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[Leandros]

U-108 Feb 6th 1941 - Patrol 15 - out of Lorient.

Ready to leave for Patrol 15. Got back to Lorient on Jan 6th after an exhausting patrol with extremely bad weather all the time - even in the Bristol Channel. Without my experienced officers the catch was only 4 merchants for 18.000 tons (two with deck gun). Still had some torps left on return but the crew was "red" all over the place. Me, too!

Then I was informed by the Commander that I was off active duty! I had to report back home to take over the 5. flotilla - a desktop job (probably because of my bad performance on the last patrol....)! Well, after some heavy lobbying I was able to stay on with the 2. flotilla and my U-108. Even got back a couple of my former officers so that I now rate the difficulty for me, as the boat's captain, to approx. 85 %. Eventually, I shall lose them again......

[sharkbit]

U-176(IXC). March '43-Patrol #4 out of Lorient. Headed for Freetown.
Has not reported in since attacking large northbound convoy. (Bdu is hoping another death card will not need to be issued, but hope is waning.)

Man, are things getting hard out in the Atlantic or what?!?!?:o

U-80(VIIC). July '43-Setting out on maiden patrol from La Spezia.

:)

[Paul Riley]

Some good reports coming in,keep it up :up:

[Leandros]

U-108 Feb. 16th 10:00 - Patrol 15 - CG79

After having patrolled our assigned area west of the Canaries we proceeded towards Gibraltar. Picked up a westbound convoy out of Gib. Put two into a Large Merchant but was forced down by a Flower class. While trying to avoid it we sighted a Dido right behind us at the opposite side of the convoy - 2.500 meters distance. Sent off a fast one before side-stepping the Flower. We heard it hit just as we went for the deep.

Surfaced after some hours and picked up the trail again. Crew is exhausted so torpedo reloading takes frustratingly long times. Overtook the damaged Large Merchant and sunk it with the deck gun. Went on again. As soon as we had contact with the convoy Swordfish aircrafts approached from the South - not sure if they discovered us. Surfaced again after 40 minutes. After a little while the brain started working. Swordfishes..?....That would mean a carrier. Went down again and turned South. Oh, yes! Picked up warships approaching - fast.....Surfaced and set full speed in the dirction of the signal. After a little while - ship ohoy. Through the UZO could be seen nicely lined up a Fiji, a Southampton and an ---- Illustrious ---- intercepting course - flank ahead.....four torps left.



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol15/Illustrious.jpg

[Paul Riley]

Dont forget your bible Leandros,if yer christian that is ! or if yer heathen a few bottles of rum to bolster the spirits! :arrgh!:
I personally pay a homage to Odin before such dangerous encounters...THEN get drunk :yeah:

[Leandros]

U-108 - feb. 20th - Lorient

Back in Lorient. Illustrious got away! Soon after we turned to intercepting course we were fired upon and had to go down. Managed to get within 2.500 meters of it but was constantly harassed by its escorts. Illustrious also started some frenetic course changes and the lone TII in our bow tube couldn't cope with it. Eventually we let its escorts take the blame. the 3 T1's in our aft tubes came to good use.

Later a fourth arrived and we had to go real deep to get away. Suspect aircrafts from Illustrious also were bombing us. After a couple of hours they gave up.

[Sgtmonkeynads]

U-122 to Bdu.

Send Help.
Serious glitches have forced reinstall.
Giving order to abandon ship.
Navigator lost. No known position.
Code Books Burned. Scuttle Charges set.
:nope:

[Paul Riley]

Navigator lost? :o please,explain.

[Sgtmonkeynads]

I all of a sudden had bugs. Lots of them. It started with the one where I would b looking through the scope or uzo. I would be looking, click once to enable movement of the scope, then once I had target lock I would click again to exit movement mode and that is when I would automatically launch a torpedo.

The next one was a glitch in all graphics. On the top left side of the screen I would get this checkerboard pattern that made it look as if the game was trying to cover up a naked lady or something.

The nav map could not be changed. I was stuck afloat and none of my crew could do anything about it. It also had the glitch that when at night when the filter should have been applied, from day running to the red night light, it was up in the right corner. The filter I mean, map as normal but the filter was in its own window up in the corner. It is hard to explain without showing you.

I wish I knew what happened. I had the best career of my life going, with both the Rodney and Nelson under my belt.

Good luck with your hunt. You will Love Gwx once you get over all the new eyecandy and such.

[Leandros]

U-66 June 8th, 1941 - Lorient - Patrol 16.

With almost 13.000 points of renown I figured it was time to upgrade to IXC - U-66. Transfer took several months but we are now ready to leave for assigned area AM53.

Come to think of it, on Patrol 15 there were no malfunctions or obvious sabotage incurred. On Patrol 14 we had problems getting the max out of both diesel and electrical engines. The engines came to order after a long submerged period in the Celtic Sea. Also had premature torpedo cook-offs.

Torpedo load-up is a mix of TI's and TII's. Purely TI's in the aft tubes. All crew have been refreshed or upgraded in various specialist functions. These things do wonders for their endurance and capabilities. Just awarded 11 war badges. Only two men left missing it now. Casting off...!

[Kptlt. Siegmann]

Just about to put out to sea for my 3rd patrol of this career. Going to try to go the entire war using only the Type II:D

[DaveU186]

It seems Bernard managed to join the crew of U-2501 under a false identity.

After confirming that a passenger/cargo we'd attacked was on her way down, I instructed him to plot a course away from the area. Unfortunately he managed to take us directly into the path of ship, which came down on top of us.

Down we went with four compartments flooding. Had a good mind to tie him up and stick him in one of said compartments. However, my crew heroically saved the ship, though the damage reads:

Torpedo Tube 1 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 2 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 3 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 4 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 5 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 6 - Destroyed
Hydrophone Receivers - Destroyed
Forward Batteries - Destroyed
Hydrophone - Destroyed
Radar - Destroyed
Radio - Destroyed
Sonar - Destroyed
Attack Periscope - Destroyed
Observation Periscope - Destroyed
Radio Antenna - Destroyed
Radar Antenna - Destroyed
Snorkel - Destroyed
Radar Warning Receiver - Not Working

You have to laugh or you really would cry.

:har:

[Paul Riley]

I all of a sudden had bugs. Lots of them. It started with the one where I would b looking through the scope or uzo. I would be looking, click once to enable movement of the scope, then once I had target lock I would click again to exit movement mode and that is when I would automatically launch a torpedo.

The next one was a glitch in all graphics. On the top left side of the screen I would get this checkerboard pattern that made it look as if the game was trying to cover up a naked lady or something.

The nav map could not be changed. I was stuck afloat and none of my crew could do anything about it. It also had the glitch that when at night when the filter should have been applied, from day running to the red night light, it was up in the right corner. The filter I mean, map as normal but the filter was in its own window up in the corner. It is hard to explain without showing you.

I wish I knew what happened. I had the best career of my life going, with both the Rodney and Nelson under my belt.

Good luck with your hunt. You will Love Gwx once you get over all the new eyecandy and such.

Thanks sgt.

I am still on my way back to Kiel on my shakedown patrol,almost in the Skagerrak where we will perform our 1st deep dive test,to see how this little duck performs,then we will make for Kiel.Had some great sightings though on the patrol,lots of activity around French,Dutch,Frisian waters.Shame none of them could be attacked,I had some perfect opportunities.All co-ords have been recorded :yeah:

Had one or two hair raising moments around the NW tip of German coastline,water became dangerously shallow having dived due to the unnatural darkness at night,only to surface and risk a surface run in zero vis.

Cheers.

[Leandros]

It seems Bernard managed to join the crew of U-2501 under a false identity.

After confirming that a passenger/cargo we'd attacked was on her way down, I instructed him to plot a course away from the area. Unfortunately he managed to take us directly into the path of ship, which came down on top of us.

Down we went with four compartments flooding. Had a good mind to tie him up and stick him in one of said compartments. However, my crew heroically saved the ship, though the damage reads:

Torpedo Tube 1 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 2 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 3 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 4 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 5 - Destroyed
Torpedo Tube 6 - Destroyed
Hydrophone Receivers - Destroyed
Forward Batteries - Destroyed
Hydrophone - Destroyed
Radar - Destroyed
Radio - Destroyed
Sonar - Destroyed
Attack Periscope - Destroyed
Observation Periscope - Destroyed
Radio Antenna - Destroyed
Radar Antenna - Destroyed
Snorkel - Destroyed
Radar Warning Receiver - Not Working

You have to laugh or you really would cry.

:har:
Who is this Bernard, please - that is stirring up so much problems on various occasions....?

[Leandros]

U-66 - Jun 14th 1941 01:48 - AM5328 - Patrol 16

Rough sea but very good visibility, clear sky, full moon. Heading SW surfaced towards a recent sonar contact. 5 torps left, the other were expended on an Eastbound convoy into Liverpool. Got inside the screen but experienced 3 duds with TI's on magnetic fuze. Two went off prematurely at approx. 400 meters distance, one passed underneath the Large merchant without going off. Distance almost 3.000 meters. Switched to impact fuze and hit a couple of others but had to fight off the escorts before the trail could be picked up again. The TI's in the aft tubes worked eminently on magnetic against the escorts. Much shorter distances, though.

[Paul Riley]

Who is this Bernard, please - that is stirring up so much problems on various occasions....?



Leandros,

I asked the same thing the other day.He is the nutjob that everyone takes the piss out of,for sailing into other ships when you plot a course,for grounding the Uboat in shallow water,for using the hydrophone without having his headset on,or firing a torpedo into thin air...the list is practically endless.
Bernard is really...you,the captain,he's in charge after all.He is your alter ego,your black cloud hovering above your head :O:
He also has a tendency to produce foul smelling farts when you have been underwater for about 24hrs :nope: yuk

[sharkbit]

Leandros,

Bernard is really...you,the captain,he's in charge after all.He is your alter ego,your black cloud hovering above your head :O:

:haha::haha:

Nicely put.:DL

[Leandros]

Leandros,

I asked the same thing the other day.He is the nutjob that everyone takes the piss out of,for sailing into other ships when you plot a course,for grounding the Uboat in shallow water,for using the hydrophone without having his headset on,or firing a torpedo into thin air...the list is practically endless.
Bernard is really...you,the captain,he's in charge after all.He is your alter ego,your black cloud hovering above your head :O:
He also has a tendency to produce foul smelling farts when you have been underwater for about 24hrs :nope: yuk
Makes sense.....:smug:....

[sharkbit]

Still no word from U-176.
:hmmm:

[Leandros]

U-66 - Jun 14th 1941 - 15:17 - AM5519
Back to base! Still problems with magnetic fuzes - this time on TII's! One premature at about 700 meters. Next one hit passenger/cargo with impact setting. Took long time sinking so had to give him one more after a few hours. Bumped into two Americans - one hit but didn't detonate. The other went just behind - on 400 meters range...! Out of torps...

[fisherstoys1]

Just came back from New York for my fourth time. Sank 9 ships and got 2 more to gun fire. Then the best was I got a Bogue south of St. Johns just in the deep water probably twenty miles from the shallow water on the shelf.
At New York it's easy to get a Ceramic Ocean liner running south along the coast with some good water they are an easy catch.
On the way home for the first time since I got this game over a year ago, I seen my first Icebergs on way home.
:()1:
Grant

[Paul Riley]

:haha::haha:

Nicely put.:DL

Thanks :yep:
I couldnt think of any other way to describe him.

[RoaldLarsen]

U-196, a type IXD2, under the command of KptLt. Yngve Yung returned from patrol on May 11, 1944, after spending just 30 days at sea.


http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7295/u196reporty.jpg

KptLt. Yung thought it strange that BdU had ordered his boat, usually intended for long range missions, into the southern part of the Western Approaches. Being a good German officer, he did not question the unusual assignment but proceeded to the grid square to which he had been ordered. Within just a couple of days it was obvious to him that BdU had had very good reason for these orders. 40 hours after arriving in his patrol area, U-196 had sunk 8 ships for a total of more than 45,000 tons. Over the next five days he added 7 more victims.

KptLt. Yung credits his success to the high quality of his crew (most of which has been together since the boat was commissioned 20 months ago) and to "perfectly awful weather". Yung made most of his outbound transit of Biscay, and the last half of his return transit, surfaced in heavy rain. The day before U-196 arrived in its patrol area, a medium fog rolled in, and stayed for the next four days. The fog was too heavy for aircraft to be able to operate, but still allowed Yung visibility of nearly 2km. During this period U-196 claimed all but three of its kills. The awful weather was perfect for u-boat operations.

On the return trip from the patol area to the middle of the Bay of Biscay, the weather was unfortunately pleasant. During that time U-196 endured a dozen attacks by aircraft and four times was attacked within 10 minutes of surfacing. KptLt. Yung reports that U-196 was never attacked while snorkeling at night. The recently installed Tarnmatte seems to be effective.

KptLt. Yung and U-196 previously gained attention (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1049294&postcount=23) by conducting a patrol that lasted 178 days. KptLt. Yung is a recipient of the Knight's Cross. His IWO received the Fried Egg, and the other watch officers and the LI got the EK1.

[Paul Riley]

Good going RL.

[Leandros]

U-196, a type IXD2, under the command of KptLt. Yngve Yung returned from patrol on May 11, 1944, after spending just 30 days at sea.


http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7295/u196reporty.jpg

KptLt. Yung thought it strange that BdU had ordered his boat, usually intended for long range missions, into the southern part of the Western Approaches. Being a good German officer, he did not question the unusual assignment but proceeded to the grid square to which he had been ordered. Within just a couple of days it was obvious to him that BdU had had very good reason for these orders. 40 hours after arriving in his patrol area, U-196 had sunk 8 ships for a total of more than 45,000 tons. Over the next five days he added 7 more victims.

KptLt. Yung credits his success to the high quality of his crew (most of which has been together since the boat was commissioned 20 months ago) and to "perfectly awful weather". Yung made most of his outbound transit of Biscay, and the last half of his return transit, surfaced in heavy rain. The day before U-196 arrived in its patrol area, a medium fog rolled in, and stayed for the next four days. The fog was too heavy for aircraft to be able to operate, but still allowed Yung visibility of nearly 2km. During this period U-196 claimed all but three of its kills. The awful weather was perfect for u-boat operations.

On the return trip from the patol area to the middle of the Bay of Biscay, the weather was unfortunately pleasant. During that time U-196 endured a dozen attacks by aircraft and four times was attacked within 10 minutes of surfacing. KptLt. Yung reports that U-196 was never attacked while snorkeling at night. The recently installed Tarnmatte seems to be effective.

KptLt. Yung and U-196 previously gained attention (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1049294&postcount=23) by conducting a patrol that lasted 178 days. KptLt. Yung is a recipient of the Knight's Cross. His IWO received the Fried Egg, and the other watch officers and the LI got the EK1.
Related to Leif....?.....:03:......

[RoaldLarsen]

Related to Leif....?.....:03:......

As in lucky? Well, I'd like to think this partly makes up for all the bad luck I've had in IX boats.

As in my Norwegian name? My screen name is not my real name, but I do have Norwegian roots. My people were from Gudbrandsdalen and Oslofjorden, so I'm probably not related to Erik's family, who were from Rogaland, as I recall.

[Leandros]

As in lucky? Well, I'd like to think this partly makes up for all the bad luck I've had in IX boats.

As in my Norwegian name? My screen name is not my real name, but I do have Norwegian roots. My people were from Gudbrandsdalen and Oslofjorden, so I'm probably not related to Erik's family, who were from Rogaland, as I recall.
I wasn't referring to Eriksson - that would have been quite special. But, this one - is special, too:

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/16/obituaries/leif-andreas-larsen-norwegian-war-hero-84.html

[Leandros]

U-66 Aug. 29th 1941 05:43 - CG1392 - Patrol 18

Left Lorient on Aug. 26th for DH28. Had to abort Patrol 17 when leaving base due to a CTD at end of patrol 16. Back on track now.

Talk about Torpedokrise...!....Bumped into a small enemy convoy West of Cape Finisterre - an ore carrier, a C2 and a couple of smaller ones escorted by a Town class destroyer. Figured it would be best to down the destroyer first so to have a free hand with the merchants. Then the nightmare started . We threw everything at him from bow and aft tubes but nothing worked. The magnetic ones passed under him without detonating, the impact ones didn't detonate (even with fairly good hit angles), or passed under him. Finally, the ninth torp worked and he was a gonner.

A long pursuit with reloading external torps followed. In the end all the four merchants were bagged. Now we are heading towards the assigned area West of Madeira.

[meduza]

After 6 months of shore leave, Kaleun meduza is reporting for duty!

I'm about to leave St. Nazaire harbor for my 9th patrol, aboard U-51. Wish me good hunting...

[Leandros]

After 6 months of shore leave, Kaleun meduza is reporting for duty!

I'm about to leave St. Nazaire harbor for my 9th patrol, aboard U-51. Wish me good hunting...
Good hunting, Kaleun..!

[Pohl]

http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/pt2.jpg
it was pitch black when I took them down, had to stand around 40 minutes of depth chargin by the 5 destroyers that where with them, I was about to sink a 3rd battleship but only had 1 Aft torpedo left, so it go away injured, by far my best patrol in a career

edit: Will this make the Bismarck survive through the war...I mean I sank the ship the Bismarck was supposed to sink, triggering the event to send home fleet after the Bismarck...so this means she will survive??

On my next patrol guess who I found out there in a task force.....

HMS Revenge
http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/draco096/ss_file-8a69b5db9ac97744c5def7c46ae7e3066ad625cd.jpg

HMS Hood
http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/draco096/ss_file-219d9417c45ae1f14fc6846583f24170c567b400.jpg

I saw them sink...like the titanic and in less than 8 days they are back in the ocean o.o

[Bronzewing]

I think the ship you really need to sink for that is Ark Royal, that's where the Swordfish that crippled Bismark's rudder came from.

[AndyW]

Monsoon-Boat U-200, Ltn.z.See Heinrich Schonder, enroute from Lorient to Penang reporting in:

0130 14 AUGUST 1943 TO BDU
EIGHT ATTACKS BY SMALL A/C WITHIN 24HRS IN PQ GR88 600KM SW OF CAPETOWN
SUSPECT ENEMY AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THIS AREA
PROCEEDING FURTHER SOUTH TO PASS CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MORE SOUTHERNLY
WX CLEAR NO RAIN GOOD VISIBILITY WIND 15MS FROM WEST
GZ6255 U200 SCHONDER

Cheers,

[Pohl]

KMS-Bismarck is such a piece of beauty :salute:
Patrol #2
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/bism.jpg


http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090601-213832.png
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090601-213818.png

Patrol #3
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/pt2-1.jpg

[RoaldLarsen]

@Pohl,

How did you sink 19 ships in a period of 32 minutes?

(I note that the first of these seems to be a neutral destroyer.)

[Pohl]

@RoaldLarsen:
I'm using this mod (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=148443) that enables the use of battleships instead of submarines :yeah: I sank all those ships with the Bismarck :arrgh!: , 2 salvos from 1 of the main guns is enough to destroy a small merchant, nothing survives the might of the Bismarck..even some V&W Destroyer tried to ram me but failed epicly and he sank right besides me.

[RoaldLarsen]

:salute:@RoaldLarsen:
I'm using this mod (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=148443) that enables the use of battleships instead of submarines :yeah: I sank all those ships with the Bismarck :arrgh!: , 2 salvos from 1 of the main guns is enough to destroy a small merchant, nothing survives the might of the Bismarck..even some V&W Destroyer tried to ram me but failed epicly and he sank right besides me.

Ah! I see you renamed Bismark to "U-715" to confuse MI-6.

[Pohl]

:salute:

Ah! I see you renamed Bismark to "U-715" to confuse MI-6.

:hmmm: Didn't thought of that....but how am I supposed to hide such enormous ship from recon airplanes :rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

Crash dive.

