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reignofdeath
10-14-10, 10:06 PM
March 21, 1940
Kaleun Casey Smith and the U-19 set out on patrol to AM23. En route we got reports of a convoy that we could intercept. We decided to head for it as it was heading Northerly and we were going NW (Around Scapa Flow). We found out that as soon as it came past a small peninsula that it turned course to North West, with rough seas we gave the engines all she had to catch up with the convoy. Luckily, it was 0000 hours when we caught up with the convoy and we spotted only one tribal class destroyer at the back. I figured since it was the only destroyer I saw to fire 4 eels at it, sink it then have a jolly time with the unescorted merchants. Well all 4 eels prematured due to weather (I know I know, magnetics but I really have a fondness for them and they never seem to fail on me). After we wasted four eels we waited for the destroyer to make a normal break away sweep and infiltrated right into the middle of the 2 column convoy. After we were in we decided to get ahead some more and pick our targets, soon, we decided to set up for 2 large merchants at the back, so we sped ahead close to the front of the convoy and sat at a 90* angle to their course. After the first crossed my sights, I put two eels right into her bow. The same for the second. All 4 exploded (They were magnetics btw) and only 1 went down right away, I also fired a aft shot at a granville type that did not sink. However, after the first hit, spot lights were on me and a shell from a destroyer wizzed over head. I dove and got ready to take a beating in 60 m water. However to my luck, they couldnt get an exact pin point on me. To my even better luck, the second Large merchant sunk and both went down nose first, leaving enough of the aft end out of the water that some how (I couldnt believe this) it got the third stuck between them both. I found this out after the relentless 3 hours of Depth Charges stopped. So with great pleasure I lined up and fired my last 2 eels in her from the bow. Then seeing as she wouldnt sink I turned around and as soon as I did, she sank. Seeing as how I had only 3 eels left, I decided to make a course for home, as I had pushed my luck already. Only after however a ASW trawler and another tribal came steaming my way and decided to depth charge me. Luckily, I ran silent again and got away. I ended the patrol with only 3 ships sunk (All large merchants) and about 32kts. That brought my total tonnage up to 125kt:arrgh!: Cant wait to do my next patrol!
I gotta get on downloading some more of the Mods I want though. Especially orders lite
August 5, 1940
12:30 Local Time
CG-89
I swear to god I'm not making this up. I'm sitting at 102 meters crawling away from a Hunt 1 class and a J/K class destroyer. They are escorts for a task force centered around an Illustrious class and two light cruisers. The odds that I should find another Illustrious one day after sinking another one is absolutely crazy. However, this Illustrious' escorts were more attentive. The Hunt spotted me from 10 kilometers away as I tried to overhaul the group. Figuring the further away from the Task Force I was, the better my chance of survival, I turned tail and ran at flank speed from the Hunt. He was gaining slowly, and It wasn't until I saw he had brought in a fleet destroyer to race me that I submerged. I crash-dived all the way to 115 meters, then went silent. I quickly noticed that at 115 meters the boat started making some high-pitched groans. So, I took it up to 103, where the groans fell back to the usual tone. It took the two of them about 4 minutes to get to my last known location. I'm not sure if they decided not to use their asdic or what, but after dumping a few patterns waaay off target, they split off and headed back towards the carrier.
VONHARRIS
10-16-10, 08:12 AM
U - 126 IX B has succesfylly completed her fisrt war patrol.
She left Wilhemshaven port on 9 Dec 1939 and returned at 12 Jan 1940.
It was a very easy patrol resulting 60.689 grt of British ships (17 vessels including 2 Q ships and 1 A&B class DD). Clear weather and no wind made the use of the deck gun possible and effective.
Upon return to port the flotilla commander was waiting Wilhem Harner to annouce to him presonally his promotion to Oberleutant zur See.
U -126 slowly entered her pen and stopped. The crew began exiting and falling into formation. They were all with a full beard and various outfits. But not he , not the captain. He exited the conning tower wearing his uniform,shaved as if he was never on patrol.
Kaleun Wilhem Harner saluted the flotilla commander and heard the good news. He was very proud.
But behind the commander was an other high ranked officer: An army colonel with the Pour le Merite at his neck. Herr Adolf Harner , his father stood there looking at his son with a smile at his face.
That was a new one. Colonel Adolf was an officer of Prussian origin coming from a family of Army and Naval officers. During WWI he was a member of the Flying circus under Manfred von Rictofen , the Red Baron. He was expecting no less from his son!
The whole crew was given a week leave. The men were more than happy now.
Wilhem Harner had to go Flotilla command for new orders......
He gave his report , alerting the commader about those Q ships he had encountered.
Next patrol grid: DT 85.
Hans Uberman
10-16-10, 11:02 AM
Excellent, I was curious as to how your first patrol in the new boat was doing, Harris. Good to hear that you had a successful hunt! It's wonderful when one gets a good streak of weather and can make use of the deck cannon.
VONHARRIS
10-17-10, 04:31 AM
U-126 departed from Wilhemshaven at 26 Jan 1940 after completing all neccesary repairs and refits. Every man was accounted for. At 01:00 the boat left the harbor.
At first dawn a S class British sub was spotted(grid AN 95). It is unknown what his intentions were but both Kaluen Harner and his IWO decided to engage him in a surface duel.
First shots missed by both ships but a very lucky shot of the deck gun of U-126 hit the enemy's conning tower destroying both his deck gun and AA gun. After closing in , three more shots sent the enemy sub beneath the waves. Nice start.
Days passed by. On 29 Jan 1940(Grid AN12) a large merchant was spotted. High seas prevented the use of the deck gun but two G7a sunk her.
Cruising now to their assigned grid they found bad weather , storms and really high waves. The boat was struggling to make 8 knots on the surface so Kaluen Harner ordered periscope depth. The date was 6 Feb 1940 when the hydrophones went crazy. Several contacts indicated a convoy coming their way and U 126 happened to be at an ideal attack position(Grid BE 97) The first convoy!
All six tubes flooded and torpedoes fired. 4 ships went down : 2xcoastal freighters , 1xempire type 1xsmall freighter.
They were not detected: Dive to 100m and escaped on silent running. The escorts did know where to look, not even a single DC was dropped.
21 days passed with no events. U-126 reached her patrol grid and started her return trip.
On 27 Feb 1940 while on the surface with good weather a ship was spotted(Grid AM 2) and many more appeared later. An other convoy, but this time a huge enemy was present : the HMS Nelson.
U-126 dived to periscope depth ad began to track the convoy with her hydrophones. Then something happened: May be the conning tower broke the surface for a while , three large turrets each mounting 3 16in guns swung and fired. Nine 16in projectiles tore through the air and landed.....
They did not score a direct hit but even the near misses caused heavy floodings , took out the forward batteries , destroyed the hydrophones , damaged the attack scope and devasted the heavy flak. Hull intergrity was down to 42%. Even in this condition they fired all 4 tubes. A hit was scored on a small merchant which was left dead on the water. Fortunately the Chief Engineer was a master of repairs and managed to hold the ship in one piece. The convoy went on but U-126 stayed there at 20m and waited. After five hours(game time) they went to periscope depth to check: Only the crippled merchant was there. They surfaced and finished her off with the deck gun.
Time to go home.
On 2 March 1940 they spotted a small coal tender(Grid AN 41). The deck gun crew sunk her without delay.
On 5 March 1940 U-126 returned to port. Wilhem Harner congatulated the repair crew and an Iron Cross (2nd class) was awarded to the Chief Engineer.
The crew was given 10 days leave to rest , while the welders began repairing the damaged hull of the U-126.
Kaleun Harner gave in his report : 26.075 grt (7 ships sunk)
He was awarded the Iron Cross (2nd class) as well.
His next mission : Grid AN81
This time no letter will be sent to Colonel Adolf Harner.
Next time , nobody knows.
Oct40 DEAD...:dead:
Sunk by one of Churchill's nasties, and this little b***er did a lot of damage so I couldn't dive lower than periscope depth, he was all over me out to kill me and thats what he did.
New career April 41 first patrol in my IXB was so boring held a competition with the crew who has the most hairy ass. :haha:
Number 1 won the competition. :haha: :haha:
just started a new mission patrolling grid AN84 :D and loveing the add on 3.0 running good.
Did well in May40 in my IXB on my second patrol, sent three tankers to the bottom. :DL
Tolkemec
10-19-10, 03:30 AM
Type IIa, 8th patrol since the begining of the war, second Kaleun (Georg Storm accepted an in-shore post, leaving its old Type IIa in the hands of his Exec Jurgen Carlsen). 90% realism, 30.000 t sunk (yeah, I could have done better, don't know how you guys manage to sink 130.000+! envious here).
Patrol Zone: AN18; which I do not like.
After two dive drills to test the performance of the boat: 10 m in 27 seconds (manage do damage my boat at 157 m and the second drill was to verify the new SAFE diving depth: 150 m), I just received a message from Kpt. Lehman that states that all u-boats have to support Geisenau and the taskforce patroling the area near Harstad (secondary objective: sinking merchant traffic in the two ports still in norwegian hands).
It's June 4th 1940. Will I find something there? I checked the intel from subgen, found a Taskforce north of Norway, but no merchant traffic and no ennemy warships either in the coast.
Should I go or it is just inmersion, being to late for the Norwegian Campaign? Also I am still in my old Type IIA! The new patrol zone is 2500 km away. It will take at least 9 days to reach it. Any advice?
September 2, 1940
7:20 Local Time
AM-37
U-111 is heading out for a long and probably boring patrol of the area around Casablanca. Our last patrol was cut short when, in the middle of attacking a convoy just West of Gibraltar, some joker in a Tribal thought it would be funny to run over my conning tower. With no periscopes and no flak, I couldn't very well continue the patrol. It was a long trip back to Wilhelmshaven. Now, after about a month of repairs, we've been assigned to the same general area. I don't mind the area around Gibraltar, there are always a lot of targets, but getting there is another story. What's more, they've assigned me to patrol just off Casablanca. Why would the British ship things to Casablanca? The French are firmly out of the fight. I get the feeling that Bdu is punishing me for something. Will check in later.
Falkirion
10-19-10, 08:56 PM
Just loving getting back into the game. Although I had to start over because of a screw up on my part.
Currently have one ship sunk, Empire class freighter off the coast of Spain and I'm trawling in one of my favorite hunting grounds, the southern approaches to Liverpool. Currently haven't spotted anything for a couple of days but diving drills deep down have gone well in my new Type VIIC so at least I know I have a safety net with the allied ASW being still weak in 1940.
Going back to my old career, I remember stalking a convoy for 2 days across the Rockall bank. I slipped within 1km of the rear guard and actually made visual contact with one of the escorts. The fog hid us well though and he didn't realize we were there, taking very accurate readings of their course. Needless to say, they landed up with a light load of ships by the time they reached the English coast.
Just finished patrol number 6 with 26,948 GRT sent to the bottom. Came home to an Iron Cross 1st Class for that patrol! Ended with 7 ships sunk including a destroyer, which is a nice bonus. My next patrol will be a bit closer to home this time in AL69. Maybe I can finally break 30,000 tons this time.
VONHARRIS
10-19-10, 11:54 PM
Wilhem Harner was retired and assigned to a desk job as he was seriously wounded during an air attack on U-126 during her third patrol. (CTD during patrol and I quit the whole career).
New Kaleun now , commanding U-103 IXB just leaving Wilhemhaven for her third patrol. The date is 11 April 1940.
I will report in as soon as something happens.
