship with 2 fish, calm seas, magnetic fuses. Two loud explosions on target bearing and the ship foundered almost immeditaely. A short time later, my weapons officers claims she's a goner, then... ...nothing. She sat there, decks awash for almost 24 hours!!

Her crew abandoned her, and she bobbed about in over 1000 meters of open ocean!

It wasn't until we picked up a couple of her crewmen that we found out she was filled to the rails with timber!

No way she was going under without wasting a couple for eels on her. :yeah:

[matti95]

VONHARRIS, Jonny: Thank You! :salute:
It's allways a nervous moment when you blow ballast but the boat just keep sinking.

[Jonny]

Changed UBoats, now commanding U46. Start of war, in AN 87 san a partrol craft with 94% realism plus Realism V16B1-Patch-Kit, using it for the first time. Found it very hard, but rewarding. Can't manual target very weels to i have my weapon officer to help! substained heavy damage in the bow torpedo rooms! Nearly flooded, Managed to repair in 7 hours and reload all fish used. Sanka french merhant on the way back. 2016 T to finsh partrol on! After sinking the merchant U46 sent a status report and was ordered home and to abandon partrol for later date!

SS bosnia was sank and surviors picked up!

Jonny:salute:

[Boompus]

On my way to patrol AM79 I decided to visit my hometown.. the place where I live today :-) Changed a lot I must say ...:salute:

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/720/haguetn.jpg

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[u35_captain]

In U-97 on my 20th patrol, August 1941 (looking forward to transferring to Norway in '42, hopefully).

Decided to attack a lightly escorted convoy off the north of Ireland in 40 meter water. Sink a light tanker and two coastal merchants, and cripple a C2. A destroyer and a corvette decide to do something about that.

They started pinging away like mad, and in shallow water I choose a bold option: hiding under the C2 that is dead in the water. Which really seems to confuse the escorts. The destroyer, realizing it is on a collision course, slows down - just as she drops depth charges. Blew her own depth-charge racks off, which I've never seen before.

So I figure it's a good time to make a quiet escape. I come up to periscope depth keeping the C2 between me and the corvette. And I put my last torpedo into the C2, the noises of her sinking apparently ruining the corvette's attempts to locate me.

Currently making good my escape, as the destroyer and corvette have given up and returned to the convoy, and feeling very lucky.

[andwii]

Patrol number: 29
Uboot: U-123
Year: 1940
Realism: 100%
max TC used: 001
Tonnage: 61284
Aircrafts:0
Days at sea: 02
Lesson learned, TC of 1 is a very very hard to do thing with out getting bored. Returned to supply ship early, unsure of how much damage sustained when a torpedo boat caught us off guard.

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww291/sopranosaxman/report29.png

[Osmium Steele]

I just re-read page 437 of the GWX manual, and I couldn't find where it says the passenger/cargo is impossible to sink with anything short of a tactical nuke.... :shifty:

<grumble grumble> :damn::damn:

Horrible weather, visibility 1000 meters tops. I set up right in the path of the convoy, between the 1st and 2nd columns via sonar.

As the first ship became visible, the convoy abruptly changed course! Right over my head!

I thunked 2 eels off the Empire's hull and torpedoed a passenger cargo with Tube 5 at just over 300m. Nice explosion. Didn't even slow down.

Stupid converted ice-breaker....

[u35_captain]

Type IXB U-105, sailing approximately 150 kilometers east of the Azores on the way to patrol grid.

December 31st, 1942 - and the allies gave us a present! An unescorted Small Tanker and a C2, sailing perfectly across our path.

Three torpedoes, two kills, and a Happy New Year's message to send back to Lorient.

[TorpLos]

So probably not to smart but after years of a break i decided to come back to sh3.. Using nygm and the hsie patch i fired up a game in mid 43 with a 7b. for my own challene i just took the 7b as is and did not upgrade besides 1 FAT torp..

Question:
after about 7 days i ran into a konvoi in the nord atlantik.. How the hell do you approach a konvoi during this time period.. I recieved the metox radar warning dove and heard the konvoi. full speed to intercept but before i even saw the formation of the konvoi destroyers were dead ahead coming full speed. i shot off a rerport and dove..
After 3 hours (real time) a record depth of 230 meters and minor damage i escaped the destroyers and completely lost the konvoi... The hell. It ended before it even began! There was no way i could shadow the konvoi after that. And the destroyer escort was ridiculous. At one point 4 were hunting me amd i still heard the screws of 3-4 more destrpyers in konvoi. I know the difficulty but wat gave me away so soon¿ it wasnt my radio report because i didnt send one when i was already being pursued..

[Boompus]

So probably not to smart but after years of a break i decided to come back to sh3.. Using nygm and the hsie patch i fired up a game in mid 43 with a 7b. for my own challene i just took the 7b as is and did not upgrade besides 1 FAT torp..

Question:
after about 7 days i ran into a konvoi in the nord atlantik.. How the hell do you approach a konvoi during this time period.. I recieved the metox radar warning dove and heard the konvoi. full speed to intercept but before i even saw the formation of the konvoi destroyers were dead ahead coming full speed. i shot off a rerport and dove..
After 3 hours (real time) a record depth of 230 meters and minor damage i escaped the destroyers and completely lost the konvoi... The hell. It ended before it even began! There was no way i could shadow the konvoi after that. And the destroyer escort was ridiculous. At one point 4 were hunting me amd i still heard the screws of 3-4 more destrpyers in konvoi. I know the difficulty but wat gave me away so soon¿ it wasnt my radio report because i didnt send one when i was already being pursued..

Sounds realistic for that period. Once they know you're out there :ping:.... try to survive...or.. just abandon ship and sink the boat and hope that the rest of the Wolfsrudel will take care of the convoy. :salute:

[andwii]

So probably not to smart but after years of a break i decided to come back to sh3.. Using nygm and the hsie patch i fired up a game in mid 43 with a 7b. for my own challene i just took the 7b as is and did not upgrade besides 1 FAT torp..

Question:
after about 7 days i ran into a konvoi in the nord atlantik.. How the hell do you approach a konvoi during this time period.. I recieved the metox radar warning dove and heard the konvoi. full speed to intercept but before i even saw the formation of the konvoi destroyers were dead ahead coming full speed. i shot off a rerport and dove..
After 3 hours (real time) a record depth of 230 meters and minor damage i escaped the destroyers and completely lost the konvoi... The hell. It ended before it even began! There was no way i could shadow the konvoi after that. And the destroyer escort was ridiculous. At one point 4 were hunting me amd i still heard the screws of 3-4 more destrpyers in konvoi. I know the difficulty but wat gave me away so soon¿ it wasnt my radio report because i didnt send one when i was already being pursued..
I am assuming radar got you, or they saw you, could be that. It depends on the weather, day/night, decks a wash or not, speed you were going. So many things, but at least you made it out alive, thats what counts.

[Osmium Steele]

Hehe, Whitleys blow up good, blow up real good. Didn't even have time to drop his bombs.

Make a heckuva racket bouncing off the hull though. Even knocked some books off the shelves in the bow quarters.

That'll teach Coastal Command to interrupt my torpedo load!


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[FlechenSabre]

Have decided to do a campaign with Realism full (with exception of duds), and I have been assigned to the beautiful VIIC U-385 of the 1st Flotilla. I will only be using TC when I am "asleep", but during my waking hours it'll be set at 1.

Have just left Brest, and all but 40 minutes in to the patrol I have 2 different U-boats with SOSes to BDU. One of them, u-191, was lost for sure. Not a good omen if you ask me. 85 hours to CF16, hopefully not a -too- eventful trip . . .

[Frenchy849]

campaign with Realism full (with exception of duds)
Excuse me,but
WHAT ARE YOU?!

[FlechenSabre]

Excuse me,but
WHAT ARE YOU?!

A kaluen that gets lucky with his eels? :D

[Shkval]

Well after looong time I'm back in SH3 this time with GWX 3.0 gold and MaGui UI... After two weeks of on&off playing because of job, I have finished my first war patrol at 85% realism (I love that external camera, and I had to keep weapon officer assistance because of mod).
First time playing with "map update off" and it's pretty difficult...I was already familiar with manual aiming but this is a whole new game... and I want to kiss my watch officer all the time :).
Also I'm practicing (and getting really good at it... thanks to you guys) hydrophone tracking and plotting, this means a LOT. Only those pesky merchants change course pretty often, in coastal areas, and I have learned that you need at lest 6 degrees rate of change for this methods to work... i.e. small change means he is coming at you... move aside and measure again.
One more thing left to master...RAOBF disc... almost done...
60.000+ tonnage for first patrol is not bad...

[Boompus]

Almost made it.. It's great fun sailing through the Kiel Canal :D
No mines I hope at the end...:hmmm:

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3108/kielf.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

No mines I hope at the end...:hmmm:
No, but stay away from Helgoland! :yep:

[krashkart]

No, but stay away from Helgoland! :yep:

Fellow Kaleu! Hear me!

What Sailor the Steve (mightiest of them all) speaks is truth! Helgoland is ruled by leather-clad dominatrix. It is an island full of beautiful naked women who know when a man needs a beer, and their sandwich-making skills are unparalleled anywhere else in the world. No Kaleun worth his weight in mustard and delicious ham would dare subject his crew to such a place. Be warned! Helgoland is a place of forbidden fruits and... cheese platters. No crew who has gone there has ever returned!! :stare:

[Boompus]

No, but stay away from Helgoland! :yep:
Yep.. I know. Many Dutch have some bad memories of "GoHelland" .. (Hel is Hell in Dutch)
On my way to AN73... so I'll be 41 km south of hell.. must be enough :salute:

[Osmium Steele]

Just once, I'd like to play a campaign from the beginning to beyond 1943. :damn:

Sep 22 1943, sitting on the convoy route north of the Canary Islands.
The weather has been horrible. I cannot catch the high speed convoys in the 15M/S winds and high sea states. Only fired two eels the entire patrol so far, and those missed. Evidently, I left the scope up a hair too long and it was spotted on radar, because the entire convoy zigged when I gave the command to fire.

Finally got a report of a task force headed our way. OK, if there is a carrier included, we have a target.

Worked our way into position, fired two eels, both hit, escorts pinging away as usual. We are diving, decoying and evading. We are at 180 meters, silent running, 8 degree port rudder. The first reports of depth charges and that was all she wrote. Neptune starts banging on our hull with a humongous hammer.

Already had men in position for damage control, but to no avail. Just as we got a handle on the major flooding, the aft torpedo room collapsed due to pressure, and it hadn't even been damaged in the attack.

I was just too close to the escort, and Evarts class, from the beginning. Should have attacked from 4k+, not 2.5k.

Pinpoint precision with the first volley of wasserbombs. D I D. 1939 here we come.


:-?

[reignofdeath]

Just once, I'd like to play a campaign from the beginning to beyond 1943. :damn:

Sep 22 1943, sitting on the convoy route north of the Canary Islands.
The weather has been horrible. I cannot catch the high speed convoys in the 15M/S winds and high sea states. Only fired two eels the entire patrol so far, and those missed. Evidently, I left the scope up a hair too long and it was spotted on radar, because the entire convoy zigged when I gave the command to fire.

Finally got a report of a task force headed our way. OK, if there is a carrier included, we have a target.

Worked our way into position, fired two eels, both hit, escorts pinging away as usual. We are diving, decoying and evading. We are at 180 meters, silent running, 8 degree port rudder. The first reports of depth charges and that was all she wrote. Neptune starts banging on our hull with a humongous hammer.

Already had men in position for damage control, but to no avail. Just as we got a handle on the major flooding, the aft torpedo room collapsed due to pressure, and it hadn't even been damaged in the attack.

I was just too close to the escort, and Evarts class, from the beginning. Should have attacked from 4k+, not 2.5k.

Pinpoint precision with the first volley of wasserbombs. D I D. 1939 here we come.


:-?

Don't feel bad, I don't believe Ive made it past 1941:ping:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Don't feel bad, I don't believe Ive made it past 1941:ping:

D.I.D. My middle name is 1939:haha:

[andwii]

in my type II campagin

Just docked at Keil, after a very heroic patrol by my crew after sinking the HMS Royal Oak on the night of October 5th! Drinks all around!

[VONHARRIS]

After some time things have gone better , here.
So I have managed to start a new career , playing at night mostly.

Patrol 1 was shakedown.

Patrol 2 as follows

Patrol results
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/859/patrol2results.jpg


Patrol log page 1 of 4
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Patrol log page 2 of 4
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Patrol log page 3 of 4
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Patrol log page 4 of 4
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[andwii]

I started a career in april of 1940 after my current one was found "dead" (was in TC and accident hit dive... doh) so I started the new career and we deck gunning a ship when I get the message "We are under attack" then a CTD... game hates me.

[VONHARRIS]

Patrol 3

Patrol results

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Patrol log page 1 of 3

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Patrol log page 2 of 3

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Patrol log page 3 of 3

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[andwii]

Many congrats on sinking the HMS Hood! Drinks all around!

[andwii]

successively invaded Scapa flow, sank an illustrious class carrier. One load of torpedoes remaining. Received message, beginning operation hartmut.

Edit

Battleship HMS Nelson sunk while patroling for Operation Harmut. Took five torpedoes, one external stern left returning to base.

[VONHARRIS]

successively invaded Scapa flow, sank an illustrious class carrier. One load of torpedoes remaining. Received message, beginning operation hartmut.

Edit

Battleship HMS Nelson sunk while patroling for Operation Harmut. Took five torpedoes, one external stern left returning to base.

An impressive patrol: two capital warships sunk.
Congatulations
A Knights cross awaits you.

[VONHARRIS]

Patrol 4 results

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Patrol log page 1 of 3

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Patrol log page 2 of 3

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Patrol log page 3 of 3

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[Jimbuna]

Heading off to the Thames Estuary in a Type XXIII (two eels) so will be particularly choosy in what I attack.

[Kavok]

U-93 patrolling 500km west of Gibraltar, 12 days out of Lorient. Two weapons fired, accounting for 1x Granville-Type and a Small Merchant. Heavy seas and cloud. Sparse contact with enemy.

Continuing patrol.

[GWX - 82% realism]

[Boompus]

Today, my country is celebrating the liberation on may 5th 1945... and at this very moment I'm playing a German Kaleun..:-? :salute:

[andwii]

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww291/sopranosaxman/report01.png

[VONHARRIS]

Patrol 5 results

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Patrol log page 1 of 3

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Patrol log page 2 of 3

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Patrol log page 3 of 3

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[andwii]

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww291/sopranosaxman/report03.png
PS... Von what do you do to keep such good records? Have a pad and paper next to you or something?

[VONHARRIS]

PS... Von what do you do to keep such good records? Have a pad and paper next to you or something?

Exactly, I take notes during the patrol and then I edit the log_# file (# = patrol number) in C:\Documents and Settings\User\My documents\GWX\data\cfg\Careers\von Harris folder.

[theroc44]

Heading off to the Thames Estuary in a Type XXIII (two eels) so will be particularly choosy in what I attack.


i love that boat, hate reloading on the surface even at night.

[bigboywooly]

i love that boat, hate reloading on the surface even at night.

Shouldnt be able to reload a type 23
Only carried 2 torpedos and they were already loaded in the tubes before the patrol started as no room to carry them inside

http://www.uboataces.com/uboat-type-xxiii.shtml

[andwii]

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww291/sopranosaxman/report04.png

engaged task force in the Straits of Gibraltar, battle cruiser HMS Hood sank, later that day Q ship sank.

[VONHARRIS]

engaged task force in the Straits of Gibraltar, battle cruiser HMS Hood sank, later that day Q ship sank.

Ah , Das Boot sunk HMS Hood.