[Jimbuna]

Crash dive.

Yeah, simply press the 'C' button :O:

[Captain Birdseye]

December 25th 1941

Just put a torp in HMS Nelson's bow. Saw several DD's accompanied by Nelson and King George V. Shot off a salvo of four torps. Only one hit.

We endured over two hours of depth charging. Some coming quite close, but we managed to get under a thermal layer at 140m and evade their ash cans.

A great success for our green crew, our second patrol in the Med. Can't wait for the medals when we get back.

[Captain Birdseye]

December 29th 1941

Four days after our little escapade with the mighty HMS Nelson, my hydrophone operator finds a small convoy heading for North Africa.

Not on my watch :arrgh!:

Chased the convoy and attracted attention from four, yes four Black Swan's. Escorting three passenger/cargo ships. This must be important stuff for the Allies. Anyway, managed to get to periscope depth and fire off two fish to one Black Swan. We then crash dive and hear his bulkheads breaking apart. His friends must be furious. After an hour of depth charging, we escape unharmed and want another shot.


We catch up with the convoy yet again. One torp is fired off to the last passenger/cargo in the formation. Direct hit :arrgh!:. She's had her engine compartment blown to pieces, but she still holds on. We've awoken the three Black Swans again, I find one, and fire a pot shot off at him and then crash dive.

Yet again, the sound of breaking bulkheads. We're getting good at this lark :). We notice our little cargo friend isn't moving, and although we are being depth charged to within an inch of our life, I make sure my Hydrophone operator keeps tabs on him.

We endured 2 and a half hours of severe depth charging, many sailors panicking and crying. Superb second in command Johann Hartkorn took over from my original second in command Willi Bornmann. Johann bagged himself an Iron Cross.

Depth charging ceased, we rise to the surface in the night and blow the cargo ship out of the water with the deck gun. She's ablaze and we go to help survivors.

While handing over water and food to life rafts, we notice that these sailors were escorting small numbers of troops and mail for the British soldiers. Just as we hand some more food over, the whole world is lit up.

"They've got a fix on us! AALLAAAAARRRRMMMM!" we crash dived, the best so far. Down to 120 metres and they nearly had us. We had to sink to 180m and we finally got away.


This patrol proved my crews strength. I shall be applying to have us posted to one of the French U-Boat bases, I feel we have proved ourselves in the Med.


(Sorry for the long post :oops: enjoyed this patrol a lot!)

[Pohl]

KMS-Bismarck is such a beauty, decided to raid Gibraltar and to my surprise HMS Nelson was there among other 4 Battlecruisers, when I was near 3-4 km I set parallel to them so all of my main guns aimed at them then slowly turned back into the sea always keeping my main guns aiming at all the ships stationed there, the sky was full with bullets :arrgh!: just epic.

Results of Patrol
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/pt6.jpg


On my way to Gibraltar found some planes, but no big problem
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-205429.png

London & Southampton classes
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-210706.png
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-210713.png
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-210717.png

HMS Nelson
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-210740.png

Sun rising in the background while all hell is set loose
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-212656.png

Gibraltar after my raid
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-213802.png


I only took 2 hits, 1 looked like a big explosion
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-214420.png
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090602-214412.png

[Pohl]

Heading out to Scapa Flow I found a Task Force, I was expecting just light destroyers, maybe 2 Southampton class, but to my luck I found King George V...my first epic battle at the sea.

Bismarck vs King George V

I have no idea what the Captain of the King George V was thinking he started attacking me with only his front main guns, I quickly ordered hard to port and start unleashing the full power of my 8 main cannons on him plus the small guns also flak guns, the sky was illuminated with all the salvos burned, we had a 5-8 minutes when the full power of both ships was used at it's best, I lost 1 flak gunner and had severe damage on my guns on the right side of the ship, while King George V had extensive damage in his front guns and his right side too.

The heat of the battle when both ships where using all their firepower against each other
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090603-183924.png

I tried to come even closer but the excessive tonnage of the Bismarck won't let me maneuver fast enough

Always make my full guns aim at every big ship I see.
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090603-184938.png

The mistake that cost King George V it's life, she was always in a straight line
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/sh3-20090603-184956.png


The results after Patrol# 8
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt348/arleccin/king.jpg
For this patrol I earned diamonds in my Knight's Cross, crew earned so far 5 Knight's Cross and 10 German cross in gold and still more Knight's Cross to come for them.

[BulSoldier]

I actually had quite a boring 2 weeks.It is mid '40 and i go all the way to the approach to gibraltar in hope to find something there.No luck.
After total of 3 weeks after we left the base only think we sank was 2 granvile type freitghers . Both sunk by torpedos.One from the rear tube other from the front.
So by the time i got to western approaches i found a convoy , intercepted it and sunk 2 ships with 2 torps.Quite well.No the annoying part began.After the first attack the escorts (all 2 of them) could even find me.However i lost contact with the convoy.It took me 14 hours to find them again, and after 3 approaches witch all failed (apart from one that by incident sunk the second escort (auxilary cruiser for 13k grt)). In any case the annoying polish destroyer escort (yes polish) every time lurked above me for 3-4 hours:damn:.
During the last approach witch would have been succesiful im 90% sure the weather really turned bad.I was thinking of shadowing the convoy until weather was good enough since they had only 1 destroyer and you know what that means - 1 torp for the escort and i am just finishing of all the rest with deck gun and the left torps.
The convoy itself wast large but it had left a good 10-13 ships few of witch were above 8000t.
However because of the neverending chasing of the escort it was 3 after midnight i decided to leave the convoy , save and go to bed :oops:

[lynard]

My last career died a horrible death. My hard disk decided to go below crush depth and imploded. Everything gone no backup.:damn:
Funny thing with this, halfway through the patrol the stop watch seemed to stick on. For the rest of that game I had "tick tick" all the time through my headphones. The only time I got any peace was with TC. I thought I had a timebomb on board but no sabotage enabled. It must have transferred to the hard drive because next morning when I fired up there was a slow tick coming from the drive. Oh well, thems the breaks.

Patrol 1
Hard to find decent targets. Managed to pick 10,000t
2 small and a C2

Patrol 2
Looks to be pretty much the same.
15.10.39. 1721
U-24, U-Flotilla Weddigen
Left at: October 15, 1939, 17:21
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AF87
20.10.39. 2258 Grid AN 28 Ship sunk! SS Kuressaar (Coastal Merchant), 2042 tons. Cargo: Textiles. Crew: 27. Crew lost: 3

30.10.39. 0156 Grid AN 52 Ship sunk! SS American Importer (C2 Cargo), 6446 tons. Cargo: Military Vehicles. Crew: 45. Crew lost: 11

30.10.391007 Grid AN 54 Ship sunk! SS Outarde (Coastal Merchant), 2047 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 20. Crew lost: 4

Returning to base

[Paul Riley]

Evening guys,its been a little while since I was in here.
Well,I finally made it back from my 1st boring patrol in GWX3G,got back to Kiel on the 14th Aug,and so...off we go for patrol 2.
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U-14 , Type IIA
Kapt. Willi Werner
27th August 1939
Mission - to patrol AN26 , just off the Shetland Is.

Left Kiel at 18:42.
We had a much needed 14 day rest back at port after our tedious maiden voyage,but this time we will see some action as war with the British looks inevitable now.
We had two new transfers in and two left for another UBoat,and I had one of my existing POs recieve mandatory training in sonar equipment.We also had a small spot of welding carried out on the keel,as we caught the bottom doing a routine test dive in our earlier patrol,hull was registered at 99.15 integrity.
All routine tests show U-14 to be fully functional with no malfunctions reported.
After we break out into the Skagerrak we will stick close to the Danish/Norwegian coast,then head west into our assigned patrol grid.Using our previously aqquired co-ordinates on our last patrol we hope to put them to good use after our primary objective is complete,as traffic was very high near the French/Frisian coast.
At 21:00 this night we recieved an urgent report from Lehmann News notifying us that the British fleet has been mobilised and that London was beginning to evacuate the public.

End of preliminary report.
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Party time! :woot:

[nikbear]

U-65 reporting in,Kaleun Wolfgang Muller.

16.8.40. 1326 Patrol 8
U-65, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: August 16, 1940, 13:26
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AL32
19.8.40. 0950 Grid AN 13 Ship sunk! Large Modern Tanker, 10113 tons
21.8.40. 0359 Grid AM 53 Ship sunk! SS Ironclad (Large Freighter), 8605 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 60. Crew lost:
12 0406 Grid AM 53 Ship sunk! MV Regent Lion (Large Tanker), 9677 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 71. Crew lost: 39
0426 Grid AM 53 Ship sunk! HMS Resolution (Revenge class), 31000 tons. Crew: 1188. Crew lost:
190 0437 Grid AM 53 Ship sunk! SS American Shipper (Medium Cargo), 3971 tons. Cargo: Explosives. Crew: 47. Crew lost: 27
1614 Grid AM 52 Ship sunk! HMS Mimose (Flower class), 950 tons. Crew: 142. Crew lost: 80
2256 Grid AM 52 Ship sunk! SS Commercial Trader (Small Old Merchant), 2456 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 27. Crew lost: 16
22.8.40. 0449 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 7
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 66772 tons
:arrgh!:Got a buzz from attacking on the surface at night again,its getting to be addictive :timeout:I'm going to miss it when radar spoils my fun:nope::cry: Oh well:salute:

[Pohl]

U-65, Type IXB
Leutnant Rudolf Gräff

Dec 27, 1939

Currently heading to the artic sea got reports of task forces operating in those cold waters, took a passenger/cargo with deck gun (near Scapa Flow), since torpedo detonated prematurely (damn those magnetic pistols :timeout: ) and blowed our perfect approach, when we reached the cold waters of the arctic decided to simulate a crash dive down to 180 meters with no damage in hull, testing U-boat in case of a encounter with some BB or a task force, still got enough diesel for approx 37,000 km @ 8 knots.

[Captain Birdseye]

After my update, I spent 2 patrols aboard an IXC (U-505) to be one of the first Kaleun's to operate long distance. This seemed to sap my crews morale as the long distances from friends, family and beer wasn't too good. We did knock up some nice tonnage though, and we're currently floating around three quarters of the way down the aces list.

We then transferred to the Bergen sub base. Time to go back to my faithful VIIC in the form of U-403. We've had some great successes operating against the Murmansk convoys, although it is obvious that anti-submarine warfare is catching up. During one patrol we managed to sink two Corvette's and a Ore Carrier. That showed those darned Brits :arrgh!:. We have stopped using magnetic pistols however, as these seem to be too unreliable and we are losing alot of torpedos.

Our latest patrol saw us pick up two American DD's. We shot two pot shots off at these, and missed! Damn, they're going to be furious. I was right.

We were at 160m and our sub took the worst beating of the war. Every bow compartment was damaged, our stern compartments were flooding, and our port engine was completely destroyed. We sank down to 299m before I ordered to blow all the ballast we had left, and send up decoys. I ordered a hard to port in hope of getting away.

They still kept track of us and we had to have flank speed just to keep level and not sink. This was getting desperate.

We eventually got rid of the flooding via the bilge pumps. We sent up a decoy every 10 minutes or so, then changed course. After 3 dreadful hours of desperation, the DD's lost track of us, and we had got rid of the flooding, and were no longer sinking.

We managed to limp back to port unscathed after that, bar having to dive to periscope depth as two Blenheim's picked us up on radar.

I'm getting too old for this :haha:

[DaveU186]

Back after third patrol. Patrolling AM29 didn't get into any convoys, but got a Taskforce contact, intercepted and clocked nine escorts, two Southamton class, three battleships, and a carrier. Could only get in a position for a long-range shot on one of the Southampton classes, but struck him and he listed to aft. Was quite surprised only one escort came looking for me.

After a couple of hours HMS Birmingham went under. :yeah:

Few days later picked up an escort West of Ireland, two Black Swan escorts and a pathetic little submarine. Two escorts were taken out early doors, and after another couple of hours in amongst the escort, eight more merchants. Convoy completely decimated.

57,000 tonnes. :arrgh!:

[Paul Riley]

Well after a recent unfortunate event during my 1st patrol in GWX3GOLD earlier tonight I have had to start a new career :nope: , hopefully I can see this one through longer.
As my first patrol was assigned to AN26 so I decided I shall return there with this new career.My last career was terminated on 30th Aug 1939 and so I just missed the invasion of Poland.I decided to start this new career on Sept 1st,giving me just a couple of days before Britain joins the war.

Right,here are the details of my new career -

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2nd Sept 1939. + 1 day in port installing KDB
7th Flotilla
U-47/VIIB
Leutnant z.s. Rudolf Esselmann
Mission - to patrol AN26,then prepare for hostile operations against Britain.High priority targets being Polish and French shipping.Under no circumstances are neutral vessels to be engaged,target verification must be carried out at all times during daylight hours as much as possible.

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[OrangeYoshi]

Well after a recent unfortunate event during my 1st patrol in GWX3GOLD earlier tonight I have had to start a new career :nope: , hopefully I can see this one through longer.
As my first patrol was assigned to AN26 so I decided I shall return there with this new career.My last career was terminated on 30th Aug 1939 and so I just missed the invasion of Poland.I decided to start this new career on Sept 1st,giving me just a couple of days before Britain joins the war.

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How did you manage to get killed before the war even started? Did you run aground or what?

[Paul Riley]

LOL valid question.No,during my last patrol I noticed what I THOUGHT was a bug with the game,then it turned out that what I had experienced was in fact a well documented bug/issue and was apparently normal.

For further information on this,read tonight's thread I did titled I seem to have developed quite a serious problem with the game,GWX3GOLD AND stock! (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=152562)

Everything should be in there for you to find out what happened ;)

[Pohl]

Well after a recent unfortunate event during my 1st patrol in GWX3GOLD earlier tonight I have had to start a new career :nope:


Leutnant Willy Werner (something like that) will be avenged, I shall find a carrier/battleship and sink it on his name :stare:

BTW Update on patrol:

Still on patrol #2, burned some diesel to try to reach a task force near Scapa Flow after returning from the arctic (20 days out there) but I never found it, instead I sunk a Freighter type, wasted 4 eels on her, since they enjoyed bouncing on her hull with both magnetic and impact pistols, I've been so many days in the ocean and seen so little action...hopefully it will be better, had to celebrate happy new year in the way to british territory, I was thinking in raiding a port, but my heavy sub ain't made for that work.

Leutnant Rudolf Gräff

[Paul Riley]

Thanks Pohl :up:

Poor Willie Werner never had a chance,had to retire due to technical problems back home affecting his performance (in game bug really).
I tell you one thing though,this green crew I have now are especially determined to make up for that loss! :arrgh!:

[meduza]

Oct '41. U-371 is coming home to Brest after completing its 13th patrol west of Strait of Gibraltar, during which 11 ships were sunk, total of 56,000t.

[Paul Riley]

Great news!

After an important family visit by Willie Werner due to his ill father (really it was an ingame bug,or was it?) I am pleased to say he is back on duty (I forgot I saved Willie's career on memory card :yeah:), and he will be embarking on his 2nd patrol some time today.His crew are delighted at his return and can't wait to do him proud.
He has only been absent for just short of 2 days,so he should be able to get in good position before the outbreak of war proper.

A special thanks goes out to Willie's friends and supporters through this difficult time,and he promises to make a significant contribution to the war effort.

:salute:

[meduza]

Good to have Willie back! :salute:

[Captain Birdseye]

The end of a long 10 patrol career:
Summary
Leutnant z. S. Josef Bunzel and U-403 surrendered to the Allies on 25MAR43. Josef Bunzel was sent to a POW camp in Scotland where he spent the rest of the war. Josef Bunzel died on 19 November 1970.




An apt end, I think.

[Jimbuna]

Thanks Pohl :up:

Poor Willie Werner never had a chance,had to retire due to technical problems back home affecting his performance (in game bug really).
I tell you one thing though,this green crew I have now are especially determined to make up for that loss! :arrgh!:

I'm ignoring this.....I'm no Willie watcher :smug:

[Paul Riley]

Come on jim,not even a Willie warmer?

[Synthfg]

Spring 43,
Currently cruising in the northern Gulf of Mexico in a Hurricane, waiting for the weather to clear,

Sighted an american airship when rounding florida but it turned tail and ran before I could approach to gun range. then the weather came in.

[Jimbuna]

Come on jim,not even a Willie warmer?:hmmm:


http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_430xN.64657371.jpg

[Paul Riley]

I cant believe you beat me to it jim! :har:
Well mine is better than yours,and I intend to use it if I get sent anywhere near the arctic or Russia in my career,and it also has breathing holes :03:

http://i7.ebayimg.com/03/i/001/0c/cb/5125_2.JPG

I think this hat may be useful near the arctic too,or in the N.Atlantic.
Note - that pic is not me,although I want that hat!

https://www.7ware.com/Group/Group486/Catalog/U5531_A.jpg

:rotfl::rotfl::har:

[meduza]

Nice pieces of equipment you two have... :haha:

[Paul Riley]

Wait for the hat! check my previous post again,I had to edit it a bit :rotfl:

[meduza]

:har:

Just show up on the conning tower wearing that hat, and any ship in the vicinity will sink from laughter. :rotfl:


BTW, I'm currently on my 14th patrol, around Gibraltar. Up to now I sank 4 ships (16,000t) and 1 Kingfisher, who caught me by surprise. :DL

[Paul Riley]

Sorry to keep this going now,we could start a new thread on UBoat clothing?,for specific parts of the world?.Could be a great laugh judging by some of these pics :rotfl:

Well,my last one,for those cold Atlantic nights,something nice and cosy to slip into

http://img.costumecraze.com/images/vendors/california/01047-Adult-Big-Bad-Wolf-in-Grandma-Dress-Costume-main.jpg

[sharkbit]

:hmmm:


http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_430xN.64657371.jpg

So much for Balz's tea cozies.

No wait.....hmmmm.:hmmm:
Balz. Tea cozy. Maybe that picture one of Balz's tea cozies.
It is starting to become clearer now.
:D

[Jimbuna]

One for the kids :DL

http://www.ukwolf.org/content/product_images/xlarge/thumbs/childs-wolf-costume---full_thumb_485.jpg

[Paul Riley]

YESS! love it! :har:

In fact,forget the kids! I want one!

[Paul Riley]

I know what me and my crew will be doing this halloween of 39,if we make it :rotfl:
I'm gonna pester Doenitz for costumes for all the men,and plenty of Becks! :D

[nikbear]

Kaleun Georg Willhelm Schulz.

6.3.40. 2324 Patrol 4
U-64, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: March 6, 1940, 23:24
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid DH99
8.3.40. 2256 Grid AN 51 Ship sunk! SS President Madison (Large Cargo), 8393 tons. Cargo: Textiles. Crew: 46. Crew lost: 16
9.3.40. 0317 Grid AN 1 Ship sunk! SS Auditor (Medium Old Split Merchant), 5596 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 57. Crew lost: 51 0631 Grid AN 18 Ship sunk! SS President Taft (Large Cargo), 8394 tons. Cargo: Trucks. Crew: 62. Crew lost: 34
2101 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! SS Bill (Small Old Merchant), 2455 tons. Cargo: Foodstuffs. Crew: 34. Crew lost: 21
2247 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! MV Obsidian (Large Tugboat), 422 tons. Crew: 37. Crew lost: 27
10.3.40. 0432 Grid AN 14 Ship sunk! HMS Somali (Tribal class), 1850 tons. Crew: 232. Crew lost: 51
11.3.40. 0204 Grid AN 13 Ship sunk! SS Chelsea (Medium Old Split Merchant), 5597 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 47. Crew lost: 17
13.3.40. 0818 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! MV Argentina (Medium Split Merchant), 5896 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 46. Crew lost: 0
0831 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! HMS Bishopdale (Fleet Tender), 16902 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 42. Crew lost: 24
0831 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! SS Anten (Old Composite Merchant), 5361 tons. Cargo: Bauxite. Crew: 53. Crew lost: 6
0834 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! Grimsby class, 990 tons
0852 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! SS City of Manila (Empire-type Freighter), 6780 tons. Cargo: Textiles. Crew: 46. Crew lost: 21
0917 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! HMS Valiant (HMS Warspite), 36450 tons. Crew: 959. Crew lost: 939
0931 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! MV Lorraine (Large Tanker), 10800 tons. Cargo: Gasoline. Crew: 59. Crew lost: 36
1000 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 14
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 115886 tons
Finally found and nailed a Warspite Class:rock::yeah::salute::03::D
And from a 'Supposed' Neutral convoy as well:o:hmmm: So pleased:yep:

[AndyW]

Radio message of U-200 (Type IXD2) under command of OberLtn. z. See Heinrich Schonder (2nd patrol). Enroute from Lorient to Penang, 56th day at sea:

1003 22AUG 1943
TO: BDU
SPECIAL OPERATION "BRUECKE" COMPLETED. SUCCESSFULLY DISEMBARKED BRANDENBURGERS SPECIAL OPS TEAM AT SOUTHEAST AFRICAN COAST 200KM NORTHEAST OF DURBAN.