SilentSnake
10-25-10, 04:57 AM
November 20th 1940, Werner Sherner :D left kiel for a patrol that would take him around scotland and to the BE zone in the atlantic.
Sank a couple of ships north of scotland and finally reached patrol zone.
Was given co-ordinates of convoy heading north east towards ireland. Tried to intercept convoy and managed to get infront of it ( Large convoy ). Then was given position of another convoy NNW of our position so we were sandwich between two convoys!!!.
A while later (Time compression) i decided to raise the periscope only to see U99 1st flotilla lit up which i assumed was a flare. I thought, surely they have not seen me. I was submerged at periscope depth at the time so i thought I will surface. I got on the bridge and had a look and their was a destroyer metres away heading for me.
The destroyer opened fire and severely damaged my boat. The boat shook and the CE would not respond to my orders to crash through the shock. Eventually we crash dived and I had my experience crew fix the leaks as we went down to about 120 metres. After the fixes we were heavily depth charged by at least two destroyers and the flak gun got damaged . I managed to escape and left both convoys without any tonnage sunk. This was all on 27th december just after we celebrated christmas 1940 together as a crew. Finally towards the end of the patrol while we were heading back to kiel, we were attacked by enemy aircraft in which I lost a very good man after he was killed on the flak gun. Back at kiel all crewman attended his funeral.
Overall for the patrol around 29000 GRT was sunk (not manual yet) and we returned on January 14 1941 albeit one man less.
Gargamel
10-25-10, 04:09 PM
14 Nov '39
Warrant Officer on deck spotted a medium cargo ship, identified as British. Fired 2 torps at long range (7km). Watch officer soon reclassified target as Norwegian. Opened up with deck gun, striking the target several times, causing the target to serpentine and avoid the torps.
Disciplinary action taken against warrant officer.
17 Nov '39
Three merchants sunk so far, 10,000 tonnes total. All Deck gun kills.
19 Nov '39
Getting very bored east of the Orkney's. Going to bother Hartlepool for a while, see whats there. Will Report.
20 Nov '39
Took a look at Blyth. While lining up a shot on an ammo ship, was spotted by ASW trawler. Fired off two torps, sunk ammo ship. DD came to life that wasnt noticed before. We were able to fire off a desperation stern shot as it bore down on us. Hit the Dd in the Bow, disabling it for now. We were run over by the trawler as it DC'd us. We fired off a couple more shots at the harbor, hitting another freighter and a sub. Neither sunk. As we snuck away. lined up another shot at the DD, sinking it. Continued to sneak away. Encountered a small freighter on our return to patrol area, sunk that with deck gun shots.
21 Nov '39
150km ESE of Shetland, encountered 4 piece DD Hunter Killer TF. 2 Torps left, 1 bow, 1 aft. This could be bad.
No further Reports.
Gargamel
10-25-10, 10:20 PM
Actually, I got away by going really deep and quiet. Figured the 'no further reports' sounded dramatic! :woot:
But I found an ore freighter a little later, but my first eel donked out on the side of it, and the second eletric eel didnt down him. With only 12 rounds left in my 88, he still didnt go down.
But The flak gunner got a medal for killing the freighter.
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2621/sh3img25102010201759748.png
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/466/sh3img25102010201945123.png
Hans Uberman
10-26-10, 11:02 AM
Had a decent patrol that ranged from the Gulf of Mexico, to New York, St. John's, and finally Ireland. We sunk over 100k tons, including a few carriers, and could have gone higher, but for one idiot at the dive planes.
After my last convoy, we were sitting on the sea floor, as we had only 147 meters to hide in, three destroyers had left, and the final one was pinging, and getting close to his mark. Finally, I gave the order to go to periscope depth, in order to use our final stern torpedo to end things. Unfortunately, the man at the dive planes decided to surface us instead! I frantically ordered a crash dive, and returned to periscope depth when I could and finished off the destroyer. We were able to effect temporary repairs, but the hull was savaged mightily, and we returned home to Lorient.
P.S. - As this is my first full campaign, and I wish to use both the Type XXI and the Schnelltauchback (http://174.123.69.202/%7Esubsimc/radioroom/showthread.php?t=159022) deck modification for the Type IXC/40, I will be bending the rules ever so slightly in this regard. Rather than waiting for the later part of 1944 to use the "fast diving deck" on my sub, I shall simply pretend that I began testing the deck modification sometime in the earlier part of the year. This will allow me to try out Kurfürst and Privateer's Schnelltauchback mod (http://174.123.69.202/%7Esubsimc/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=1701), and still make use of the Type XXI when it arrives.
Of course, the chart in the GWX manual may be incorrect about the XXI availability time (shown as halfway through 1944), and while it has been wrong on a couple of items, for now I will simply assume that it is correct.
unterseemann
10-26-10, 05:24 PM
23OCT43: Kptlt Dieter Haguenau left Lorient for his last patrol as commander of the U-125, a type IX-C.
After 9 patrols and 321 days at sea (in which he sank 47 ships for 275.000 tons), he will join ubootwaffe headquarters where his knowledge of submarine warfare will be helpful.
26OCT43: U-125 dove as a radar emission has been detected. 2 hours later, before surfacing, as always, crew made an hydrophon check to avoid nasty surprise and detected a faint noise... Merchants! Interception course and 1 hour later...
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/[IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b161/gneisenau/2ships768x576.jpghttp://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b161/gneisenau/2ships768x576.jpg
They both took a torpedo in the bow and sank within minutes: 1 coastal freighter and 1 intermediate tanker for up to 5.000 tons
This last patrol starts finely and a zigzaging convoy is in the vicinity (SW of Ireland)
VONHARRIS
10-27-10, 01:44 AM
Kapitanleutant Erhard von Loser has just completed his 5th patrol on U-103 IXB. (Note : Any comment or even laughter on the Kaluen's name will be met with the firing squad!)
He is succesful so far.
1. 05DEC1939 - 03JAN1940 30days 84.633grt (1 CL)
2. 14JAN1940 - 14FEB1940 32days 80.439grt (1 CL)
3. 25FEB1940 - 21MAR1940 20days 78.999grt
4. 13APR1940 - 03MAY1940 21days 51.237grt (1 CL)
5. 14MAY1940 - 04JUN1940 12days 70.480grt
During his last patrol he succesfully engaged two convoys and some lone merchants. He was a bit unlucky though.
During the engagement with the second convoy and when all torpedoes were fired his sonar man heard very heavy propellers turning. A Revenge class BB was with the convoy. The battle took place at night with medium fog and rain. He let the BB go.
As he was returning to port his IWO saw a Southampton class cruiser at long range. The U-boat immediately dived at periscope depth to listen. Out there were the light cruiser and two aux cruisers on their way to Scapa and they would pass just in front of U-103 empty now torpedo tubes.
frau kaleun
10-27-10, 07:51 AM
Kapitanleutant Erhard von Loser has just completed his 5th patrol on U-103 IXB. (Note : Any comment or even laughter on the Kaluen's name will be met with the firing squad!)
Now what makes you think we would do something like that? We would never laugh at your kaleun's name. That would be rude and disrespectul. And that is why we have prepared a very special salute for him instead!
http://charitymile.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/loser.jpg
In conclusion, I am eight years old. :O:
July-Aug40 rotten weather but did bag a couple of medium cargo's.
Kapitanleutant Erhard von Loser has just completed his 5th patrol on U-103 IXB. (Note : Any comment or even laughter on the Kaluen's name will be met with the firing squad!)
He is succesful so far.
We all know his name is actually Löser. Which would mean solver (like problem solver, you know problems like war etc). He has nothing to be ashamed of! :yeah:
VONHARRIS
10-28-10, 02:29 AM
We all know his name is actually Löser. Which would mean solver (like problem solver, you know problems like war etc). He has nothing to be ashamed of! :yeah:
I know that. I was trying to make a joke here. The name was generated by the SH3Commander. I added the "von" since he is an aristocrat!
Frau Kaleun: Nice!
nikbear
10-28-10, 08:19 AM
First Patrol after a long Hiatus off SH3/GWX :wah:
Went well,U32 Ltz Werner Lott, And there wasn't alot either :haha:
5 ships of smaller size.only 16xxx tons,nice shakedown patrol,looking forward to the next one:salute::salute::salute:
Gargamel
10-29-10, 12:47 AM
So I'm putzing around the Shetlands, trying to pick up some merchants, when radio reports an enemy task force around the Faroe's, heading towards the Shetlands, so I slide over that way seeing if i can pick up a cruiser or something. I'm yo-yoing between surface and peri depth listening, it's a dark and stormy night (:D), when I pick up the first DD. I try to avoid him while attempting to figure out whats in the middle.
Well, I found my cruiser................
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
24.2.40. 1416 Patrol 9
U-102, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: February 24, 1940, 14:16
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM54
27.2.40.
1917 Grid AF 78 Ship sunk! SS Quebec City (Granville-type Freighter), 4707 tons. Cargo: Tobacco. Crew: 98. Crew lost: 0
3.3.40.
1331 Grid AF 75 Ship sunk! SS Adherence (Coastal Freighter), 1870 tons. Cargo: Steel. Crew: 20. Crew lost: 16
4.3.40.
0838 Grid AF 75 Ship sunk! HMS Hood (HMS Hood), 48360 tons. Crew: 1412. Crew lost: 720
9.3.40.
0753 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 3
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 54937 tons
I had him lined up, and I was fine tuning the eels, when I lost him in the storm. By the time i reacquired him in the scope, he was almost out of the shot, and it was ugly. It was a 2' spread on 4 electric eels, at about 40' gyro. All 4 hit the back third of the ship, and he eventually went down. If I didnt have to dive and run silent, and if my guys coulda reloaded fast enough, I had the Revenge also lined up dead to rights........
And the rest of the patrol there was nada, I coulda stayed around for more, but the weather was horrible and I wanted to get back to base before the Norwegian party started.
And yes my next career will be more historically accurate. I'm still learning this sim. :88)
VONHARRIS
10-29-10, 02:11 AM
Erhard von Loser has completed his 6th and 7th patrol
6. 27JUN1940 - 13JUL1940 17 days 106.557grt (1 BB HMS Rodney)
7. 19AUG1940 - 01SEP1940 14 days 20.949grt
During his 6th patrol a radio message came in informing him of an inbound convoy. A Fw-200 Condor had made an aerial recce finding out that the HMS Rodey was escoting the sheep. Weather was good so the wolf went for the kill. The convoy was made of 5 columns of ships each column had six ships and 4 escorts. The BB was the middle ship of the 3rd column.
U-103 dived and run silent letting the leading dd pass. Hydrophone search showed that the DD was well behind the uboat so the periscope was raised. And there he was! Three torps fired against him and one at a whale factory ship in front of the BB. All 4 eels hit and targets destroyed. The HMS Rodney sunk some 20 minutes (real time) after the hits but the whale factory ship expolded and sunk instantly.
His 7th patrol was a disaster. Patrol grid was BF11 but when passing AM53 von Loser decided to stay there as the weather was good. This time a lot of DDs were around. He had constanlty to dive to avoid them. The only valuable targets sunk were an intermediate tanker and an unescorted troop transport. Just when he decided to leave the area, a misteke a helsman made was almost fatal. A Hunt II DD was near and the helmsman instead of diving the boat deeper , as ordered, drove her towards the surface. As the conning tower broke the surface the DD began shelling. U-103 crashed dived with destroyed forward deck , deck gun , forward batteries and flooding. Chief engineer and the repair crew made a super human efford to stop the flooding and leved the bost before she hit the bottom. The DD called in his mates and a V&W came. Luckily , after three passes they gave up and left. The damage was big , 27% hull intergrity left. The patrol was aborted.