Well done Herr Kaluen!

[andwii]

Ah , Das Boot sunk HMS Hood.

Well done Herr Kaluen!

danke, it was either I sink the hood or the ark royal or HMS Valiant so I chose the Hood, got in at about 600 meters because they made a course change and made for a perfect 90 degree.

[Blackhawk1006]

U-106, Type IXB, August 1941, docked at the Python supply ship in the South Atlantic.

Have been raiding the shipping lanes around Freetown and Cape Town, notching 7 kills. Then infiltrated St Helena Harbour and sunk 2 cruisers (1 Southampton Class and 1 Fiji Class).

[andwii]

ok I did something very unrealistic I navigated the suez canal, and survived to dock at Mogadishu, and I raided Alexandria.


http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww291/sopranosaxman/report07.png

[VONHARRIS]

ok I did something very unrealistic I navigated the suez canal, and survived to dock at Mogadishu, and I raided Alexandria.




You are a daring Kaleun.
Well done! :salute:

[VONHARRIS]

Patrols 6 and 7 were a total disaster.
Never made it out of port because of engine troubles , damaged and off centered periscopes and ..... many more

Patrol 8 results

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Patrol log page 1 of 2

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Patrol log page 2 of 2

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[mdewals]

Hello, New captain reporting for duty.

Just recently began playing this game and slowly getting the hang of it. Decided to report on my latest mission.

Had a really boring patrol out of Brest tp BE59. Spotted nothing in there. Could have stayed longer but what the hey.....

Planned a small detour back home by first going ENE towards Ireland and then down again to Brest. Hoping to spot a ship or two.

Got a report on a ship and planned an intercept course. At first no contact so returned to plotted course when suddenly: "SHIP SPOTTED!". Down to periscope depth and chased the Coastal Merchant.
FYI, this was at night. Went back up and decided to kill it with my deckgun.

Started firing the deckgun when suddenly I spotted a second plume of smoke. :o Luckily it was a tanker. to be safe I fired a torpedo to both which both hit their target.
The merchant was badly crippled but the tanked barely noticed it. Finished off both with the deckgun and went back home.
There another ship was spotted. A Flower class. Back to periscope depth and fire away another torpedo. She never knew what hit her and went down right away.

The rest of the trip was uneventfull sadly :(


PS: Do you guys stay out much longer then the required 24 hours in your assigned sector??

[bigboywooly]

Welcome aboard mdewals :salute:

I generally do the required 24 hrs then move over a grid or 2 depending on where I am.
Then move to a choke point ( where Atlantic meets Irish Sea either end or approaches to Gibraltar ) where I know traffic will move thru.

How you play is entirely up to you.
I never go home unless out of ammunition or fuel,
Some patrol for 3/4 weeks then head home,
Others play differently still.

:yeah:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Hello, New captain reporting for duty.

Just recently began playing this game and slowly getting the hang of it. Decided to report on my latest mission.

Had a really boring patrol out of Brest tp BE59. Spotted nothing in there. Could have stayed longer but what the hey.....

Planned a small detour back home by first going ENE towards Ireland and then down again to Brest. Hoping to spot a ship or two.

Got a report on a ship and planned an intercept course. At first no contact so returned to plotted course when suddenly: "SHIP SPOTTED!". Down to periscope depth and chased the Coastal Merchant.
FYI, this was at night. Went back up and decided to kill it with my deckgun.

Started firing the deckgun when suddenly I spotted a second plume of smoke. :o Luckily it was a tanker. to be safe I fired a torpedo to both which both hit their target.
The merchant was badly crippled but the tanked barely noticed it. Finished off both with the deckgun and went back home.
There another ship was spotted. A Flower class. Back to periscope depth and fire away another torpedo. She never knew what hit her and went down right away.

The rest of the trip was uneventfull sadly :(


PS: Do you guys stay out much longer then the required 24 hours in your assigned sector??

Welcome mate. You are now addicted. Watch out for the flower class they can be nasty.

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Patrols 6 and 7 were a total disaster.
Never made it out of port because of engine troubles , damaged and off centered periscopes and ..... many more

Patrol 8 results

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7861/patrol8results.jpg


Patrol log page 1 of 2

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8325/patrol8page1of2.jpg


Patrol log page 2 of 2

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/354/patrol8page2of2.jpg

Very nice log keeping.

[VONHARRIS]

Very nice log keeping.

Thank you.

[mdewals]

Well, yesterday's mission wasn't exactly a succes but did sink 4 ships.

I installed the Merchant Fleed mod and those baby's need a little more attention to make them go down.:oops:

My hydrophone guy spotted a warship so I dived to PD when suddenly they said they spotted a merchant. The warship wasn't anywhere.
So I pursued the merchant, a M26B. Fired a few torpedo's on it but it wouldn't go down. Then I showed my greenness and surfaced to finish him off with the deckgun.
Little did I know it was armed. And even worse, I suddenly had Clemson destroyed attacking me. Quickly dove to PD and fired my aft torpedo on the Clemson.
Not sure if the torpedo hit him or if we collided but the Clemson destroyer was a goner and I had massive flooding. Stopped it at ~135m and went back up by blowing ballast. Actually by then I discovered the Clemson was sunk:cool:

Back to PD and another round of eels for the merchant which finally sunk.

Continued to my designated area and ran into a M38B merchant. This time took some more interest in her. Fired off 1 eel and turned 180 degrees to fire a aft-eel. Down she went.

back on course navigator!!

Ran into another Clemson. Dove to PD and saw her turning into my direction. Fired 1 eel that missed followed by another that struck her hard, the boat rocked a lot. Still not going down and closing fast, another eel, my last front-eel. Blew the nose right off (not visually :( ) and she went down hard.

With only one eel left I decided to abort the mission and go home to Brest.

11540 tons won't bother me anymore :)

[Missing Name]

Late December 1940. South of Iceland. Sank the HMT Aquitania!

[bigboywooly]

Well, yesterday's mission wasn't exactly a succes but did sink 4 ships.

I installed the Merchant Fleed mod and those baby's need a little more attention to make them go down.:oops:

My hydrophone guy spotted a warship so I dived to PD when suddenly they said they spotted a merchant. The warship wasn't anywhere.
So I pursued the merchant, a M26B. Fired a few torpedo's on it but it wouldn't go down. Then I showed my greenness and surfaced to finish him off with the deckgun.
Little did I know it was armed. And even worse, I suddenly had Clemson destroyed attacking me. Quickly dove to PD and fired my aft torpedo on the Clemson.
Not sure if the torpedo hit him or if we collided but the Clemson destroyer was a goner and I had massive flooding. Stopped it at ~135m and went back up by blowing ballast. Actually by then I discovered the Clemson was sunk:cool:

Back to PD and another round of eels for the merchant which finally sunk.

Continued to my designated area and ran into a M38B merchant. This time took some more interest in her. Fired off 1 eel and turned 180 degrees to fire a aft-eel. Down she went.

back on course navigator!!

Ran into another Clemson. Dove to PD and saw her turning into my direction. Fired 1 eel that missed followed by another that struck her hard, the boat rocked a lot. Still not going down and closing fast, another eel, my last front-eel. Blew the nose right off (not visually :( ) and she went down hard.

With only one eel left I decided to abort the mission and go home to Brest.

11540 tons won't bother me anymore :)



Am guessing you're playing stock with the Clemson references so early in the war.
Yes he probably collided with your tower and as a result sunk - stock issue.
If your crew spotted a warship its there so you will need to make sure you have a good look around as later in the war you wont last long if you dont see them.
And yes ships do become armed - again a good look thru the scope will show if the have a bow/stern gun mounted.

Least you are having fun which is the main thing :yeah:

[mdewals]

Yeah, playing stock on my laptop as my pc is currently at my moms place waiting to move to my new gameroom. But before that my GF and me have to finish remodeling our new house.

Laptop already struggles in dock.

[brett25]

june 1942, just made it through gibralta. we are on our way to Libya in support Rommels efforts at tobruk. Will have to refuel at Salamis:salute:

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

1940
Day 1:
My first patrol!
Setting off from st nazaire setting course for the south end of England. After a few sweeps over a large radiance discovered a lone merchant ship. Popped one into it and he was straight to the bottom. When I turned us around to head back to our original patrol route we picked up a contact at around 10-11 at night. After a while of tailing we made visual contact further out to sea at around midnight.
Day 2:
Continuing with the tailing we later discovered it was a one destroyer heading out across the Atlantic. After a few hours of tailing and crossing the point of no return we fired a torpedo at its stern. The torpedo was a dud and the destroyer was on high alert. After further pursuing the destroyer out onto the Atlantic we sank it with two eels. After discovering this route I took a chance and set us a course across the Atlantic to pick off some cargo ships bound for Britian against orders.
Day 3: (current day)
A change of course in the Atlantic as we set a course for the "Bermuda triangle" in search of the fabled "ghost ships" at the request of one of my friends. Trying to keep him happy I defied orders and turned my U-boat into a personal yacht. It will still take a while as we are nowhere near halfway.

[Laufen zum Ziel]

1940
Day 1:
My first patrol!
Setting off from st nazaire setting course for the south end of England. After a few sweeps over a large radiance discovered a lone merchant ship. Popped one into it and he was straight to the bottom. When I turned us around to head back to our original patrol route we picked up a contact at around 10-11 at night. After a while of tailing we made visual contact further out to sea at around midnight.
Day 2:
Continuing with the tailing we later discovered it was a one destroyer heading out across the Atlantic. After a few hours of tailing and crossing the point of no return we fired a torpedo at its stern. The torpedo was a dud and the destroyer was on high alert. After further pursuing the destroyer out onto the Atlantic we sank it with two eels. After discovering this route I took a chance and set us a course across the Atlantic to pick off some cargo ships bound for Britian against orders.
Day 3: (current day)
A change of course in the Atlantic as we set a course for the "Bermuda triangle" in search of the fabled "ghost ships" at the request of one of my friends. Trying to keep him happy I defied orders and turned my U-boat into a personal yacht. It will still take a while as we are nowhere near halfway.

You will never get the Iron Cross violating orders:haha::haha:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

june 1942, just made it through gibralta. we are on our way to Libya in support Rommels efforts at tobruk. Will have to refuel at Salamis:salute:

Good luck on your journey and happy hunting.

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Day 7:
Returning to orders came up with a foolproof:D plan to journey into portsmouth and torpedo ships in the docks. So far I survived a depth charge attack from a royal navy destroyer. One of our batteries is damaged and my engine is at half speed. I suspect with the current level of activity getting out of portsmouth will br a suicide mission. IF we escape we make a beeline for France and hug the coast all the way home.

[andwii]

although I usually raid harbors when im board you sir are daring, ive never successfully made it into portsmouth with out a CTD or being stopped on the way in and having to out run them underwater (XII)or be depth charged.

[VONHARRIS]

I ditched my VIIB career. I can not adopt to this type.
I missed my IX B/C.
Anyway new career

Patrol 1 shakedown

Patrol 2 results

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[jimmyjam25]

Well its October 1941 and I have been stationed at St Nazaire since the start of the war. I was on my way up to the North Atlantic and I get a message from BDU... "Make your way to La Spezia for transfer to blablabla flottila.".... Not impressed... Feels like Das Boot lol. :DL Oh well... So, who thinks im gonna make it through Gibraltar Straight? Or will I be depth charged to Davey Jones locker?

[jimmyjam25]

Well I made it to La Spezia but now it says return to St Nazaire on my objectives... What did I do wrong? Why haven't I been transferred to this flotilla? Wish I had just ignored Bdu and continued back to St Nazaire... Does this mean I will have to try to get back to St Nazaire again?

[RConch]

It is early November 1941, U 48 is at KM grid CF 98.
17,000grt off a large merchant and a Liberty ship-both sailing solo.
Weather has turned awful! Seven days so far of rain and rough seas. One small convoy heard, but I was unable to find it-more worried about a radar equiped escort coming out of the gloom at 500 meters or less with no chance to evade.

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Day 8: I DID IT!! Sank 3 Tribal class destroyers and two merchants in Portsmouth! And hugged the coast all the way back to St Nazaire! After a re-fit and refuel I was awarded a medal! Hooray!
Day 11 *end of refit*
Just got new orders. To patrol the grid square next to the infamous Scapa flow.
My plan is to patrol the square and then pay Scapa a visit!
Day 14: Started patrolling the grid square. Encountered an unarmed large cargo ship. Sank it with the deck gun. No activity after that.
Day 15: Scapa Flow: Before I even reached Scapa had a VERY close call with 3 destroyers. After slowly making my way up to Scapa at 2knts I went through the netting and sank a juicy aircraft carrier and 3 destroyers. Now making my way back to base!

[STEED]

As my ship yard is running low on IX boats and full to the rim with VII Boats I have decided on using them for a change. April 1940 4 passenger ships and one Battleship sent to the bottom, with less ells I have to be more picky at what I target and boy did I target the big stuff. :DL

[Missing Name]

February 8th, 1941

U-108:
Aft tubes inoperable. Attempts to unjam doors failed. Requesting permission to return to Lorient.

BdU:
Report back to base. Attack the enemy if opportunity presents itself.

- - - - - -

February 13th, 1941

U-108:
Convoy. CG9473. Eastbound, 5 knots. Count about 30 ships, at least 3 escorts. Visibility 5000 meters and diminishing.

BdU:
No boats are in the immediate vicinity. Attack while weather permits.

U-108:
Fired two torpedoes at Town class cruiser, two at large steamship, estimated 6000 tons. Two explosions, sinkings not witnessed. Out of internal torpedoes. Rain, high winds.

[TBoone]

I havent been doing anything because I lost all my audio on the game on Windows 7 its bullcrap.

[GalaxianFive]

Patrol 7, sank HMS Nelson off the coast of Norway, was escorted by 9 destroyers, depth charged at 142 meters for 1 1/2 hours got away without a scratch.
Patrol 9, found large convoy near rockall, sank HMS Nelson (again! is this supposed not to happen) which was in the middle of the convoy. When I returned to Kiel changed name in log to HMS Rodney.
Patrol 10, sank HMS Rodney! travelling in the middle of another convoy, oh well they all count. I'd love to find the Ark Royal, never seen any mention of it , is it missing from the game?

[UndertheEagle]

My current Captain, Oberleutnant z.s. Karl Drost, in U107 (an IXB) has just returned off his fourth patrol (August 1941). We spent 51 days at sea.

We set off from Lorient on July 6th, and encountered a tiny convoy coming back from Gibralter. Avoided the escort and fired three eels - two hit a large merchant and the other missed a tramp steamer. The large merchant sank in a little under 7 minutes and U107 was depth charged for around 40 minutes, before we lost the escort and slunk away.

That was the last enemy ship we saw for a long time. U107 came across two Japanese ships and several American ships, but no targets.

Then on the August 21st (!) we finally picked up a sound contact, chased it and managed to get into a firing position and sent 4 eels at a Modern Tanker in very rough weather. Three premature detonations later, my T1 struck her in the engine room and she sank in about 10 minutes.

Then, moving East U107 ran into a convoy. 6 eels fired at 0142 with two hits, 3 premature detonations and 1 miss. Two Empire Freighters sunk.

U107 continued to follow the convoy, darting ahead and at 0818 we were spotted by a Black Swan Class - as she charged us, U107 turned, fled and fired both stern tubes at her. One eel hit and HMS Flamingo sank in 4 minutes. We reloaded in time to be chased by another Black Swan 20 minutes later. Used the same tactic and an eel struck her in the side - HMS Lark sank in less than two minutes.

Thank goodness for a rough sea - few near misses but we survived. At this point U107 slipped away and decided to regain contact later.