PROCEEDING NOW TO WEST INDIAN OCEAN TO R-POINT WITH SUPPLY SHIP "BRAKE" EAST OF MADAGASKAR.

WX CLEAR NO RAIN AVG VIZ WIND 12MS FROM NNW
FUEL 60% 21 EELS LEFT GRID KP8354
U-200 SCHONDER

The "Brandenburgers" have been landed to hopefully blow up the Durban swimming dock. Now let's cause havoc in the Indian Ocean!!:rock:

Cheers,

[Paul Riley]

f### yeah,sounds great! raise bloody hell! :arrgh!:

[Sockeye]

Just got back from a patrol in the littorals off of Hartlepool in good ol' U-2321 (NYGM's XXIII mod pasted on top of GWX 3.0). Fourteen days overall in February '45.

Spent most of the time avoiding hunter-killer teams and small patrols, but ran into a convoy headed south in AN51. Two columns of five freighters each, and the usual six escorts. We just happened to be in a perfect position to attack from the starboard beam; approached at 50m's depth and creeping speed until the leading and starboard beam escorts were put astern. Full-speed ahead, up to periscope depth and turn into the convoy on a 90-track; slowed to take two shots at a freighter in rough seas for one hit.

Released a Bold, took a sounding, and dove at full speed to scoot out the convoy's port quarter, giving the narrow silhouette to the trailing escort. No sign of detection, so we hung around for three hours to watch our victim slip under by the stern. By that time, the convoy had long vanished, but a seventh destroyer came in from the west to investigate, so we slunk away on a general course for home and Stavanger.

2800 GRT :up:

[nikbear]

Sockeye,would you be so kind as to explain how you got the TypeXXIII to work with GWX:06: Would love to give it a try someday,its a cool looking U-boat,but just 2 eels:nope: Man thats a downer:03:

[Sockeye]

Actually, the only thing I did was enable the "FuMB37XXIIINYGM" folder pretty much as-is from the NYGM 3.1 patch (the latest version I had at the time). I enabled GWX's Late War Sensors Snorkel Antennas beforehand.

Then just start the game, select 1945 and the 13th Flotilla at Stavanger, and off to the east coast of England.

The only issue I'm having at the moment is with SH3 Commander. After enabling the mod, flotillas aren't showing up correctly there, but it doesn't seem to be a problem as long as the campaign is started in-game. Working on this is a bit beyond me though.

[nikbear]

Thank you for the info:up:

[Pohl]

downgraded to Windows XP, and my career got lost but I just started it so nothing of value was lost :up:

[onelifecrisis]

Right, it's pointless story time!

Sit down kids. Are you listening? Good.

I've started a new career (see my sig). 11th Flotilla (Norway) starting in June '42 (which is when that flotilla first began operations). VIIC.

The first patrol went fairly well but was unremarkable. The second patrol went better, except for one time when my scope got detected by radar during a night attack and the destroyer snuck up on me. I only just noticed it in time and had to crash dive to avoid being rammed. That none of the ensuing depth charges even damaged me was probably a minor miracle, though I dare say my port knuckle helped. :smug:

My third patrol - the one I'm here to blab about - is currently in progress. I was sent to patrol some deserted grid 500km north of the coast of Scotland. I managed to find a convoy in the area and sank two ships for about 20,000 BRT before the convoy escaped into shallower waters. I also found a lone Small Merchant and sank it with a single aft torp. But then... nothing. Days and days of searching the area around my grid and not a hint of anything.

Finally my radioman picked up a task force, but it was a few hundred kilometres west of us and heading directly away from us at 9kts. Still, I set a course after it at a casual pace. Initially I had no intention of catching it - I just thought perhaps there'd be more traffic to be found near it's reported location - but just before we reached said location we picked up the task force again. It was still heading west, and still doing 9kts. It hadn't picked up speed, and it hadn't changed course. I decided to take a chance, and we went full ahead and gave chase.

Over the next few days the TF did change course a few times but my radioman managed to intercept one more radio transmission from it. I adjusted our course and eventually we got close enough to pick up radar signals. One of the radar signals was closing awfully fast. Suddenly... aircraft spotted! We crash dived and avoided any harm. I checked our location. We'd already chased the TF a third of the way across the atlantic (and burned a ton of fuel in the process) and I thought there was no way there could be land-based planes that far out. I reckoned that there must be a carrier in that TF. There were also plenty of destroyers, judging from the sonar contacts heading to the location we'd been spotted.

That slowed us down, and after that flanking into a firing position was not easy, what with the TF moving at a decent speed and changing course now and then (not to mention the swarm of by radar-equipped destroyers and planes that buzzed around it) but eventually we managed to arrange a midnight meeting with our prey in moderate winds and clear weather.

Unfortunately I didn't have accurate target course data; by now we were in the middle of the Atlantic and I only had a rough idea of the target course and speed based on RWR-detected radar signals over the last hundred klicks of the chase. I cracked my knuckles and broke out the U-Jagd tools.

I knew the buggers had radar and plenty of it, so I had to keep my scope exposure to a minimum. I prepared a position from which I could gather course and speed data as quickly as possible and then turn parallel to the course of what I could now see was indeed a Bogue Class carrier. Readings taken, I turned the boat into a firing position and took the range to the target. Full four-torp four-degree spread, open tubes... wait for it...

That's when I heard the destroyer. Damn! I fired. The tubes seemed to take a lifetime to empty. I turned the scope. There was a DD bearing right down on us; they'd tracked our scope on their blasted radar again! I crash dived. The DD suddenly accelerated and depth charged us at what was practically point blank range. I turned the U-boat hard. DC's exploded around us, and at the same time we heard the first of the torps slam into the Bogue Class, followed by the second. The other two torps missed, but the explosions from the Bogue Class didn't stop. She was done for. We, somehow, were not. We had escaped the DC attack undamaged. That's two lucky escapes in two patrols. At this rate my DID career won't last long if I don't learn to be careful with that scope!

We dove deep and evaded the DD's (who must have been really annoyed, given how long they persisted) and we're now heading back to our patrol grid at a considerably less fuel-guzzling rate than we left at. We still have a handful of torpedos left. Who knows, maybe we'll see another carrier? To be honest, though, I'm hoping we don't.

:|\\

[nikbear]

Living life on the edge there OLC:o Hope lady luck stays with you:salute:

[meduza]

Right, it's pointless story time!
That's my favorite kind. Keep them coming!

Who knows, maybe we'll see another carrier? To be honest, though, I'm hoping we don't.

:rotfl:

Nice job sinking that carrier.

[DaveU186]

U-3018 on 5th patrol. Patrol grid AM16.

Sunk a tramp steamer en route to patrol area, but after that nothing. Trailed the northern convoy routes all the way West but again nothing, so thought I'd take a trip South.

Just as morale was starting to waver, two contacts as we pass through BE62. A small merchant and a.....British large tanker. :yeah:

Down she goes, and we proceed on feeling much better.

[Einzelganger]

Currently running with the warship MOD as described earlier in this thread. It's a refreshing change every now & then to get DD's attacking you & you can reply with some 15in guns

:D My evil streak coming through....

[DaveU186]

Well, as we went further South towards Gilbraltar we encountered French Passenger/Cargo and a Freighter and took them down. Then stumbled upon a convoy with some really juicy targets in amongst it. Six torps left it really was difficult trying to pick targets. Fired two torps at three ships from 3.5-5km and then went deep to evade the four escorts.

Five of the six hit and bagged an auxiliary cruiser, a medium cargo and an ore carrier.

Snuck away north at 200m and will rise in the morning and set sail for home.

:arrgh!:

[nikbear]

Nice result DaveU186:salute::salute::salute:

[Paul Riley]

Just a quick post before bed.I am almost in position heading for our assigned grid,just off the Shetlands.I wonder what is in store for us :hmmm:
I reckon a raid into Scapa is a distinct possibility,IF we are unsuccessful in our current area.I have only ever been into Scapa once since I started playing the game 4 yrs ago,so who knows what its like in GWX3

Night all.

[Leandros]

U-66 Oct. 21st 1941 07:16 - patrol 19 - AM89

Left Lorient at Oct. 18th and have been lurking around in the South-Western approaches. A Granville and a small tanker so far. Decided to stay off any ASW vessels but when a DD just recently crossed our bow the temptation got too strong. Went 1/3 to cut him off. Of course he detected us and turned in on our port bow. Weather is bad with only approx. 5-700 meters visibility. We managed to let off a T1 at magnetic as he turned towards us and it hit him at his extreme bow. Damaging him, obviously, but he set off at 10 knots with his bow dipping and the screws driving much air. A magnetic-fuzed T1 from the aft tube prematured at approx 500 meters distance. Then he straightened up and sped off.

We lost sight of him and had to surface not to loose him. On his track now, trying to work around on his port side to get past him.

Lousy weather.....working around on his port side...

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/BadWeather.jpg

He is down by the bow but keeping up his speed.....

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/DownbytheBow.jpg


U-66 Oct. 21st 1941 09:42 - patrol 19 - AM89

We got around him......here comes...


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/ThereHeComes.jpg


Misjudged a little so had to go flank ahead to get him behind us. He was pinging frenetically but never wavered from his straight course. A T1 on magnetic from the aft tube worked....hit at approx. 500 meters.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/AftTubeHit.jpg

Cold.....

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/GoingDown.jpg

[meduza]

the temptation got too strong.

I know he feeling. :D Good hunting!

[Paul Riley]

U-66 Oct. 21st 1941 07:16 - patrol 19 - AM89

Left Lorient at Oct. 18th and have been lurking around in the South-Western approaches. A Granville and a small tanker so far. Decided to stay off any ASW vessels but when a DD just recently crossed our bow the temptation got too strong. Went 1/3 to cut him off. Of course he detected us and turned in on our port bow. Weather is bad with only approx. 5-700 meters visibility. We managed to let off a T1 at magnetic as he turned towards us and it hit him at his extreme bow. Damaging him, obviously, but he set off at 10 knots with his bow dipping and the screws driving much air. A magnetic-fuzed T1 from the aft tube prematured at approx 500 meters distance. Then he straightened up and sped off.

We lost sight of him and had to surface not to loose him. On his track now, trying to work around on his port side to get past him.

Lousy weather.....working around on his port side...

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/BadWeather.jpg

He is down by the bow but keeping up his speed.....

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/DownbytheBow.jpg


U-66 Oct. 21st 1941 09:42 - patrol 19 - AM89

We got around him......here comes...


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/ThereHeComes.jpg


Misjudged a little so had to go flank ahead to get him behind us. He was pinging frenetically but never wavered from his straight course. A T1 on magnetic from the aft tube worked....hit at approx. 500 meters.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/AftTubeHit.jpg

Cold.....

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/GoingDown.jpg




Poor b#####d :cry:
What a way to go down,in that weather too.

[msalama]

http://koti.welho.com/msalama/Personnel_File.html

And it's my longest-running career yet too! Though the going seems to get tough even against Uncle Joe's boys now :down:

Let's see if I can finally survive the war...

[onelifecrisis]

http://koti.welho.com/msalama/Personnel_File.html

And it's my longest-running career yet too! Though the going seems to get tough even against Uncle Joe's boys now :down:

Let's see if I can finally survive the war...

DID, yes? A good run you had there :yeah:

Turned back for repairs b/c of an Italian freighter ramming us in bad weather. Patrol aborted.

LOL, don't you just hate it when that happens?

[msalama]

DID, yes? A good run you had there :yeah:DID @ 100% realism, yes. Yah, I'm actually a bit surprised that it's gone so well so far...

LOL, don't you just hate it when that happens?Absolutely :DL

Though it was kind of my fault it has to be said. Y'see, I tend to use some low TC even when leaving port and ask my watch officer for contacts so as to evade them, which usually works OK... but this time: "Nearest contact bearing 001, range 0m Sir!" And then *CRASH* *BING* *BANG* *BOOM* etcetera etcetera... and back to port for repairs we hobbled :ping:

Can't but love this game with GWX3, warts and all!

[Sgtmonkeynads]

the weather in game is a mirror of real life for once.
It has rained for 4 days straight in both. I am going insane.
Heard of good hunting off halifax, so i went there.
I sank about 20 ships. :yeah:
ALL TUGBOATS!!!! :down:
I HATE CANADA. :stare:

[Wintahs]

November 26th 1941, 10:50 AM, Northern Atlantic, calm seas

I'm about to engage a large convoy heading east.

[Leandros]

U-66 Oct. 21st 1941 16:59 - patrol 19 - AM89

On the pursuit again! Weather is still lousy and two merchants with a destroyer escort passed just in front of us - didn't catch up with them submerged. Now we try to overtake them on the surface...

Still lousy weather!

Pressing on!

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/Overtaking.jpg


They should be somewhere on the starboard bow....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/ShouldBeOnTheStarboardBow.jpg

[Leandros]

November 26th 1941, 10:50 AM, Northern Atlantic, calm seas

I'm about to engage a large convoy heading east.
Good hunting - let us know how it went...!

[Leandros]

U-66 Oct. 21st 1941 17:14 - patrol 19 - AM89

Not on the starboard bow - on the port! Suddenly it was there - and with a poop-mounted gun,too. We fired off a high-speed T-1 at max. deflection but it obviously bounced off its side - too close! Then it was time to crash dive....

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/SuddenEncounter2.jpg


Turned a few points starboard to make some distance and as we came up to PD again a Hunt (the escort) approached us directly ahead. Sent off a T1 on magnetic at minimum distance. It worked!

Concentrated on the tramp steamer again. As soon as we were in position a TII on impact did it......in the background.....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/SuddenEncounter3.jpg


The sinking Hunt.....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schultz/Patrol19/SuddenEncounter4.jpg


Now, on to the second merchant....

[msalama]

Sh*t!

Things were on the up and up, had the longest-running career ever going and everything, and then this a$$hat Tovariche Storozhevoy had to come and ruin it all. Yah, no surviving after late -43 even against Uncle Joe's boys it seems! Bah :damn:

Ah well, f*ck that, back to the 1st Flotilla in Kiel then :ping:

[Paul Riley]

Latest update from U-14 under the command of L.z.s. Willie Werner

1st Sept 1939
AN14
In position just off the Shetland Is. to intercept Ore Carriers and a M.Cargo observed earlier today.Co-Ordinates have been recorded and U-14 is positioned approx 2000m from the recorded track.Crew morale is very high due to extensive torpedo training prior to going on patrol.
Earlier the previous night made a night surface patrol into Lerwick,observed 1 destroyer at anchor,nothing more of interest,and also an attempted night surface patrol into Scapa Flow,but aborted due to warship patrols too close to our position.
Looks like AN14 is going to be one of our favourite hunting spots in the future if we are in the immediate vicinity.

Wish us luck.

:salute:

[Sea Hawk]

Just had my 3rd kill of this patrol, passenger/cargo North-east of scappa flow.

Crew so happy they are not even moaning about my bag-pipe playing in the conning tower (all except the poor hydrophone opperator).

[Wintahs]

Good hunting - let us know how it went...!



At my first attempt to infiltrate the convoy, I first sunk a Black Swan class in order to create some disortion.He had already briefly DC'ed me (No damage, luckily). The other 4 DD's raced to where I sunk the Black Swan. At 1 kt, running silent I tried to approach to convoy but the DD's got ahold of me and DC'ed the hell out of me.

Dived to 160m and headed east, away from the convoy. While I was diving this one bastard got a full hit on me, causing minor damage in the controle and engine room, and destroying all but one torpedo tube. At
sunrise they stopped searching for me and I could return to St. Nazaire.

Then 10 days of boredom.

In the western approach to the English channel my sonar man picked up a sound signal. Followed the signal untill it was a kilometer away, raised periscope and saw one beauty of a Cargo ship. I could easily identify a British flag. Approched to 750m, a nice 90° angle, 1 eel and an hour later and she was down.

Now, back to base, we weren't in a state to fight with only 1 eel and 68% hull integrity left.

On December 8th I recieved a radiomessage, supposudly the Jappanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US. 'They just woke up a sleeping giant', said my 1WO. I guess he's right.

Now it's time for some French Maddemoiselles in St. Nazaire! :arrgh!:

[Leandros]

Once again SH CTD'ed at start-up this morning. The only way to continue then is to go back and start the actual patrol all over. I cannot find out what is the problem but I have been relegated to desktop duties 3 times, having begged my way back to active duty. As far as I remember it always works when the mission is finished before closing the game.

I am now starting a new career, unhooking realistic career and crew transfers in the Commander. Also I have selected "rollback" of Commander. See if it helps.

So, the new unit is Oblt z.s. Schenk, U-45 (VIIB) - 2. flotilla, Wilhelmshafen - Sept. 1st, 1939.

Oh, yes - our army, navy and air forces have today started the crusade to rectify the injustices of the Versailles Treaty. Poland is being invaded at this same moment as a result of their unwillingness to cooperate on Germany's fair proposals.....:oops:.....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schenk/LeavingForPatrol1A.jpg

Leaving peaceful Wilhelmshafen....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schenk/LeavingForPatrol1B.jpg


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/Schenk/LeavingForPatrol1.jpg

[Leandros]

Hope to have more luck than the original U-45....

U-45




Type

VIIB (http://uboat.net/types/viib.htm)

Ordered21 Nov 1936
Laid down23 Feb 1937F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (http://uboat.net/technical/shipyard/germania.htm) (werk 580)Launched27 Apr 1938
Commissioned25 Jun 1938Kptlt. Alexander GelhaarCommanders25 Jun 1938 - 14 Oct 1939 Kptlt. Alexander Gelhaar (http://uboat.net/men/commanders/347.html)

Career: 2 patrols (http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/u45.html)25 Jun 1938 - 31 Aug 1939 7. Flottille (http://uboat.net/flotillas/7flo.htm) (front boat)
1 Sep 1939 - 14 Oct 1939 7. Flottille (http://uboat.net/flotillas/7flo.htm) (front boat)
Successes: 2 ships sunk for a total of 19,313 GRT
Fate: Sunk 14 Oct 1939 south-west of Ireland, in position 50.58N, 12.57W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Inglefield (http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4411.html), HMS Ivanhoe (http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4419.html) and HMS Intrepid (http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4417.html). 38 dead (all hands lost).

[cuthy2k]

Patrol number 9 did not get off to the best of starts.

Weather was foul for my first venture into the Atlantic after being transfered from Wilhelmshaven to Lorient.