Upon return to Wilhlemhaven , the helmsman was arrested and courtmartialed. He was charged with treason and sentenced to death.
Next mission is to leave Wilhemshaven and go to Lorient naval base in France.
Will be in touch
unterseemann
10-29-10, 04:23 PM
03NOV43: Allied escorts of convoy HX 237 forced a german uboot to surface after heavy damages by both depth charges and hedgehogs.
The U-125 surrendered at sea and its crew is now P.O.W in a nice camp
War is over for Kptlt Dieter Haguenau:
10 patrols ( march 42-november 43)
53 ships sunk for 301379 tons
4 damaged ships.
U-125 was damaged 11 times in 13 patrols
U-125 was the former uboot of Kptlt Tietz who sank 150.428 tons in 3 patrols ( july 41-february 42)
So this uboot a type IX-C sank 451.807 tons of allied shipping.
The true story of U-125 was sadder...
http://www.uboat.net/boats/u125.htm
VONHARRIS
10-30-10, 01:27 PM
After a 2,5 months repair period von Loser left Wilhhemshaven on board
U-103 for his 8th patrol. Reurn port was Lorient.
8. 15NOV1940 - 24DEC1940 40 days 49.286grt (1 aux cruiser)
Von Loser has now a total of 542.650grt. Upon return he was flown to Berlin where on Chistmas day he was awarded the Diamonds on his golden Oak leaves of the Knights Cross by Adolf Hitler himself , in presence of Grossadmiral Karl Donitz. The ceremony was filmed by the Propaganda ministry to be shown all over the Wehrmacht , Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe. He was the first U-boat commander to reach this level.
The crew of U-103 had a whole month leave to celebrate Christmas with their families.
Sept-Dec41
Sail down to warmer waters hunting around Free town lots of small fry which did not interest me but every few days a medium one or two made it worth the wait.
Gargamel
10-31-10, 06:06 PM
Not worth a new thread, but I looked up my boat (U-102 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-102)) on wikipedia, as that has been my "lucky number" over the years..... and I'm a little depressed, surprised I've made it to 10 patrols so far!
Herr-Berbunch
11-01-10, 09:23 AM
I've just started a new career, and I decided I'd try out a IXB from 2nd Flot. Lorient.
What a patrol I've just had, normally I'd get perhaps four vessels, a good patrol maybe six at a push. I normally go for lone merchants and the odd convoy I stumble across but as I encountered this convoy one seemed a little different, sailing merrily in the middle was a HMS Revenge - with just one escorting vessel well ahead she was easy meat, with three single topedoes set for impact the first hitting astern to disable her and the next two amidships she soon went down. Revenge sank swiftly, although the nice weather enabled 750 of her crew of 1189 to be rescued. I dived deep, and ran silently waiting for the escort to appear but to no avail, tubes reloaded and I waited as the hydrophone contacts faded - I was just about to surface and follow when two new contacts were picked up, heading straight for us. Reinforcements from the south I thought, and my attack on Revenge had me wanting more, but after waiting for them to appear in my 'scope a liner and a merchant travelling together appeared.
As they passed by I could see no armaments so I surfaced and followed with my finest three POs manning the deck-gun. Only to find out that the merchant was armed! Still, I presented a small target for the DEMS crew and soon she was ablaze and disabled patiently waiting for the inevitable. I chased the liner down and within 30 minutes she too was on her final voyage.
Success after success followed, my patrol of grid AL33 just south of Iceland was unremarkable but my return - looping around Rockall Banks and skirting the continental shelf of Europe - I encountered myriad vessels and sunk 'em all :D.
Me like the IXB.
I wondered if this shot would actually make it!:hmmm:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/5135421513_8d6e9047c9_b.jpg
It did :yeah:
My log.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/5135421351_fe2b5bb103_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/5136022422_51cae25281_b.jpg
nikbear
11-01-10, 10:55 AM
Do you know what? I bloody love reading others reports! Its such fun seeing what scrapes you lot get into!:yeah:
Not worth a new thread, but I looked up my boat (U-102 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-102)) on wikipedia, as that has been my "lucky number" over the years..... and I'm a little depressed, surprised I've made it to 10 patrols so far!
I hate you. I never thought of looking up my boat's number until you mentioned it. I looked it up, only to find U-111 was sunk on its second patrol by a stupid ASW Trawler.
That shot probably blew up the boilers sending her to the bottom fast. Intentionally trying to hit the aft bioler section is a mighty challenge, usually you end up hitting it by accident. Good solid hit (doesn't even need to be magnetic) can be as effective or more so than exploding a magazine.
Current patrol left the supply ship heading back to Kiel (again, last time ran straight into a convoy 12 hours later and sank 50,000 tons, and 2 solid hits on an iceberg but she was tough, she wouldn't go down even with a magnetic hit at 30 meters deep) and once again ran into a convoy this time about a day and half out. Weather was awful so was one of those situations where one of my watch crew spotted the lead escort about 4000 meters away and was able to dive before it saw me.
Maneuvered so I would go straight through the convoy submerged (luckily it was daytime, with the rotten weather - heavy storm, rain, and 20 foot waves) I was able to see through my scope to a range of about 2000 meters and spotted the jackpot. Sat in wait till she got closer made a 90 turn to port and went at her flank using my only 2 electrics:
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Being point blank I aimed one eel at the B turret and the second at the boiler room (being so close would be nearly impossible to evade it). First shot impacted into the armor (despite a liberal setting of 12.5 meters deep), second was a direct magnetic hit to the engine room.
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And here she finally goes down (after a good 10 minutes of taking some severe pounding from the waves):
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Escorts were trying to get all over me with so much deep water and the noise of a very large sinking ship was easily able to evade but lost contact with the convoy, temporarily.
Proceeded to one of my favorite hunting areas in the squares around AM65 and got notice of a task force leaving Liverpool. Was heading NE so was in the right spot to intercept. Somehow (weather was still rotten, very heavy rain and no visibility) and I passed the task force somehow just to come back in contact with this same convoy I harrassed several thousand Km's back. All the tankers were too far ahead that the escorts managed to keep me away being forced to stay submerged.
Figured with the weather being so bad I could try and slip by them on the surface and maybe get 1 more shot. For better or worse convoy made it to its destination but the enterance to Liverpool was completely devoid of any patrol boats. Went into the harbor on the surface then submerged once in the river. Apparently all the escorts had followed the convoy and were going back out. Having made it past the hard part went to the harbor to see if anything was there, luck had it a task force was forming up and got just plain lucky:
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Was some weird fluke that there happened to be two of them moored in the harbor. Have 5 eels left and going to head to Dunkirk to "help" with the evacuation that has been going on and hopefully catch another big fish before the long trip through the Kanal back to Kiel.
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Oh, good. I'm no the only one that's sunk the Hood more than once in a single campaign. Honestly, I was shocked when I saw it show up again. I guess I thought a dynamic campaign would tally what has sunk, and make sure it didn't pop up again.
Good job, it's happened to me also, :yep:
Gargamel
11-01-10, 08:02 PM
I hate you. I never thought of looking up my boat's number until you mentioned it. I looked it up, only to find U-111 was sunk on its second patrol by a stupid ASW Trawler.
From what i was reading, the 4 version of my boat (WW1-WW2) never made it past a couple patrols each.
But yeah, I was expecting some glorious history report, but nope, only sank one boat before getting torched herself.
Oberleutnant z. S. Wolfgang Kästner and crew were lost on October 6th, 1939. Kastner may be the first U-boat captain lost during this war. It was his first career, and his 4th partrol. Scholars have often thought that his promotion to U-Boat Captain may have been a move of desperation by the Reich in the frantic days at the start of the war. Wolfgang had never successfully completed his Naval Academy training. Supporting this theory, the H.M.S. Pretty Damn Devistating recently found an audio tape floating in the North Atlantic near Scapa Flow. The voices are believed to be Wolfgang Kastner and his officers during the last moments of their lives. What follows is a transcript.
Sonar: "Contact, Sir! Warship bearing three-five-one, closing, medium range"
Kastner: "Up periscope".
[several moments of silence]
Kastner: "Hmmm, looks like a V.W. Class, about 4700 meters out. Hey, the little triangle thingy is green! Fire!"
Someone: "Los"
Various-fading "Los, los, los, los, los, los"
Kastner: "How long till it hits?"
Someone: "5 minutes Kaelun"
Kastner: "Five minutes!? I'm not waiting around that long, let's go East. Set course for 90, 20 meters. That ship is too small anyway, there was another one to the east, let's go see what it is."
Someone: "Aye Kaelun".
[time passes]
Kastner: "Up periscope".
[a few seconds]
Kastner: "Hey, there's another one, and he's real close, about 1400m!"
Someone: "Captain, you are looking aft Sir".
Kastner: "Oh yeah, you're right, it says 180 at the top. Hey, that must be the guy we shot at! He should be way behind us by now, what's he doing over here?"
Kastner: "Looks like man-overboard or something, they've got all these search lights going."
Someone: "Sir! We're being pinged!"
Kastner: "What!? Scheiss! Dive deeper, take it to 100m. Flank speed, right full rudder!"
Someone: "20 meters, Sir."
Kastner: "Navigator, how deep is the bottom around here?"
Navigator: "Depth under keel, 20 meters, sir"
Kastner: "Ack! Stop diving! Speed one knot, run silent, rudder 15 degrees to port!"
[time passes, sounds of propellers and pinging]
Kastner: "rudder 15 degrees starboard"
[more silence, then more pinging]
Someone: "depth charges in the water sir"
Kastner: "is that bad?"
[end of tape]
CherryHarbey
11-02-10, 06:04 PM
we've all been there but luckily for us, we live and learn.
Alpha Von Burg
11-02-10, 08:21 PM
onboard a Scharnhorst-class Battleship (using WSM3.0)
" This is the Captain speaking. In 0200 hours, we will commence Operation Weserübung."
VONHARRIS
11-03-10, 02:22 AM
U-103 has completed 3 more patrols with success but has taken some serious damage.
9. 19JAN1941 - 31JAN1941 13 days 25.576grt
10. 4MAR1941 - 24MAR1941 21days 64.726grt (2xLarge troop ship)
11. 23APR1941 - 12MAY1941 11days 56.968grt (1 CL)
During a convoy attack (9th patrol) an escort got lucky and had a fix on U-103 while she was at 102m. The DC attack was so accurate that destroyed both scopes , the flak guns , seriously damaged the forward torpedo department and injured 5 men. Hull intergity dropped to 30% but the escort thought he had sunk U-103 and left. U-103 managed to reach port safely.
Patrol 10: U-103 was off the east coast of Canada when she bumped into a large convoy. Weather was rotten but it was afternoon with good visibility. Two large troopships each 24.000 grt were in the middle of the convoy. Two well aimed shots of two torpedoes at each ship were fired.
The first troop was hit midships and forward as intented and started listing heavily and sinking by the bow. The second one took evasive action but she was hit aft by both shots. An explosion and a fire ball appreared and the ship disappeared under the waves. By this time U-103 has completed a turn and fired both stern tubes at a small coastal freighter which was hit and sunk.
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Patrol 11: Nothing noticable , exept the sinking of a Southmpton class CL which was escorting a convoy.