Two hours later, we fired a full load (bow and stern tubes) at the convoy and sank a large Tanker and a Large Merchant. Escaped completely unharmed.

As we fled back towards Lorient (one torpedo left) we ran into a lone Medium Cargo and managed to get in close and struck her with our last eel. She stayed afloat for well over an hour but finally sank.

Karl Drost and U107 sank 60774 tons.:yeah: I'll take another 51 day cruise for that amount!!

[mdewals]

Well, my last patrol ended in near disaster.

Here I was being too eager to sink a ship in bad weather that I lost all my aft torpedo's. I continued to my designated area when all of a sudden I was under attack.

In terrible weather, visibility around 250-300m I ended up in a convoy and a flower class destroyer decided to do some target practice on me.

I did manage to hit him with 1 eel but it couldnt arm itself before hitting target.

With my ship being beaten up I went to 100m and snuck out and limped back home.

[andwii]

http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww291/sopranosaxman/report09.png

this was a carefully planed invasion of Scapa Flow, showing that even with their "new" defense systems England's ports are still vulnerable!

[diesel97]

November 1940, out of St. Nazaire. 1st patrol after coming back to GWX and enjoying it immensely. No sightings in my assigned area near Spain, so moved south towards Freetown. Sighted by a trawler and PT boat. Dived and annoyed by some very accurate DC's from it. Continued into the shipping lanes and just bagged a big solo freighter.

You still can't beat this classic for straightforward gameplay, attention to detail and atmosphere.

[benitorios]

All right, my first time reporting in this thread and I'm going to summarize my first 5 patrols of Kaleun Jürgen Schrader, 7th Flotilla, in command of U-48, a Type VIIB.


First patrol, December 1939. I was sent to BF48. The trip around the British Isles in order to get there was rather eventful, as I could rack up close to 40,000 tons in two convoy encounters + a few lone merchants. Reached patrol grid with just 4 eels to spare, patrolled for a few days, then went home.
Ships sunk: 12; Patrol tonnage: 61001 tons (my best ever single patrol since playing at 100% realism :rock:)


2nd patrol, January 1940. Assigned to grid BF18. A usually juicy grid, except I never made it there, due to two convoy encounters in which I expended all my eels.
The second convoy attack turned out great: I positioned myself ahead and starboard of the convoy, let the lead escort pass me by, then started singling out targets. Oh, by the way, it was mid-day... a little reckless I suppose, but made it far easier to spot and shoot from afar.
I notice that a warship sound contact is making an unfamiliar noise. Zero in the attack scope on that bearing, zoom in... a Revenge class. Yay!!! Forget that medium tanker I had painted a big red X upon earlier, my 4 eels are going to Mr. Revenge. 3 T1, 1 T2. 2 set on impact, 4m deep, 2 set on magnetic, just 1 meter below draft. Launched all four 8 seconds apart, targeting different parts of the ship. 3 hits! The fourth one was set too deep and didn't detonate. Time to dive deep. Played cat and mouse for 2 hours with the lead escort who had circled back onto me. In the meantime, the Revenge sank around 30 minutes after being hit.

The sad part? I only realized after the whole episode that the lead escort was that convoy's only escort !! I could have had a go at it while it passed in front of me and had the whole convoy to myself ! :damn: I guess that means better scouting and intelligence next time around...

Anyway, triumphant return home (my first battleship kill, allow me to celebrate :woot: Sorry, HMS Royal Sovereign), 52880 tons. Only a little disappointed that I don't get more renown than in my 1st patrol. But hey, I got medals :D!


3rd patrol, March 1940. Assigned to grid AM97. That's again a long way around.

North of Scotland I encounter and sink a lone coastal freighter. Then it's aircraft alert upon aircraft alert. At one point, I decide not to crash-dive but have a closer look at what aircraft is coming my way. Looks like a biplane. A Swordfish. OK, I'm going to let my flak gunner have a go at this. The guy just got transferred and he has to justify that flak gunner qualification somehow. To my surprise, he shoots down all 3 Swordfish that were coming at us! They didn't even get close.

An hour later, another aircraft sighting. Have a look... Swordfish again. Let's do this, shall we? 3 more Swordfish downed :arrgh!:

Another hour passed by, another aircraft sighting. That was the time too many... This time my flak gunner did shoot them all down again, except the last one made it all the way and dropped 3 bombs onto our deck (I swear I gulped down hard in RL when I saw those bombs leave the plane). Flak gunner and 1WO dead, both periscopes, hydrophone, aft batteries destroyed, hull damaged and bad flooding.
We barely fixed the boat up on time. After assessment of the damage, I decided it was pointless to continue with this patrol and crawled back home with all remaining 44 crew members keeping all fingers and toes crossed for no more aircraft attacks. That's a lot of fingers crossed, by the way.
We made it. 59% hull integrity, 2 good crew lost. That will teach me a lesson in humility in dealing with the RAF...

4th patrol, May1940. Assigned to grid AN55. Mmm, that's a little close to the British shore to my liking, plus there is not a whole lot of water to play in there. We make it to the patrol grid. Weather is terrible, zero visibility, so I decide the best way to pick up any target is to submerge and listen. Bad idea. 6 hours after submerging, we struck a mine while cruising at 2 knots. The boat is all orange and red, minor to extensive damage in almost every compartment. What saved us is the shallowness of the sea here: we bottomed down at 77m. Took 20 minutes to fix up everything, after which we timidly attempted to go up, using compressed air only (too scared to move in any direction and hit another mine). Damage was even more extensive than in the last patrol, couldn't even radio back to BdU. We crept back home under cover of the bad weather and spent 5 weeks in port fixing U-48 up.

5th patrol, July 1940. Assigned to AN59. Mmm, what is it with the British Eastern seaboard? Anyways... that's orders, right?
We make it there, only to find 15m/s winds and zero visibility. We get a convoy report, attempt to intercept, but in the meantime it changes course and goes into Hull. We retreat back to AN59, dive to PD and listen. Sound contact. At last! 4-bearing method, we get into position 500m from the projected course. Can't see anything, so will have to shoot based on bearing callouts from my sonarman. Torpedo los! I use the event camera in this patrol, which gives me the joy to see my torpedo go under the target :down: - whatever it was (couldn't make it out on the event camera). It must have been a small boat, as the torp was set at 4m deep. Perhaps a tugboat or something.
Anyway, with this weather, impossible to use the deck gun, and I'm not going to waste another torpedo for a target this size, so back to listening.
Next day, contact! Freighter, moving slow. OK, hopefully this is when my luck turns for the better. 4-bearing method, we get into position. Something is amiss, though. My sonarman keeps calling out bearings, but I can't hear anything myself on the hydrophones. And impossible to get a visual in this pea soup. I guess I'll just trust my SO. Again, we shoot based on hydrophone bearing, this time with 2.5m depth setting.
10 seconds to impact, 5 seconds... the event camera shows the torpedo going under .... a sailboat :damn: Who would be sailing here, 150km from shore in 300m visibility fog and 15m/s wind???? Arrgh, anyway, I resisted the urge to surface and ram the thing, and went back into position, hoping for something better.

Will report soon on the outcome of patrol 5....

This career had started so well with over 110K tons in the first 2 patrols, but bad decisions and bad luck have taken a toll on the crew's morale. Hopefully something good will happen soon...

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Its been a while so I wont spend time describing everything.

1940: Dead :wah:

New campaign: 1939
Captain: Ewald Aust
Sunk:
3x Coastal merchant
1x C2 cargo ( SS Carrier Dove)
1x Small merchant ( SS Destro)
1x armed trawler ( HMS Kelt)
Awards: Iron cross, 2nd class.
Patrols: 3

[u35_captain]

U-105, a Type IX out of Lorient - late 1943.

After two patrol assignments off the south coast of Ireland - a nightmare of dodging planes and escaping destroyers - finally sent back to the Caribbean as the year begins to close out.

And though I haven't spotted anything larger than a light cruiser since 1941, a battle group swims across my view in heavy seas, which confuses the escorts, as do my countermeasures.

Sneak in and put three torpedoes into the Escort Carrier at the center of the group, then go deep and run. 1944 may be a very bad year, but '43 ended well.

[VONHARRIS]

U-105, a Type IX out of Lorient - late 1943.
Sneak in and put three torpedoes into the Escort Carrier at the center of the group, then go deep and run. 1944 may be a very bad year, but '43 ended well.

Well done Kaleun.
A CVE less , the better for the Uboot fleet!:salute:

[RConch]

It is early February 1942, and U 48 (Type VII C) was assigned to BE 99 out of Lorient.
Did my 24 hrs in BE 99 and got a wild hair to head at 1/3 speed to Amerika. Heading toward Norfolk, Va.
I am hoping for a piece of the tanker action over there.
:arrgh!:

[VONHARRIS]

Patrol 4 results

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[u35_captain]

Well done Kaleun.
A CVE less , the better for the Uboot fleet!:salute:

Thank you! I was absolutely shocked I managed to hit it considering five destroyers were looking for me and it wasn't a close-range spread. Thank heavens for heavy seas, I guess.

[Frenchy849]

12th Patrol,U-752.
Sank entire convoy of 4 ships,escort included.
Out of torpedoes,heading to El Ferrol to meet with Max Albrecht.
P.S:The detroit that leads there is as tight as a virgin.

[boonie]

returning sh3 boat captain logging:

Enlisted to 2nd Flotilla, boat: VIIB
1st and 2nd patrol skipped because war is still not on.

3rd patrol:
Assigned to BF19, decided to take the english channel, thinking its early in the war and hopefully opposition will not be tough, the trip through the channel will provide good warm up i reckon :O:. And i was right.. there were so many targets. Fresh on arrival at Dover gap there was this coastal tanker which i sunk, then a V&W came and check on the distress call which proved fatal for tis crew :O:. And as such i am in the channel, wrecked alot of havoc on the shipping, end up using all my torp and dg ammo before i managed to reach BF19.
total tonnage : 32-37k (cant remember).

4th patrol:
Assigned to AM33.
Left port and headed straight for the pass btwn skapa flow and shetland, just before reaching the pass i received target update from bdu regarding a taskforce that is currently at the otherside of the shetland traveling ENE, that means i would have been able to take a shot at it if not for the 2 aircraft encounter on the way..zzz.

Patrol went pretty below average compared to previous patrol so far, reached AM33 and stayed there for 24hour, that spot is completely abandoned, wonder why Bdu sent me there. The crew got really bored so i decided to test dive the boat to 200m. Everyone stopped to complain about boredom after the test hurhurhur.

On the way back to camp skapa flow something very interesting happened, BDU sent me another update of the taskforce i missed, they must have headed to USSR and came back!! immediately setup camp in front of the convoy and waited, at Oct 9th around 5-6am finally picked up their signature in the hydrophone, its a big blob of red contact hahaha.. exciting times ahead...

Maneuvered boat to a spot where i would have around 1.5-2km range when the majority of them arrive if the course predicted by my SO is right. more waiting. Raised observation scope when the front signature reached around 6km range and seen a magnificent convoy which consist of the HMS Hood, HMS Renown and 2 Southhampton class, defended by 4 destroyer (1 at each side, front rear left and right). Hood is at front following a destroyer, followed by Renown and then 2 Southhampton and a destoryer. Retracted observation scope and began to count the chicken as they plod along to my attack zone hurhurhur....

Decided to send all 4 front fish to the Hood and swing around for a lucky tail-pipe shot at the Renown's rudder. 3 struct the Hood, 1 at bow, 1 below the 2nd main gun, 1 btwn the 2nd main gun and superstructure. The 4th was about to hit her as well but strangely exploded before reaching, i did not set enable dud, i dont know why it exploded, can they shoot at my torp with their guns? i am not sure. It was set at a depth of 11 for Hood, not sure how they manage to shoot at it accurately. Hood's bow got completely submerged LOL but still managed to plow along at 8kt.. very crazy ship. The tail-pipe shot missed as i slowly slipped to 100m at 0.5kt heading 45degree off their course in order to shadow the crippled Hood.

After the destroyers left and i tried to reload the torp, something very bad happened... my torp wont reload after i secured from silent running, i was not attacked at all, everything was nice and dandy but the torp simply wont reload, my forward torp compartment is crammed with angry sailors but the torp just wont load for me to finish off the Hood...

Was forced to reload a save game, restarted computer and Sh3.

This time i am very annoyed. So after some consideration, I WANT THEM BOTH DEAD for the trouble... :D. After redoing all the preparation, i fired 2 torp at each of their rudder section and tail-pipe shot at the rear section of Hood as well, miraculously all landed on target after 2 additional reload. :D. i do not like reloading for shots but they forced my hand for bugging out my torp tube. But anyway, Renown went down just from the 2 rear section hit (both landed just below the rear main gun, 9.5 deep), Hood took all 3 hit to the rear section (2 below the last main gun and 1 near the rudder) and managed to crawl at aroudn 6-8kt. I slipped below to 120m at 0.5 kt and went by undetected.

Daybreak, destroyers left and this time all my tubes loaded successfully hehehe. Plotted an interception course for HMS Hood and after some trouble found it now crawling at 3kt, deserted by all her escorts and Southhamptons and listing badly at stern port side. I crept to 1km range in front of her at port side, waited for her to come to range and raised observation scope to take in the view.. its still a very glorious battlecruiser despite the listing, very beautiful and magnificent. Shot a fish at her already mortally damaged left rear section but she remained plodding alog still.. wow. Finally fired 2 more shots at the front bow section to finished her off..

Used the remaining torp on some freighter and a destroyer, didnt bother to finish using the dg ammo this time hehehe, cant wait to checkout the medals and rewards so i exit mission right there at north of scapa flow.

i got 1st and 2nd class iron cross, crew got 5 2nd class cross and 1 1st class cross, 1 clasp, 31 uboat badge. lol.

total tonnage : 110k plus (cant remember exact number).

[jimmyjam25]

Check out my tonnage after 17th patrol. My best yet! Wooo! :D Thats 261.276 if you can't see it properly...
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/3848/sh3img255201216639147.png

[DeltaNiner]

just endured a very slow agonizing death in the port of Blythe. It was 1940 and I sunk a troop support ship for the best tonnage I had found for the whole patrol. The Black Swan that was stationary in the harbor must have been watching me the whole time because as soon as the torps hit his spot lights came on and he started shooting at me. I lowered the periscope and tried to run away but "6M under keel" doesn't leave a guy with many options. :nope:

[VONHARRIS]

Patrol log page 1 of 2

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[nutworld]

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Von, what mod(s) are you using to get such detail on your patrol reports?

I LOVE the look of that.

[Kptlt. Siegmann]

@nutworld

The patrol log was most likely modified using SH3 Commander's Patrol Log Editor. I'm not familiar with any other way of doing it.

Sidenote, I finally got around to responding to your PM nut, sorry for the delay!:yeah:

[nutworld]

@nutworld

The patrol log was most likely modified using SH3 Commander's Patrol Log Editor. I'm not familiar with any other way of doing it.

Sidenote, I finally got around to responding to your PM nut, sorry for the delay!:yeah:

No worries buddy. I saw it, and thank you. I've never done anything with the patrol log editor, looks nice.

[VONHARRIS]

Von, what mod(s) are you using to get such detail on your patrol reports?

I LOVE the look of that.

1. The ship names are generated by the SH3 Commander.

2. The rest is done by editing in C:\Documents and Settings\User\My documnets\GWX\data\cfg\Careers\von Harris folder the appropiate patrol log file: ie for patrol No2 you must edit the Log_1.cfg file.
Be careful in the counting of the entry logs.
Follow the same format
The | character changes the line in the log.