Mission was to partol DF57 off the coast of the Canaries. During a break in the weather on the way down we spotted a small merchant and proceeded to dispatch her with the deck gun. Nothing for the next 8 days. :oops:

Decided to head into the convoy lanes and as weather is shockingly bad still i decided to proceed close to the british isles. Am64 i a good hunting spot i once learnt from my second partol with deep water for evasion and a chocking poing for convoys. As storm was bad, sonar man detected a warship 3km away whilst on tranist in AM61. I dove to 50m, silent running and she past uneventful. Next thing i know all hell breaks loose with massive damage. I must have hit a mine. Flooding in ALL forward compartments plus diesel engines. Sonar compartment destroyed. U-45 proceeded to sink to the bottom which was luckily only 60m depth so I narowwly survived thanks to a great effort by the crew (I am glad I stuck a warrent officer as another repair man at end of last partol!) and managed to recover with only about 8% battery power reamaining.

Damage report = Forward batteries (destroyed), hydrophone (destyored), radio (destroyed), deck gun (destroyed), forward deck (destroyed), attack periscope (destroyed), observation scope (destroyed), radio antenna (destroyed), flak gun 1 (not working), aft batteries (damaged). :o

How I am alive I will never know. Looking to repair what I can and to use the cover of the storm to break back to Lorient and spend the next 9 months in dry dock!!! :down:

Edit: forgot to mention, I still have a FULL torpedo loadout, tonnage so far for this patrol is 2.2k and Im limping home. 2 crew did in line of duty - Sonarman and Radioman. Both are being returned to Lorient for a proper burial with full honours. All crew men have been advised to stay out of the aft torpedo room in the mean time!

[Leandros]

Hope to have more luck than the original U-45....
U-45





Type

VIIB (http://uboat.net/types/viib.htm)

Ordered21 Nov 1936
Laid down23 Feb 1937F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (http://uboat.net/technical/shipyard/germania.htm) (werk 580)Launched27 Apr 1938
Commissioned25 Jun 1938Kptlt. Alexander GelhaarCommanders25 Jun 1938 - 14 Oct 1939 Kptlt. Alexander Gelhaar (http://uboat.net/men/commanders/347.html)

Career: 2 patrols (http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/u45.html)25 Jun 1938 - 31 Aug 1939 7. Flottille (http://uboat.net/flotillas/7flo.htm) (front boat)
1 Sep 1939 - 14 Oct 1939 7. Flottille (http://uboat.net/flotillas/7flo.htm) (front boat)
Successes: 2 ships sunk for a total of 19,313 GRT
Fate: Sunk 14 Oct 1939 south-west of Ireland, in position 50.58N, 12.57W, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Inglefield (http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4411.html), HMS Ivanhoe (http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4419.html) and HMS Intrepid (http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4417.html). 38 dead (all hands lost).


It did not have better luck........:damn:

On it again...:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol1/OnItAgain.jpg

[lynard]

Patrol 4
U-46, 1st Flotilla
Left at: January 9, 1940, 09:46
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN47

Finished with 39,000t. Most of the targets it was a tail chase into gale force winds and huge seas thankfully no rain or fog. Would not have been surprised if the engines just fell out the bottom of the boat from exhaustion.
One fish left when sonar got a target. After a difficult chase we spotted him, small merchant. By this stage we just wanted to get back to port. Moved in to get a closer look at his flag. Poor bastards, that thing looked to be pitching 20 meters and rolling 90deg :-?
Turned out he was neutral so we steamed into a few hundred meters, gave them a salute :salute: and headed home.

Patrol 5
U-46, 1st Flotilla
Left at: February 20, 1940, 22:09
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM11

Weather same as last patrol, sea not quite as big but still a struggle. At the moment trying to get in a firing position on what I think is a C2 at about 7k on the stb beam. Flank speed and we would be lucky to average 7k. Coming on to dusk so looks like it could be a long night.

[AndyW]

2 crew did in line of duty - Sonarman and Radioman. Both are being returned to Lorient for a proper burial with full honours. All crew men have been advised to stay out of the aft torpedo room in the mean time!
Once again an indication that there must be a glitch in the demage model. For some strange reason, the radio /sonar compartment is really a death chamber!

Cheers,

[Wintahs]

Yeah, Jimbuna told us that any 'Unidentified' damage. (ie not to the diesels or the control room) goes to the radio room.

[cuthy2k]

Yeah, Jimbuna told us that any 'Unidentified' damage. (ie not to the diesels or the control room) goes to the radio room.

Hmm... interesting. Anyone able to share more details on this?

Btw, made it saftely to Lorient under the cover of heavy storm - had one close call with a DD but crash dived to avoid.

Patrol 10 has started off more successful!:arrgh!:

[Leandros]

U-34 Sept. 4th 1939 22:34 - patrol 1 - inside Scapa Flow

To pass Scapa on the way to the assigned patrol area without even trying.....difficult! Inside Scapa in the afternoon - lousy weather...

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol1/InsideScapa.jpg

Switched between submerged to detect eventual ASW vessels and fast sprints on the surface to get properly into the bay.

Sunk a V&W on the way in - approx. 15:15. Lay still to let him pass ahead of us. Needed two torps, though - the first one didn't work on impact, the other one, a T1 on magnetic, worked.

Then, 15 minutes later we were bounced by another V&W on the surface. Before we could get under the hull was riddled in its whole length. While the repair crews were working frenetically this stupid V&W lines up nicely in front of our rear tube. A T1 on magnetic did the trick. These seem to work OK for us at short distances in calm seas.

At the same time another signal was picked up by our sonar guy. Another destroyer approaching us straight ahead - A J&K. We see him 6-700 meters away. At minimum distance he gets a T1 at magnetic at a very shallow angle - almost a miss. Two destroyers nicely lined up behind each other:


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol1/InsideScapa2.jpg

We set a North-Easterly course and suddenly the weather cleared. What do we see! Three Tribals nicely lined up at anchor.


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol1/TribalsAtScapa.jpg


Down again! The Tribals are now history but we needed 6 torps to finish them off. What to do now? It is dark, we are proceeding decks awash at minimum speed and ahead of us is another two V&W's at anchor.....We only have 4 torps left, two ea. fore and aft.....Any suggestions? Should we clear out? Is there anything of value in the inner harbour except two tankers.....Both flak guns are destroyed....aft torpedo officer's den is unavailable which means longer loading times for the rear tube.


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol1/InsideScapa3.jpg


Who said anything about temptation..?....sneaking in....22:59



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol1/SneakingIn-1.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Proceed back to base for repair....the welfare of your boat and crew are priority, especially over a couple of escorts.

You may come across something bigger to expend your remaining eels on during your return trip.

[Leandros]

Proceed back to base for repair....the welfare of your boat and crew are priority, especially over a couple of escorts.

You may come across something bigger to expend your remaining eels on during your return trip.
Thank you for your concern....:up:.....It seems there is a troop transport, a modern and a small tanker in there, too.....


U-34 Sept. 5th. 1939 01:15

What a disaster! Launched 4 torps at a Modern Tanker and a Troopship - none worked! Withdrawing at flank - soon approaching the Southern exit...Got fired at, too - coastal batteries or the V&W anchored in the East. HI is now at 29% - 1 torp left - rear tube.


U-34 Sept. 5th. 1939 05:46

Finally out in the open - course SE. Turning North to intercept a Tramp Steamer on the horizon. Good opportunity for the gun crews...

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol1/TrampSteamer.jpg


A little later - the first aircraft of the war - an Avro Anson....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol1/FirstAircraft.jpg



U-34 - Sept. 7th. 1939 - patrol 1

Back in Wilhelmshafen.

[meduza]

I've just returned from the toughest patrol of my current carreer. I've been shot at, strafed, bombed, depthcharged an rammed. I even hit the bottom.

We left La Spezia, and sailed into a storm when we passed western tip of Sicily. We were unaware that we are on the collision course with small enemy convoy, until one of the escorts started to fire. We quickly dived and managed to get away. Not without damage.

Once we escaped, we followed the convoy. Soon the rain stoped and we could see two big liners, escorted by two destroyers. One of the ships was 44,000t RMS Aquitania. :arrgh!: When we got into position to attack, the convoy changed course, and I saw the huge bow of Aquitania going at us. There was not enough time to evade, and we got rammed. As she was getting away, we managed to fire a full salvo into her stern, but no torpedo hit. In all that confusion we were detected, and barely got away alive, but with considerable damage. Later we could see both liners burning and sinking. The Luftwaffe.

We continue with the patrol and few days later found two unescorted merchants. We got one, the other one was sunk by Luftwaffe.

Some days later, we stalked a small convoy. It turned out to be Italian and we surfaced to say hello. Then came the RAF. We couldn't desert our allies, so we joined the fight .The planes didn't bother with us, and concentrated their fire on merchants. After a while two planes were down (one credited to us), and third got away with plumes of smoke trailing it. Despite our effort, both merchants were sunk.

During the whole patrol, we were under constant air attacks, day and night. Most of the time we were submerged, but as soon we got up for some fresh air, the planes would come and bomb us. After one such attack I decided we had enough. I plotted my course back home, going near the African coast, hoping to minimize the danger.

Then, during one night, we were surprised by a plane, and we were hit hard. The boat was taking on water, and sinking fast, out of control. Fortunately, we were not in deep waters, and we slammed into the bottom. Otherwise, that would have been the end of us.

With damage repaired, we were crawling home, tail tucked between our legs. We were between Sicily and African coast when the SO reported a contact. A small convoy. It was night when we approached it, but her silhouette was clearly outlined against the horizon: RMS Mauretania, Aquitania's sister ship, followed by a smaller liner and escorted by two destroyers. I opted for a long range shot, to give my cripled boat more chance for escpe. We fired 3 torpedoes at the Mauretania, and one at other ship, from 4,5km. Soon we heard three explosions and the sounds of bulkheads collapsing. :woot: The fourth torpedo didn't find its target, but neither did the escorts. We escaped undetected, and continued our voyage home, during which we sank another ship, a small coastal freigter.

During the 13 days of the patrol, we sank 3 ships for 52,000t and downed one Hudson plane. Hull integrity 37%

[Pohl]

Currently heading into the Black Sea for some fun, sunk 6 ships with my deck gun, among them where 3 Black Swans :arrgh!: meaning that im out of deck gun ammo so I have to either use the AA guns or use torpedos

[Paul Riley]

Well after almost a week of waiting in the area for war to commence against the Brits we just had our first kill in GWX3G about an hour ago.
After adding more shipping co ordinates for future patrols it seems AN14 is a hive of activity,with merchants passing regularly up and down in this area.

Anyway,at 07:09 on 3rd Sept we picked up a distant sound contact bearing 160,passing behind us somewhere.We headed out in the direction of the sound and set up for a submerged attack at 1000m.Weather was very calm,with only a medium fog.After getting in position our prey was bang on time and passed our crosshairs at 08:25.The vessel was a measly Small Freighter chugging along at just 4kts.I aimed for his bow,and what followed was a textbook shot,slamming into his bow forcing him into a steep 20-30deg tilt into the sea,yet he managed to remain afloat and limped along at 2kts.This poor bugger needed a final shot,and we decided to track parallel to him at a range between 600-700m.I decided to aim for a spot just behind our 1st impact area,to increase the already major flooding.We slowly increased speed to 4kts and took careful aim,and when he came into our 280 I waited until his broadside started to turn towards us and fired when almost all of his side faced us.I delivered his inevitable death with another textbook shot,and he instantly exploded and went to the bottom bow first in under 2 min.

Quite a costly engagement for such a small ship,at only 2.229 tonnes.Suffice to say,we are in a IIA with only an AA gun in place of the deck gun,in which case I would have ordered the DG to finish him off :nope:
We returned to our previous spot roughly in the centre of all the recent activity,and currently await our next meal.

All in all,not a bad night,giving us more vital experience in GWX3 with 2 perfect shots,even though they were at close range (my longest shot in training so far is 4000m),our spirits are high nonetheless.

:salute:

[onelifecrisis]

I approached a convoy yesterday which I felt sure was more tightly packed than anything I've seen before. It was so dense that there seemed to be little point in aiming for specific ships. I figured I just had to aim at the middle of the convoy and fire, and I'd be bound to hit something. I used my map plot of the convoy's course to determine the AOB and approximate range to the centre of the convoy (I already knew their speed). I then used my scope to measure the angle between the front of the convoy and the back of it. From my position (2.5km from the centre) the convoy was 25 degrees "wide". I set a four-torp spread with a spread angle of 15 degrees, fired at the middle of the convoy, and started to dive. The torps were all TIII's.

Four direct hits, hehe! :smug: I had to wait for the ships to sink and appear in my log book before I knew what I'd actually sunk. :rotfl:

There's been plenty of times when I managed to sink four ships with four torps fired individually, but four from a single salvo is a first for me! :|\\

[meduza]

LOL
I wish there are more convoys like this...

[Jimbuna]

I approached a convoy yesterday which I felt sure was more tightly packed than anything I've seen before. It was so dense that there seemed to be little point in aiming for specific ships. I figured I just had to aim at the middle of the convoy and fire, and I'd be bound to hit something. I used my map plot of the convoy's course to determine the AOB and approximate range to the centre of the convoy (I already knew their speed). I then used my scope to measure the angle between the front of the convoy and the back of it. From my position (2.5km from the centre) the convoy was 25 degrees "wide". I set a four-torp spread with a spread angle of 15 degrees, fired at the middle of the convoy, and started to dive. The torps were all TIII's.

Four direct hits, hehe! :smug: I had to wait for the ships to sink and appear in my log book before I knew what I'd actually sunk. :rotfl:

There's been plenty of times when I managed to sink four ships with four torps fired individually, but four from a single salvo is a first for me! :|\\



Screenshots....or it didn't happen :DL

[Leandros]

U-34 Nov. 23 rd 1939 11:23 - Patrol 2
Left Wilhelmshafen at the 15th with assigned patrol area outside Firth of Forth/Rosyth. A very easy patrol so far except a surface encounter with an ASW trawler. Mostly small merchants, though. Most of them have been sunk with the DG. Have experienced some duds. Proceeded North along the East coast - is now getting some fresh air between The Orkneys and Shetlands.


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol2/SomeFreshAir.jpg
Only 3 aft torpedoes left.....100 % HI.....all DG ammo used.....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol2/SoFar.jpg
U-34 Nov. 24th 1939 10:00 - Patrol 2
Gave this large merchant our last torpedo - a T1 on magnetic. Worked admirably but it refuses to sink, heading for Aberdeen with a steady 4 knots. We have followed it since last evening - hate to let it go.....
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol2/LastTorpedo.jpg
10:16

What do you know..!!!!....We went up in front of it and emptied the last 300 20 mm. rounds into its bow area. A couple of internal explosions and after a few minutes it started to go down by the bow.....finally a large one....



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol2/DownByTheBow.jpg

[onelifecrisis]

Screenshots....or it didn't happen :DL

Would I lie to you? :O:

[Jimbuna]

Would I lie to you? :O:

Of course not....now I remember, you PM'd the screenies to me :yeah:

:03:


http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/9501/liarrv1ed9.gif

[Leandros]

U-34 Dec. 8th. 1939 08:33 - mid-Channel - patrol 3

Departed Wilhelmshafen Dec. 5th 1939 16:56 for grid BF17. Decided to pass through the Channel. After having passed the Narrows sunk a French tramp steamer with DG. Later same night a French large merchant. Used a TI on magnetic and a TII on impact. Both worked. As it steamed on we surfaced and finished it with DG......

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol3/FirstLargeVictim-1.jpg


Continued on westerly course. 08:20 received report on enemy Task Force just West of us on a ENE course. Turned North to intercept. Soon could be observed 3 Southamptons with escorts. Went down....

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The sonar signals indicate a stronger signal behind the Southamptons. Could it be a capital ship...?


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So, should we stay low or go for it. 75 meters below the keel.....almost full complement of torps....


15 minutes later....

The Southamptons got away! They were going too fast and weaving too much. A TI was launched but we were not able to register either hit or miss as we got busy with the escorts. We went flank submerged to get nearer the Southamptons so we were bound to be discovered......

.....a calculated risk.......:hmmm:.....

.....for the escorts.......:woot:....


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[onelifecrisis]

:lol: @ Jim

[Leandros]

U-34 Sept. 25th 1939 06:25 - BF17 - Patrol 3

Lying still in the South-Western corner of BF17. Nice weather, the merchants are coming singly and in pairs like clockwork. Have obviously found a much-used lane.

Xmas greetings from Räeder.


U-34 Sept. 25th 1939 14:25 - BF17 - Patrol 3

Oops! Just received a radio message from the BdU. Large convoy coming our way. This shall be interesting. 9 torps remaining. And some DG rounds.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol3/LargeConvoy-1.jpg


Proceeding to intercept. Ideal weather - darkness is approaching.....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol3/IdealWeather.jpg


Large convoy, indeed.......and, in the middle....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol3/InTheMiddle.jpg


Lead escort detected us......he got a TI on magnetic from a bow tube....pressed his attack, though. No luck!


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol3/LeadEscort.jpg


Now, on to the big one.....


Some hours later......the 6th torpedo hitting the left-behind HMS Rodney....


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Then the fireworks......


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[Sgtmonkeynads]

OK...I was just about to get on here and complain. My last seven missions have been in the worst weather I have ever been in. I not talking about the average bad weather that sometimes shows up. It started in late 1940, november I think, and every mission since, I have began and ended in the 1000m-500m visability range.
I thought this is getting old and just before scraping everything I thought " Well If I can not see anything neither can they"
So to test my theroy i thought of doing the impossible, daylight surface raid at Gibraltor. Well, I got three south hamptons, a Dortshire, and a j&k. I took no damage. :o Could only see the light house light, and just kept clicking the lock button to find a target.

I began the next mission, and LOW AND BEHOLD blue skies, calm weather and my guys threw their wet gear overboard.:sunny:

Was it just bad luck all this time or did something get stuck in a loop?
My Gibraltor mission was in June of 1941, so i had almost a solid year of crap weather, and NO deck gun. Almost an entire year, i thought i was going NUTS!!!!!

[DaveU186]

My attempts to try and complete the war in a XXI have had to start again thanks to a virus on the system, but we're back underway.

Second Patrol - November 1939
Came across a convoy North of Ireland, managed to sneak in on the creepers, and lined up three large merchants and an ore carrier. Decided to go for maximum destruction hopefully to occur simultaneously, so unleashed a total of nine torps on my targets, turned away and started to dive.

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4179/convoyq.jpg

:arrgh!:

Convoy was accompanied by just two escorts, and a waste of space submarine.

[Leandros]

U-34 Feb. 9th. 1940 17:54 - patrol 4


Leaving Wilhelmshafen in the sunset for grid AM11. Properly escorted:


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By Hipper.....


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U-34 Feb. 12th. 1940 14:49 - patrol 4 - grid AN15

Position: On the North Scottish coast - average-sized convoy approaching from East - the escorts (3) have been taken care of.




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Going up the middle.....



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U-34 Feb. 12th. 1940 16:24 - patrol 4 - grid AN15



Better get out of here......a Tribal approaching on the horizon....



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol4/TribalApproaching.jpg


Tribal going down........now on to the last floating merchant....


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[Pohl]

oh look....a lonely Vogue Class (carrier)

I already took the escorts and im heading to him with sound homing torpedoes =) no way he's surviving, now that war will be over in less than 4 months

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[Leandros]

Not with the big guns.....?.......:arrgh!:......

[grislyatoms]

Set up a textbook attack on a Granville freighter last night. Going to pass 500m off the bow, AOB 90 degrees starboard.

SO calling off bearing... 350...351...352...353... "sound contact lost".:o

Pop up the scope... sweep from 0-350...nothing. Cut back to 5-10-15-20... then back to 350...nobody out there.:damn: I thought I was either in "The Final Countdown" or the butt of a conspiracy theory ala "Philadelphia Experiment". :88)

Picked him up again visually at 40 degrees or so... didn't feel like creating another intercept so I just sank him with the deck gun.