Erhard von Loser was becoming a living legend. U-103 was the ruler of the Atlantic. Perhaps it was time to leave the sea for a place in operations where his experience would be valuable. But this would never happen. Von Loser was a warrior.
More to come!
krashkart
11-03-10, 02:33 AM
NEWS FLASH
U-176 Defects to Heligoland
Crazed Kaleun hauled away by men in black coats after dramatic surrender to fellow Kriegsmarine. Bemused onlookers offer beer, sandwiches to rattled crew.
frau kaleun
11-03-10, 07:28 AM
NEWS FLASH
U-176 Defects to Heligoland
Crazed Kaleun hauled away by men in black coats after dramatic surrender to fellow Kriegsmarine. Bemused onlookers offer beer, sandwiches to rattled crew.
Heligoland? Really? They don't even have nude beaches. :nope:
Erhard von Loser was becoming a living legend. U-103 was the ruler of the Atlantic. Perhaps it was time to leave the sea for a place in operations where his experience would be valuable. But this would never happen. Von Loser was a warrior.
More to come!
Don't take the promotion, get drunk on duty or something to get demoted so you can stay at sea. I've always used Topp as my role model (career wise) who was able to remain at sea (and survive) for the entire war and was one of the few that obtain the rank of Kapitan Z. s.
Missing Name
11-03-10, 11:45 AM
So, my old VIIB U-100 has been transferred to someone else. I bought myself U-106, a IXB.
And I love it. Took on a small convoy. 3 armed merchants, 1 destroyer. 1 torp, 100 10.5 FlaK rounds used. Yes, I used the deck gun more than the main weapon.
I took out the destroyer (Hunt 1) with 2 hits! And I only used 4 shots on it total. Hit the depth charge rack and the escort suffered a critical existence error. Minor hull damage, some of it caused by the destroyer going boom. I'd say that's a success. I know it's not how you're supposed to use a U-boat, but the shells would be much cheaper than a torpedo in real life.
Is anyone else as foolish as I am or is the deck gun that useful (at this point, at least.) It's early 1942 now.
November 28, 1940
15:11 local time
BF-52
Left Lorient at 05:06 this morning. At 14:31 lookouts spied a S-class submarine 102 kilometers South-West of Brest, heading towards Lorient. I wasn't about to let a threat like that near my base, so U-111 submerged and got into position. At 14:49 one G7e was launched at 1 meter depth. At 14:50 torpedo impacted right behind the S-class' forward torpedo tubes. The resulting explosion killed the sub pretty much instantly. Continuing voyage to BF-17.
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krashkart
11-03-10, 08:53 PM
Heligoland? Really? They don't even have nude beaches. :nope:
Bernard assured me that the topless native Heligo women would welcome us with open arms, and that there would be beer and sandwiches in great abundance. Problem is that there were no topless Heligo women. And I didn't get any sandwiches. :hmmm:
BTW, what am I supposed to do with this rifle thingy? I can't seem to chop firewood with it. And why are all the women here speaking Russian? :06:
P.S. Please send warm clothing. :cry:
frau kaleun
11-03-10, 09:22 PM
Problem is that there were no topless Heligo women.
Er... you know all those friendly topless Heligo "men" that keep hanging around?
Well, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you...
krashkart
11-03-10, 09:40 PM
Er... you know all those friendly topless Heligo "men" that keep hanging around?
Well, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you...
They're not related to Monty Python spinsters, are they? :o
Gargamel
11-03-10, 10:52 PM
Tragedy at Sea!! 14,316 Lost!
Nefarious U-boat attack on Troop Transports!
15 June, 1940.
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Sailors and crew cling to life boats after yesterdays tragedy.
Yesterday a convoy of unarmed transport ships were relentlessly attacked by a ferocious pack of German U-boats. 3 ships were initially sunk, before HMS Hood and her escorts were able to fight off the hidden menace, but not before being grievously wounded herself. The ships sunk were the ocean liners RMS Alexandra, RMS Dempo, both of the Cunard Line, and the transport ship HMS Antonia. 11,500 troops were lost at sea, with another 2816 of the ships' crew. Cont on Page 4...
Gargamel
11-03-10, 11:13 PM
I based those numbers off the fact that the HMS Aquitania had been refitted as a troop transport to carry 7,000 troops in Nov 1939. (Source (http://www.maritimequest.com/liners/aquitania_data.htm)). I used SHC's crew lost figures to figure out the crew numbers. Those may be off as they included the actual passengers.
What really happened:
U-102 (VIIb) had been assigned to patrol AN29, after Norway fell, so all I was encountering was German coastal traffic. Really quite boring. So i headed around the British isles and was operating off the Keltische See, and down around Biscay. Only encountered a couple small French merchants. Stopped in at Vigo, Spain to resupply at the Bessel. After heading north again, back into Biscay, again only a few small French ships, I started back up around the isles. I was very disappointed I missed out on all the fun at Dunkirk.
While I was just south of Ireland, BDU started calling for a wolfpack to be formed off the Iberian Peninsula, in hopes to intercept some transport ships. I turned south at a decent speed. Just as I was clearing the continental shelf, sonar (due to the bad weather, we kept submerging) picked up a warship closing fast on me from the north. I dropped to scope depth and found the Hood and some escorts bearing down on me. I ended up getting off 2, 2 eel salvos, but only managed to hit the bow and stern, and she kept steaming on.
Still sailing south, I finally encountered the convoy. 8-10 LARGE transport ships, heavy tonnage all of them. I assumed the Hood was around here somewhere as an escort, too coincidental not to be, but I couldn't find anything more than 2 flower class escorts. It was a massacre. Only 1 of the first salvo hit the first ship (which sunk from the one hit), but apparently the second eel hit a ship in the second line. The second salvo obliterated the third ship. We had to use one of our 2 remaining eels to finish off the lucky hit, and the flowers were bearing down on us, so we slipped away to the South.
Then we picked up another warship closing from the south. Surprisingly, it was the Hood, barely able to keep up with the convoy from our previous damage. We fired our final torp into her, hitting her square midships, but she kept plowing on. Warrant officer Bernard suggested opening up on her with the deck gun. The final report states he "Erstickte an einer gabel".
It was great to go from a very disappointing double patrol to my best ever. 125k+ tons.
VONHARRIS
11-03-10, 11:54 PM
Gargamel , you have created hell on sea. I think the Brits will remeber your name for a long time!
A Knights cross and a promotion await you. Maybe by Grossadmiral Karl Donitz himself.
Sehr gut Herr Kaleun.
krashkart
11-04-10, 12:05 AM
Good job, Gargamel. :up:
VONHARRIS
11-04-10, 07:24 AM
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I envy you. I haven't been able to sink not three but not even two capital ships in one patrol.
I have sunk many of these but only one per patrol!
On the other hand I don't dare to go near Liverpool with my IX type.
A job very well done.
frau kaleun
11-04-10, 07:26 AM
They're not related to Monty Python spinsters, are they? :o
No, but their granddaughters will someday be stars on the Soviet Women's Olympic team.
Herr-Berbunch
11-04-10, 08:35 AM
They're not related to Monty Python spinsters, are they? :o
Ooh, aah! Well I never! Tut, tut, tut!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxRsj9lHKW4 :D
KptLtHansDampf
11-04-10, 08:43 AM
U-46, this old (th)rusty tin drum, made it to 1944 - Six skippers earned their merits on this lucky VIIC. The latest, Oberleutnant Willy Bukowski, finally added a "capital" to the long long list of prey wich was sunk by U-46 and her crew.
In May 1944 I was cruising around the azores and stumbled across a unescorted three ship-convoy under brazilian flags, very calm sea, easy prey, 17893 tons within half an hour, almost business as usual.
I kept alerted because this was too easy, and my intuition was right once again - only a couple of hours later the hydroguy picked up the sounds of a warship.
... no, two warships, oh wait, three, ah, four ... I pushed Alois away from the equipment and listened for myself - seven warships, heading sloooow and straight into our direction, and one of this ships sounded very different from the other ones. I ordered silent running, moved the Uboat into a 90°-angle of the anticipated course of this taskforce and aprox. 3km away from the outer contact.
I kept listening, no signs of zigzagging, they were still running straight and slow. As the first ships passed the bow of my boat I peeked out with the periscope and discovered the silhuette of a bogue 3,5km ahead, the escorts still wasn't aware of my presence, so I got all the time to calculate a proper firing solution. Shortly after 4 eels were on their way, and I decided to dive away from the scene and gain distance & depth before the first impact. While creeping away I sat on the hydros and listened to - three hits! I cheered, almost forgot about the six escorts.
And guess what ? I heard some of the escorts accelerate and - steaming into the complete opposite direction! The bogue was hit on the stern, but three escorts hurried to the port while the others still heading straight! Because of that I ordered a paralell course, and about thirty or fourty minutes later the escorts broke up the desperate "hunt" for me and steamed away,leaving a heavily crippled and burning Bogue behind. I waited another hour, ordered to go for periscope depth, reloaded the tubes, but that wasn't necessary. The bogue sank just before I managed to take another look at it.
Two days later at that patrol I got a close hit by an aircraft bomb, so I headed home earlier than usual because of the damage.
Compared to other encounters with carrier task forces where the escorts usually were much smarter and always managed to chase me away before I got into the position to engage this was nearly unbelievable.
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December 5, 1940
18:05 local time
AM-52
U-111 is heading back South after striking a convoy in AM-53. On December 1st, we received a message from U-101 detailing a convoy in AL-57. Being in BF-17 at the time, I proceeded at flank speed, hoping to get there in time to participate in the Wolf Pack. Alas, we were too far away. Not wanting the trip North to be a waste, I headed towards the coast of Ireland to wait for the convoy. The convoy was spotted at 10:54 on December 5. We weren't able to get into position a good position due to a flower class between us and the convoy, but I still tried a long distance shot on a medium tanker and a whaling factory ship. The tanker shot missed, but the Factory ship took a hit under the fore cargo crane, piercing the fuel tanks. Leaking fire, the ship went down by the bow and sunk after about 20 minutes. Taking note of the convoy's route, I raced ahead and took up position. At around 15:00, the convoy hove into site, heading right for U-111. we submerged and waited for the convoy to pass overhead. I shot a stern G7e at the medium tanker, but the torpedo turned out to be a dud. I followed it up with the G7a in the aft tube, and was rewarded with a strike right under the smokestack. We evidently hit something vital, because the ship began to explode. The convoy now alerted to our presence, I put two G7a into another Whaling Factory ship. One struck the forward fuel tanks, while the other struck between the bridge and aft funnel structure. All steam-powered torpedoes expended, I headed as deep as I could, traveling opposite the direction of the convoy. Two flower-class corvettes started trying to hunt me, but their depth charge pattern was way off target. U-111 did take damage though, as the seafloor began a gentle rise. The result being U-111's bow getting a few new scrapes.
This convoy represents the first real decent tonnage of this patrol. Before this, the patrol had yielded the S-class submarine mentioned earlier, a tugboat that took 2 105mm shells, a ramming, and one more shell to sink, and a small merchant.