[boonie]

Boonie's 5th patrol log:

Boat : U-53, VIIB
Assigned Grid: AN13

Destination is just adjacent to previous assigned grid, very nice location as it is just at at the hebriden channel north opening. Arrived at destination after scoring 2 merchant on the way. Made a few more merchant kills, all using dg except 1 merchant that cost me a rear torp.

Received target location recon from BDU, "warship at AM35 heading NE speed 18knot". Very interested at what this 'warship' comprised of. Plotted a guestimated intercept location using merchant routes previously encountered. Have noticed a tanker that i killed in previous mission seems to be using pretty much the same route except in reverse direction so i followed that path and found them.

There are actually 2 battleships, HMS Hood and HMS Nelson unescorted. Though i did sink Hood in previous mission.. nevermind that, will sink her again hehe.

Following the previous mission's experience dealing with bb's, they are very vulnerable once torpedoed in the rear (causing them to slow down alot which gives enough time to reload to finish them off. So I decided to shoot 2 torp to each rear section with my front tubes. The SO detected them early this time giving me good times to creep very close to their path on port side, fired all 4 tube at them. Hood took 2 very near the rudder and sank in a minute. Both shots aimed at Nelson missed.

HMS Nelson is the second ship so increased to flank speed running parallel to her while i desperately try to reload. Fortunately 1 of my officer has pro torpedo training, shoving him and 3 other pettyofficer with torp training along with a few other grunts made loading time only 7.5 min. Nelson was temporarily blocked by Hoods half sinking wrecks, giving me enough time to load 1 front torp, yanked the rudder full right fired the 1 front torp, yanked rudder full left and fired the rear torpedo, this time both hit target, 1 under the rear superstructure, 1 near the rudder. But she is still going strong, although speed is abit hampered. Continued to race the engine at flank, only 1km apart from Nelson, she still has higher speed than me but however she chose to do her gigantic zig zag maneuver HAHAHAHAHA. this allowed me to stay really really close to her and reload yet another torp.

7 more minute passed. 1 more torp ready :D, while zig zagging towards me, i shot a torp at her rudder at extreme close range.. I can hear her propeller wash inside my observation scope post LOL, very up close and personal. The torpedo landed square on her props and here she is dead in the water:

http://i.imgur.com/aAoVG.jpg (http://imgur.com/aAoVG)

total tonnage : 107k
reward: no medal for me :O: just a promotion, maybe i missed too many torp heh.
crew got 5 iron cross 2nd class, 4 iron cross 1st class, 1 golden badge, 1 clasp and 4 promotion.

[CurtisSlade]

"Boonie's 5th patrol log:

Boat : U-53, VIIB
Assigned Grid: AN13"



What date was this?

[boonie]

"Boonie's 5th patrol log:

Boat : U-53, VIIB
Assigned Grid: AN13"



What date was this?

mission start date: oct 31 1939
mission end date : nov 4 1939

[CurtisSlade]

very nice.. I've been looking for some of the big ships early in the war and can't seem to find 'em.. :/

[boonie]

very nice.. I've been looking for some of the big ships early in the war and can't seem to find 'em.. :/

erm.. i am using GWX3 gold fyi. You might get different missions without GWX.

good hunting :arrgh!:

[CurtisSlade]

yea, me too.. and wouldn't you know it, the night I say that I can't find them I actually do.. The HMS Nelson was sitting in a convoy off BE 13 and I put two in her and she didn't sink.. talk about frustrating... :damn:

[boonie]

Boonies 6th patrol log:

Boat : U-53, VIIB
Assigned Grid : BF-17

Got sent to the other side of the channel again. Remembered during last mission BDU sent me a radio message re: the English Channel getting mined. So i guess i will have to take the long way. Will probably use up all me ammo way before reaching there anyway so it wont be a 'long way' anyhow.. lol

Just about reaching the pass btwn Scapa and Shetland, SO picked up a merchant steaming down from the pass on a SSE course. So i setup camp infront of it and while waiting for the slow merchant, SO picked up a small convoy of warship speeding up from South using pretty much the same route as the merchant. :D

The small convoy was made up of 1 Southhampton and 2 Auxiliary Cruiser. Very nice tonnage according to the recognition manual (10k + 13k + 13K) hehehe, sent them all down under and continued to wait for the merchant:

http://i.imgur.com/T9qYb.jpg


The rest of the trip was pretty standard turkey shoot, took care of a few destroyers/ASW trawler as well as some merchants. Resistance was scarce even in the Hebriden channel. As expected, used up all ammo before reaching assigned grid:

http://i.imgur.com/mvyAI.jpg

total tonnage: 72k
reward : Knights Cross for me, crew got the usual assortment of gold cross, 1st and 2nd class crosses and promotions.

[boonie]

Boonie's 7th patrol log:

Boat : U-53, VIIB
Assigned Grid : AM34

Pretty delighted on getting AM34, its near Hebriden North again. I am getting fond of that place. However this time around i have this urge to hurriedly rush through the torp delivery as the mission starts on Dec 18th.

Christmas is close and i wouldn't want to deprive my crew of the event by wasting their time on rolling sea. AND more importantly i am very anxious on getting the IXB ship which should be available at the end of this patrol..

Rushed to AM34, did alot of kills around scapa flow as usual, that corner around outer scapa flow is like hotspot of the year.

Went to the Northern end of Hebriden for more kills and discovered that they have stepped up ASW patrol by alot since the last patrol. Tracked and killed 1 passenger/Cargo ship and immediately the whole village of 4 ASW trawler and 1 C&D destroyer came to investigate.... Very nice since i am really in a hurry to dispense my torp and head home for Christmas and new ship upgrade. Lurking in the passenger/cargo wreck area @ periscope depth and 0.5knot i managed to kill 2 ASW Trawler and the C&D class destroyer.

Decided to head home after the small exchange there, having only 2 torps left for the journey home i had no problem dishing them out on some poor merchants on the way.

Reached Wilhelmshafen on 23rd Dec, everyone should still have time for a bit of shopping i guess :D

Total tonnage : 43k
reward : oak leaf on my knight's cross, crew got 2 2nd class cross and 1 1st class cross..

Pretty bad catch compared to previous patrols but now i have the IXB boat :D. had like 13k renown and boat cost 9k, additional crew cost around 1.5k and installed new hydrophone for the IXB.

[sublynx]

U-331, type VIIC
1. U-Flottille, Brest
Ob.lt.z.s. Theodor Wald
Orders: Transfer boat to La Spezia

Statusbericht 1.8.1941

CG7917 clear, medium vis., sea 8. One 1700 GRT merchant sunk in grid CG7869. Course 279, 7 knots. Armed with a 75 mm gun in the stern. Submerged shot, rohr 5, range 2280 meters, lagewinkel 89 stb, schusswinkel 355, bearing 162, running time 2 min 40 sec. Impact pistol, depth 3 meters. A hit under the bridge. Sunk in 12 minutes.

Reported convoy in grid CG7936 not found.

Seven G7a's and 2 G7a's left. Four torpedoes missed because the weapons officer who has not sailed for six months forgot what switch indicates an opened torpedo tube.

Continuing towards the straits of Gibraltar.

Wald

[WolfyBrandon]

Just Finished Patrol 17...

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/596/patrol17.jpg

WolfyBrandon

[boonie]

Boonie's 8th patrol log:
boat : U-64 IXB
assigned grid : AM34

It's AM34 again.. what can i say. This time I have a new toy IXB :).

Initial impression on embarking is that the boat is alot larger, but esthetically not very pleasing as its not as sleek looking as the VIIB, standing on the conn tower the whole boat looked like one big slab of dull iron with only flat surfaces. But as they say thou shall not judge a ship by the hull..

This thing has a huge torpedo hold, very very nice. A bigger DG, bigger AA.. They say this boat is not very maneuverable but i hardly felt any difference.

Also discovered having just 1 crew with flak training is not enough for this boat. By default the 1st dude with flak training seems to get assigned to the 20mm gun, the rest of the untrained crew will get assigned to the 3.7cm making the 3.7cm reload horrendously slow. Having a 2nd crew with flak training solved this. Not sure if a third crew with flak trainng will improve the reload time further though.

Took the boat to AM34, sunk only 3 boat around skapa flow.. pretty disappointed, they are getting smarter perhaps, but still there is not much destroyer encountered around that corner.

Wanted to spend 24 hour at AM34 to complete mission objective but a few hour before completion received recon update from BDU stating a convoy is due North from liverpool through the Irish channel. Immediately set flank speed and rushed down South to meet it. Sunk 3 more merchant with the new DG, very lovely firepower but ammo seems limited.

On arriving at the Irish Channel North, received another map update of another larger convoy arriving from the West, seems to have past me abit so decided to give chase as intel says its only doing 5kt and its almost dusk.

managed to get ahead and parked my boat in front of the convoy at starboard side, diagonally facing the convoy. Alot of small merchant, 3 fattest merchant are 2 ore carrier and 1 large cargo. 2 black swan escort; 1 at front and rear. Time is just past midnight, very nice.

Decided to take a shot at the front swan despite distance of 3km because its doing straight line at 6kt. Managed to kill it with 1 torp at mid-ship. No time to watch the firework. Being at a diagonal angle my torp managed to avoid the small merchant and found their mark to the large cargo and 1 ore carrier, 1 missed. Immediately went hard rudder port with 0.5knot to avoid getting detected by the other swan at rear of convoy. By the time the convoy just pass me by the tail pipe aligned with the ore carrier, sent both tail torp at it but 1 missed and 1 just impact on the hull and didn't explode... not sure why coz i didnt enable dud torpedo...zzz.

Slipped out without getting detected. Set course to overtake while the crew go crazy with reloading the 6 tube + taking 1 tube from the external store. No time for taking more from the external storage. Setup my position same as before, in front of the convoy at its starboard side, diagonally facing the incoming convoy.

Decided to take out the 3 merchant at the far side of the convoy to lure the rear swan to the other side of the convoy, all 3 torp hit, I am saving 1 front torp for the rear swan. The plan worked, the rear black swan went to the far side of the convoy and began its circular search lol. Meanwhile i take careful aim at this side of the convoy, sent 2 rear torp at the ore carrier again, this time both found its mark at 1km range, amazing close range explosion. Convoy then went pass me with the black swan still searching at the far side, waited abit for the swan to rejoin the convoy, usually after a search they run straight back to rejoin the convoy without any zigzag, making them easy target. The swan did exactly the same as predicted but something very amusing happened when it gets torpedoed:

After taking a torp at the bow, the swan began to go ape-****s with its deck gun and i was wondering what/who/where its shooting but then i suddenly realize through the observation scope that my immediate area was all lit up like broad day light... the swan is pumping flares on top of my observation scope..

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with the 2 swan both dead, i was able to massacre the rest of the convoy single handedly, there was a small s-class sub in there but my 10cm DG is superior :D. Only 1 coastal freighter survived along with 2 neutral mechants.

total tonnage : 85k
reward : swords on my knight's cross, promotion to oberleutnant (not sure of spelling)
crew reward : butt load of medals, 3 promotions.

[Vince82]

11th December 1943: Tracking a large convoy near AM72. Hopefully I wil find it and manage to sink some ships.

http://opspin.net/operationspinnennetz/mapstatus.htm

[Shkval]

Well it's mine 8-th patrol, first in new IXB, weather is terrible, it's April 5. 1940 and I can tell you the heat is building up, Tommies are tightening the grip... my usual routes are above Scotland, trough Hebrides passage, trough Irish sea, St. Georges canal and back... the number of encountered patrol crafts and destroyers is much much bigger than in previous patrols.
But nevertheless... so far so good about 25 000 tonnes, I can't use my gun :wah:... so I had to spend more torpedoes on bigger targets... I got 11 torpedoes left... let's hope this verdammt wind will ease a bit... although I doubt... planning to sit and wait in front of Liverpool.
This tub really sucks the batteries dry in the blink of an eye, I can't wait the improved model of batteries ... oh, she's big and fat and slow and somehow the famous AC/DC song "Whole Lotta Rosie" comes into my mind when aligning her to 90 degrees attack course...

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Currently stuck on the bottom of the north sea after attempting to take on a battleship with a deck gun. Previous attempts to escape were futile and as we speak the damage control team struggle to fight against the ever growing tide of water as our U-boat turns into a swimming pool. My trusted sonar man which I nicknamed "sonar guy" was tragically killed. There are currently no men in the quarters as everyone is doing there bit to get home. Hull integrity is very low and much of our equipment is damaged and at this rate we are all going to drown, well that is if the water beats the air supply. :hmmm: how to get out of this one?

[aj906]

25.10.1939: U-30 (Typ VIIB)

Cruising my way to AM19 when I happen across the Rodney escorted by one C & D class destroyer and two Southampton Class vessels that I can see. They are doing 22knots and have a range of about 4,200 metres in clear weather but moderate seas. They are literally crossing my T and all I have to do is grow a pair and do the necessary calculations (albeit...quickly!) I dive to periscope depth, cross my fingers (I only have 70 metres under the keel), open all four forward tubes, set depth to 12.5m, magnetic fuses, with a spread of 0.8 degrees and let loose. Three minutes into the run two premature detonations - surely that would alert the British...apparently not.

I move to the hydrophone and start lestening. I listen...listen some more....keep listening...STILL listening...start cursing the waste of four eels when, 4:47 seconds after firing, I hear a single detonation. Up periscope: it's the Rodney in the midst of a fireball. It appears the eel detonated under the boiler room and just smashed it pieces. In under two minutes she's disappeared beneath the waves and her escorts are not real happy about it. Thankfully that at such a long range, the escorts have no idea where to look.

At this point, I double back on my course at silent speed secretly wishing I had externals on to take some shots of it. End result: one eel = 36K tons of battleship to the bottom and one VERY lucky Kaleun. :arrgh!:

Currently loitering in the Rockall Bank region (as per orders) and there is nothing but rubbish weather upstairs. :/\\!!

Gotta say, I think I used up all my luck with that one eel. :hmmm:

[ijnfleetadmiral]

My laptop crashed back in March, so I bought a new desktop. Installed SH3 and then DLed the GWX pack. Installed and toodled along through August 1939, then had a very respectable first patrol, sinking just under 60,000 tons, primarly hunting in the English Channel, which proved to be a shooting gallery full of Large Merchants and Ore Carriers. Fun was had by all.

Second patrol started out dismally. Patrolled N of Ireland and sank two Coastal Freighters. Then zip, zilch, nada...sighted nothing...not even a freakin' Elco. So we headed South to our old hunting grounds of the Celtic Sea, which in the past had proven fairly profitable.

Sighted a convoy, and in the fourth row from starboard, second ship from the front...*drumroll* H.M.S. RODNEY!!!:o:o:o And when I poked my periscope up for a look, she was 2,310 YARDS AWAY, with only ONE DD escorting the whole convoy!!!

Four torpedoes fired in first spread; ALL FOUR HIT; one dud. Battleship slowed while convoy went bats**t; was able to quickly reload and then snap-shoot two more torpedoes (had to do it one at a time, so I did this twice; not fun when the sole escort is hell-bent on finding your sorry a$$ and is less than 500 yards away!). Anyway, the two snap-shot torpedoes were hits as well.

0659: GOT HIM!!!

FINALLY...after owning this game for over TWO YEARS...I find a British battleship and SINK HER! Not only that, but I went UNDETECTED by the escorts! WOOT! :woot::woot::woot::yeah::yeah::yeah:

Headed back to port where I got the U-Boat Front Clasp, the Iron Cross 2nd Class, and traded in my Type VIIB U-51 for the Type IXB U-123.

I took several pics, but I can't seem to find where the game saved them to...anyone know where screen caps are saved? If so, tell me and I'll post some pics ASAP!

Just thought I'd share my much-long-anticipated triumph with you guys!