This old Kaleun must need to get his eyes checked, and the SO needs a stern talking to.:D

[Leandros]

U-34 April 3rd 1940 01:09 - North-East Newcastle - patrol 5

Left Wilhelmshafen on the morning of March 29th for grid AN51. Uneventful crossing except observed 3 Tribals on opposite course midway across the North Sea. They didn't see us.


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Bumped into a small convoy in the assigned grid. Weather was too bad to use DG so spent some valuable torpedoes on some small merchants after first having ambushed the lone escort - a C&D.

Then received report of a large convoy coming up the coast. Here is:



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Should I try to cut in behind the lead escort on the surface or first ambush the escort on the convoy port side. We only have 4 torpedoes left but full complement of DG shells.......:06:....weather has improved....that is, for DG use....

[Jimbuna]

I wouldn't be considering using the deck gun with escorts in the vicinity.

Why not pick two juicy merchant targets and give them a couple of eels each then scarper/quit while your ahead :hmmm:

[Captain Birdseye]

Had my first successful convoy attack this evening. large convoy with a big juicy Fiji class in the middle.

Decided to send a salvo of four torps off into the area most populated with boats (waited til it got to 0 gyroangle).

Every single torp hit and I was already at 70m, bagged an ore carrier and severely damaged a troop transport. Escorts came after me for half an hour, so I popped up after and got one of the Black Swan's returning to convoy, back the escorts came even angrier than last time. 2 hours later I finally pop up lost the convoy, and I pick up a straggling large merchant, 2 torps in his belly and he was a goner.

All torps expended we head off back to St Nazaire a happy bunch, certainly makes me feel better after my recent torpedo impact drought.

[Leandros]

I wouldn't be considering using the deck gun with escorts in the vicinity.

Why not pick two juicy merchant targets and give them a couple of eels each then scarper/quit while your ahead :hmmm:
U-34, patrol 5, back in Wilhelmshafen - 90 % HI.

You were right - as always....:03:.......Our choice really was to try to down all the escorts - and then use the DG. As it turned out the port-side Tribal was sunk first. However, 2 torps were necessary as the TII on magnetic just passed under it. A TI worked. That left us with one torp too little as we supposed there were 4 destroyers in all (it was). We then surfaced and proceeded towards the front of the convoy as one (large merchant) of the two fattest targets (the other was an Empire) was positioned there. The front destroyer (also a Tribal) turned towards us. That one also took two torps to get down - none left. Surfaced again, flanking towards the large merchant up North. The sea was rather swellish so we opened fire at approx. 2500 meters. At that time the other merchants in the port line had started to illuminate us and the destroyers from the rear and starboard side of the convoy converged on us full speed.

Soon their shells started to fall dangerously close. We had to go down. At that time we had hit the large merchant about 15 times but obviously no serious ones. Depth under keel was approx 85 meters, we went down as far as we could. Soon the D/C's were blossoming around us. We had some flooding but were able to rectify it. One diesel engine was destroyed and at one time we touched the bottom, albeit only at 1-2 knots. After a couple of hours we were able to zigzag eastwards, out of range.

One more lesson learned.

[Leg]

Operation drumbeat! Off US eastern coast, attacking all ships in sight! Really juicy targets (some still with lights on), no escorts, a few airplanes, that's the deck gun feast!:woot::arrgh!:

[Leandros]

Operation drumbeat! Off US eastern coast, attacking all ships in sight! Really juicy targets (some still with lights on), no escorts, a few airplanes, that's the deck gun feast!:woot::arrgh!:
Save your ammo.....long way to replenish....:03:...

[meduza]

Nov 1942, SE of Sicily. U-371
Encountered a small, 3 ship convoy, escorted by one DD and frigate. I sank 2 ships. It turned out that the escorts are much better than usual. No matter what I did, I couldn't get rid of them. After 2 hours of playing cat and mouse 240m bellow, I was desperate enough to try to go even deeper, down to the very limit. I found the limit at 288m :o, and lost the escorts along the way. The boat sustained some pressure damage, but nothing serious.

After that I attack another small convoy and sank both ships (troop ship and landing ship tank). The next day I sank another, larger, troop ship escorted by three destroyers.

So far we bagged 44,000t, and the patrol continues, with three eels still left.

[Leandros]

U-34 - Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - April 8th. 1940 18:53 - patrol 6

Left Wilhelmshafen this afternoon for grid AN23 (South-West of Stavanger). The Wilhelmshafen area is reeking with activity. He111's on their way to recce the North Sea

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/HeinkelsOverTirpitz.jpg

and.....a supply convoy - for Norway...?...- escorted by a T35


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/ConvoyForNorway.jpg

[Leandros]

U-34 - Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - April 13th. 1940 06:17 - patrol 6

Position: The outer approaches to Narvik. Have received reports that a British naval force has entered the fjord ahead of us. Shall try to cut it off if/when it returns......After all, some of our best destroyers are in there...:-?....


09:44

Ship sighted! A task force heading westwards out of Ofotfjord (Narvik)....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/WestboundTaskForce.jpg


In the middle......could it be Warspite...?


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/InTheMiddle.jpg



Well, it sure doesn't look like her.....

[Jimbuna]

@Leandros

You mustn't be playing GWX3.0 then? :hmmm:

[Leandros]

@Leandros

You mustn't be playing GWX3.0 then? :hmmm:
I believe it is called 2.1...?...I haven't dared fiddling with my SH.....something bad always happens....:cry:....

[Leandros]

U-34 - Narvik Approaches April 13th

It proved to be Nelson....the second of consecutive TII hits......


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/SecondHitNelson.jpg

.....created some very angry destroyers....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/AngryDestroyers2.jpg



...ooops, that one really shook our tailend....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/AngryDestroyers3.jpg


.....and some very frustrated.....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/FrustratedDestroyers.jpg


....where is he.....




http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/WhereIsHe.jpg
Boy, oh boy hope they soon loose their patience - we have some repairing to do. As has also HMS Nelson....







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[Leandros]

U-34 - Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - April 13th. 1940 20:20 - patrol 6

Still on the bottom of the OfotFjord beside a sunken British destroyer. This is getting creepy, 7 angry RN destroyers are still swirling around on the surface like crazy hens. We had reckoned they would leave after a couple of hours but it has now been more than 8 hours - and we are getting short on oxygen. Sometime this evening/night we seem to have to try getting away. We have a little handicap, though, the attack periscope is stuck and the observation scope is very sticky. We have plenty of torps but shall have problems defending ourselves due to the scope problem. There is a little swell building up.

Any suggestions...?....:hmmm:

....crazy hens....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/Creepy.jpg


22:56

...totally crazy....


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[Captain Birdseye]

:haha:
Can you go silent speed out of there, in a zig-zag pattern?

[Leandros]

:haha:
Can you go silent speed out of there, in a zig-zag pattern?
Well, we can always zigzag but with 1-2 knots speed not to be detected they have plenty of time to saturate the area with pings....

It is 02:14 here now and the oxygen meter is creeping into the yellow area. Soon it gets light again, too. The sea swelling has not increased much.

Wish us luck..!

[meduza]

I think you are doomed. :dead:
There's one thing I would try before raising the white flag: shoot at DDs using hydrophones to aim. Magnetic detonators to avoid hitting at some obscure angle, if you know their drafts. But this probably wouldn't work because they are pretty close, judging by the screenshot, and the eels may not arm. :hmmm:

[nikbear]

Leandros,I think the words that describe your situation rhyme with 'Clucking Bell':o:dead::rotfl:......Shallow water cup final,DD's 1,U-boats 0.:timeout:Best of luck chap:03:

[Leandros]

I think you are doomed. :dead:
There's one thing I would try before raising the white flag: shoot at DDs using hydrophones to aim. Magnetic detonators to avoid hitting at some obscure angle, if you know their drafts. But this probably wouldn't work because they are pretty close, judging by the screenshot, and the eels may not arm. :hmmm:
I wouldn't have gone into a discussion with you about that! However....

03:25

They are giving up and heading west - that's approx. 15 hours of hunting - 7 destroyers...


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U34/Patrol6/HeadingWest.jpg


Nothing special about it, just creeped away at 1 kts., the swelling obviously helped and they almost run into each other all the time. Now we need to repair and try to find HMS Nelson - we haven't got the credit.


09:25

Returning to base. Periscopes are not repairable. If we get back in one piece I shall ask for transfer to IXB

[meduza]

09:25

Returning to base. Periscopes are not repairable. If we get back in one piece I shall ask for transfer to IXB



I wouldn't let damaged Nelson get away. :DL Attack at night. If you slowed her down, she's probably unescorted.

[Leandros]

I wouldn't let damaged Nelson get away. :DL Attack at night. If you slowed her down, she's probably unescorted.
Well, she needed to be found first and the place was crawling with Tribals. We had two pass us when on our way out the Vestfjord. Decided to play it safe - the Jimbuna doctrine....:03:.....not sure we should have attacked her in the first place under those circumstances and with that kind of escort...I mean, we are not expected to commit suicide...or are we..?

[meduza]

I mean, we are not expected to commit suicide...or are we..?

Err... no... :hmmm:... I guess...

:D

[grislyatoms]

I think we have pushed our luck enough in the shallows of the Channel. Our trip through was good for a hair over 20,000 tons, so morale is pretty good.

Heading out to BE31, midway between Land's End and Brest. A little chop, fresh breeze. 9 torpedoes left.

Shaping up to be a good patrol.

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 July 12th. 1940 04:15 - patrol 7

Have transferred to a IXB - shining new from the wharf. Left Wilhelmshafen on July 6th for grid AN24. After having patrolled the assigned grid proceeded through the sound between the Orkneys and Shetland to a position West Scapa/North of Scotland. 3 merchants for 18.000 tons so far.

We have just sighted 2 auxilliary cruisers escorted by a V&W on a North-Westerly course and have been able to position us fairly well.....


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A little later - 2 torps fired on ea. of the Aux. cruisers. 2 TII on impact on number one and 2 TI on impact towards the second. One of the TII's prematured, the other hit. Fired off the two later ones a little too late so the second Aux. cruiser was warned by the hit on the first one and started veering. Both passed in front of him.

Well then, the V&V turned against us and we marked our position by going flank. Turned against him and he could not follow us in the turn. Fired one from the rear tube at 450 meters, a TI on magnetic. It hit him in his aft part - blaaammm. And then, blaaammm went the computer - black! Well, that was that! I saved a little before so I shall start up again from there.

But not tonight.....
THIS IS TOTALLY RIDICULOUS...!!!

Restarted the game and soon acquired the two aux cruisers and their V&W escort (We were lying beside a burning and sinking tramp steamer). The V&W approached the area cautiously, we had him approx. 30 degrees off our port bow when a TI on magnetic was sent off - distance 650 meters. Just before it hit he started veering towards starboard but too late. It went off under his aft. Then - again - blaaammm went the computer. Black.... What is this....?????


OK, will do it differently now.....hide by the burning tramp steamer, take out the Aux Cruisers first, and - not watch the explosions in the scope. See how it works out. Obviously my computer has some sort of overload problem.


That worked!


Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 July 12th. 1940 03:05 - patrol 7


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Still 12 torps left.


Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 July 12th. 1940 05:06 - patrol 7


Fresh air, full batteries, torpedoes downloaded....ready to go..

Is this war....?....


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[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 July 18th. 1940 12:00 - patrol 7

After having sunk the two aux. cruisers North of Scotland was ordered to proceed to Gibraltar in connection with the British attack on French warships in Oran and Alger.

Encountered a large convoy and a couple of loners enroute and spent all torpedoes. In all, a good first patrol for a new boat with a somewhat reduced crew. (The real U-122 was lost on its first patrol).

Have called on Lorient to replenish - was advised at sea that it was available.


PATROL REPORT


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[DaveU186]

U-2458 - Returned from 4th Patrol - 28th January 1940
Once again found ourselves posted near Gibraltar, but only returned home with around half of the haul we'd managed in the previous two trips, despite encountering convoys for the first time since our maiden patrol.

We bagged an Empire-Freighter NW of Ireland and the next morning a Medium Cargo entering from South of Ireland, then bumped into an escort where we sunk another Empire and an Ore Carrier, but were detected due to carelessness, and had to go to 160m to sneak away.

A bit of fun was had after being detected trying to approach a convoy West or Gibraltar, though. Being pursued by two Black Swans, up went the snorkel and they couldn't keep pace. After opening up quite some distance between us, we crash dived and went silent, and they soon turned back.

Rolled back into Wilhelmshaven with 38,000 tonnes to our name.

[PavelKirilovich]

I've been keeping an (improperly formatted) patrol log by hand while transiting to-and-fro, gives me something to do while waiting for action to crop up in SH3 on those long South Atlantic patrols. Two patrols covered thus far; entries from the second patrol covered (this career's 26th) are as follows. Sorry lads, no screenshots.

Briefing:
U-180 is to depart Lorient at 14h15 and proceed to GH21 where she will conduct patrol operations for 24 hours. Upon completion of patrol assignment, U-180 is authorised to act independently according to existing rules of engagement.

Entry I:
7 March 1943. 14h20. BF61.
U-180 cast off at 14h17. Despite the IXD2's size, she handles well in the restricted passages of the harbour. Crew noted excellent turn out on docks for this patrol, many fraueleins.
Note: The boat cleared harbour at 15h30 precisely.

Entry II:
7 March 1943. 19h55. In the vicinity of BF61.
RAF Coastal Command attacked U-180 as the boat was transiting the Bay of Biscay. Twin-engine aircraft of some description equipped with surface search radar and depth bombs. Poor radar discipline displayed; as they left the set on while coming to attack distance, providing U-180 with plenty of time to escape. RWR worked very well, detecting the target early on and providing an excellent azimuth. Antiaircraft ambush may be possible using the accuracy of the RWR's azimuth-finding technique*, though this tactic is not wise. U-180 dove to 25 metres in plenty of time to evade the RAF aircraft. Numerous wabos dropped on enemy's last datum of U-180, more than 200 metres astern of the boat. Periscope check before resurfacing showed twin-engine aircraft disappearing into the distance. Waited two more hours before resurfacing at 19h50.

Entry III:
27 March 1943. 08h50. GH54.
At roughly 07h00, U-180 encountered a single English merchantman on the horizon bearing 057, course north-west, range approximately 17.5 kilometres. This distance was very rapidly closed on the surface, the intent being to attack with the deck gun so as to conserve torpedoes, resulting in the enemy opening fire at a range of 9000 metres with one naval rifle of unknown calibre located in "A" position on the vessel. Some salvoes were quite accurate, efficiently bracketing U-180, though no hits were scored. It seems a handful of near misses was the best the merchant crew could manage; though the Kaleun refused to make it easy for the enemy gunners by running a straight course. Fire was opened from 105mm gun at 4000 metres, aiming for waterline. At 2500 metres, the enemy's gun was knocked out of action with one round. Shortly thereafter the target caught fire from bowsprit to fantail and began sinking on an even keel. 36 rounds expended total. Only three rounds missed. Matrosengefreiters K. Zorn, H. Balke, and H. Schubert are to be commended for excellent gunnery. Estimated 8575 GRT added to logbook. Estimate twelve survivors. Water provided, their location radioed 'in the clear' on international aid frequencies.** Best of luck to them. H. Schubert is recommended for the Iron Cross (1 Klasse) for his achievement in knocking out the enemy's gun with a single round while under intense enemy fire.

--

* - Modern RWRs cannot provide such a fine azimuth without multiple readings and networking of the RWRs in order to provide triangulation on the emitting source. However, I have no desire for GWX to fix this, though if they were going to a 15-degree or even thirty-degree fuzzy arc replacing the thick black line pointing in the direction of the emitter would be accurate to the era.

** - I have the excellent lifeboat mod installed. I sometimes feel bad for sinking my countrymen flying under the Red Ensign, particularly if I have cause to think they're Canadian, and therefore will surface and sail past survivors to "render assistance" if the tactical situation permits. I simulate the assistance calls by sending a radio report to BdU; I understand the AI has excellent radio direction finding capabilities, which means that quite realistically I then "sprint" away from the contact site and be on the alert for enemy aircraft thereafter. Though, the long-living crews are always on the alert for maritime patrol birds.

[Leandros]

I've been keeping an (improperly formatted) patrol log by hand while transiting to-and-fro, gives me something to do while waiting for action to crop up in SH3 on those long South Atlantic patrols. Two patrols covered thus far; entries from the second patrol covered (this career's 26th) are as follows. Sorry lads, no screenshots.

Briefing:
U-180 is to depart Lorient at 14h15 and proceed to GH21 where she will conduct patrol operations for 24 hours. Upon completion of patrol assignment, U-180 is authorised to act independently according to existing rules of engagement.

Entry I:
7 March 1943. 14h20. BF61.
U-180 cast off at 14h17. Despite the IXD2's size, she handles well in the restricted passages of the harbour. Crew noted excellent turn out on docks for this patrol, many fraueleins.
Note: The boat cleared harbour at 15h30 precisely.

Entry II:
7 March 1943. 19h55. In the vicinity of BF61.
RAF Coastal Command attacked U-180 as the boat was transiting the Bay of Biscay. Twin-engine aircraft of some description equipped with surface search radar and depth bombs. Poor radar discipline displayed; as they left the set on while coming to attack distance, providing U-180 with plenty of time to escape. RWR worked very well, detecting the target early on and providing an excellent azimuth. Antiaircraft ambush may be possible using the accuracy of the RWR's azimuth-finding technique*, though this tactic is not wise. U-180 dove to 25 metres in plenty of time to evade the RAF aircraft. Numerous wabos dropped on enemy's last datum of U-180, more than 200 metres astern of the boat. Periscope check before resurfacing showed twin-engine aircraft disappearing into the distance. Waited two more hours before resurfacing at 19h50.

Entry III:
27 March 1943. 08h50. GH54.
At roughly 07h00, U-180 encountered a single English merchantman on the horizon bearing 057, course north-west, range approximately 17.5 kilometres. This distance was very rapidly closed on the surface, the intent being to attack with the deck gun so as to conserve torpedoes, resulting in the enemy opening fire at a range of 9000 metres with one naval rifle of unknown calibre located in "A" position on the vessel. Some salvoes were quite accurate, efficiently bracketing U-180, though no hits were scored. It seems a handful of near misses was the best the merchant crew could manage; though the Kaleun refused to make it easy for the enemy gunners by running a straight course. Fire was opened from 105mm gun at 4000 metres, aiming for waterline. At 2500 metres, the enemy's gun was knocked out of action with one round. Shortly thereafter the target caught fire from bowsprit to fantail and began sinking on an even keel. 36 rounds expended total. Only three rounds missed. Matrosengefreiters K. Zorn, H. Balke, and H. Schubert are to be commended for excellent gunnery. Estimated 8575 GRT added to logbook. Estimate twelve survivors. Water provided, their location radioed 'in the clear' on international aid frequencies.** Best of luck to them. H. Schubert is recommended for the Iron Cross (1 Klasse) for his achievement in knocking out the enemy's gun with a single round while under intense enemy fire.

--

* - Modern RWRs cannot provide such a fine azimuth without multiple readings and networking of the RWRs in order to provide triangulation on the emitting source. However, I have no desire for GWX to fix this, though if they were going to a 15-degree or even thirty-degree fuzzy arc replacing the thick black line pointing in the direction of the emitter would be accurate to the era.

** - I have the excellent lifeboat mod installed. I sometimes feel bad for sinking my countrymen flying under the Red Ensign, particularly if I have cause to think they're Canadian, and therefore will surface and sail past survivors to "render assistance" if the tactical situation permits. I simulate the assistance calls by sending a radio report to BdU; I understand the AI has excellent radio direction finding capabilities, which means that quite realistically I then "sprint" away from the contact site and be on the alert for enemy aircraft thereafter. Though, the long-living crews are always on the alert for maritime patrol birds.
I like your form.....:yeah:.....