December 20, 1940
7:30 Local Time
BF-17
U-111 is heading back to Lorient after a disastrous attack on a convoy in Quadrant BE-39. We had tracked the convoy and set up for a nighttime surface attack. During the attack, a large merchant on the outskirts of the convoy spotted us, and the convoy began firing at us with anti-submarine guns. I decided to take my chances and remain on the surface, using U-111's high surface speed to outrun any pursuit. Unfortunately, during the chase a shell from a Flower class hit the rear deck, instantly killing the three men manning the 37mm gun in a valiant attempt to deter the corvette from following. With no other option, I ordered a crash dive to 120 meters. The escort's depth charge patterns were accurate, but short lived. Our attack on the convoy claimed a single auxiliary cruiser. The dead are:
Gunter Zscherpe, a Matrosengerfreiter with 5 patrols
Georg Eckermann, a Bootsman with 5 patrols
Kurt Witt, a Stabsoberbootsmen with 15 patrols, recipient of the Iron Cross, First Class
The loss of Kurt has come as a great shock to the crew. He had been with the crew since the beginning of the war, when our boat was U-11. He distinguished himself repeatedly in action, with his greatest feat being his shooting down of an entire swordfish squadron from the deck of U-11 during the Norwegian campaign. His achievement earned him the iron cross, the first of the crew to be awarded one. It is a sad day aboard U-111, and we can only imagine what Christmas will be like for his family. The crew has unanimously decided to pool funds and buy the families of these three brave men a gift to show our sorrow at their loss.
Paulie76
11-06-10, 12:41 AM
September 2, 1939 - Third day out on first patrol. Met up with a British Cargo hauler...10 hours before they are declared valid prey. Itchy trigger finger tells me to hold off and let him pass. Stalk him until war is declared and then claim the first kill of the war. Weather comes up suddenly and with an inexperienced sonar man he manages to lose me in the night. I curse my luck and return onto a course for my patrol zone.
September 3, 2009 - War is officially declared. My Chief looks at me with scorn for losing the ship yesterday. Weather is horrible. Make up for it with a faint contact miles away...apparently unmoving. Make a bead to investigate it, get laid up by another contact closing on us at a snails pace in the storm. Closer and easier to intercept I decide to change course, figuring the initial contact will stick around since it hasn't moved in four hours now according to my (now far less trustworthy) Sonar man.
Second contact proves fruitless again. A Norweigan cargo ship. By the time I'm close enough to ID the flag I've got him dead to rights in a fast 90 targeting solution. I still suck at the manual targeting, but I'm getting better, and at 800 meters, 0 AOB even I can't miss! Itchy trigger finger indeed...neutral or no. After missing out on the Brit...damn this is the worst first patrol. I hesitate. I order the tubes open. I do another ranging just to be sure...and then drop the scope and let him go. It's not worth the drop in rep back home (sigh).
Order my navigator to make flank speed for the faint contact. It's still on my map, but getting fainter. Starting to think it sank in the storm. By the time I'm halfway there, she's disappeared.
3 Opportunities...zero torps fired. Zero kills. Not an auspicious start. :(
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I'm on my 7th patrol and the Brits are not giving me a break. Neither is SH3 Gen. I keep getting orders to "force entrance into Loch Ewe" or "Sink such-and-such in Portsmouth." I don't feel like throwing my crew away, so I got some new orders, which also sucked, but are a lot better than a suicide mission. The weather was really crappy up north, so I decided to take a chance in a harbor that I knew. So I set a course for Scapa Flow. The weather was perfect on the way, a nice thunderstorm, rain, and big waves. Which meant that the enemy couldn't see me and I couldn't see them. So a destroyer jumps me from behind coming out of the rain, I crash dive and make safely under the surface and sneak away. By to time I got to within 200 km of Scapa the storm had passed and the skies cleared, although the waves were still foaming. Then two Hurricanes jumped me, and again I avoided disaster. I dodged several more destroyers before the weather took a turn for the worse. No wind, no rain, no clouds and no waves. #*&$! So I turned around and FINALLY ran into a contact that I could actually intercept and sink, bringing my grand total for this patrol to 14,000 tons for 19 days at sea.
VONHARRIS
11-08-10, 03:04 PM
During his 9th patrol Erhard von Loser received a suicide mission order. Raid the port of Giblartar on 15 January 1941.
He didn't manage to penetrate the port defences and was cought in a subnet. After desperate tries to unstuck the boat he surfaced and became the target of many guns. He told his crew to jump over and save themselves. He destroyed the Enigma machine all codes and set the charges to scuttle the boat. He was never seen again.
KptLtHansDampf
11-08-10, 06:19 PM
Graaaaaaaa [ten hours later] aaaaaaah!
Never ever steer an Uboat while you're drunk! :damn:
At December 31th 1944 (!!!) U-46 and her crew under KaLeu Willy Bukowski (nicknamed "raging Willy" by the Allied) was lost with all hands somewhere south of Ireland at the western approaches. The last radio message by U-46 was received at around 2200, saying "...firing up our new year's eve-party, some (hic) subchasers came by to celebrate with us (hic), nice fireworks, PROST!".
Bukowski and his crew managed to sink about 212.000 BRT in 9 patrols, including the HMS Battler (Bogue-Class) with 15.930 tons, and shot down one Sunderland-Aircraft.
Overall the crew and the skippers of U-46 was responsible for the loss of 860.000 tons of cargos and warships within 5 years.
What happend? Came back from a party sunday morning with a heavy list the port, deceided to "do just one patrol before I go to bed" ... and stumbled over a subchaser group, unable to react properly with about 1,5 ‰ ... very stupid, yes - but dead is dead :(
Wow, I had one crazy 8th patrol. The Germans really did good when they built the Type VII.
So, our patrol grid was AM53, which is literally Great Britain's back yard. So I said "The hell with that" and went north to Scapa Flow, as SH3 Gen said that there were some nice fat warships and a tanker there.
As we headed north the weather got progressively worse, with rain, heavy wind, and overcast clouds. As U-81 entered the harbor from the east, we had a little trouble with the subnet, but we were able to make it through. After we passed the net, the rain stopped. The weather was still really foul, so I decided to carry on. I went to the far end of the harbor and saw a modern tanker and a Fiji class cruiser. I lined up four electric eels and fired away. Both sank quickly. That quickly drew the attention of a V&W class destroyer. I went into the docks and the destroyer followed me. The Royal Navy must be lacking in its ship navigation training, because this guy got stuck against the dock and couldn't reverse for the life of him. I retreated and started heading towards the first Fiji that I saw in the east of the harbor and put a steamer into it. This attracted the attention of another V&W which came running. I sent an electric torp out of my rear tube set for magnetic detonation. It blew under the destroyers stern and it sank in seconds.
So far I now have three ships to my credit, and I'm working on a fourth. I send a second steamer into the Fiji, which is starting to list now, and yet ANOTHER V&W comes to find me. I make for the shore to see if I can throw him off, or maybe he'll get stuck like his buddy back at the docks. No such luck. I already have my conning tower damaged after one of the other destroyers ran over me and DC'ed me, but so far, I'm lucky. I manage to get another steamer off at the Fiji, which finally sinks, brining my total to four ships. The last destroyer makes a run at me and DC's me. All hell breaks loose. Both my periscopes were destroyed, along with my starboard propeller and hydrophone, and both men in the radio room are killed. So now I have no eyes, no ears, and my speed is almost cut in half. :nope: I don't know how I'm going to get out of this one, as I play DID. I continue to repair my crippled sub and manage to somehow limp towards the net and the barrier of ships in the east. I take some fire from the shore batteries, who can now see me clearly, even though its three or four in the morning. I manage to creep out of there and head for Wilhelmshaven. I arrive and dock there, as I do not feel like traveling all the way back to St. Nazaire. My hull integrity was 22.24%. :o I could hardly believe it.
Final results were over 31,000 tons of oil and warships sent to the bottom. I received a Knights Cross :yeah: and 1,100 renown. U-81 was heavily damaged, and will probably be in Willi for a while. Two of my crew died, which made the patrol bittersweet. I love my Type VII. That is one amazing boat. All in all a very successful patrol. It was a nail-biter and went from fun to nerve-wracking in seconds. I enjoyed it, but I highly, highly doubt that I will try to repeat that stunt again.
Falkirion
11-09-10, 06:50 PM
Finally made contact with a large lightly escorted convoy. Lots of juicy targets for my eels. But i stuffed up my first approach and was detected by a DD. Quick dive down to 210m and silent running shook him off once the convoy came in closer he lost me in the noise. Came back up to periscope depth after about 2 hours down low and got a read on the course. First approach was a bit of "Balls to the wall" without an accurate course or speed.
Now I'm running paralell out of visual, motoring ahead for another attack.
VONHARRIS
11-10-10, 12:32 AM
U-109 IXB is at 155m of depth sailing through the Giblartar Strait at a speed of 2Kts.
The date is 28 DEC 1940
Paulie76
11-10-10, 01:59 AM
Finally...first confirmed kill of the war. Northeast of Scapa Flow. Just a medium cargo, but it's a start. After a few hours of getting into position I managed to put on right under it's engines. I've discovered that I'm much better if I just avoid manual targeting altogether and simply park myself at 90 degrees even if it does mean a little more of a chase. :) less math is good.
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And this is a blessed minor lull in what I've been dealing with for the last few days at sea. I'm pretty sure I'm suffering from the 15m/s bug, but I don't want to restart my patrol to fix it, so I'll deal with it until I'm at least at my patrol area.
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Tigershark624
11-10-10, 05:20 PM
I've just restarted GWX3.0 Gold on my new home-built system. I left Wilhelmshaven on August 1st, sailed through the Channel and patrolled my grid for 24 hours. It's now August 12th and I've arrived in the Western Approaches where I'm going to Frig Around at 4 knots or so til the war starts. I play at 95% realism, with only the stabilized periscope view enabled. I'm looking forward to the hunt.
Is there any way to mod out the 5% realism hit for the stabilized periscope view? It seems a little cheesy as I believe U-boats had a pivot system in the periscope prisms to compensate for the sea's motion.
Missing Name
11-10-10, 08:30 PM
Took minor damage, collision leaving Lorient. Other sub was not so lucky.
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Down to 37 10.5cm FlaK rounds, 382 3.7cm FlaK AP (full AA), 1820 2cm FlaK AP and 19 TIII torpedoes.
I've just restarted GWX3.0 Gold on my new home-built system. I left Wilhelmshaven on August 1st, sailed through the Channel and patrolled my grid for 24 hours. It's now August 12th and I've arrived in the Western Approaches where I'm going to Frig Around at 4 knots or so til the war starts. I play at 95% realism, with only the stabilized periscope view enabled. I'm looking forward to the hunt.
Is there any way to mod out the 5% realism hit for the stabilized periscope view? It seems a little cheesy as I believe U-boats had a pivot system in the periscope prisms to compensate for the sea's motion.
Look in the "gameplay settings" file in the Cfg folder in your SH3 directory. You can change the values for all the realism settings there.
frau kaleun
11-11-10, 08:21 AM
Look in the "gameplay settings" file in the Cfg folder in your SH3 directory. You can change the values for all the realism settings there.
Just make sure the total of all the values added up after your edits still equals 100%! :up:
papa_smurf
11-11-10, 10:15 AM
Currently on my 2nd patrol in U-8 (type II/A), heading up the coast of England having already sunk a Granville type Cargo ship. 3 torpedoes left, looking for more tonnage before heading back to Wilhelmshaven.
March 1940. After a 10 day trip from Willemshaven to Morroco, with a refuel at Corrientes, the U-53 is headed back to Willemshaven via the Strait of Dover.
2 torpedo's left in the rear tube and hold, and 20 shells for the deckgun. Managed to sink about 40.000T since we left Willemshaven..most kills with the deckgun.
Next stop will be a quick check at dover, hopefully we can feast on something with the last 2 torpedo's.
Time: 11:23
ETA: 5 hours
Sky: Clear, light clouds
Wind: Calm
Waves: Flat
Morale:High.