-Matt

[sublynx]

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[VONHARRIS]

0659: GOT HIM!!!

FINALLY...after owning this game for over TWO YEARS...I find a British battleship and SINK HER! Not only that, but I went UNDETECTED by the escorts! WOOT! :woot::woot::woot::yeah::yeah::yeah:

-Matt

Congartulations on sinking that battleship.
A Knight's Cross awaits you upon return.

[Shameus]

After instaling GWX 3.0 Gold

Partol: 3, date 11 november 1939

It is very difficult route to BF 17, sailing around British Kingdom, wheater is terrible all time. I managed to track single tanker by hydrophones (manually!) and followed him for over 1 hour. After reaching good T i Fired two torpedos and sunk it. Then it went not that good...

Two days later radio operator reports convoy near me, so I plot new course, setup ahead flank and go to estimated location. Wheater conditions are terrible - visability less then 400 meters, heavy rain. I was able to setup boat in front of convoy, regular T, stopped engine and waited. DD passed me around 150 meters from bow, then first ship is visable in periscope. Rest I can only hear. Setuping manual torpedos for 3 contats, firing them "by feel" one after another. I manage to sunk one medium freighter and tanker and - ! - I hit HMS Rodney in stern! I found that after seeing him going down, but unfortunatelly, damage caused by that torpedo was not enough to sink it, and he was dwelling with 2kts, leaving a convoy with DD escort. As I mentioned, wheater was this terible, that I had to make marks on map to be aware of situation, lost sights with Rodney many times, while escaping escort and fighting it with torpedos. My bad move was I fired 4 into that DD and all missed, and then I realised I have only 1 torpedo left to reload (other 2 were in external magazines) and goind surface vs Rodney is BAD idea. Three hours later escort goes off and leaves battleship alone. Followed cripled Rodney for another 3 hours, but wheater, unfortunatelly, went worse even, to visability less then 100 meters and I passed on sinking Rodney.

Now, I will try to reload tubes and catch up convoy.

[SubConscious]

5th Patrol, February 1940 (GWX 3.0, 70% realism): I selected Reinhard Hardegen’s photo for my profile in SH3 Commander. I requested and a Type IXB boat, and auspiciously received U-123 (how cool is that?). We head out of Wilhelmshaven and make for grid AM52. I plot a course along the eastern seaboard of England to maximize my changes of picking up a stray heading to/from one of the many port cities there.

After suffering minor damage from an aircraft attack, we receive a radio message that there is a slow-moving enemy convoy off of Aberdeen, heading SSE. I’m not thrilled about the idea of going after a convoy in the shallow North Sea, but the map indicates there is some deep water off of Blyth, so I head there to wait.

Sailing north, we intermittently dive to periscope depth to try out our new hydrophone. We pick up a merchant moving at medium speed to the North, so we plot an approximate intercept and surface the boat.

The “merchant” turns out to be a small COT, so we unlimber the 37mm, load it with AP rounds, and have at it. Its good sport trying to sink a ship with a 37mm, as hitting below the waterline requires good timing and a fair amount of luck. It took about 30 rounds, but we managed to perforate her stern enough times to sink her.

As fortune would have it, we stumble onto a lone C2 cargo ship. The weather is beautiful with barely a breeze and excellent visibility. It’s an excellent opportunity to give the crew a chance to hone their skills on the 105mm deck gun. After about 15 hits below the waterline on the stern of the C2, she settles slowly to the bottom.

As luck would have it, we pick up the convoy off in the distance, heading our way. As it is close to midnight, I opt for a surface run, running decks awash at 7m to cut down on our silhouette. I can’t see the merchants yet, but the hydrophone is picking up seven merchants and two escorts.

The sea is calm and the sky is cloudless and there is a sliver of a moon, but there is enough light to be able to detect us at a fair distance if the lookouts on the escorts are paying attention. I have misjudged the course of the convoy, so my choices are to move at high speed to intercept them from the flank, or move further south and set up position further to the west. I opt for the latter.

We race ahead for a few hours, then set up in what I believe will be a good position. Unfortunately, I either misjudged their course again, or they changed course, as the convoy is still too far to the west for me to intercept without having to move at flank speed.

I disengage for a second time, race south a few more hours, and set up position further to the west. Much to my chagrin, I notice that I’m no longer in the deep water, but in the 33m depth that I typically encounter this far from England’s coast. Diving deep to avoid detection is out of the question. I need to re-think this, and fast, as dawn is approaching soon.

At this point in the real world it’s late at night, I’m tired, and I have to be up early for work. My judgment isn’t as sound as it typically is, so I opt for a rather aggressive strategy: I’m going to sink both escorts, then surface and take out the entire convoy with my deck gun.

We set up position directly in front of the lead escort, facing directly at her to reduce my sound signature. We dive to periscope depth and wait for her to come to us, intermittently turning the screws at 1 knot just to maintain depth.

The V&W destroyer is making S-turns in front of the convoy. We open bow tube 1 and work up a solution for an electric eel. Fate smiles upon us again, as the V&W shows us a lovely broadside at about 500m. The eel takes her down quickly.

We move into position on the second escort, a Tribal class destroyer, which is on station to the northeast of the convoy. No such luck as with the V&W – she’s not making S-turns – I think she has heard us (probably Bernard in the WC after eating too many beans). In trying to get out of the path of what is definitely going to be a painful depth charge run, we’re turning left full rudder and increasing speed as the escort approaches.

The first depth charges thankfully miss us, and the Tribal starts to circle to come at us again. As we’re still at periscope depth, we open both stern tubes and set a quick snapshot solution to try to catch her as she crosses our stern. Unfortunately, one tube is loaded with a steam eel, while the other is loaded with an electric.

I fire the steam eel at the very tip of her bow. Immediately after, I fire the electric amidships. My hope is that they’ll see the steam eel and order emergency reverse. The steam eel misses – perfect – and then the electric impacts – but it’s a dud. Curses!

The Tribal is circling and I know that if it catches us at periscope depth, its goodnight Irene. She’s pinging us – she knows where we are. I order emergency reverse and right full rudder to get us out of her path and open bow Tube 2. Now we get lucky – she passes directly in front of our bow at a scant 320 or so meters. I take a snapshot with a steam eel aiming at the forward turrent. This time there’s no dud and the Tribal sinks like a stone.

At this point I’m jubilant and ready to order the boat to the surface to go after the convoy but the hydrophone operator advises me that there is, in fact, a third escort. It had been stationed far to the northeast of the convoy. It is making for us with all haste and a quick peek with the periscope confirms that it is a J-class destroyer.

It’s late, I’m tired, and I know that I can’t save the game while we’re submerged or I risk CTD errors. I want this over so I can hit the sack. Foolishly, I fire two eels at the oncoming J-class, one to the port and the other to starboard, hoping she will turn into one of them. She does neither and each pass harmlessly to either side. No S-turns, she knows where we are (undoubtedly aided by the fact that my crew is frantically trying to load both the bow and stern tubes). The captain of that tin can apparently knows his stuff.

Wanting to give my men as much time as possible, I keep the boat pointed at the J-class destroyer and order full reverse. As the escort closes, I order left full rudder. What follows is an analysis after the fact, as I wasn’t doing this consciously:

As the destroyer approached, it missed us on its first pass, so it started to circle. By alternating between right full rudder forward and left full rudder in reverse, I was able to pivot our boat within the turning circle of the destroyer. I found the boat pivoted faster to the stern, so I had to utilize higher speeds moving forward. As the destroyer crossed my stern or bow, I’d cut loose with a snapshot solution. I missed once, was too close for the eel to arm the second shot, but I broke her back with the third.

The hydrophone operator confirmed that there wasn’t anything but merchants in the vicinity – victory at last! So I ordered a course change to point us at the merchants, got the crew ready for surface action, and ordered us to the surface at full speed ahead. We surfaced into a beautiful sunny morning…right next to an Elco boat!

My first thought was to use the 37mm, but the rate of fire was far too slow. I hit it a couple of times with the 37mm, but to no great effect. As the Elco was to our stern, the deck gun was out of the question.

I took control of the 20mm and immediately saw results. That is, until my gunner decided to scream like a girl when the mount was hit. Fortunately the gun was back in action shortly thereafter and we were able to rake the deck of the Elco with some success.

At this point the Elco passed to our starboard side and was going to cut across our bow to avoid the fire from our AAA guns. The deck gun crew, not wanting to sit idly by, led the Elco slightly and managed to hit it on the first shot. And second, third, and fourth. That was the end of the Elco boat, which exploded with a terrific amount of force.

We had considerable damage to the hull, but could certainly manage shallow dives if necessary. The issue at hand was to take advantage of the lovely weather to attempt to move eels from our external reserves inside the boat, and plot a course that would take us ahead of the fleeing merchants, which were still sailing in formation. As some of them looked to be 8 to 10k tons, my plan is to fire a single eel at the largest four, targeting their engine rooms, to stop them while taking out the smaller four with deck gun fire. The game is saved at this point and I’m looking forward to my next opportunity to play!

All in all, probably not very realistic, but great fun nonetheless.

[sublynx]

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[sublynx]

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[sublynx]

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While adding new mods MaGui Final, H.sie's newest realism mod and Rik007's Sh5 water I lost the save of patrol 4 made at sea. Silly me, not remembering that one should only add mods while at a port.:stare:

[Shameus]

So, Shameus was sunk near Dunkirk at 14 may 1940.

I was sent to AN87, place where you can walk by foot, and not good for underwater see boats. But hey, its operation "Dunkirk" and Bdu wants all hands to stop those pesky alies to evacuate from there!

After patroling north area of AN87, we received message about "bunch of sheeps" near Dunkirk. I said to my crew "lets try approach". Things from now on were BAD as bad it can be. Due my personal mistakes...

After 2 hours going full ahead to Dunkirk, sea started to remind of a GIANT rollercaster. My Boat was constant under water, so I decided to go submerged and plot route in manner, which will allow me to reach short range from port after 900pm, in the night. During short time, a group of 5 DDs was sighted just around 15 km from me, and other warships were hearable at stern, around 20km's. Few minutes later I discovered, that I am betwean 2 Task Forces mainly forged of destroyers. That was just start of this short patrol.

Navigating submerged to Dunkirk, tring to avoid short contact with any of groups, I saw small torpedo boats and armed boats behind me. Dunkirk was in my reach, not more then 10 kms. Recognised there some BIG fishes, few french units (2 were sunk by shore), and two or three more english DD's. Remember about those 2 TaskForces that were around me? Me too! But, as I was admiring view, a SNEAKY bastard boat got me and started to ramm on full run, then when my boat went a bit too much off water, I got shot by his gun and hell arised. All destroyers: from both task forces (that was 9 total) and from Dunkirk started to run to my posittion.

After heavy, I mean heavy deepcharge, 2 hours of fighting with floods I was close to stay on bottom (37 meters), but then a bomb exploded right at engine and my fuell leaked out, few members died and two minutes later I was part of history.

/salute

[sublynx]

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[sublynx]

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[Missing Name]

I don't have work tonight, and my homework is done. So... shall I raid the areas around the Dunkirk evacuations or take my chances and go convoy hunting?

[madflava13]

U-45 (VIIB) is currently on patrol in AM 53 - we've been out for 16 days in near constant storms. Limited visibility, rain, heavy seas. Our only contact was a coastal freighter spotted in the fog at close range - we backed down at flank speed and fired a magnetic torpedo, but it prematured shortly after firing. We lost the ship in the fog and have had no sightings since.

The captain is planning on working his way down the west coast of Ireland, hoping the hunting is better in the Western Approaches. Otherwise this patrol is a bust. Our first two patrols resulting in approximately 60,000 tons combined, so this is a disappointment.... The war continues.

[sublynx]

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[sublynx]

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This is also the end report of this patrol - when I radioed in the status report after the battle I got a message ordering me back to port. I guess h.sie's hardcore realism patch/mod does this kind of stuff too.

[kpt.hamburger]

30 august 1940

U-52 patrolling near scapa flow, weather is bad and wery foggy.
03.00 am royal navy destroyer founded us, luckly escaped thanks to good torpedo shot into his rudder, ship got alot of damage were using our last fuel to reach Kiel. end of report.

next report 09.00 am

[LemonA]

http://img.xrmb2.net/images/686373.jpeg
;)

[artao]

My current "campaign" over the last several days has been preparing for and freshly installing SH3 under Win 7 Pro on my new(ish) computer. Lots of new (to me) stuff, and lots of reading to catch up on to make sure I get my mod-soup to work right.
Also sadly discovered that my archive of mods was corrupted, so I had to re-download largely everything. .. Turns out there were some newer versions of stuff anyhow, so all good.

I WAS in a 1st patrol. Left port Nov. 2, 1939, in my VIIB from Wilhelmshaven, headed for the E.Coast of Britain, grid AN52.
A game-week later, and the weather was still clear skies, 4m/s winds from 0 degrees, and i'd seen only 1 ship, an 11,000 ton lg. merchant, which I sunk -- and THAT was from a radio contact. Also one plane chased me under.

Somethin just didn't seem right, so I decied to do the full install dance .. you see, I'd been running the very same GWX 3 install I'd been using on my older XP system. Just copied it over to my Win 7 system and it seemed to run fine ... til I played it for awhile that is.

Soon. .... Soon back to patrol.

the mod-soup needs some good stirring first tho.
also trying multi-sh3 for the 1st time. I plan on trying NYGM, LSH, and WAC as well prolly. .. now that my load times are under 1/2 hr. LOL

:arrgh!:
:salute:

[sublynx]

;)

Nice to have the knowledge that BdU really inspects our patrol reports :) It would be frustrating doing all that paper work if the reports would go straight to the Kriegsmarine archives unread :arrgh!:

[sublynx]

U-331, VIIC
23. Flottille, Salamis
Ob.lt.z.s Theodor Wald

12.12.1941 0100 Salamis. Departure from Salamis. Orders are to patrol grid CO69

15.12.1941 0214 CO6948 ONO 8, cloudy, sea 5, medium visibility. A 1600 GRT merchant and a V&W class destroyer sunk in two surface attacks from a distance of 3000 meters. The ships didn't notice us at all. We kept a depth of 7 meters and a slow speed. Had difficulty in estimating enemy's speed. The speed of the ships was probably 4 knots. The ships travelled in a general course of 270 degrees making 30 degree zigzags every 15 kilometers. Now loading the G7a torpedoes. All other torpedoes expended because of the long range, course and speed changes by the destroyer and errors in speed estimation.

0236 Received radio message ordering a return to port.

17.12.1941 1016 Salamis Returned to base. Not much of a patrol, but at least some valuable experience in long range surface attacks.

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[Buhring]

About to peek into Lorient estuary. No, I'm not going home: it's dec. 1939 and France is still fighting against us. SH3 Gen sent me there in a reconnaissance mission. What's worse, I have orders NOT to attack anything...

Gute Jagd

HB

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U-29, VIIB
2. Flottilla, Wilhelmshaven
Lt Willy Schröter
Orders: Patrol grid BE35
Departure: 25.9.1941 Wilhelmshaven


3.9.1939 1147 BF1636 SO 9 m/s, cloudy, sea 5, medium visibility. Two torpedoboats course east speed fast.

1315 BF1634 An 11000 GRT merchant course 25 speed 9 sunk. A submerged shot from 1000 meters, MZ 10 meters. Shot when the aob was still stb 45 in order to give the magnetic pistol more time to react. There was no visible impact on the ship, so another torpedo was launched with an AZ pistol setting. This torpedo missed because the ship had slowed down from the first hit. Finished the ship with deck gun fire. Six G7e and four G7a torpedoes left inside the boat, 2 G7a's in outside storage. Fuel 81 tonnes.