[AndyW]

"Monsoon"-boat U-200 OLtn. z. See Heinrich Schonder, enroute from Lorient to Penang in a Type IXD2 boat, is transmitting via wireless system INDIA:

2235 21 SEPT 1943
TO: BDU
GRID MP92
REACHED ASSIGNED PATROL AREA SOUTH OF CAPE GUARDAFUI / GULF OF OMAN AFTER 86 DAYS AT SEA. WILL PATROL IN THIS AREA FOR SOUTHBOUND ENEMY TRAFFIC
FUEL 45% 21 EELS LEFT
WX: MONSOON, CLEAR, GOOD VIZ, WIND 15 MS EAST
U-SCHONDER

(Today U-200 would have some busy times clearing off this area from Pirates ;))

Cheers,

[Sockeye]

Currently U-Sockeye is patrolling the western approach to the North Channel in October 1944. Submerged since leaving Trondheim, we arrived in AM53 after 16-days of transit. Patrol activity was sporadic north of the Shetlands, Orkneys and Hebrides.

Second day in the area: bagged an 8200-ton ore carrier headed eastwards through AM5343 in medium-heavy seas. Our approach was cut short by the appearance of a high-speed screw to the southeast, and by the time we heard our victim's boilers brewing up and her hull scraping the seafloor, at least one aircraft was poking around astern of us. Shortly after the aerial bomb explosions, sound picked up four more high-speed contacts approaching respectively from the north and south, northwest and southwest, along with the original southeastern contact.

Neatly avoided all at 250ft/75m, but by the time we were able to raise the snorkel, battery reserves were somewhere less than 25-percent and carbon dioxide was in the red. Two separate patrols interrupted our recharge; the first a single vessel, and the second a three-ship team.

A full can now, so will see what the morning brings.

:salute:

[DaveU186]

On 5th patrol in my XXI. February 1940. Plagued by bad weather and heavy seas, only sinking a medium cargo before reaching our patrol grid, BE37.

Just picked up a small outward convoy coming through the area though, only one escort (or so I think), approach on the surface and fire at an ore carrier. First torp hits but second overruns. About two minutes lates, torpedo impact!

Ore carrier doesn't seem to have taken another hit. :hmmm:

Looked beyond it, and there's HMS Rodney, stationary, after my stray torp has apparently managed to stop here dead in the water.

====================

I'm going to take the dog for a walk, but when I get back, it's the end for Rodney.

What a plonker. ;)

[meduza]

The Bdu regrets to inform you that the contact with U-371 has been lost. The last transmission from U-371 was received on February 14th 1943, when Kapitanleutnant Johann Schwarz reported successful convoy attack during which he sank 44,000t HMT Aquitania. He also reported that he is preparing for another attack.

U-371 is presumed lost with all hands.

[nikbear]

Bugger :wah::nope::cry: The crew of U-98 will avenge the loss of they're comrades on U-371:rock::arrgh!:

[Pohl]

A Bright career ahead of me, raided a French port and found not 1 but 2 Large Troop ships for 24k tons each and 1 troop ship (8k tons) plus some small & medium merchants, on my way back to port I found a Large Merchant and some ASW Trawler scorting him, 4 torpedoes launched, 1 missed the scort other hit, on merchant both hit making it sink after 8-10 minutes of struggle.
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[grislyatoms]

Finished my first GWX patrol, 40,000 tons.

Picked up most of my targets in the English Channel and a couple more at the Channel mouth (between Land’s End and Brest).

Went the long way around back home up around the Shetlands, two stern torpedoes left but no chance to hit anything with the wind kicking up 15 m/s. Weather absolutely crappy from the Irish Coast all the way home to Wilhelmshaven. Even spent a couple of days off Hartlepool hoping for the weather to change but alas, no.

Starting my 2nd patrol and I seem to be heading for the Channel again. Risky, I know. Just scored a nice ore carrier.

[WilyPete]

This is the Kalion (sp?) of U-3. It is the 21st of September 1939 and we are near our patrol sector off Bergen, Norway. We just stayed up all night chasing a darkened ship which turned out to be a small German merchant. He was very small...just 5 foot 3. The sonar operator has an annoying, squeeky voice. :yeah:

[RoaldLarsen]

This is the Kalion (sp?)
It's Kaleun - a contraction of Kapitänleutnant.

[WilyPete]

It's Kaleun - a contraction of Kapitänleutnant.

Close... :yeah:

[PavelKirilovich]

Update from U-180.

Entry IV
1 April 1943. 06h20. GR56.
Successfully infiltrated Capetown. Very heavily guarded; numerous ASW trawlers and two destroyers of unknown class spotted. Sank three vessels inside Capetown harbour with two torpedoes each; using a combination of keel-breaking magnetic pistol shots and impact pistol torpedoes aimed at their engine compartments. Six torpedoes expended total. One Modern Tanker sunk for 10,869GRT and two Large Cargo type merchant freighters for approximately 8500 GRT each. Exfiltration was easier than it should have been; there is no apparent reason for the weakness or ineffectiveness of the ASW defences in this area at this time.

Entry V
14 April 1943. 12h15. GH21.
Reached patrol grid. Will patrol until 00h30 15 April. Morale extremely high after the cakewalk harbour raid conducted earlier on Capetown. Crew able to dine in open air during a gap between light storms for a change.

Entry VI
25 April 1943. 04h15. GR91.
Encountered an Ore Carrier and small merchant freighter running at nine knots on a course of 270, formation line astern. Ran on the surface with decks awash to get into an ideal intercept position before submerging. Dove to periscope depth and approached the targets more closely, prioritizing the Ore Carrier. Tube three fired first, magnetic fused eto, successful launch. Target's screws remain audible through hydrophone; fired tube one with an impact fuse, ato, running fast. Impact thirty seconds later. Target's boilers exploding, screw noise stopped, vessel sinking rapidly by stern, fire from aftmost antiaircraft gun positions to bridge. Small merchant begins zig-zagging, though this drives their speed down to six knots. U-180 keeps pace while submerged, running a course of true West, closing the range. Hydrophones and sonar allow us to maintain contact very well. At a range of 1145 metres, the boat was surfaced. Deck gun crew were first on deck, followed by the Kaleun and 1WO. We were running at ahead flank on the target's port-aft quarter. Engaged with 105mm, first three rounds knocked out their stern naval rifle. Twelve more rounds set the ship on fire from bows to fantail, numerous secondary explosions, no survivors observed from either sinking. Light damage sustained to aft torpedo spaces; fully repaired. LI estimates the boat is good to dive to as much as two hundred metres. There is no intention of testing this unless absolutely necessary.

[kaptkirkU4467]

U 4467 outbound to patrol AL67..

Have sunk S class sub, with deckgun in BF52 ,Nov 2,1940.
1 eel fired..miss.
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[sharkbit]

U-150 (IID) with the 30th Flotilla.
10/42-Leaving Constanza for her first patrol in the Black Sea. :cool:

U-516 (IXC) witht the 12th Flotilla.
5/43-sunk with all hands on second patrol after attacking a convoy off the Canaries. :cry:

:)

[Kpt. Lehmann]

May 20, 1942. Type IXC out of Lorient.

Finally returning home from Gulf of Mexico and Carribean/Bermuda Triangle area... currently in central Grid DG.

No torpedoes remaining... all deck gun rounds expended while finishing off a couple of damaged merchants.

Ten ships sunk... three were large tankers!

Tis been a long patrol... nearly two months.

Have incurred moderate damage from DC and air attack. (I got overconfident and stayed on the surface to try and shoot down a Kingfisher near Cuba... and suffered some bow damage to a near miss.)

Will be near the Gibralter bottleneck in two days...

Then to traverse Biscay home to Lorient... Rumor has it that enemy activity is increasing there...

[Pohl]

Oblt Josef Härtel got tired of his slow moving Type IXB and changed it for a VIIC, I decided to go around the arctic ocean but found nothing after 10 days of being up there, on my way home I decided to raid Lerwick, it was pitch black since a storm was approaching, when we where 2.5 km away from port we hit a subnet, ordered emergency back then surfaced the boat and full ahead we passed the net with 58% on hull left, spotted 1 T class, S class and small depot ship, sunk the 3 of them and went away slowly, no one knew what happened.

When we where back at home I found weird that I was given 1200 renown for this patrol and my tonnage for it was 20k tons when I raided ports and got 70k tons I used to get 420~500 renown or could it be that the fact I was playing @ 80% realism had something to do

[Leg]

February 1942
Currently at drydock refitting my IXC for a new patrol; Operation Drumbeat's going on.

[DaveU186]

U-2548 returned from her 6th patrol with 20,000 tonnes after a frustrating patrol. Severe weather produced almost three weeks without any contact with the enemy, until two convoy reports finally lifted the gloom.

Further more, the sinking of an Auxiliary Cruiser in one such convoy, West of Gilbraltar, left everyone rather satisfied with a difficult patrol.

June 1st 1940 - U-2548 Assigned to patrol AN87
Near Dunkirk apparently.

:arrgh!:

[Leg]

June 1st 1940 - U-2548 Assigned to patrol AN87
Near Dunkirk apparently.

:arrgh!:


Better to avoid Dunkirk.... lots of ctds in that zone :cry:

[DaveU186]

Where others get CTDs I just tend to get 10-20 second pauses in the game. Lucky I suppose.

Anyway, whilst navigating on the surface towards the harbour at Dunkirk, some pesky torpedo boat appears out the mist and destroys my flak batterys before I can dive. Radar didn't pick him up.

Alas, the entire Royal Navy is depth charging me now. 30m of water. :hmmm:

[Pohl]

U-97 reporting in still haven't left french waters, 191 kilometers away from St. Nazaire, current speed is 18-19 knots in approx. 20 hours we will reach grid BF 42, time is 10:04 am.

Nothing else but sea....and still so early :nope:
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[DaveU186]

Where others get CTDs I just tend to get 10-20 second pauses in the game. Lucky I suppose.

Anyway, whilst navigating on the surface towards the harbour at Dunkirk, some pesky torpedo boat appears out the mist and destroys my flak batterys before I can dive. Radar didn't pick him up.

Alas, the entire Royal Navy is depth charging me now. 30m of water. :hmmm:

Well the XXI pulled through it seems. Went as deep as I could, slow as possible, ducked numerous depth charge runs, and eventually a few of the destroyers gave up. I've surfaced and will try and sneak away in the fog. Will need to return to base as flak batterys are done for, and attack periscope as well.

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Cheers for this one, Karl. :shifty:

[DaveU186]

This is turning into the shortest and most annoying patrol ever. Weather cleared and I'm scooting up the Dutch coast, only for my watch crew to miss a Dutch armed trawler, who managed to land one on me from about 5km away. :hmmm:

Submerged and proceeded after repairing the fuel tank, only to surface and encounter another one. This time however, justice. Two Stukas appeared and had him. :yeah:

Cheers fat boy.

[Pohl]

November 1, 1940, 1:28 pm

We have to wait at least another day to reach british waters and 3 days until we reach our designated grid.
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Checking decks awash depth when we get closer to enemy territorey
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[Subcutaneous]

Background: I bought SH3 when it first came out, but got distracted after only playing a few hours. I recently came across the DVD again and decided to give it another go. After playing a practice mission and watching a nice video on this site about plotting a target's course on the map, I decided to start a campaign.

Campaign, 1939, 100% realism (why not).

From the private journal of Captain Wolfgang:

Day One
Sub duty. I'm reasonably sure this is a punishment of some sort. The admiral told me I am a last-minute replacement for the previous captain, who came down with a severe intestinal disorder. I approached the dock and saw at my new command: a type II-A, the worst uboot in the kriegsmarine. This one appeared to be made from an old boiler with an oil drum welded on top. The crew lined up in front of the wreck looked no better.

After making sure we left the harbor intact, I went below. The odor was unbelievable. The navigator appeared to be a complete buffoon, so I plotted a course to the assigned grid area myself. After this I retired to my bunk and drank a few shots of liquor under the blanket.

Day Two
Reached assigned area. I instructed the navigator to plot a search pattern and went to get coffee. When I returned, he had drawn a pattern over only half the assigned area, confirming my earlier estimation of his abilities. Angrily I erased his feeble effort and drew the pattern myself.

Day Three
Early in the day we received a radio message about a ship to the west of our area. Reaching for the protractor, I discovered a different instrument than the one I had trained on. With a shrug, I plotted an intercept course. Several hours of cruising turned up nothing but a new radio message about a nearby ship heading north. This time the interception went correctly, running us right into a coastal merchant. I began a textbook plot of the target's course from the bridge, but apparently the merchant captain had both binoculars and a radio, because a few minutes later an enemy plane appeared. I immediately ordered a crash dive and scrambled down the ladder.

The navigator confirmed only 16 meters of water under the keel, so I ordered the boat to periscope depth. The helmsman seemed to think periscope depth meant bouncing off the sea bottom, so after a few grinding thuds I ordered us to rise to 10 meters. Had I not been short on officers I would have thrown the dullard into the sea. I hope I can come up with a way of explaining the dents on the hull.

The plane appeared to have vanished during our sea bottom escapades, and somehow the merchant had passed over us. I quickly surfaced us and ordered a flank speed intercept course. After a minute or two of watching the merchant recede, I asked the XO why we weren't moving. Apparently no one was in the diesel engine room. Several screaming fits later we were on our way.

I laughed as the merchant weaved back and forth in a weak mockery of evasive maneuvers and sent several torpedoes her way from very close range. Two hit, one missed, and although she stopped dead in the water I was out of torpedoes. The lone, unmoving merchant should be an easy target for the deck gun. Sadly, I discovered our rusty garbage bin had no deck gun. We were forced to hover a few hundred meters off the side of the merchant while my crew lazily reloaded tube one. After an eternity, I fired another shot into its side. There was a thunk and nothing happened.

Cursing madly, I awaited the loading of our last torpedo. Apparently the crew was tired from being on watch because the lethargic idiots took even longer this time. Recalling a lecture on the wonders of the magnetic detonator which could break a battleship in two with but a single shot, I set the running depth just under the keel of our unmoving target and fired away. The gamble did not pay off; the torpedo passed merrily on by, humming a happy tune and watching for a metal hull which it would never see.

At this point I considered a boarding party, but our sidearms had been left ashore in order to fit more hams on board. That probably seemed a reasonable decision at the time. We cruised away, leaving the stranded vessel to fix its engines and return to port with a hold full of goods. Our mission required us to continue patrolling the assigned area despite the fact that our only remaining weapon was the hellish stink of the interior space. I dutifully reported a few contacts by radio until the time was up and returned to base.

Day Four
The base commander refused to credit me the merchant and accused me of being drunk. I was.

[Pohl]

Still September 1, 1940, 5:28 pm

Not a single contact so far, took a power nap to go up with the crew on the night, until 2-3 AM then we go in periscope depth and we will test our batteries how long they can last @ 5 knots :arrgh!: .

Decided to plot another course near the english channel and british coast, passing through Ireland into Grid AM 41, hopefully we will get to see some ships.

Can't complain the sky is beatiful out there (attempt of panoramic view)

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[Kpt. Lehmann]

Still September 1, 1940, 5:28 pm

Not a single contact so far, took a power nap to go up with the crew on the night, until 2-3 AM then we go in periscope depth and we will test our batteries how long they can last @ 5 knots :arrgh!: .

Decided to plot another course near the english channel and british coast, passing through Ireland into Grid AM 41, hopefully we will get to see some ships.

Can't complain the sky is beatiful out there (attempt of panoramic view)

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Very cool, Pohl! You are a 1xTC sailor! I wish I had that kind of time. There's NO TIME like REAL TIME!!! :up::up::up:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

May 27th 1942. U-153 Type IXC. Homeward bound.

Have just entered the southwestern corner of the Bay of Biscay. Have ordered the flak guns to be cleared and serviced.

Burned much fuel over last three days... pushing through massive storm 1400 km west of Portugal. The last remaining diesel is sloshing around in the tanks, and the boat is pitching and rolling more now that it is much lighter. For a short moment we considered a night visit to the Max Albrecht... but it would be just our luck to end up being detained in a neutral port.

The crew is tired, but in good spirits. The food is now barely tolerable.

One and a half days to HOME!

No time to be complacent though.

[Sockeye]

The Inshore Campaign continues for me. This time, the Bristol Channel beckoned after reaching the staging point off the western coast of Ireland (AM73).

About 36,700 tons in the drink off Hartland Point. Also damaged a Captain class destroyer and a second Liberty ship in the days leading up to the map below, and although the rough seas wouldn't have been good to them, I couldn't tell you of their fate. The seas weren't good, though, to the cluster of wrecks off of Lundy. All torpedo boats.

Sorry about the lines all over the place, but if you're heading this way, that's what the patrol routes generally look like :up:

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[Task Force]

well... u 45 is in shop after its last patrol... due to a issue with the periscope... will be back out too sea soon.:yep:

[Pohl]

Very cool, Pohl! You are a 1xTC sailor! I wish I had that kind of time. There's NO TIME like REAL TIME!!! :up::up::up:

But it's really stressful to achieve it.....at least 12+ hours without a single contact on map, sure I was able to alt tab but I'm used to just go TCx1024 until I get :arrgh!: ship spotted sir!!!

I have 3 potential careers that I might do in real time since I have vacations and I feel it's better to play SH3 than some MMO =/

First Career is set in October 1942, black sea campaign in a Type IID
Second Career is set in December 1940, Type VIIC
Third Career is set in October 1944, Type XXI

Most dangerous to go RLT will be the type XXI but I've only done 3 patrols with it, with the VIIC is my most advanced career with 13 patrols and the little IID is only at her first patrol :haha:

I might move a little the XXI career :arrgh!: of course with TCx1 and I'll attempt 100% realism, hopefully I won't die outside port lol....just need to set clocks and I'm ready to go :P



As expected no less than 500 meters away when I left sub-pen a comboy of B-24 liberators raids Bergen, sinking my escort, I've decided to go and say hello to the russians at Arkangel'sk, 5800 km away, Navigator officer estimates 365 hours until we reach the port, even when I'm still in norwegian waters I can't give the luxury to sleep and stay surfaced, this will also serve to test the endurance of the batteries of the XXI, current time is 2:44 AM.

[PavelKirilovich]

U-180 reports that mysteriously, she was renamed to U-198. Makes sense; as U-180 was a IXD1 and the boat in question is a IXD2... but very odd for this to happen in the middle of a patrol.

Just attacked Port Elizabeth. Will post log entry later. Enroute to Durban.

It's not that I don't like Afrikaaners, it's just that I'm a dirty soutjie. :D

[Task Force]

well, after getting sh3 fixed... the patrol reports for my whole carear.
PERSONNEL FILE

Name: Task Force
Date of Birth: 26DEC14
Place of Birth: HAMBURG
Date of Intake: 01APR35 (CREW 35)

Promotions
27JAN36 SEEKADETT
01MAR37 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01AUG37 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01DEC37 LEUTNANT Z. S.
03NOV39 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.
13APR40 KAPITÄNLEUTNANT

Medals
05OCT39 IRON CROSS, SECOND CLASS
02DEC39 IRON CROSS, FIRST CLASS
02DEC39 GERMAN CROSS
22JAN40 KNIGHT'S CROSS
14FEB40 KNIGHT'S CROSS WITH OAK LEAVES
15MAR40 KNIGHT'S CROSS WITH OAK LEAVES AND SWORDS
13APR40 KNIGHT'S CROSS WITH OAK LEAVES, SWORDS, AND DIAMONDS
17JUN40 KNIGHT'S CROSS WITH GOLDEN OAK LEAVES, SWORDS, AND DIAMONDS

Badges
05SEP39 U-BOAT FRONT CLASP
05OCT39 U-BOAT BADGE

U-Bootwaffe Postings
07NOV38 U-Boat Flotilla Weddigen (Commander training)
02AUG39 2nd Flotilla (23 patrols)

U-Boat Commands
02AUG39 U-45, Type VIIB (23 patrols)

TOTALS:23 patrols (186 days)146 (108/38) 646510 (532755/113755) (file:///C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Barry_Fluke/Aces.html) 0 enemy planes downed
0 crew lost

[DaveU186]

U-2548 leaving on its 11th patrol, and it's last from Wilhelshaven before transferring to Lorient.