Time: 11:23
ETA: 5 hours
Sky: Clear, light clouds
Wind: Calm
Waves: Flat
Morale:High.
You're gonna want some different weather than that. If anyone is ever crazy enough to try that, you need 15m/s wind, huge waves, overcast clouds and the worst rain you've ever seen. And stay out of the Channel period. There is some shallow water there and shallow water + enemy destroyers = DEATH. If you want my honest opinion, you have a snowflake's chance in hell of ever getting out of the harbor, much less the Channel. Just read my post higher up on my infiltration of Scapa Flow. I barely made it out of there alive, and the weather was almost perfect.
U-53, Type VII B, 10 SEPT 39, 1st Patrol
We are near the Northwestern coast of Scotland, heading Southeast. So far, we've sunk two enemy British freighters, and sighted two neutral Norweigan freighters. Since the sinkings, I've noticed a marked increase in the stamina of the crew on watch stations. Difficult to identify ship's flags at night in heavy seas.
You're gonna want some different weather than that. If anyone is ever crazy enough to try that, you need 15m/s wind, huge waves, overcast clouds and the worst rain you've ever seen. And stay out of the Channel period. There is some shallow water there and shallow water + enemy destroyers = DEATH. If you want my honest opinion, you have a snowflake's chance in hell of ever getting out of the harbor, much less the Channel. Just read my post higher up on my infiltration of Scapa Flow. I barely made it out of there alive, and the weather was almost perfect.
Most of the destroyers around Dover where already looking for me..20k west. I sunk a fishing boat. They didn't agree. Biggest search I've seen for a while.
The approach was slow. Once we reached and tried going over the subnets, a docked CA fired at us, luckily we where too close for it to fire it's main guns at us. Slight damage to the bridge.
Backed up a few hundred feet and fired the 2 eels at a Large Troop Transport. It listed but didn't sink.
Quietly we snuck away..back to Willemshaven for a reload.
Hans Uberman
11-11-10, 09:01 PM
The U-190 (Type IXC/40) had an average patrol to the Carribean Sea. We attacked the port at Curaqao during the night, and proceeded to our secondary objective of Santo Domingo. Intelligence had it that a certain merchant vessel had been carrying specialized machine parts for allied bombers, and for whatever reason she was stopping at the harbor of Santo Domingo before making her way towards England. After IDing the vessel, we waited until a nearby destroyer headed out on a patrol, and using the dim moonlight conditions, we sunk the Large Merchant, and made our way home.
Disappointment. While we did sink many vessels along our last patrol, intel has learned that the Large Merchant we sunk in Santo Domingo was only carrying coffee, not machine parts.
Update: A few members of my crew and myself are about to be transferred to the 11th Flotilla in Bergen. Only once we arrive will we be informed as to the nature our new orders. The U-190 is to be turned over to a new captain, and six of us will be traveling via FW-200 transport to our new home.
I have been given command of a revolutionary new submarine, the U-2502, a Type XXI submarine. We trained on the new vessel for a few days before heading out on our latest patrol.
April 3rd, 1944. Seconds after exiting our sub pen at Bergen, the radar detector picked something up, the base sirens began blaring, and a squadron of B-24s was seen coming in from the south. I ordered flank speed, and we had just gotten underwater as a dozen bombs dropped all around us, missing by mere meters. Fortunately, no damage was sustained to our boat, and the base defenses and nearby destroyer were remarkably alert. As the bombers fled to the northwest, I could see that two were on fire, and other ships in the fjord were beginning to fire upon them. All told, one tugboat and a floating platform were destroyed in the attack. Thus our latest mission began.
P.S. - The GWX team rocks! That boat launch was simply thrilling!
Falkirion
11-11-10, 10:07 PM
Okay so after blowing my first approach the second was made at 10:30pm that night. Slipped inside the screen and fired my first shots. I had 5 columns, about 800m between them. Shot 1 went for a large cargo, electric so they wouldn't see the wake. Shot 2 into the coastal freighter next column in, shot 3 was another electric into a Grainville leading the next column in, and shot 4 into a coastal on the column that would pass about 1000m off my bow, then I dove like stink to get low and slow enough that the DD's wouldn't know where I was.
4 hits, 2 sinkings from the initial attack. The coastal on column 3 from my boat went down quickly after my eel caught her napping. The Grainville also settled relatively flat and sunk. The closest Coastal got away with minor damage and the Large was hit hard enough to drop out of the convoy at 1 knot.
The DD's pounded the heck out of me but I was confident in my boat so I was cruising along at 200m, snaking my way along the convoys line of travel. But I couldn't maintain depth control without a speed higher than 2 knots so I sunk fairly slowly at first but I had to give the engines some juice to keep at a decent depth, enabling the DD's to track me easily. I managed to shake them off after a good hours pounding. Counted around 100 charges going off during the hunt. Most to the rear of my boat.
After the DD's left me alone I slowly slunk back up to 150m to reload my torpedos and then proceeded to periscope depth. The convoy was still zig zagging but headed away. I noted the large cargo had dropped out of the formation so after taking another plot of the convoys course I headed on an intercept with the large cargo and put another eel into her, from the surface 800m away. I contemplated using the deck gun but with the escorts so close I couldn't take the risk. The second eel sent her under and I vacated the area east at flank diving to periscope depth when my watch crew spotted a Flower corvette coming to inspect the distress call. Continued east.
Its currently around 14:00/2:00pm and I'm headed back in to try and nab another round of targets. This time I've got my eye on an Empire and another large cargo. Sea's are dead calm which isn't ideal for evasion but I got away twice now. And I've hit convoys much more heavily guarded than this.
U-303 continues the hunt.
Ditched the vanilla and installed GWX3 (yey!) 84% realsim - just the officer assistance and manual targetting disabled (im not good enough for total realism quite yet!)
New mod so new career 1940 with a VIIC 2nd flotilla U-93
First patrol, quite eventful for a shakedown cruise. Ordered to patrol the north atlantic we didnt quite get there. Got a report of a small convoy so decided to investigate. calm seas and great visibility. Sighted convoy and set up shop ahead and 90 degrees at periscpe depth. Only one DD escort on the far side of the convoy. Sent 1 eel each into 4 coastal merchants and knuckled diving to 50m at silent. DD came over to my side and gave me a right kicking. Took a big chunk out of the forward battery and diesel engines. Heavy damage to command but luckily no fatalities or injuries. Didnt dare dive further. Depth charges moved away. Lost contact with DD so came up to periscope. DD was 1000m resuming course astern. Chanced my rear eel set to high speed magnetic. Hit a wonderful astern shot almost taking the rear off the DD. She went down to davy jones bum first. Due to the damage we decided to limp back to port. Still 8400T merchant and a 1350T DD to our maiden voyage.
Patrol 2 went marginally better. Ordered to redirect to lorient and ordered to patrol the channel. Great. Saw a juicy pair of merchants unescorted. 2 eels each saw them go down. One was an ammo carrier as it blew sky high with a hit amidships - the second eel was unnecessary it seemed. After a horrific 15ms storm a lone merchant sighted. 2 eels into her from the surface at 500m, however she wasnt alone, a pair of alco boats managed to hole the side and yet again the forward batteries and diesel engines were hit. Bad flooding but with the storm rendering flak and deck gun out of service I had no choice but to dive. Luckily depth under keel was 50m as we soon settled on the floor with man on board shoring up the crippled boat. After an agonising 30mins repair the flooding had gone and once again we set sail. Put into port at cherborg for repairs (52% hull!).
Patrol 3. Freshly repaired out of cherborg with calm seas we resumed our trip out of the channel to lorient. A troop carrier with an alco escort proved no problem. 2km periscope attack put 2 eels into the ship and a surface attack dusted the deck gun off to sink the alco. In the crews jubilation the watch missed the ASW trawler who seemed to have little in the way of tactical knowledge of submarines - failing to weave as an eel took her broadside. 2 more alco boats fell prey to the deck gun (and flak). Another ASW trawler as sent to their maker again failing to weave. By the time we docked in lorient, 1 8400t merchant and 7 warships to our name without a scratch. The crew were happier.
At lorient we were offered a IX but turned it down. Somehow U93 had taken a kicking but felt stronger for it. Our radioman and sonarman were both trained up now. We had also decided to remove the watch officer for a far more competent watch officer skilled in gunnery and repair. He wouldnt be missed by the crew who had already seen his uselessness in combat.
Before we reached the patrol zone, a juicy 10000 ton cargo was sent to the bottom with a single torpedo along with their ASW escort - again not weaving. Upon reaching the alloted patrol zone, the sonarman picked up a faint signal. No 2 signals. No lots of signals. In wait we saw a motley selection of granvilles, tramp steamers, coastals and a single DD escort. The watch officer suggested we might be better taking on the single DD leaving the relatively unarmed convoy to the mercy of the deckguns. Positioning ourselves in front a full forward spread at the DD saw an eel hit but not down. One of the spread also hit a cargo which went down immediately. Panicking we decended to crush depth only to hear another torpedo hit "something" and the initial DD finally flood to the depths. This change of fortune made us surface and literally take our pickings until ammo was expended. Minor damage was repaired. Returning to port we had a tally of 39k merchant and 2.2k warship. Sonarman was promoted along with decorations for the gunners who sank 7 ships whilst under fire.
Hangman
11-13-10, 08:04 PM
I have owned SHIII for a few months now, but have not been able to get a good time on the machine. The following account has been over the past several weeks. Slow, but well worth it.
(Running SHIII with GWX 3.0 and a few mods)
This was my first patrol as captain. I had been on other patrols on other surface vessels, as a Watch officer and a First officer, but this was my first command in a submersible. The commanders called these uBoats the best in the fleet. Not for size or power, but for stealth and abilities.
We left port on August 1st, 1939 in U-52, a Type VIIB, fully loaded and ready for a month at sea. It is a beautiful boat. Long and narrow, with enough battery capacity, armament, and storage to last us the time it would take to traverse the world, and we had the ability in this sleek machine to do so.
I was nervous and excited. The anxiety was high and my stomach constantly growling. I had eaten a large breakfast of eggs, sausage, toast, and a good helping of cantaloupe and banana’s, but I felt as hungry as a bear after hibernation.
My crew was as green as an unripe avocado. I had two other officers on board and three enlisted men who had served on other vessels, though none aboard another submersible. These were the guys who would hold up the morale when things got tiresome.
I was ordered to take the boat out and run through the drills. Give her a good shakedown and train the men. We were assigned the section to the West of the Great Isle Ireland; BF16, the Southern mouth of the Irish sea. My navigator and I figured we could make the destination in no more than a few days, but a storm blew in the day after we left port and we were forced under for an agonizing two days. The seas were rough and unrelenting and after fighting her on the surface for what seemed days, and having watchmen swept overboard and nearly drowned from the waves crashing over the conning tower, we surrendered to the depths where the crew could get some rest and we could continue our progress unhampered. We ran the batteries to one quarter remaining power, and the oxygen was nearly depleted as the storm raged on above us. There hasn’t been a single vessel anywhere around us and we were getting desperate for air. I finally ordered the boat to surface, regardless of the conditions above. As we came to the top, the boat again began to rock uncontrollably and many of the faces in the crew reflected the idea of capsizing. They deeply pulled the fresh air into their lungs as it came down the pipe along with sea water from the crashing waves. We had no choice, we had to run on the surface to recharge the batteries and replenish the oxygen. Once again, the crew was exposed to the harsh nature of the sea. ‘What a shakedown’, I thought. ‘Talk about being thrown into the fire’. I clambered up the conning tower to the open air where the four watchmen were on duty only to find one still on his feet. Two men were hanging over the rail by nothing more than their lifeline and the third was struggling desperately to haul the third back over the rail. We had only two thirds of our batteries charged and we were taking a beating. After hauling the men back over the rail, and trying to lift their spirits a little, I, myself was nearly thrown over the edge by a ghastly wave which buried the boat and sent liters of seawater down the hatch.