3.9.1939 2104 BF1648 SO 9 m/s, cloudy, sea 5, medium visibility. New orders received. Patrol grid BE35.

4.9.1939 1120 BF1499 S 9 m/s, cloudy, sea 5, low visibility. Contact report received. A single merchant course ONO medium speed at grid BF1491.

1248 BF1467 A 4500 GRT tanker course course 30 speed medium sunk with gun fire.

1645 BF1491 A 5500 GRT merchant and a 12000 GRT tanker sunk course 85 speed 10 knots. A perpendicular submerged shot, MZ 10 meters and MZ 11 meters. No hits. One AZ 3 meters hit. Ships sunk by deck gun fire. Starboard diesel damaged by high revolutions per minute. Repairing. Loading torpedoes. Four G7e and three G7a torpedoes inside the boat. Two G7a outside. Fuel 79 tonnes.

2145 BF1457 Starboard diesel engine repaired.

5.9.1939 0330 BE3669 Contact report received. A single merchant course O slow speed at grid BE3663. Intercepting, course 316 speed 14 knots.

0427 BE3668 A 1900 GRT merchant course 275 speed 7 knots sunk by deck gun fire.

1730 BE3596 WSW 5 m/s, clear, sea 4, medium visibility. An American 12000 GRT tanker inspected. No contraband.

8.9.1939 0148 BE3517 S 11 m/s, clear, sea 6, good visibility. Contact report received. A single merchant course O slow speed at grid BE3573. Intercepting, course 115 speed 15 knots.

0530 BE3555 S 12 m/s, very cloudy, sea 7, poor visibility. A 1800 GRT merchant course 82 speed 7 knots sunk with a G7e torpedo AZ 3 meters perpendicular shot. Finished with deck gun fire.

12.9.1939 1736 BE3655 wind Ost 15 m/s, clear, sea 7, medium visibility One G7e AZ 4 meters launched at a 1800 GRT merchant course 88 speed 6. Perpendicular shot from 650 meters. The torpedo exploded on the surface nowhere near the target. Moderate waves might have had an effect. Four G7a's and 2 G7e's left. Fuel 63 tonnes. Provisions low. Started return trip to port via Orkneys and Shetlands.

Schröter

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I had a most fun and interesting mission while following the minelaying orders given to the actual U-29 in October 1939. I decided to show you the whole war diary I kept during the patrol. It's a really long one and does not really convey the suspense in simulating a mine laying operation in Bristol Channel. Do try that yourself! :arrgh!:

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[Wolfpack345]

U-49 type VIIB
Year 1940 Patrol 4

Head to patrol grid nothig much of intrest happens.
Recive report of congvoy head to intercept.
find the congvoy and imobilize a empire freighter.
avoid escorts no damage..
about 1 hour later i surface and perpare to deck gun the ship.
i realize that the congvoy is still neer and dive to use a stern tube.
While im reloading i use the time compression and see it drop to 8.
Raise scope and see destroyer heading right twards me..crash dive.
about 1 hour later they are still after me and i dive deeper........
the lights break and my men are screeming like crazy.
Blow ballast-then U-boat destroyed by pressure:/\\!!:/\\!!

Im playing 100% DID unless killed by time compression....should i reload or start over? just want a 2nd opinion :yeah:

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Im playing 100% DID unless killed by time compression....should i reload or start over? just want a 2nd opinion :yeah:

I think I would let the boat and the commander die. This time TC8 was bad luck. Bad luck is something that happens in war: the hydrophone man didn't do his job or the hydrophone had a malfunction in a crucial moment. I wouldn't go back to 1939 though. I would start a new career where this one ended.

[Jimbuna]

Im playing 100% DID unless killed by time compression....should i reload or start over? just want a 2nd opinion :yeah:

In the early days of playing I would simply reload but soon changed to starting over again...and learning from my mistakes.

[Iron Budokan]

I say start over. You should have rose to periscope depth and taken a look around, and listened on your hydrophones before you surfaced. Okay, I can give you the hydrophone glitch, that's not your job. It is your job as commander to take a peek through the periscope to make sure the coast is clear.

Of course you may have done that and not seen anything, which in that case you can put it down to bad luck.

But, speaking for myself, I would probably start over. :)

[Wolfpack345]

I say start over. You should have rose to periscope depth and taken a look around, and listened on your hydrophones before you surfaced. Okay, I can give you the hydrophone glitch, that's not your job. It is your job as commander to take a peek through the periscope to make sure the coast is clear.

Of course you may have done that and not seen anything, which in that case you can put it down to bad luck.

But, speaking for myself, I would probably start over. :)

In the early days of playing I would simply reload but soon changed to starting over again...and learning from my mistakes.

I think I would let the boat and the commander die. This time TC8 was bad luck. Bad luck is something that happens in war: the hydrophone man didn't do his job or the hydrophone had a malfunction in a crucial moment. I wouldn't go back to 1939 though. I would start a new career where this one ended.

Thanks guys im gonna start over be more carefull and hopefully get past 1940:yep:

regards

[Zedwardson]

Note: Playing GWX gold with about 50% realism.

Nov 27, 1939

My patrol was so far mostly uneventful, I sunk a coastal frighter and was in the North Atlantic chasing a report of a slow convey heading North East, when I encounter a convoy heading SSE, It was night time and the seas where lumpy. First the tribal class escort, then I see some rich tankers. I am starting to grin, when suddenly the HMS Rondey comes into view.

Why the British put such a ship in a dreadfully slow convoy is questionable, but I did not look a gift horse in the mouth. I was in front of the Convoy, so I went to Scope depth and waiting for the Rondey to come into range and at a good angle. when the Rodney was 2900 Meters away, the Tribal sunddly charges, I know I am detected, and curse my luck. The angle is bad, but I have little choice. When the Tribal is 1000 meters away, I fire one torp at her, and three at the rodney, and let my stern tube fire at a tanker, then crash dive.

somehow with the bad angle two of the rodney shots hit the battleship. I am expecting one heck of a depth charging. But the three escorts are looking at the wrong way, as I slowly drift 100 meters under the convoy. The escorts stop depth charging and go back to their stations as I am still under the convoy. With silent running, I risk going to scope depth. I look. And the Rodney is going at 2knots as a stern, but only 900 meters away.

I take off silent running, and put a officer, warrant officers, and torp men to reload. I also swing the boat around to face the damaged Rodney. As each Torp loads, I open the Doors and fire. setting the steam torps to go slowly. My men where the real heros, and many of these men won Iron Crosses for their actions. The Escorts where looking beside the Rodney, while I was able to put four torpedo (3 hit, one dud, what i get for trying to use a non contact pistol in 1939) into the stern of the Battleship. Then I saw that the escort for the rear was racing to my location. Seeing that the boat had not sunk yet, I went to flank speed, flipping my rear to the Rodney. Rudder amid ships, Fired a last steam torpedo, and crash dived. That torpedo did hit. At 100 meters the depth charges fell, but only one was remotely close, and at dawn they gave up, and went on. And I went to scope depth to see the HMS Rodney slowly slip stern first into the cold waters of the Atlantic. Abandoned by its escorts.

After these volleys, I surfaced the boat, unloaded the deep storage torpedoes, and had three torpedoes left (2 front, one stern.) I circled around the Convoy and at dust that day, was able to slip by the front escort, (almost got run over by a small freighter) and fired two fronts at a Mid Tanker, and the rear at a mid Freighter. then once again dived to my 100 meters and all hit, the tanker going down in time, the merchant having stories to tell his grand kids.


This is my 4th ever battleship while playing SH3-GWX. (Got the HMS Ramillies in a task force attack with very long steam torp attack, and two "less legit" sinkings, one was sneaking into harbor and sinking the hood, and 2ndly Sinking a battleship in the scripted Operation Weserübung events.)

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U-29, VIIB
2. Flottilla Wilhelmshaven
Ob.lt.z.s. Willy Schröter

Patrol results six merchants for 21800 GRT. Three airplanes evaded in grid AN52.

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Sinkings marked. Contact reports drawn with a line.

[Tynan]

This looks a bit archaic, but it's all I can find as far as a Patrol Log that I can copy/paste in a reply. I tried taking a screenshot of the Captains Log screen but it doesn't work. Seems like I can only take shots "on patrol".

Patrol for U-46, May 1940:

[Log Entry 0]
Type=0
EntryText=Patrol 13|U-46, 2nd Flotilla|Left at: May 6, 1940, 07:42|From: Wilhelmshaven|Mission Orders: Patrol grid AE95
Date=19400506
Time=742
Categ=0

[Log Entry 1]
Type=0
EntryText=Ship sunk!|Grid AN 16|DD V&W-Class, 1188 GRT/ts <--sunk in Scapa Flow undetected :-)
EntryTitle=May 9, 1940, 02:52
Date=19400509
Time=252
Categ=0

[Log Entry 2]
Type=0
EntryText=Ship sunk!|Grid AM 18|Converted Whale Factory, 5584 GRT/ts
EntryTitle=May 12, 1940, 21:59
Date=19400512
Time=2159
Categ=0

*****************HI-LITE OF THIS PATROL*****************
Sunk near Rockall Bank:

[Log Entry 3]
Type=0
EntryText=Ship sunk!|Grid AM 27|T3 Tanker, 19043 GRT/ts (!!!!!!) :-D
EntryTitle=May 13, 1940, 03:24
Date=19400513
Time=324
Categ=0
************************************************** ***

[Log Entry 4]
Type=0
EntryText=Patrol results|Crew losses: 0|Ships sunk: 3|Aircraft destroyed: 0|Patrol tonage: 25815 GRT/ts
Date=19400518
Time=637
Categ=0

I was proud to pin the Iron Cross Second Class medal to my Navigation Officer, whose timely and accurate depth readings in the shallow and dangerous waters of Scapa Flow allowed us to enter and leave undetected.

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I decided to keep a detailed war diary amidst my last patrol. It was interesting to keep, but mostly dull to read. :dead: Anyways here it is

U-29, VII
2. Flottilla, Wilhelmshaven
Ob.lt.z.s. Willy Schröter
Departure: 26.12.1939, Wilhelmshaven

Matrosenhauptgefreiter Werner Rogowsky transferred to another U-boat

Matrosengefreiter Walter Bolz transferred in

Leutnant z.s. Reinhard Beyer got an order to participate to the U-boat commander's training course. Oberfähnrich z.s. Henning Vowe in.

26.12.1939
0859 Wilhelmshaven Leaving towards grid AL38.
27.12.1939
2213 AN3189 NW 15 m/s cloudy sea 7 visibility reduced A Norwegian 100 GRT trawler
28.12.1939
0930 AN2866 A Large merchant course estimation 130
0933 110, 6 knots
0951 A German 8000 GRT merchant
1930 AF7583 Dived to pd to avoid a British destroyer medium range. Two other possible warship contacts in the hydrophone
6.1.1940
0536 West of Rockall Bank AL0331 E 1 m/s partially cloudy sea 1 visibility unlimited A 5100 GRT merchant sunk. 10 G7e and 2 G7a eels left. Fuel 74 tonnes.
13.1.1940
2116 West of Rockall Bank AL3859 S 9, sea 7, 10/10, vis. bad Submerged to listen in bad visibility and to rest the crew
14.1.1940
0106 West of Rockall Bank AL3859 S 9, sea 7, 10/10, vis. bad, rain Surfaced to air the boat and recharge batteries
0317 AL3864 Submerged to listen in bad visibility and to rest the crew
0711 AL3865 Surfaced to air the boat and recharge batteries
1341 AL3866 Submerged to listen in bad visibility and to rest the crew
1819 AL3869 Surfaced to air the boat and recharge batteries
2052 AL3893 Submerged to listen in bad visibility and to rest the crew
15.1.1940
0042 West of Rockall Bank AL3892 Surfaced to air the boat and recharge batteries
0305 AL3891 Submerged to listen in bad visibility and to rest the crew
0922 AL3883 S 9, sea 6, 2/10, vis. medium Surfaced. The rain has stopped.
1200 AL3883 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium Radio message. Danzig's port is now operable.
1600 AL3882 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium
1752 Radio message. Liebe's U-38 ordered to return home.
2000 AL3881 ESE 4, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
16.1.1940
0000 West of Rockall Bank AL3872 ESE 4, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium

0400 AL3871 ESE 4, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
0800 AL3874 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium
0845 Test dive
1054 AL3875 Sunrise
1200 AL3876 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium
1600 AL3884 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium
1612 Radio message. Mathes is returning home.
1731 Sunset
2000 AL3885 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium
17.1.1940
0000 West of Rockall Bank AL3894 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium
0400 AL3895 ESE 4, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
0800 AL3896 ESE 4, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
1044 Sunrise. Test dive.
1200 AL3899 ESE 4, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 100.4 nm ***8595; 2.7 nm, combined 103.1 nm
1600 AL3897 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium
1728 Sunset
2000 AL3879 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium
18.1.1940
0000 West of Rockall Bank AL3878 ESE 4, sea 3, 2/10, vis. medium Dived for listening during the night time low visibility
0356 AL3877 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium Surfaced for air and battery charging
0503 Dived for listening during the night time low visibility
0800 AL3869 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium Surfaced
0832 Radio message. A contact grid AL0317. Course west speed medium. Intercept 15 knots course 185. Expected sighting 0952
0941 AL0314 Dived for listening. Contact 10 R. Merchant.
0944 Surfaced, new course 210 T speed GF
0946 A ship sighted 344 R, estimated AOB stb 90, course 284 T. Turning parallel. Speed HF.
1000 New course 260.
1003 New course 250.
1008 Speed estimation 7 knots
1021 Plot estimate speed 11 knots course 269
1031 Speed estimate 10 knots
1035 Course estimate 285
1041 Speed estimation 11 knots. Sunrise.
1051 12 knots course 275 estimate
1117 New course estimation 235
1123 Turning towards enemy. Depth 6, speed LF
1128 pd
1130 fixed wire 31 seconds, range 30 mil with x6 zoom, 3000 meters, aob stb 15
1138 Tube 5 G7e AZ 3 meters, range 1000 meters, speed 11, aob stb 69, gyro angle 0, bearing 160
1140 Miss. Surfaced for deck gun attack.
1204 A G7e launched from 500 meters to finish the stopped ship. A hit in front of the aft mast.
1204 AL0331 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 99.7 nm ***8595; 14.3 nm, combined 114.0 nm
1210 The 7000 GRT ore carrier sunk
1220 Sent radio message. Patrol results so far. Two ships for 12000 GRT both in grid AL03. Six G7e and two G7a torpedoes left. Fuel 89 cbm.
1320 BdU confirms our last message
1600 AL0311 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
1729 AL3877 Sunset
1802 Test dive
2000 AL3878 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium Surfaced
19.1.1940
0000 West of Rockall Bank AL3878 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
0400 AL3887 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium Dive to listen
0800 AL3887 SWS 2, sea 1, 2/10, vis. medium Surfaced
1050 AL3888 Sunrise
1200 AL3889 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 82.2 nm ***8595; 10.9 nm, combined 93.1 nm
1600 AL3897 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
1728 Sunset
2000 AL3898 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
2121 Dived to A-30
20.1.1940
0152 West of Rockall Bank AL3893 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium Surfaced
0400 AL3893 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
0800 AL3891 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
1048 AL3883 Sunrise
1200 AL3891 SWS 2, sea 2, 0/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 89.1 nm ***8595; 15.0 nm, combined 97.2 nm
1600 AL3881 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
1723 Sunset
2000 AL3879 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
2059 Dive to A-30
21.1.1940
0000 West of Rockall Bank AL3893 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium Surfaced to air the boat and charge batteries
0016 Dive to A-30
0404 AL3828 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
0446 AL3839 Dive to A-30
0825 AL3847 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium Surfaced
1050 AL3847 Sunrise
1200 AL3845 SWS 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 60.9 nm ***8595; 16.2 nm, combined 77.1 nm
1600 AL3848 SWS 2, sea 1, 2/10, vis. medium
1720 AL3849 Sunset
2000 AL3857 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
22.1.1940
0000 West of Rockall Bank AL3855 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
0400 AL3859 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
0800 AL3868 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
1046 AL3869 Sunrise
1117 Dive A-40
1200 AL3869 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 105.7 nm ***8595; 6.0 nm, combined 111.7 nm
1202 Radio message received. Area A extended by 2 degrees east and area B southwards and southwest to 10 degrees 30' West. The whole of Irish sea is now unrestricted.
1600 AL3862 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
1716 Sunset
2000 AL3861 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
2256 AL3853 Radio contact report. A merchant spotted course E speed slow grid AL0384 2240 hours. Intercept course 150 speed HF. Expected meeting time 0520.
23.1.1940
0000 West of Rockall Bank AL3859 SWS 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
0400 AL0368 SWS 2, sea 2, 0/10, vis. medium
0416 Diesel down to 93 cbm
0503 AL0393 A hydrophone contact 105 R, 250 T. Surfaced, course 236, speed GF
0518 A hydrophone contact 10 R, 246 T. Surfaced course 270, speed LF
0536 Hydrophone contact 320 R, 225 T. Surfaced course 180 speed HF.
0551 A ship sighted 81 R, 260 T, range 3600 meters, aob 15 port. KF back, depth 6 meters. course 172.
0556 Estimate course 90, speed 6 knots
0601 Estimate course 95, speed 5 knots
0611 Tube 3 G7e AZ 3 meters gyro angle 5 bearing 16 aft mast range 1200 meters aob 80 port
Tube 1 G7a 40 knots AZ 3 meters gyro angle 0 bearing 9 front mast range 1200 meters aob 80 port
0618 No hits. Commenced deck gun firing. After some minutes the lifeboats are manned and shooting stopped. A darkened 5000 GRT merchant. A flag is nowhere to be seen.
0623 Radio message sent. A 5000 GRT merchant sunk by deck gun fire course 275 speed 5 kn grid AL0319. 5 G7e torpedoes and 1 G7a left. Diesel 80 cbm. Returning to patrol grid.
It seems that the torpedoes don't work. Most have been misses despite close range.