Via DT73. :o

[meduza]

U-419 was patroling around Sardinia in June 1943, when the BdU informed us that there's a concentration of Allied shipping around islands of Pantelleria and Lampedusa. After arriving at that area we found no enemy ships, and headed towards the Italian port of Pantelleria.

Upon arrival, we were surprised to see that the port was captured by the Allies, and it was full of Allied transport ships. There was also one Auxilari cruiser. The port was under attack from Italian aircrafts, but they were shot down one by one.

The conditions around the port was perfect for penetration: deep water and no destroyer patrols in sight. I sank one troop ship and damage another. Unfortunately, the torpedoes aimed at the Auxilary cruiser didn't hit. I assume that the magnetic detonators failed. Im preparing another attack from north, to be able to use the impact detonators.

[lostsm]

resuming a game where i just sunk the 2nd and last escort of a 20 ship convoy!!!! :yeah:

[ddiplock]

U559 currently on patrol in the Med. Encountered a British Task Force consisting of two Nelson battleships and a KG-V class battleship. Few cruisers present too.

Made parallel course to run alongside task force in an effort to get ahead, night was falling and was already pretty dark. An outlying destroyer must've spotted me though as they opened fire and began heading towards me, Task Force began taking evasive action.

Made to dive deep, went down to 190mtrs before the two harrying destroyer's lost my trail. They switched to passive hunting, going around in circles, throwing down DC's and listening for me on hydrophones. After 20 minutes or so, they gave up and returned to the task force. No damage sustained in DC attack.

Surfaced shortly thereafter and made flank speed to try and catch up. Dove down after two hours to try and get a fix on their location, no success. They slipped me and my boat and an oppertunity has been lost.

Continuing patrol. :arrgh!:

[grislyatoms]

Okay, I'm not fooling around with trips through the Enlish Channel anymore.

Destroyer alley, indeed.:haha: The tommies sure have learned a lot in the month since my first patrol...

Now I'm hunting the deep water "holes" just off the English east coast. (Pockets of water just off the coast with good depths.) Fuel on this patrol just won't support a trip around the Shetlands, I'm suspecting a leak.

Also just happened to check whether the L.I. was charging batteries by using external view.





********Possible Spoiler***********************************












The Channel is mined between Dover and Calais (not that my Kaleu would know that, but still.)

[Splash1]

On 23 June, 1942, U-124 (IXB) is about 500 km SW of Halifax, making best speed toward home. We've been out since 4 May, and without a working radio since the night of 27 May when we were strafed on the surface east of the Grand Banks while transferring external torpedoes. As a result, I suppose BdU and everyone in Lorient suspects us to be lost with all hands. In addition to the radio we lost one of our flak guns, and its gunner was killed in the attack.

The patrol nevertheless has been productive, with several cargo steamers and a tanker in the logbook, along with a lone destroyer that crossed our path in our assigned grid off the coast of Nova Scotia. The weather has been mostly calm.

[meduza]

Aug 11 1943. I was in CH93, chasing a convoy. The first two attacks were not very sucessfull . in first I was detected before launching torpedoes, in second I sank an ore carrier and damaged a liberty cargo.

I was still behind the convoy when my lookouts spoted a ship. I looked through my binoculars, thinking it's a rear escort who wondered away. Surprise! There were two Aquitanias and a Southampton, escorted by single destroyer.

I sank all three ships, and the escort couldn't pass between sinking ships to get after me :rotfl:. When they finaly went down, I was far away.

:arrgh!::arrgh!:

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[lynard]

15 days in to patrol 7 AM97.
Headed towards the channel thinking might be able to slip through, June 1940. Spotted on the surface by aircraft and then began 3 hours of hell.
Chased by an Armed Trawler and Destroyer. Used every trick in the book to try and get past. Had to head back west to shake them off, luckily with only minor damage.
Looks like it is up past Scarpa for me.

[DaveU186]

01:15 December 21st 1940
Having gained access to Halifax harbour, U-2548 launches three torpedoes at a British troop transport, and turns to quickly leave. Caught by the searchlights of several moored destroyers, she sustains significant damage as he attempts to evade, and is eventually forced under, where her crew work magnificently to repair the damage.

With just 1m of clearance, she moves to silent running and slowly creeps away, as a British destroyer begins depth-charging the path of water she has just frequented.

As her crew prepare for a nervous few hours ahead, they are at least pleased to hear the troop transport begin to go under.

[Leg]

Just back to Lorient after a rich Drumbeat patrol!:woot: 158.000tons:woot:

[Bosje]

having done 7 patrols early war in a nice type IXB, I just got promoted to Kapitanleutnant proper, something which never happened before as I usually waste a lot of renown on goodies or new boats.

anyway, it is now January 9th, 1942 and I just commissioned a shiny new IXC, the U-161. No time for a test drive, we are heading straight for the Americas (another new experience for me)

After having spent almost all my SH3/GWX time on the Atlantic, riding type VIIs, I am all giddy and nervous at the prospect of this new command. I might keep an online journal of this next patrol

Bosje, out:salute:

[DaveU186]

01:15 December 21st 1940
Having gained access to Halifax harbour, U-2548 launches three torpedoes at a British troop transport, and turns to quickly leave. Caught by the searchlights of several moored destroyers, she sustains significant damage as he attempts to evade, and is eventually forced under, where her crew work magnificently to repair the damage.

With just 1m of clearance, she moves to silent running and slowly creeps away, as a British destroyer begins depth-charging the path of water she has just frequented.

As her crew prepare for a nervous few hours ahead, they are at least pleased to hear the troop transport begin to go under.

The destroyer didn't manage to get a fix on U-2548, and infact posed more of a threat to local sea-life than the u-boat, as is expended its full arsenal of depth charges on an empty area of the harbour.

U-2548 is heading East with just 16% of her hull integrity remaining, although all major systems have been restored. All naval traffic including convoys will have to be avoided on the trip home.

[ddiplock]

Wolfgang Stamka and all hands of U559 have been lost after their 3rd Patrol, January 1942.

Encountered a task force in the pitch dark of night near Malta, but in shallow waters. Wasn't spotted, but dove down and rigged for silent running to evade. Must've been detected by enemy destroyers, heavy depth charging ensued. Eventually suffered damage and came to the conclusion I can't lose them in these shallow waters.

Only plan left, blow ballast and make a run on the surface. Came up onto the surface and began running east with diesals frantically running flank. Thinking i'd got away with it as there was no immidiate incoming fire, U559 was however detected, and while engaging a destroyer with her rear facing flak gun, was sunk in action.

:(

[Jimbuna]

Just back to Lorient after a rich Drumbeat patrol!:woot: 158.000tons:woot:

That is some impressive patrol http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[Leg]

That is some impressive patrol http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

Indeed my best patrol ever. That's one of the reasons to have a type IX :DL.
Eastern US coast in the '42 is really a place to visit.
I found two convoys escorted by just one DD, they were plenty of tankers; after I sunk the escorts, they were doomed. Even if an airplane with its two bombs remembered us we are not immortals.

I posted some pics in the screenshot post.

Next patrol will be to the Caribbean :arrgh!:

[DaveU186]

Spent three months in dock having the boat repaired. Decided to make the long trip to St. Helena. :arrgh!:

After a long journey we plan our arrival for just before midnight on 9th April 1941, and sneak into within 2.5km of the port. A quick raise of the scope pleases me greatly, as we're greeted with a lovely open dock area, containing several merchants, one tanker...and rather nicely, a Southampton class and a Fiji class.

Currently sneaking away in the lovely deep water back northwards, with the Fiji, the Southampton, three tramp steamers and a small tanker lying on the bottom.

:cool:

[TigerShark808]

Jan 3 1940-Patrol 3
Well finally caught up with the HOOD, east of Scapa Flow after searching for her for a few days.But missed her with a salvo :wah: , forgot to open the tube doors and didn't calculate her speed correctly. DOH!

After feeling like I had missed my "White Whale" and feeling pretty discouraged, a thought crept over me as I watched her and her escorts disappear into the East. " Why don't I go AHEAD FLANK and see if I can catch her up North, maybe she is patrolling in a circular pattern and if so she will be heading North very soon".So I turn my boat in a Nor-East direction and hit the gas.

Well my guess payed off and sure enough a couple of days later the HOOD came into view (out of the south-east) with her escorts leading the way.I was pleasantly surprised to say the least. And after slipping inside her escorts, I released a salvo on her that slowed her down to 6 knots and caused her to lisp to her port and take on water. Her escorts soon left her after a futile attempt at trying to hunt me down.She took on a zig-zag route towards the south but it was to no avail.I soon managed to position myself on her 260 and to hurry her death along I sank another eel in her and claimed my prize.

Grid AF 75Ship sunk! HMS Hood (HMS Hood), 48360 tons. Crew: 1403. Crew lost: 1290

Patrol 4 coming up :arrgh!:

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 Aug 19th. 1940 00:38 - patrol 9

Left Lorient after replenishing at Aug. 17th 12:00 for home base Wilhelmshafen. Proceeding West of Ireland. No contacts so far, weather is nice.

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Aug 21st. 1940 10:16 - patrol 9

Grid AM02 - large convoy approaching from North-west inbound Western approaches. A Flower class is leading them - presently at approx. 900 meters distance - closing....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol9/ConvoyApproaching.jpg


10:33: Aha.....what is that in the middle of the convoy.....?


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol9/WhatIsThat.jpg

[cj95]

Let it be known that this 12th day of june, 1940 Oberleutenant zs Waldemar Gerking has turned over command of the Type ii U-8 to his second in command.

Gerking is hereby given command of the final Type VIIB to come out of the yards, the U-102.

Welcome to the big boats Waldemar! (well medium sized anyways):up:

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Aug 25th. 1940 21:20 - patrol 9

Position: Just west of the the Western entrance to Scapa Flow. The large convoy with HMS Nelson in the middle got away. That is, Nelson was hit by one or two torps - at least one in the extreme rear - difficult to verify as we were set upon by 3 Flower class corvettes. We were detected before firing 4 torps at Nelson as we had to shorten the distance due to its weaving.

Had to go down to throw off the pursuers. Some hours later we continued Northwards after extensive D/C'ing by the escorts. Bumped into a couple of merchants on the way. One was sunk by DG - one Empire with two torps. It was escorted by a MTB....



Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Aug 26th. 1940 02:58 - patrol 9

The temptation got too strong! After a crew discussion we decided to go in! Followed the Elco guard vessel in through the Southern sound. Weather is excellent - that is, heavy rain, dark. Then, suddenly in the dark......an anchored A&B on starboard bow - distance approx. 500 meters! We slid under at minimum speed (picture has been lighted).


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol9/InsideScapa-1.jpg

Present position:


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol9/InsideScapa2.jpg




We shall await the day and see what more pops up.....

[Melonfish]

well i've just picked SHIII back up after a long stint away playing twitch games and already i'm hooked.
i'm about to leave wil on my 3rd patrol in U-1 my plucky little Type II/A
1st patrol didn't go so well, managed to sing a coastal merchant with my 2nd Eel after the first missed (cursed myself for the loss of such precious resources)
then managed to sneak into hartlepool and sink 3 torps into a C2 and a t1
unfortunatly neither were confirmed as kills :damn:
so i had to settle for the knowledge that at least they were heavily damaged.

2nd patrol faired a little better, sent to an16 but by the time we got there the fog had rolled in and the rain was pelting, visibility down to perhaps 300 meters! after patroling hopelessly and not hearing a thing on my hydro checks i decided to make for scapa and see what i could see.
apparently all i could see was rain and fog...:damn:
i actually had a black swan pass my starboard side 400m off whilst i was surfaced in scapa and they didn't see me such was the silhouette of my diminuative craft!

i thought prudence was in order so dived to p depth and ambled about. i decided to follow the handy lighthouses into scapa dock and sink something when all of a sudden there she was...:ping: 28000 GMT of Royal Oak!
i almost ran into her to be fair! i backed off to get a good angle and lined up my first salvo, all three tubes 4degree spread slow and 6m deep.
they spotted them as they were within the last few meters and actually tried to make steam, but their fate was sealed!
i sat covered by the storm reloading my final 2 whilst Royal Oak took on a heavy list but stubbarnly remained afloat.
used my final 2 for a salvo shot set at 8m and that was all she needed. she now stands as a permanent reminder that the Kriegsmarine will control the atlantic!:rock:
Bit dicey getting out of scapa now that every single DD was under steam and looking for some payback, especially seeing as i had nothing to throw at them except Bernards socks!
fortunatly we all made it home for promotions and medals all round ;) oh the party we had.
of course then we learned that that upstart gunther prien had claimed he slipped his U-47 into scapa and sunk Royal Oak himself! oh the cheek!:rotfl:
my chief engineer Ernst has said however "thats been taken care of" whatever that means?:arrgh!:

Pete

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Aug 26th. 1940 05:11 - patrol 9

Eventually we gave the A&B a TI on magnetic. After that proceeded southwards and what did we find.....?......a nice 33000 tons floating dock..! It went down with one TII on impact fuze. Slipped out into central Scapa. On two occasions we have had damage inflicted on the boat, either from hitting ground, an obstacle or mining. Game doesn't say. Repairs have been carried out but HI is now down to 54%.

Getting light now and far out on the other side of the sound.....what do we see....?



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol9/InsideScapa3.jpg
Should we sneak over there during the day or take a quick surfaced dash after dark. What do you guys think....?


02:00:

We waited till dark. On the inner harbour was also a troop transport and a Fiji class light cruiser. On the surface we positioned us so that we could fire from the fwd tubes towards the Fiji and the troop transport - aft tubes on Hood.

All hits - and all hell broke loose. Went down as fast as possible - sustained some damage but was quickly repaired. On the way out gave Hood two more torps. Here is the third one:



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol9/Hood.jpg



Now we need to get out of here.....!

[Leandros]

04:37:

Is this it...?....as we passed out of the Southern entrance 4 destroyers approached from the South. We turned westwards at minimum speed. They are now searching the area approx. 2500 meters behind us. We are lying dead silent close to the shore. If they discover us - very little space below, only 3 ready-to-fire torps in the aft.


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol9/InsideScapa4.jpg

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Nov 10th. 1940 10:11 - patrol 10

Back in Lorient after patrol 10. Patrol 9 ended well, we were able to distract ourselves from the 4 hunting destroyers outside Scapa. Never got credit for the Hood, though, even if it was marked as sunk. Probably too shallow water.

Patrol 10 was rather exciting even if the tonnage wasn't that impressive. 23 days at sea. Plenty of small fry which was taken care of by the DG. Run into two aux. cruisers North of Scotland. The ASW trawler - HMS Arsenal - we finished with the DG by sneaking up behind it in the dark. Opened fire at 1300 meters.

Then on our way back hit a large RN task force entering the Bristol Channel. BB's, several Didos and heaps of Tribals:


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol10/PatrolReport.jpg


Got a dido, hit HMS Renown, too - but had to go back after deep-diving to avoid escorts. Gave her our last aft torp but she wouldn't sink. Hung around for hours but to no avail. Couldn't well take her with the DG....we went home. She would at least have several months in the wharf.


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol10/Renown.jpg

[Melonfish]

well after 4 reasonable patrols in my plucky Type IIA Oberleutenant zur see Richard Schultz has been given command of U-55! one of the new type VIIB's

we've loaded up on some new recruits who appear to be mixing well with the "veterens" and marvelling at the bronze u-boat badge they are all wearing and their casual at home manour in the boat.

During patrol 3 in our IIA we managed to score two kills, a coastal merchant as we entered our patrol area which suprisingly took two Eels to send her to the bottom and a c2 cargo transport near the end of our patrol that took two to stop but didn't sink, so we had to surface and finish her with a final shot.

patrol 4 was not particularly successful, we managed to sink one small merchant with two Eels and completely miss another small merchant with two more :damn: my final torpedo managed to annoy a C class DD which had aimlessly wandered into my path, perfect 90* aob, nice lineup excellent depth struck her just abaft her central stack but was a dud!:damn:
spent the next hour at 15m manouvering away from him and a V&W who joined him shortly after they scored multiple kills on local marine life....

total tonnage to date is 44893. we're hoping U-55 will be a fresh start and with more torps we should be able to sink more ships!:rock:

we launch on the 23rd of January 1940! (historically U-55 was sunk on the 30th of jan 1940 i'm hoping history doesn't repeat itself!)

[DaveU186]

18th patrol for U-2548.

Shortly after sinking an Empire Freighter at 21:40 July 7th 1941, she was detected by two British patrol boats in shallow waters near the Western entrance to the channel. Initial D/C attacks destroyed her aft batteries, and stb diesel engine, while also killing two of her crew.

With her flank underwater speed reduced to just 10 knots, the captain raised her to schnorkel depth and attempted to out pace the patrol boats and head for deeper waters to the East.

U-2548 is currently 2.5km ahead of the nearest patrol boat who is in hot pursuit, travelling at 16 knots, but still some way from water deep enough to evade. :down:

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Feb 25th. 1941 22:42 - patrol 12

Just back in Lorient after patrol 12. Some days are busier than others....


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol12/PatrolReport.jpg

[PavelKirilovich]

Entry VII
27 April 1943. 23h45. S.Afrika.

Prior to submerging to attack Port Elizabeth, U-180 (U-198 now, thanks to the weird redesignate-my-boat-in-the-middle-of-a-patrol thing) came under intense air attack. This was presaged by the RWR, however the enemy was upon U-180 before the boat had a chance to dive. No damage was sustained, though many rounds of machinegun/autocannon fire were expended by the attacking Beaufighters. Oddly, no depth bombs were dropped in this attack. The lone ASW Trawler protecting the port was engaged with a single eto, exploding catastrophically. Inside the harbour, only two targets were worth sinking: a medium sized merchantman and a modern tanker. These were engaged with two gas-steam torpedoes each, with a fifth ato fired at a docked ASW vessel which opened fire with its forward mounting at the periscope, causing some damage to the conning tower. All torpedoes impacted, resulting in rapid sinking of all three targets. Exfiltration went without incident, surfaced 75km from the target area. Air activity high; subsequently forced to dive numerous times due to SAAF/RAF patrols. Some damage sustained to port propeller. Fully repaired.

Entry VIII
28 April 1943. 23h45. S.Afrika.
A convoy was sighted heading 165 at seven knots, time approx 21h00. Escorts equipped with surface search radar; radar warning receiver immediately signalled a contact and U-180 submerged posthaste. First sighting made through periscope, confirming hydrophone count of ten vessels; six merchant, four military. One Flower-class corvette rapidly approaching the boat, periscope lowered and U-180 descended to 25 metres. Turned onto an intercept course for the convoy but was immediately lashed by ASDIC from the corvette. First pass came shortly afterwards. As the corvette passed overhead, a kobold was deployed and a hard turn executed to stay in the enemy's baffles. Sprinted away from the Flower before running silent, attempting to keep the kobold between the boat and the corvette. No joy. Immediatey reacquired by the Flower-class corvette. As it made a second pass, U-180 went to ahead flank and dove to 120 metres, deploying several kobolds in its wake. By the third pass, the corvette was attacking the decoys, though had succeeded in driving U-180 away from the convoy and putting her in a position where she was unable to catch up to and intercept the remaining nine vessels of said convoy. 32 depth charges dropped by the corvette in total, fourteen of them on the second set of bold decoys. U-180 resurfaced once clear of the convoy and began heading at a leisurely pace towards Durban in an effort to conserve fuel oil.

[meduza]

April 1944. We left Toulon and sailed towards the patrol grid, around the strait of Sicily. It was the maiden voyage for my brand new U-1151.