We buttoned her up and dropped again to thirty meters, crawling along at three knots to preserve the batteries as long as possible and get some rest from the beating we had endured from above. The storm finally cleared on the third day but the winds continued to beat the surface long afterwards.
The crew had grown accustom to the waves and the winds by the 7th day and had learned to either sleep restlessly in the belly of the cramped boat, or were just too tired to care. We had just made our destination in the early hours of the 7th and were just beginning our patrol of the sector when we came across two freighters – in line – traversing across our path. As the crew were well on their way to getting the feel of the boat on the seas and the rigors of life as sub-boat personnel, I felt it was time to get some hands-on-experience to the attack. The two freighters were literally driving right in front of us so I used the opportunity to its best. “Battle stations” I ordered, “ahead one-third, bring us ten degrees to port”. I called the Weapons officer from his bunk and had him bring a crew to the deck gun. We were to attack the first of the two freighters – an 8,000 ton merchant – with the deck gun after a single fish was thrown at them.
The crew on the deck gun was relatively quick considering this their first time on the seas, and still too slow to be effective in a real surface attack situation. The fore torpedo crew were already much prepared as the fish were already in the tubes, so little had to be done to finish preparations for launch. Overall though, the adrenaline rush was an instant success as everyone scrambled to their assigned positions and waited for the anticipated war cry and the illusory results of heroism.
As the first freighter closed to within 800 meters off our bow, I ordered the crew to ‘stand down’ and those on deck to wave to the crew of the freighter. Peering through the glasses, I could see the shocked, bewildered expressions on their faces as they passed, expecting an attack and not understanding why we were waving to them.
We came across one other small merchant vessel of 3,500 tons on our southern course to which we followed the same drill procedures. Toward the afternoon hours, we altered our course to a West, Northwest direction and continued our patrol at 12 knots surfaced. At 18:35 hours the watchmen spied a vessel approaching from the Southeast. We prepared to run the surface attack drill again when my Watch officer mentioned this was the same merchant we attacked earlier in the morning. “Well then, it’s time for a submerged attack”, I declared. I called my Navigator to take us to periscope depth and called the crew to attack position. We maneuvered into position and gave my Weapons officer the chance to calculate the trajectory, the distance, and the speed for a successful attack. We ran through the drill to the point of firing, when I called the crew to stand down. As the crew started to relax once again, I heard a comment from one of the enlisted grumbling about the drills. I decided it was time to give a pep-talk and either lift their spirits or throw them overboard for mutiny. They took well to the pep-talk.
On the 9th of August, after successfully running surface and submerged attack drills, I felt it was now needed to actually fire some fish to see how the ship and the crew would take to having a real scenario play out. Around 20:45 hours, we found a merchant of 7,500 tons heading in a Southwest direction and decided she would be a perfect puppet for our drill. We charted her course and after an hour and a half of running ahead of her, we turned into her path and submerged. The sun had set and the moon barely visible over the horizon. A dark setting for a foreboding drill as I was planning a defensive maneuver as well. I inquired of the Navigator the depth under keel and brought up the attack periscope for bearings on the merchant. We ran through the drill of recording bearings and speed for a calculated attack and set our boat at 600 meters from the projected path of the merchant vessel. I asked the Weapons officer to set the fish from tubes I and III at 18 meters deep running. “I don’t want to actually sink this ship, but I need to know what this boat of ours is going to do as well as the crew”. At 22:29 hours I ordered tubes I and III to be fired, the spread angle at three degrees, medium speed. We were running silent speed at 1 knot. As the first fish was pushed out of the tube, we could feel the boat not only stop in the water, but lurch upward from the immediate weight loss plus the air in the tube causing the positive buoyancy. The second fish following closely behind added to the effect. The Weapon officer’s calculations were good for the first fish as it sailed under the back half of the merchant vessel. The second fish however, went on behind the vessel clearly missing everything. There were several lessons learned on this drill and we had to rework our calculations to get a good double hit on a double firing solution. As the moment came for the second fish to detonate, the First officer bellowed “ALARM” !!! The crew immediately, frantically, began moving about the crowded belly of the boat in an effort to drop as fast as possible. We were 126 meters from the bottom when we began our decent and within a mere few minutes we reached that depth. I had only intended on 120 meters but miscalculated our decent speed. We hit bottom going seven knots but were relatively level as I asked for an up angle of twelve degrees. The crew in the command room crumbled to their knees as the force brought us to an abrupt halt. We sustained damage to the fore quarters, the radio room, the command room, and the engine room, but no major leaks were found. The crew immediately began damage control as we tenderly brought the boat up to 80 meters at 2 knots.
Over the next three days, we worked our way around Ireland to the Northwest entrance to the Irish sea where we lingered to find the amount of vessels traversing the inlet. The activity was not as prevalent as was on the Southern entrance, but still promising. On the 12th of August, at 17:01 the watchmen spotted a vessel to our aft end approaching with relative speed to induce a slight panic. We quickly determined the vessel was a warship and we were either directly in its path, or it had spotted us and began pursuit. I ordered periscope depth and a course 90 degrees to starboard, three knot speed. After we made the turn, I ordered an all stop to assess the oncoming warship. I called the First Officer to bring the crew to attack stations and brought the attack periscope up to bear. I found the warship bearing down on us at 18 knots, but not directly. I marked the course and angle on the bow and discovered we were merely in the path, almost directly. I ordered back one-half and decided to run the submerged attack drill again. With this speed, there wasn’t much time to contemplate the scenario, so we had to act quickly. I again asked the Weapons officer to set I and III to 15 meters as I knew this was a shallow running ship. I searched frantically for a nationality designation through the periscope as the ship continued its course. At last, as we were almost half a kilometer from the projected path of the warship, I spotted the flag. A white banner with a red strip running horizontally through the center, and another running vertically, creating a cross upon the flag. I’d seen this in the identification manual before, but couldn’t place it while under the duress of this ominous vessel almost upon us. I decided to attack. For all intensive purposes, this was being treated as an actual attack and not a drill, as my Weapons officer was the only one who knew I was firing under the keel of the warship. The calculations were put into the TDC and the solutions set. The warship was upon us; we were 510 meters from its path, 89 degrees on the bow, I ordered tubes I and III fired. We felt the boat lurch upward as the fish left their tubes towards their target. The moment the fish left us, I realized our calculations were like those of the merchant vessels before, our fish would miss their target completely. I had the Weapons officer re-calculate and re-enter the information into the TDC and ordered tubes II and IV fired. Again, the boat lurched upward, but I felt elated as I knew the course of these last two fish were true. I dropped the attack periscope and began descending the ladder to the control room where I would congratulate my men on a well-performed attack when the hull of the uboat shuddered with an ear-splitting explosion.
I froze in mid-air, my muscles tense and body rigid. ‘What the hell was that’, I thought as I tried to get a grip on what I had just heard. After what felt like hours, I finally got enough stamina to push myself to the base of the ladder. As I turned to face my Weapons officer, there was another hull bending shudder from an incredible explosion – the second torpedo. My First officer’s face was displaying a humorous shock, but my Weapons officer’s face was as white as paper. “What just happened?” I asked perplexed. “I think we hit her” replied the First officer with a slight grin to his face. “Why?” I demanded looking from the First officer to the Weapons officer, “How, we were 15 meters below the keel?” I quickly scrambled back up the ladder to the attack periscope and began its accent. It took forever to get the scope to the point I could see clearly and then, to my dismay, I could see the backside of the warship in the air, and seconds later it slipped beneath the waves. There were men scrambling into life rafts and debris covering the area, … and bodies. How many had I killed? What went wrong?
After watching the scrambling victims for several minutes through the periscope, I found myself acting like a child who was running to hide from something he’d known he had done wrong. I ordered the boat to 60 meters, ahead standard, course two-seven-zero, we’re leaving.
It took me four hours to get my head around reality and begin investigating my mistake. I had asked the Weapons officer to set tubes I and III to 15 meters, not tubes II and IV. These last two fish were still set at four meters and in the adrenaline rush, the thrill of the kill, the moment at hand, I had completely forgotten this little detail.
At long last I decided I would take full responsibility for this mishap that cost the lives of several men. Men I didn’t even know. Men I had never even laid eyes on, let alone learn their names. Is it I who would start a war? Would they allow me to speak with the families of those whom I killed, to offer my sorrows and regret? I should receive the firing squad for this blatant neglect. I was now deeply depressed and angry with myself, and scared.
I ordered the boat to surface at 00:23 where I radioed in what occurred. I will take responsibility, but I don’t want to return to base just yet. I will leave the decision up to command, if they order me back to base immediately, I’ll comply. Otherwise, I think I’ll let time heal a little and stay out here until hell freezes over or we run out of fuel.
At 00:51 a message was received from Command, they suggest we stay until fuel runs out.
unterseemann
11-14-10, 03:02 PM
25NOV43
U-702 (Kptlt Karl Schenk), a type VII/C uboot, is back to St Nazaire after its maiden patrol.
It was a difficult one with bad weather most of the time and high asw allied activity.
22 days at sea in western approaches
5 ships sunk for 20.991 tons and 1 badly damaged ( no deck gun to finish it)
Uboot damaged by aircraft (H.I 83%). No casualties.
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U-53, Type VII B, 15 SEPT 39, 1st Patrol
Dived to avoid planes twice near Ewe Loch. Decision made to remain submerged during daylight hours.
We sunk a third British freighter just outside our patrol area (AM18).
The lightning from the storm makes for an awesome background for this battle. We reached our patrol area by staying submerged during the daylight hours, at 2 knots, between 50 - 60 meters depth, and running surfaced at night, between 9 - 10 knots. Once at our patrol area, we ran 1/2 day South, and 1/2 day North, at 1/3 speed.
A return course to Kiel was plotted. Returning to base.
Missing Name
11-14-10, 10:21 PM
Early December 1942.
Reached patrol area DN67. Extremely bad weather, all sensors were useless. Fired upon and rammed by a destroyer.
Captain Missing Name, 1939-1942. U-103 (VIIB), U-106 (IXB). ~375k tons sunk.
Falkirion
11-15-10, 12:17 AM
Early December 1942.
Reached patrol area DN67. Extremely bad weather, all sensors were useless. Fired upon and rammed by a destroyer.
Captain Missing Name, 1939-1942. U-103 (VIIB), U-106 (IXB). ~375k tons sunk.
Capt Missing Name, I feel your pain. But remember you always have hydrophones. Sound checks in instances like that are your best friend.
Also updating my patrol log. Made contact again with the convoy, but only got one ship this time. Got the Empire, one torp into the bow must've hit something hard because she exploded all the way from the bow to the stern. Had a bit of rollercoaster ride evading the escorts. For some reason when I drop down to 170+m I lose all control of depth when running silent. Anything below 3 knots and I start sinking like a stone. Came back up and overhauled it again just out of visual range. Charged in on the surface and fired off my two remaining bow torps. 2 duds. I wasn't happy. Returned to St Naz with 23k under my belt for a first patrol.