0704 AL0399 BdU confirms our last message
0800 AL0393 NNW 2, sea 2, 0/10, vis. medium
1040 AL0343 Sunrise
1200 AL0339 NNW 2, sea 2, 0/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 173.3 nm ***8595; 1.1 nm, combined 174.4 nm
1600 AL3899 NNW 2, sea 2, 0/10, vis. medium
1719 Sunset
2000 AL3898 NNW 2, sea 2, 0/10, vis. medium
2059 Dive to A-30
24.1.1940
0141 AL3897 NNW 2, sea 2, 0/10, vis. medium Surfaced
0238 Dive to A-30
0347 Hydrophone contact 243 R, 54 T. Sound going towards stern. Schmidt says it's a medium speed merchant. Surfacing and intercepting
0400 AL3897 NNW 2, sea 2, 0/10, vis. medium
0435 Distant hydrophone contact 75 R, 291 T.
0457 Distant hydrophone contact 38 R, 242 T.
0526 Distant hydrophone contact 30 R, 270 T
0601 AL0323 Distant hydrophone contact 5 R, 282 T
0644 AL0322 Hydrophone contact 260 R, 180 T
0719 AL0321 Hydrophone contact 250 R, 158 T
0752 Hydrophone contact 258 R, 122 T
0756 A ship sighted range 4000 m. Turning towards. Looks like a 2000 GRT merchant.
0801 Course estimate 282 speed 8 kn
0810 Deck gun fire stopped. The ship is sinking. A 1600 GRT merchant under British flag
0823 AL0324 Radio message sent. A 1600 GRT merchant sunk by deck gun fire course 282 speed 8 kn grid AL0319. 5 G7e torpedoes and 1 G7a left. Diesel 73 cbm. Returning to patrol grid.
0845 BdU confirms our last message
1048 AL0331 Sunrise
1200 AL0322 NNW 2, sea 2, 0/10 vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 124 nm ***8595; 13.7 nm, combined 137.7 nm
1202 Radio message received. Area C widened
1210 Radio message sent. Returning via Shetlands. Provisions low.
1600 AL3871 NNW 2, sea 2, 0/10 vis. medium
1728 AL3867 Sunset
2000 AL3815 NNW 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. medium
25.1.1940
0000 Northwest of Rockall Bank AL3815 NNW 2, sea 2, 2/10, vis. medium
0023 Test dive
0400 AM1554 NE 10, sea 7, 6/10, vis. medium
0800 AM1534 NE 10, sea 7, 6/10, vis. medium
1052 AM1398 Sunrise
1200 AM1399 NE 10, sea 7, 6/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 232.7 nm ***8595; 1.1 nm, combined 233.8 nm
1245 AM1474 Test dive
1600 AM1475 NE 10, sea 8, 4/10, vis. medium Against wind only making 8 - 9 knots with LF
1658 Sunset
2000 AM1455 NE 10, sea 7, 4/10, vis. medium
2034 Test dive
26.1.1940
0000 NNE of Rockall Bank AM1464 NE 10, sea 8, 4/10, vis. medium
0400 AM2317 NE 10, sea 8, 4/10, vis. medium
0800 AM2321 NE 10, sea 8, 4/10, vis. medium
1046 AM2322 Sunrise
1200 AM2331 NE 10, sea 8, 4/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 202.9 nm ***8595; 1.0 nm, combined 203.9 nm
1600 AM2411 NE 10, sea 8, 4/10, vis. medium
1638 Sunset
2000 AM2421 NE 10, sea 8, 6/10, vis. medium
2046 Test dive
2321 AM2422 According to intelligence, entering airplane patrolled area. Night time speed LF, day time speed HF for faster diving
26.1.1940
0000 NE of the Hebrides AM2423 NE 10, sea 8, 6/10, vis. medium
0019 Radio report. Enemy task force AM64.
0400 AM2433 NE 10, sea 8, 6/10, vis. medium
0800 AM3179 NE 10, sea 7, 4/10, vis. medium
1033 AM3181 Sunrise
1200 AM3188 NE 10, sea 7, 4/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 218.4 nm ***8595; 1.6 nm, combined 220.0 nm
1252 AM3189 Airplane sighted 46 R, 42 T long range. Crash dive. At 10 meters a 90 degree turn. Four minutes after the sighting speed KF, depth A, turn towards original course.
It seems that the airplanes fly despite storm winds.
1422 Surfaced
1600 AM3197 NE 10, sea 8, 4/10, vis. medium
1612 AM3198 Radio message received. Habekost has mined his sector and is returning to port
1624 Sunset
2000 AM3278 NE 10, sea 7, 4/10, vis. medium
28.1.1940 Between the Hebrides and Faroe Islands
0000 AM3288 NE 10, sea 7, 4/10, vis. medium
0400 AM3297 NE 10, sea 7, 4/10, vis. medium
0417 Test dive
0800 AN1174 NE 10, sea 7, 4/10, vis. medium
1023 AN1173 Sunrise
1200 AN1154 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 208. nm ***8595; 3.6 nm, combined 211.6 nm
1600 AN1135 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, vis. medium
1607 Sunset
1614 Radio messages. Rollmann and Mathes are returning to base. U-51 has had to interrupt mission because of technical defect in bow caps
1853 AN1214 A contact report. Grid AN1329 ship course ENE speed medium. Intercepting.
2000 AN1244 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, vis.medium
2235 AN1332 A hydrophone contact, distant, merchant 60 R, 290 T
2305 A ship sighted 326 R 290 T range 3800 meters. Aob 100 Port. Parallel course
2325 Tubes 1 - 3 G7e AZ 3 range 800 meters speed estimation 6 knots aob 82 port gyro angle 0 bearing 349. One aimed just in front of keel, one in the middle, one just back of stern. A hit in the middle.
2331 Shot some rounds with the deck gun. GF away from the site. The 5000 GRT merchant on fire, bridge and engine room flaming. A 15 degree tilt to the port side. The ship is presumed sinking.
2346 Ship still afloat, dead in water
29.1.1940 NNE of Orkneys
0000 AN1197 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, vis. medium
0129 AN1333 Radio message sent. A 5100 GRT merchant speed 6 kn course 45 sunk. Two g7e and one G7a torpedo left. Fuel 70 cubic meters. Returning through AN14.
0152 BdU confirms our last message
0400 AN1418 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, vis. medium
0524 AN1454 A contact report. Convoy grid AN15 WNW. Not intercepting. The convoy is probably following Scottish coastline, which is heavily mined.
0616 AN1454 Test dive. A probable warship 65 R 180 T.
0700 AN1454 A dive to listen to enemy's defenses between the Orkneys and the Shetlands. Very distant probable warship screws 140 R, 240 T.
0800 AN1455 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, vis. medium
0830 A dive to listen. Strong screws 12 R, 132 T. Distant screws 70 R, 190 T
0854 AN1458 A ship seen coming straight at us. Range 3000 - 4000 meters. Dive to pd. Two ships heard. No warships heard. The closest merchant sounds are getting away. Surface for a quick deck gun attack before it gets light
0916 The 2200 GRT merchant is trying to get away from us
0932 The ship shot all ablaze. The crew abandoning the ship. GF away from the sight
0934 Huge explosion. Probably the ship's fuel bunker exploded. The deck is burning and a huge column of smoke will guide any planes here in no time
0936 The ship sunk and with it the column of smoke is also soon gone. Radio message to BdU. A 2200 GRT merchant sunk by deck gun fire. Two G7e and one G7a torpedo left. Petrol 68 cbm
1004 AN1483 Sunrise
1006 A dive to listen. Nothing heard
1034 BdU: Very good results!
1200 AN1494 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, medium vis. Day's run: ***8593; 299.5 nm ***8595; 3.2 nm, combined 302.8 nm
1600 AN4131 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, medium vis.
1603 A contact report. AN4422 course N slow. Turning to intercept
1611 Sunset
1612 Radio message: Knorr has to abandon mission because the bow tubes have malfunctions
1834 AN4155 Faint hydrophone sounds
1945 No contacts

30.1.1940 North Sea
0000 AN4434 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, medium vis.
0219 AN4466 Test dive
0400 AN4541 NE 5, sea 4, 0/10, vis. medium
0800 AN4581 NE 5, sea 4, 0/10, vis. medium
0938 AN4584 Sunrise
1023 A neutral lit ship seen long range. Decide to continue towards home
1200 AN4588 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, vis. medium Day's run: ***8593; 257 nm ***8595; 2.2 nm, combined 259.2 nm
1600 AN4835 NE 6, sea 4, 0/10, medium vis.
1616 Sunset
1751 AN4941 Radio message. Heidel has been forced to scuttle boat.
2000 AN4949 NE 6, sea 3, 0/10, medium vis.
31.1.1940 North Sea
0000 AN4989 NE 6, sea 4, 2/10, medium vis.
0400 AN6212 NE 6, sea 4, 2/10, medium vis.
0800 AN6252 NE 6, sea 4, 2/10, medium vis.
0910 AN6256 Sunrise
1200 AN6292 NE 6, sea 4, 2/10, medium vis. Day's run: ***8593; 255.1 nm ***8595; 2.5 nm, combined 257.6 nm
1600 AN6622 NE 6, sea4, 2/10, vis. medium
1618 Sunset
1620 Test dive
1837 AN6637 Diesel fuel reserve down to 46 cbm
2000 AN9344 NE 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. unlimited
1.2.1940 Deutsche Bucht
0000 AN9344 ENE 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. unlimited
0002 Radio message. Intelligence reports confirm British minefields east and north of the islands
0101 Radio message. A supply ship is availabe in Cadiz
0135 AN9567 A ship spotted long range
0237 AN9568 A ship spotted long range
0335 AN9677 A ship spotted long range

0345 AN9811 Ships spotted around the port of Wilhelmshaven
0400 AN9811 ENE 2, sea 1, 0/10, vis. unlimited
0512 Wilhelmshaven Docked after 38 days at sea. Fuel left 38 cbm. Patrol results six ships for 26000 GRT.

General observations:
1. Enemy merchants are not yet armed, but will probably soon be. The torpedoes need to function better.
2. AL38 was totally quiet. The enemy seems to use AL03 instead.

Schröter
Oberleutnant zur See


Matrosenobergefreiter Glinka promoted for deck gun duties. Matrosengefreiter Gysae promoted. Leutnant z.s. Kopp awarded EK2.

[nutworld]

It is late September 1939 and U-30 and her crew have completed our assigned 24 hr patrol of BF 16.

So far after over 24 hours in our patrol grid we have found our first contact, warship at long range. The crew is excited as we deviate from our patrol course to see what enemy is roaming our seas.

With any luck this seafaring scum will meet the same fate as the Medium Cargo that crossed our path in square BF 15, giving us a first combat patrol total of over 3700 tons sunk.

Our crew was excited for the war to start after our two previous "shake down" patrols ended with promotions and qualifications, but the news of impending war in the fall of 1939 had us wanting to apply our newly assigned skills in battle.

[Sailor Steve]

Have SH3 reinstalled for the hundrillionth time, and am gearing up for a new set of careers. Will have parallel careers from the 1st (IIb), 2nd (VIIb), 6th (IX) and 7th (VIIa) flotillas.

[nutworld]

Have SH3 reinstalled for the hundrillionth time, and am gearing up for a new set of careers. Will have parallel careers from the 1st (IIb), 2nd (VIIb), 6th (IX) and 7th (VIIa) flotillas.

really Sailor Steve, the "hundrillionth" time?

Is that ALL? :har:

[zygoma]

Note: purists of history and/or this sim may be disturbed by complete inaccuracies. War is somber enough, so this is an attempt at light-heartedness.
Running vanilla 1.4b with massive config file changes.
************************************************** ******
Log of Kplt Sascha Gruenstein, U-6969
Entry of 12 December 1944
Current location Zigzagging northbound between Sierra Leone - Liverpool and Liverpool - Gibraltar convoy lanes; presently CF36 on NE tack, depth 14m, schnorkel deployed, speed 33 kts
************************************************** *****
Personal (unofficial) log of Kplt S. Gruenstein

We've not heard back from Adm. Donitz on the memo I sent him recently about our patrol zone in the English Channel. Radioman Geeksparken showed me the hard copy of my ill-advised and cognac-induced rant. As I have not been recalled to the Admiral's office, I must assume some intercession by a yeoman clerk sympathetic to either me or our crew. Torpedoman 2c Bernard mentioned that he is *very* (his emphasis -- relevant?) close friends with some of the office ratings.

This patrol has seen some considerable oddities, coinciding with the transfer to our boat of LI von Braun. While he maintains that his Christian name is Werner, the crew refer to him (out of the officers' earshot, of course) as "Weenie". I believe he knows this, but chooses to ignore it. He seems intensely focused on his work. He holds 2 PhD degrees from Heidelberg University, in chemistry and physics. We are fortunate to have him.

Herr von Braun qualified in Type II and IXC, and this boat took him but two weeks to be fully qualified. He showed a great interest in our engines before we left port, and I gave him permission to make some modifications to the boat's propulsion systems. The other machinists were devoid of any understanding of most of the things about which he speaks -- they seemed mostly to be fetching tools and holding parts for him as he tore into the massive diesel beasts. I've watched him work, but must admit my own ignorance of the terms he uses, like "vectored thrust" and propeller-less drives.