Along the way we sunk a few small merchant. During one night we spotted a small convoy escorted by Town class DD. It seamed that the escort wasn't equipped with a radar and we made a surface attack, something I haven't done for a long time.

We reached our patrol zone. it was getting dark, and I was prepering to surface when my SO reported a convoy. There were two big troop ships, whale factory ship and large merchant, along with a large number of smaller merchants. It was heavily escorted.

My plan was to sink troop ships in first attack, and large merchant and whaler in second, before the dawn.

We were almost in position to fire when the Fletcher class DD got very near us, doing his regular sweep. She passed in front of our bow and steamed around us, to the starboard. I couldn't wait any longer and released 4 torpedoes, distance 5km. The Fletcher must have spotted the wakes because she suddenly increased speed, made a hard turn at us, and started to ping. I ordered a flank speed and dived, dodging the depth charges. A few exploded nearby, heavily shook the boat and caused some minor damage. We went very deep, 350m, and managed to lose the escorts. The attack was not successful, 3 torpedoes missed, but one hit a coastal freighter by accident and she sank.

Just before the dawn I was ready to attack again, this time from greater distance, 7-8km. Having only 4 bow torpedoes, I decided to attack each of the big ships with one torpedo. At one moment the bloody Fletcher was getting dangerously near but luckily she turned away. I launched my eels, turned away, staying at periscope depth. Then I saw 4 explosions, and watched the ship slowly sinking.
The escorts assumed that we were much closer to the ships and went searching in the wrong direction.

With 60000t under my belt, I set my course for home.

[Leandros]

Hitting targets at 7-8 km. one can only hail the German torpedo technology - what gyros....!.....And, of course, the officers setting up the solutions....:salute:.....

[meduza]

Hitting targets at 7-8 km. one can only hail the German torpedo technology - what gyros....!.....And, of course, the officers setting up the solutions....:salute:.....

I actualy made a small mistake estimating the speed. That caused all four torpedoes to hit the bow, even though I aimed at the middle. :DL

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Apr. 10th. 1941 00:55 - patrol 13

Grid CG44 - large convoy approaching on a North-Westerly course. The lead Black Swan has already passed us. First target ahead: Large Merchant....

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol13/LargeConvoy.jpg

[ddiplock]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Feb 25th. 1941 22:42 - patrol 12

Just back in Lorient after patrol 12. Some days are busier than others....



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol12/PatrolReport.jpg



Hey, how did you get ship names to show up in your logs?? That's ace :D

[Leandros]

Hey, how did you get ship names to show up in your logs?? That's ace :D
I believe I ticked it off in the Commander.....

[Leandros]

Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - U-122 - Apr. 17th. 1941 00:38 - patrol 13

Out of torps again! We never seem to be able to get to the assigned patrol area (FF38) as there are large convoys all over the place.


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol13/StatusReport.jpg




Now we are just hanging around to get credit for this one, too before we head for the base - he is truddling along at 1 kts. Or maybe call in at Las Palmas (Corrientes) for resupply. Problem is I do not like the torpedo load-out given at these stations.


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol13/LargeTanker-1.jpg



Many hours later and it is still afloat.......!....should we board it...?...



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U122/Patrol13/LargeTanker2.jpg

[DaveU186]

September 1941

U-2548 back at sea in what are becoming increasingly worrying times for the fleet, but runs into two large merchants escorted by a A&B Class, and takes BDU advice, encouraging the destroyer in for the kill before landing two on her. :cool:

The two merchants soon follow.

After patrolling BE86 and starting to head north, she runs into a very large Southbound convoy protected by no less than seven escorts, but decides to attack anyway. After creeping in deep and low, she goes to flank and rises to periscope depth, and while the escorts slowly react, manages to get away a full salvo of torps before crash diving to try to evade.

Four hits are recorded and after a brief spell at 260m evading, she rises again for a similar run, this time scoring a further three hits.

Unfortunately, while attempting to crash dive she is rammed by a destroyer, rendering her torp tubes useless. After going deep though and turning north to sneak away, the hydrophone operator confirms the sounds of four ships slipping to their deaths.

:arrgh!:

[PavelKirilovich]

Entry IX
30 April 1943. 06h00. S.Afrika.
At 05h58 the first contact on the raid into Durban harbour was made. An ASW trawler was engaged and destroyed with one eto torpedo set to run at six metres depth with a magnetic pistol. The target exploded and sank within thirty seconds. No survivors seen.

Entry X
30 April 1943. 07h45. S.Afrika.
Inside Durban harbour there is a large troopship estimated at 24,000 GRT, and a modern tanker estimated at 10,500 GRT. These have been engaged with torpedoes, the troopship absorbing three atos before listing heavily to starboard and the tanker taking two atos before beginning to burn fiercely from bow to stern. IT is anticipated that the vessels will both sink shortly, whereupon we will attempt to exfiltrate the harbour.

Entry XI
30 April 1943. 08h15. S.Afrika.
The raid on Durban was highly successful. During the exfiltration, a Tribal-class destroyer and an ASW trawler were spotted moored in a vulnerable position outside Durban. Both were engaged with one torpedo each from the stern tubes, the Tribal breaking apart amidships while the ASW trawler sank more benignly. Two torpedoes remain. Fuel level good. The boat is commencing her return to Lorient.

[DaveU186]

31st January 1942
U-2548 is currently sat in DM77, having just polished off its 4th victim of this trip. So far an intermediate tanker, a large cargo, a whale factory ship, and a landing tank ship have been dispatched.

Heading up towards Havana/Key West.

:arrgh!:

[timwatson]

Juicy, but challanging targets to infiltrate in mid 1940 (from the desk of o.b.l. Rolfe Hass who read your report with interest)
4th patrol report - 87% realism

June 1940:U122 captained by Rolfe Hass in his IXb waited until low visiblity weather conditions for their forays into British strongholds. Bad weather make it possible to maintain "decks awash" while gaining entrance to their heavily protected ports. Previous reconnasance operations had provided general information about minefield, submarine net, and gun emplacement locations.

By setting eel depth at 1.5m, it proved possible to conduct a 2-3km range shot at the floating dock located within about 10km from Scapa's west entrance.
This depth setting put our single torpedo shot over the top of the sub net located within 300m of the stationary floating drydock, and thence into the exploding center of 32,000 tons of what is identified as a "minor warship" in GWX.

July 15, 1940: Loch Ewe was tougher. Getting past the harbor entrance was one thing. We spent the afternoon safely out of sonar range monitoring the timing and locations of British pickets.

Once inside the harbor approaches , our IXb eased over the sub net about 3km from the harbor docks in force 6 rainy weather right around midnight. With visiblity at roughly 400m, we stayed on the surface to avoild the DD which is always posted at the south end of this net. We also knew to avoid shore based gun emplacements to the north by crossing the net at its mid point. An underwater approach within this confined port bay area would have likely been detected, and certainly anything but "ahead slow" spells disaster if you are under the waves at Loch Ewe.

Earlier"Arial Reconnisance" had revealed the presence of two floating docks and a Dido Crusier. Thanks to this we knew generally where to find the combined 64,000 tons of British FD's... One torpedo was launced at each FD which were set at 5m to hit them both at their central beam ends... then we went after the stationary crusier in similar fashion.

After torpedoing the first FD, we skulked next to the nearest shoreline staying on the surface. Once the enemy's search lights stopped dancing through the misty rain, we proceeded to find one of the pursuing DD's sitting motionless, waiting to hear something from us. It did. The sound of our T-1 coming towards its keel at 44 knots. Scratch one less ash can delivery boy.

Our secret: long ranged shots. We approached our stationary targets to just within our visual range, got a torpedo run fix with 0 degrees heading to mark (bow pointed directly towards zero torpedo setting), then while maintaining course, backed off so far there was little chance of being caught in the beams of those anticipated frantically waving searchlights (about 1km +).

Once things quieted down after each target was attacked, all we had to do was retrace our path out of there by following marked course lines made during our earlier approach. We generally knew there would be mines outside the harbor approaches near each shore, so retracing the inbound course lessened this hazard. We also dived the boat intermitantly to check on picket activity.

Total haul for these two nights: about 110,000 plus tons worth of British naval units. And then we knew we would be in for quite a debriefing once back in Wilhelmshaven.

Happy hunting fellow wolves.

Jan 3 1940-Patrol 3
Well finally caught up with the HOOD, east of Scapa Flow after searching for her for a few days.But missed her with a salvo :wah: , forgot to open the tube doors and didn't calculate her speed correctly. DOH!

After feeling like I had missed my "White Whale" and feeling pretty discouraged, a thought crept over me as I watched her and her escorts disappear into the East. " Why don't I go AHEAD FLANK and see if I can catch her up North, maybe she is patrolling in a circular pattern and if so she will be heading North very soon".So I turn my boat in a Nor-East direction and hit the gas.

Well my guess payed off and sure enough a couple of days later the HOOD came into view (out of the south-east) with her escorts leading the way.I was pleasantly surprised to say the least. And after slipping inside her escorts, I released a salvo on her that slowed her down to 6 knots and caused her to lisp to her port and take on water. Her escorts soon left her after a futile attempt at trying to hunt me down.She took on a zig-zag route towards the south but it was to no avail.I soon managed to position myself on her 260 and to hurry her death along I sank another eel in her and claimed my prize.

Grid AF 75Ship sunk! HMS Hood (HMS Hood), 48360 tons. Crew: 1403. Crew lost: 1290

Patrol 4 coming up :arrgh!:

[TigerShark808]

Well that Boat was sunk on its next patrol.

Thought I would take a shot on the south end of the channel ( just outside and west of BF19). Well came across a large convoy. Was able to hit 4 of its largest ships with an eel.

Then dove to 200 meters went to 2knots and silent BUT was hit by a depth charge a at 180meters (surprised me) :o. Diesel engine compartment filled rapidly and Hull damage went from 100% to 70% to 50% to 25% so fast I could not even manage more then a "BLOW BALLAST" before my bowquarters filled with dead and not long after I was in menus :)

So goes another Sh3 patrol!

[Rafael]

Almost impossible at this weather, but I fired one torpedo (using tube IV) on a small merchant Irish sea.

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af281/datalogica/001-1.jpg?t=1247844236

:arrgh!:

[tomfon]

He he... Nice. A hit is always a hit, no mattter what. :arrgh!:

[Rafael]

He he... Nice. A hit is always a hit, no mattter what. :arrgh!:

LOL ... I made a mistake, it was TUBE V :yeah:

The one that you mostly don't or can't use!

:arrgh!:

[tomfon]

LOL ... I made a mistake, it was TUBE V :yeah:

The one that you mostly don't or can't use!

:arrgh!:

Yeah, it occured to me.:haha:
Still, a hit is a hit.:yep:

[Rafael]

Yeah, it occured to me.:haha:
Still, a hit is a hit.:yep:

HAHA ... I am better in, 1 2 3 4 5 then the year I was born MCMLVII :D

[flakmonkey]

Currently sitting on the bottom somewhere near lorient, waiting for daylight.
Im using realnavmod so dont get any map markers to show where i am and since its been stormy for the last 3days in game i couldnt see any stars so i have no clue where i am.
I plan to crawl slowly east and hopefully will spot a lighthouse marking the enterance channel in this damn fog.

[PavelKirilovich]

Spotted a lot of submarines as U-198 left Lorient harbour on the fresh patrol, after successfully completing her 26th for 100,451 GRT sunk. Type IX in harbour, Type VIIC passing me on its way back into harbour approx. 75km from the channel entrance, and then two U-Flak cruising up from the South-East whom I formated on for a pair of screenshots (soon to be uploaded to the screenshots thread and one replicated here) before carrying on across the Bay of Biscay.

I intend to make use of the IXD2's best cruising speed to travel to Norfolk for a spot of harbour raiding, then travel down the middle of the Atlantic, skipping over the Caribbean, and visiting our "friends" on the South American coast. Then to the patrol grid halfway between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, then a return to base.

Unless, of course, BdU orders me to Penang. We're rapidly approaching September of 1943 and according to the manual, GWX will soon shift my boat with the Gruppe Monsun boats over to the I.O. I've been waiting patiently since 1939 for this. Hopefully some of the resupply boats will still be around.

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[DaveU186]

U-2548 has just expended her final torpedo of another drumbeat patrol, having sunk 48,000 of mostly tankers, and two Clemson destroyers, one of which was a sitting duck near Curacao.

Just notified BDU that I'm starting my return passage, as we head West past Guantanamo towards the Atlantic. Then a Catalina spotted, but the twin AA did for her as she went on her attack run. :up:

We have been notified of a base change as well. We're going to Brest. :shifty:

[don1reed]

0025/0203Z/19.5.1940/UUU45
L57:26N x λ003:56E outbound C299/S6 x
proceeding to AL 65 via Fair Island x
no contacts x Wx: Clear x no rain no fog x
wind 5/360 x sea 2 x
Ajax sends

[Pohl]

For some reason when I left port I felt like I was going to find a Convoy, so.....I did found it, got a report around 3:30 am about a convoy exiting the english channel, turned 180° and went after it, speed of convoy was reported at 8 knots so I estimated the time it will take me to reach the grid and the distance they will travel in that time, to my surprise I was like 2km ahead of them when I detected them with Hydrophones, set up the crew in their positions and spent the best 40 minutes of my first patrol :arrgh!:

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[ddiplock]

What a rotten 2nd patrol for Rudolf Schnee and the crew of U100. Away on patrol for 72 days and nothing to show for it but two cargo ships and a tribal destroyer sunk. Ridiculous. Nothing to be found anywhere, plied around the Western Approaches for days at a time, diving and listening to find NOTHING. Making transit through the Irish sea THREE times to find nothing also. Getting reports of convoys and task forces but the'yre always too far away to make an intercept possible.

What a rotten patrol. France has recently been invaded so French ports should be avaliable soon I imagine. Only bright spot was a promotion for me on return to Kiel. Other than that, pure rubbish :(

[meduza]

What a rotten 2nd patrol for Rudolf Schnee and the crew of U100. Away on patrol for 72 days and nothing to show for it but two cargo ships and a tribal destroyer sunk. Ridiculous. Nothing to be found anywhere, plied around the Western Approaches for days at a time, diving and listening to find NOTHING. Making transit through the Irish sea THREE times to find nothing also. Getting reports of convoys and task forces but the'yre always too far away to make an intercept possible.

What a rotten patrol. France has recently been invaded so French ports should be avaliable soon I imagine. Only bright spot was a promotion for me on return to Kiel. Other than that, pure rubbish :(

I have exactly the opposite situation. I'm transfering from Toulon to Trondheim, and before I entered the Gibraltar, I had two convoys within the hydrophone range, and another one reported less than 50km away. But I didn't have any torpedoes left. :cry:
It's going to be a long and boring cruise...

[meduza]

Dec 1944. U-1151 sailed out od Trondheim and set course to the assigned grid, BE33. Somewhere west of Hebrides the radio operator handed a report of a task force, going NE at 7kt, 250km away. The Kaleun set an intercept course.

Upon reaching the point, they found nothing. U-1151 submerged, with snorkel out, and proceeded slowly along the suspected TF's course.

A few hours later, a contact! But just a lonely destroyer, searching for u-boats. They let her pass.

Not long after, another contact. Again a patrol? No, there was a distinct sound of an aircraft carrier! After a while the Kaleun estimated that the TF is heading on a northern course.

They surfaced and set a converging course, flank speed, periodically diving to check the situation.

The hours passed, and it was evident that the task force is pulling away. They obviously increased the speed, and the constant radar signals of approaching planes, and the rough seas didn't help the u-boat's effort. During one crash dive, out of many, decision was made that the further chase is pointless. U-1151 stayed submerged, slowly going away.

Then the sonar officer reported that a destroyer is getting closer. Could it be that one of the planes spotted them and alerted the escorts? Apparently not, since the destroyer didn't make the high speed noise, characteristic for a chase. And the sound of the carrier was also growing louder!

The Kaleun couldn't believe his own luck. The TF changed course, and according to the constant bearing, they were heading directly at U-1151!

They soon appeared in the periscope. The Bogue class, escorted by three destroyers. Speed 16-17kt, course 131.

The four bow tubes were flooded, waiting for the right moment. The Kaleun popped out the periscope and watched in disbelieve the entire task force turning to port. He quickly followed their maneuver and fired a salvo, basically a snapshot based on previous data, only adjusting the angle of bow.

All torpedoes missed. The Kaleun could only observe the carrier getting away at full speed.

Perhaps some other time...

[TigerShark808]

Starting a new campaign in 39. Not sure why my orders to sink the " 2 ship convoy in the bay" was necessary. But anyways I'm now stationed in Kiel.

Wish me luck!

D.I.D

[abclkhan]

Jan 1942, operation Paukenschlag.
U-521 type IXC, New York harbor.

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Sunk aprox. 58000 ton at this day.:arrgh!:
Now heading for cape Hatteras after receiving some radio reports talking about this crowded area.

[RoaldLarsen]

It's October 1944 and the type IXD2 u-boat U-196 under the command of KptLt. Yngve Yung has left a French port for the last time and is headed to Bergen via the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The departure from St Nazaire in early September was more exciting than usual. Naval gunfire erupted as U-196 emerged from its pen. It seems a boat in the harbour was taken over by the Maquis and was firing on German vessels. It was quickly silenced, but no sooner was its hull resting on the harbour bottom than a flight of 8 Liberator aircraft attacked, sinking a couple of ships.

Yung decided not to wait for the Vorpostenboot, which had been forced to reduce speed due to damage, but put out to sea at high speed. Before he reached water deep enough for a crash dive, U-196 had been attacked by no less than 24 aircraft, in three separate waves. Most of these were Sunderlands. Several were shot down by the eight 20mm FLAK guns on U-196's wintergarten. The u-boot only suffered superficial damage, which was soon put right.

When U-196 surfaced the next day, there was an almost immediate attack by two Hurricanes (too close for a crash dive), then four Liberators, two more Hurricanes and then 18 more Sunderlands. Again U-196 avoided serious damage (by careful high speed dodging, and a lot of luck), and shot down several of the attackers.

For the next week, U-196 was subjected to daily air attacks and was never able to get his batteries fully recharged. However, U-196 was able to crash dive for all but one of these attacks, and continued to avoid serious damage.

Once out of the Bay of Biscay, the pace of air attacks relaxed a bit, and then a stretch of bad weather allowed U-196 to proceed westward unmolested for a few days. Overall progress was still slow, as on most days U-196 stayed submerged at less than two knots for 22-23 hours. By October 20, U-196 was 1500km NE of the Azores when she detected a lone merchant. Attacking on the surface in bad weather, U-196 sank a C2 with a single torpedo. Three days later, U-196 made a successful attack on a large freighter, again only needing a single torpedo. The next day saw another large freighter go down after a single fish, this time helped along by a few shots from the deck gun.

Throughout October there have been aircraft sightings on most days. A pair of Lightnings caused a bad scare in mid-October, but the next day a pair of Catalinas were surprised in turn when Yung decided they were too close for a successful crash dive, and chose to stay up and fight. Both PBYs were shot down.

By October 23rd, Yung had bagged three more ships, using only four torpedos. That's seven shots, seven hits and six sinkings for about 34,500 tons. As of October 27, 1944, he's about 1000km NW of the Azores, has no unrepaired damage, 85% of his diesel, 19 torpedos, and nearly all of his deck gun ammo left but is running short of 20mm shells.

Will Yung survive a circumnavigation of Anticosti Island and get to Bergen before February?...

[Jimbuna]

Starting a new campaign in 39. Not sure why my orders to sink the " 2 ship convoy in the bay" was necessary. But anyways I'm now stationed in Kiel.

Wish me luck!

D.I.D

The initial patrol is intended to act as a shakedown.....you were given an additional 1000 renown to compensate for sinking the two neutrals (everything is neutral in August 39).