The engine and maneuvering rooms hardly look like they used to, but von Braun made sure the crew know what controls have new functions. But I fear that if he is taken from us for a more advanced role in, say, the Luftwaffe, we will be at a loss unless he is given enough time to teach us what he has actually done.

I thought it odd that, even though our assigned zone is AM42 and our base is St. Nazaire, our mission began somehow in the middle of the ocean west of Equatorial Guinea. LI von Braun showed me on the navigation map the points where fuel drops or milk cows would be most advantageous. I note that there are many more refuel points necessary for this mission, but BdU promised us either air-dropped fuel bladders or fast destroyers as emergency oilers in case we become stranded due to depletion of fuel. Herr von Braun gave a bewildering explanation of our starting position using terms unknown to me, like "continuum" and "warp".

Bernard arranged for the extra parts during our shore time before this patrol. I am at a loss as to precisely how, but he was wearing his most fetching lederhosen (including a garment he called "chaps") and a silk caricature of a uniform shirt, redone as a vest, when he went to visit his "dear friend" (his words) Helmut at Logistics. However, when he returned from his errand, somewhat the worse for wear, he was followed by 3 trucks full of parts and a crane truck. Herr von Braun set the crew to the task of hauling out the parts of the engines that he had removed and bringing the new ones aboard. We all wondered at the loss of weight from the cast iron parts we removed and the aluminum and titanium parts he had brought aboard. We also had streamlined pipe-like attachments emanating through the pressure hull and outer skin on each side from the forward area of the engine room and running aft to a point just aft of the propellers but a meter in front of the rudders.

We were delighted and surprised to see that the third truck had a dozen of the experimental Type XI torpedoes, and they were used to replace half our stock loadout. Bernard modestly said that he had managed to obtain them for us at only 40 renown points each. I have learned to not press Bernard for details in many areas. That boy makes me a little uneasy when he's around....something just seems not quite right.

The benefit of our LI's efforts have paid off mightily, if somewhat mysteriously. Our operations on battery are unchanged, and it is nice to know that when we are at depth in the presence of an aggressive opponent, we will not have to suddenly change routine procedures because of the changes to our air-breathing propulsion system.

LI von Braun tells me that he has "made a few changes" to our supercharger. For one thing, it is now a turbocharger, driven by the exhaust that would be otherwise wasted. He had the bore of the intake in the schnorkel doubled in area (and therefore throughput of air). Its jacket is streamlined and strengthened with the titanium so it moves more smoothly through the water and is allowed to flex without kinking at higher speeds.

Those higher speeds are the main benefit of our new LI's efforts. On the surface, Ahead Slow now produces a speed of 5 kts on a calm sea like normal. At Ahead 1/3, our speed is 21 kts; Ahead Standard is 34 kts; Ahead Full is 51 kts, and Ahead Flank propels us at 73.5 kts when the batteries are not charging, and 63 kts whilst charging.

LI von Braun also reduced the size of the bow and aft dive planes, but then he put articulating outer halves on the blades. He calls it "variable aspect" and that we will appreciate having finer control with the tips retracted when running on the schnorkel, as our control inputs will not be exaggerated. When running on battery, the tips will deploy out and increase the amount of effect they induce to the amount with which we are accustomed.

On other than a calm sea, anything over Ahead Standard is a bit dicey, as the boat tends to porpoise. While we were used to that, we were *not* used to hitting a wavefront with our prow and suddenly being driven to a depth of 20-25 meters. We have supplied our watch crews with nose plugs and put hoses from the compressed air system (low pressure side) to the bridge to help out with the annoyance an unplanned dive and the time necessary for recovery to the surface. The hatch from the bridge to the conning tower is now closed when running on the surface at speed, and a large spring opens the hatch when Crash Dive is ordered, and is released in concert with the dogging wheel when the last man goes below.

Crash dives are even more exciting than usual. Flooding our forward trim tanks are enough to drop our bow into water sufficiently deep to enable the forward dive planes to grab the water, rapidly changing our angle of attack and propelling us down at a most exhilarating rate. As long as our surface speed exceeds about 33 kts, this phenomenon occurs. Our angle is so steep when only the bow is submerged that our propellers and thrust pipes (jets?) are out of the water; our momentum is what gives us the burst of downward speed, which bleeds off fairly quickly after reaching 30 meters. Our Pharmacist's Mate predicts fewer injuries from the crew all dashing to the forward torpedo room for dive angle assistance, but he predicts more from the quick deceleration from speeds of 70 kts to 5 kts.

Turns on the surface at speeds above 25 kts perform best when rudder angle is limited to 5 degrees. Anything sharper than that and the boat wallows like a sweating hog in mud. Naturally, the crew are universally delighted to be subjected to roll angles approaching 45 degrees, left to right, for 3 or 4 oscillations after just one brief rudder input at speed, pulling our thrust tubes and rudders alternately out of the water. This has the advantage of being somewhat of a limiting factor, providing negative feedback to the yaw angle of the boat, but it also diminishes our ability to control our depth.

Speeds at depth 14 meters are diminished about 40% from when on the surface. The same sea state limitations exist, as we porpoise violently from the drag still induced by the schnorkel, even with its enhanced shape.

It was exciting to detect a VW Destroyer off Freetown, and be able to overtake him to get close enough to launch a Type XI eel from inside 3,000 meters as we decelerated and began our dive. It appeared their gunners were unable to track us as approached. We had to modify our approach-and-fire technique, as we can easily outstrip the speed of the eel unless we either bleed off much of our own speed, or vary course by a couple of degrees immediately after firing, then diving.

First kill of the patrol, and we're still thousands of kilometers from where we should be. We are glad for the fuel drops and fast tankers, as the boat now goes through diesel fuel like Scheiss through a Gans.

Operation around aircraft has become an odd mix of better and worse. At Ahead Flank we move at a speed faster than the stall speed of the slowest ASW aircraft, so they no longer have to make diving passes to toss bombs at us. If we do not catch them on radar or Mark 1A Eyeball as they approach us, they can remain in a fixed position relative to us and proceed to bomb and gun us at their leisure. On the other hand, Herr von Braun made some ingenious links from our radar to a series of motors that change the azimuth and elevation of the A-A guns, improving their tracking to a rate faster than most human gunners are capable of, although for safety the system still requires live gunners to control firing and reloading.

Encouraged by our success in downing 3 B-24 bombers and the destroyer, we took a short detour through the harbor at Freetown in the evening. No ships or personnel were detected as we cruised on the surface through the middle of the harbor from west to east. It was eerily quiet, even though the buildings were all brilliantly lighted. The two aft watches even exchanged a line from an old motion picture they said they had seen: "It quiet here, Kemosabe." "Yes, Tonto -- too quiet!"
I chalked it up to the idiosyncrasies of a crew that spends too much time with not enough to do.

So we are making best speed though choppy seas now as we search for convoys on one of the two nearby routes. I happened to mention in passing that it would be so nice if we had a man in an aircraft 300 km above the sea, helping us search and warning us of danger. Herr von Braun gave one of his enigmatic smiles and said, "It will come, Herr Kaleun. I just need time."

I fear that some other service within the Reich will learn of our brilliant LI and have him reassigned to themselves, perhaps the Luftwaffe's Research Branch. But for now, it is oddly exciting to be the fastest vessel on (or under) the sea.

End personal log.
Sascha Gruenberg, commanding U-6969

[sublynx]

I fear that some other service within the Reich will learn of our brilliant LI and have him reassigned to themselves, perhaps the Luftwaffe's Research Branch. But for now, it is oddly exciting to be the fastest vessel on (or under) the sea.


LOL, this report has something of a Baron von Münchhausen or Rabelais kind of feel to it :)

I think having both Weenie and Bernie on the same boat is a BIG mistake. Maybe BdU will send Weenie to serve on my boat if I point out the risks to him... On the other hand talking to BdU might lead to him sending Bernard to my boat :eek:

[Sailor Steve]

really Sailor Steve, the "hundrillionth" time?

Is that ALL? :har:
What can I say? I pride myself on correct and proper usage of the Lingua Englaise. When I reach a gazillion, I'll say gazillion! :stare:

@ Zygoma: Congratulations on winning the war single-handed. Of course our fearless and wonderful Fuhrer will have you disappeard shortly after the medals ceremony, because he can't stand the competition. Best of luck with the whole being removed from the history books as well as the planet thing. :sunny:

[marioh99]

Just got back from a patrol to grid ED98.
Patrol started in 4/23/1942, finally docked at Lorient 8/9/1942.

An unfortunate patrol as my watch officer was killed during a surface attack on a heavily armed Liberty cargo ship. Normally, I wouldn't have attacked it on the surface with the deck gun, but all I had was 1 eel left, and I missed hitting the Liberty under the stack and decided to finish it off on the surface. Bad decision on my part, one I won't make again.

Things are definitely getting hectic now. Enemy aircraft is now doing nighttime attack runs making running on the surface very dangerous. Watch crew missed a couple of enemy aircraft runs, and I found out the hard way once the uboat started to take damage. I guess that's what I get for running 128x TC.

After patrolling ED98, I had 3 eels left, and saw a nice deep water port at Bridgetown. Decided to check it out and saw a juicy Modern Tanker sitting in dock, along with a Tribal Class destroyer, various neutral ships, and a few patrol crafts. I thought I would be slick and sink the destroyer with 1 eel, and use the other 2 to sink the modern tanker. As I got into position to torpedo the destroyer, I started getting pinged. Apparently one of the patrol crafts was just sitting there waiting for someone like me to come along. Since I was lined up to shoot a torp with my aft tube, I fire off decoys. Luckily, the patrol craft picks that up, and depth charges are launched around 50 meters or so from my uboat. The patrol craft then circles around, and ends up getting stuck against the dock. I sunk the destroyer, and decided to not press my luck and got the heck out of there.

[Zedwardson]

I have a hero of the German people on my hands.

Ludwig Ballak was already a top U-boat ace, as in 1939 he sunk the HMS Rodney as it escorted a convoy in the North Atlantic. It was now April 1940, and he was asked to patrol AN21. The surface waters where calm, and many small ships and a tugboat fell under the gun of U-30. (The Ore hauler did get two torpedoes for its trouble. ) Then new commands from the Fleet command, and All U-boats where tasked with helping the invasion of Norway. So U-30 proceeded to find one of the most packed patrols of Capital ships this U-boat commander has seen. After shooting down two lone Swordfishes (and failing in finding the carrier they where from, U-30 went to Namos to support operations in that area. While heading towards Norway, a fast Task Force was heading to Norway, U-30 tried to intercept, but failed, and had gone to normal crusing speed when reports was that the Task force had turned around, and was heading right for U-30. Depending on there speed for safety, U-30 was able to sit at have the HMS repulse come within 1200 meters of the boat. I spread of four torpedoes was launched, and crash drive ordered. All four torpedoes hit. I stayed under for a while, but the escorts did not know where to look. The Repulse was crippled, so I rose to scope deapth, and launched a Fish.

Dud....

Launched a 2nd torpedo,

Dud....

I was getting quite upset when I get the notice that the the ship was going down.

I proceeded to chase contacts off Norway. And was able to intercept a carrier task force, however, I was discovered at 13000 meters, and was forced to take a very long range at the carrier and crash drive. The the shots did not hit. I spend the rest of the day ducking underwater as the swordfish kept flying by. My crew was hearing "Crash Dive" commands all day.

In all my adventures, I have two electric eels forward. So I decide to patrol up the coast of Norway to Narvik hoping to catch a nice merchant trying to resupply the British or French Forces. Suddenly I get a warship contact, a large Taskforce with the HMS Nelson Headed my way.

I submerge, and wait, and at 2000 meters, launch my last two torpedoes. and drive.

One hits, one misses. and the escorts almost found me, but thought i was still a little more out. So I got to go to scope depth and watch as the HMS Nelson limped at at 7 knots.


Knights Cross with Oaks was granted, and my crew was showered with Ribbons and awards.

Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
2.4.40. 0628 Patrol 9
U-30, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: April 2, 1940, 06:28
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN21 4.4.40. 1527 Grid AN 21 Ship sunk! SS Vital de Oliveira (Passenger/Cargo), 1776 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 146. Crew lost: 8 1710 Grid AN 21 Ship sunk! SS Augvald (Granville-type Freighter), 4707 tons. Cargo: Military Vehicles. Crew: 88. Crew lost: 1 1944 Grid AN 21 Ship sunk! MV Yewvalley (Large Tugboat), 422 tons. Crew: 36. Crew lost: 10 5.4.40. 0503 Grid AF 78 Ship sunk! SS Dumra (Passenger/Cargo), 1768 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 85. Crew lost: 33 6.4.40. 0408 Grid AN 21 Ship sunk! SS Port Denison (Ore Carrier), 8852 tons. Cargo: Military Stores. Crew: 62. Crew lost: 14 1340 Grid AN 21 Ship sunk! SS Birgitte (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons. Cargo: Paper Products. Crew: 25. Crew lost: 3 7.4.40. 1704 Grid AN 12 Aircraft destroyed! Swordfish 1939 Grid AN 12 Aircraft destroyed! Swordfish 9.4.40. 2307 Grid AF 73 Ship sunk! HMS Repulse (Renown class), 48360 tons. Crew: 1200. Crew lost: 216 12.4.40. 1553 Grid AF 53 Aircraft destroyed! Swordfish 1555 Grid AF 53 Aircraft destroyed! Swordfish 14.4.40. 0605 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 7
Aircraft destroyed: 4
Patrol tonnage: 67754 tons

[U-snafu]

Just getting back into SH3 (a pastime that I always seem to come back to:D-believe it will stay on my harddrive through thick and thin)

Running GWX base and getting ready to start my next patrol to set it (with commander) so i can get my IIA 'canoe' involved in some screening ops for operation wesserbung(sp)---hoping to get at least one of my 5 eels into a vile british hull:arrgh!:.

From there think I'll retire my Kaleun to the training flotilla and start a VII career with 1st officer's name.

[Zedwardson]

I just died, Was hunting a convoy when suddenly out of a storm a Hunt Class DD was 700 meters off my port bow. I didn't even have enough time to crash dive before i was killed. :/\\!!

Well, survived from the start of the war to 6/40, So I will start a guy on 6/40 and see how many guys it takes to finish the war. :|\\

[Sailor Steve]

Well, survived from the start of the war to 6/40, So I will start a guy on 6/40 and see how many guys it takes to finish the war. :|\\
That's the way I always do it. :sunny:

[sublynx]

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[Pappy55]

It's now Feb 1940 on my 5th Patrol in new campaign

I am at CG79 and all on route from scotland down to near Gibralta the weather has been foul. 15meters a second winds and 10 meter waves with heavy rain.. (Must be British summer time again:O:)

I can't hunt in this:Kaleun_Mad:
I can't even see ships till im right next to them.
I want to try and put a few fish into a Battleship or Carrier as I am close to a major navel traffic route and base but the weather is making that impossible.

[Buhring]

I just stumbled in a TF of three unsescorted Southampton class cruises off Aberdeen. They were going slow (8 kts) and dumb, without even a zigzag pattern. Too confident for being close home, I guess. I got in the middle of the two columns, without being noticed -- dumb they were, really dumb.

First salvo: 2 eels on the head ship of the column ahead of me, two on the aft one, the aft tube on the cruiser behind me. I get one hit on the first and third, two on the second. Two ship stop still in the water, the third limps away

After a while, one of the two stopped ships capsizes; I finish the other after reloading -- and then off to chase the last one, steaming toward the coast at reduced speed.

I bag the third one at night, after some hours of pursuit.

March 11, 1940 - 90% realism - GWX 3.0