Going to head back out again soon, about a month and we'll be set to go.
ijnfleetadmiral
11-18-10, 03:26 AM
I'm currently up to June 1944 in my career. Here's some info about my character, and I based promotions on the basic time listed in the manual for Silent Hunter II.
NAME: Kurt Hossel
PROMOTION HISTORY:
Fahnenjunker - 1 January 1935
Fahnrich zur See - 1 January 1936
Oberfahnrich zur See - 1 July 1936
Leutnant zur See - 1 January 1938
Oberleutnant zur See - 1 July 1939
Kapitanleutnant - 1 March 1941
Korvettenkapitan - 1 November 1941
Fregattenkapitan - 1 August 1942
Kapitan zur See - 1 May 1943
Kommodore - 1 February 1944
COMMANDS HELD:
U-1 (Type IIA) - 1 September 1939 - 23 May 1940
U-48 (Type VIIB) - 23 May 1940 - 15 April 1941
U-71 (Type VIIC) - 15 April 1941 - 12 May 1943
U-182 (Type IXD2) - 12 May 1943 - 17 June 1944
U-2503 (Type XXI) - 17 June 1944 - present
AWARDS:
U-Boat Clasp in Bronze - 15 May 1944
U-Boat Badge - 9 February 1940
U-Boat Badge with Diamonds - 15 July 1941
Iron Cross 2nd Class - 2 January 1940
Iron Cross 1st Class - 19 March 1940
German Cross in Gold - 16 November 1941
Knight's Cross - 3 June 1940
Oak Leaves - 15 August 1940
Swords - 28 September 1941
Diamonds - 22 October 1941
PATROLS MADE: 41
TONNAGE SUNK:
MERCHANT - 977,222
WARSHIPS - 10,114
TOTAL - 987,336
Question: Anyone know of a mod that enables the player to promote crewmen further (i.e., Seamen to Warrant Officers, Warrant Officers to Officers, and advance their officers (and themselves, for that matter) beyond Lt. Sr.) and also have the possibility of being awarded the Silver U-Boat Clasp, the German Cross in Silver, the German Cross in Diamonds, the Grand Cross, and the Star to the Grand Cross?
I'm especially curious as to why you can't promote people further; if it were possible, the senior-ranking NCO in my crew would've been commissioned back in 1941!
Thanks for any input, and hope you found my career summary interesting.
-Matt
The new watch officer is a madman and a genius. After a few normal 20k patrols the last one was the best of my careers. An uneventful patrol in the carribean. No tankers, lots of neutral traffic, poor 15ms weather. Finished our allotted orders. Watch officer suggested sailing to New York to sink some traffic. Since we had a mere 5k tonnage to our name at this point the officers agreed.
Evaded aircraft and luckily bad weather has kept their visibility down. Crawling into the harbour there was a single ASW and an elco patrolling. Berthed was a single clemson , 2 large tankers, ceramic liner and various cargos.
An aft eel put paid to the asw (deliberate noise brought him steaming over in a straight line). 1 eel put paid to the clemson as we didnt want him sniffing about, 1 sent a tanker into explosive demise (slightly astern of midships). 2 into the ceramic and remaining taking out another tanker. Decided a swift exit was in order before reinforcements arrived. Only 1 heartstopping moment when we either run aground or hit a net. Retracing exact steps worked fine. Eluded 2 more ASW on the way out into deeper water. After surfacing and restocking torpedoes hydro picked up 4 (yes 4) tankers heading to UK without destroyer escort! Sank 2 with torpedoes and finished a 3rd with deck gun. 4th got away steaming at 14 kts with holes all over it but plenty of deck fire.
A single ore carrier (hit astern) took the remaining aft torpedo which sank after a full day of limping. 92000T and only 10% damage. Sailor Voglen and watch officer Eigenholtz was injured manning the deck gun (25% health remaining each) but both were patched up by the trusty medic (no wound badges offered when returned - will see to that in SH3 commander!). Watch officer stood at his post until ammo expended. He was awarded knights cross (along with me).
Have been offered command of an IXC which we will probably be taking. It is late 1942 and things are getting hairy now!
Watch officer has suggested Caraco (sp?) next time we are in the carribean...
unterseemann
11-20-10, 01:54 PM
28DEC43
U-702 ( Kptlt Karl Schenk) was sunk in grid BE35 by convoy escorts after successful attack against two ships. All hands lost.
2 patrols-8 ships sunk-43.541 tons.
Gargamel
11-22-10, 12:51 AM
21 August, 1941
BDU HQ
"Sir, I think there may be an error in the orders given to U-103, 2nd flotilla"
"What may that be?"
"I think there was a typing error in assigning 103 to patrol grid CJ88. The rest of the 2nd flotilla are all operating off the African and Spanish coasts. This cannot be right sir! I think it was supposed to be CG88 instead."
Ruffling of Papers.....
"Ahhhh yes.... Kapitanleunant Gargamel, one of our better U-boats. Hmmm..... Let's see what he can do with this, let the orders stand as written."
"Are... are you sure sir?"
"Yes, dismissed."
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22 August, 1941
1600 hrs
U-boat 103, just having left Lorient.
"1WO, I'll be opening the sealed orders now, you have the conn."
"Aye sir, 1wo has the conn."
Sounds of safe opening, ripping envelope, ruffling papers.
"Was zum Teufel?!?"
"Sir?"
*Mumbles* "Med..... run the straight..... defend friendly convoys... attack warships and convoys.....Perkele!"
"Perkele sir?"
"Nothing, just something my grandmother used to say."
"Kaleun, our orders?"
"Navigator, make course around Iberia, and head for gilbraltar, we're running the straight."
Groans heard around the ship...
"Weps"
"Yes Kaleun?"
"Unload Tube 1 and service that eel."
A frown, "Sir?"
"Then have Bernard climb in the tube, and tell him to check for leaks around the door."
"Ummmm...."
"When he's fully in, close the door and fire the tube. We can't risk having him on our boat when we're in the straights!"
"Oh! Right away Kaleun!"
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(So it pays to spell check your patrol grid in SH3 Commander)
Updates to Follow.
This is my (Hopefully short lived) homage to brag and Balz, whose exploits I am currently enjoying reading!
And apologies to my murdering both the German language and the lexicon/vernacular used on U-boats. Currently reading Deep Sound Channel, set in the future of sub warfare, so I have modern American vernacular on my head. The language is me using Google translator to convert American phrases to German, my apologies if they don't make sense.
Gargamel
11-22-10, 03:03 AM
29 August 1941
1500 hrs
175km West of the straights
Having sunk a small frieghter on our approach, our gunner appreciative of the practice after 9 months of not firing the gun (His aim showed it too), we continued onto the straights.
Running decks awash at 10 knots, hopping to avoid detection, we are waiting for night fall to begin our sprint through the straights.
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1545
Encountered our first air patrol, two fighters. Diving from decks awash has allowed us to quickly evade detection, we hope.
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1555
Having reread the orders given to us by BDU, I have noticed there is no mention of transferring to any flotilla operating in the Med. Furthermore, the return port is listed as Lorient still. Surely they cannot mean for us to return through the straights?
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1630
Having again surfaced at decks awash to keep our batteries topped off, we spotted another patrol craft, this time a flying boat. We again were able to avoid detection, we hope.
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2030
105km West of straights
Having run decks awash for the past hour or so, it is now dark enough to fully surface and run at full speed, hopefully we can sneak through in the darkness.
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2345
40km SW of Port of Gibraltar
Still running full speed. Have not yet encountered any patrol craft.
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0030
25km SSW of Gibraltar
Made a quick dip to periscope depth to scan for contacts. Only picked up a couple merchants in the port of Ceuta to our ESE. The hills of Morocco to our south are quite magnificent in this light.
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0118
22km SSE of Gibraltar
Spotted our first patrol craft, light torpedo boat, running right towards us, 7km away. Dove to periscope depth to avoid detection. Sonar soon picked up a destroyer NE of us in the med.
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0200
10km NE of Cueta
Having lost all warship sonar contacts, we are surfacing to continue our speed run. Plotting location of previous enemies, I am adjusting our course to hug the coast of Morocco for a while.
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0545
100km ESE of Cueta
Dawn is approaching, and as such, i have ordered our decks awash again, for we are still under the range of air. The transit of the straights appears not as difficult as is fabled by other Kaleuns.
VONHARRIS
11-23-10, 03:18 AM
From : U-127
To : BdU
Current position Grid ES 23
Patrol orders completed (Grid GR 82)
Stb diesel destroyed
Both periscopes destroyed
Three men wounded.
Torps left: 7
Tankers sunk : 1
Cargo ships sunk : 4
Warships sunk : 1
Tonnage : 29317
Requesting orders.
Kptlnt Kurt von Richter
Halifax? Tonnage? You forgot to mention the hidden destroyers that appear out of nowhere with racks and racks of depth charges. At least I have a bold 1 now and could happily sit on the floor flooding quietly.
Lost my 16 patrol radio man, sonarman and my trusty NO :( The crew didnt care about losing the rear torpedomen as they were fresh recruits. It isnt good to see a red exclamation mark appear on my repair officer though, still everyone has their breaking points. 6 dead in one patrol wasnt good and a low point of the war for U506 (crawling back from halifax with, no aft batteries, no radar warning, periscopes, flak, deck gun or bridge isnt good - although you can manually use the UZO you cannot put a watchman up). The medic was a trooper again, patched up the wounded. Deserved the knights cross (still no wounded badges after patrol completed- I add those manually afterwards)
still 80k wasnt too bad. And she sat at 30m with 21% H.I. !
80633 (74983/5650)U-boat damaged (H.I. 21.50%)
Gargamel
11-23-10, 04:15 PM
22 September 1941
BDU HQ
"Sir, still no update from U-103 after they reported entering the straights on the 17th for their return run."
"They should have checked in after 4 days. No report from the supply ships in the area?"
"No sir"
"Well, give them a couple more days and then list them as lost at sea."
"Yes sir"
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Shoulda fixed that typo.
Ach, time to start a new career, again.
22 September 1941
BDU HQ
"Well, give them a couple more days and then list them as lost at sea."
"Yes sir"
.
Doom de doom :nope::nope::nope::nope::nope:
electronicadub
11-24-10, 02:59 PM
August 1943.
Things are getting scary. American aircraft north of Scotland almost sink me before I have chance to get under.
Chased a convoy and sank 3 big ones and one destroyer. 69,000 tonnes on the last patrol. My favourite hunting ground is the Bristol Channel and Celtic Sea.
Friedrich Adam, first patrol in august 06, 1942. Boat VIIc.
BDU show's it's incompetence once again. They have sent my boat to gr55, just outside of cape town, even if we manage to get there in any reasonable time any convoy hunt would be impossible due to limited fuel. Orders are orders however and we set sail.
Not far from Gibraltar we receive a report about a large convoy moving slowly, probably to the British isles. We cannot resist the temptation and plot an intercept course or in other words shut down our engines and wait till they come to us themselves. Perfectly clear weather and the convoy is just 9 km ahead of us, I order 2 knots since the electrics cant be fired this far and the weather is clear meaning any steam torpedoes will be spotted long before they get close. 2 knots is not enough however and the convoy is slowly getting out of my reach, I cannot stalk it forever since I have orders from BDU, I decide to test my luck and order medium speed. My luck is so bad however that if I would buy a cemetery, people would stop dieing. (Ed Furgol)
With the Black swan closing on me fast I decide to dive till 140m. After a few hours I understand that it won't let me go and whats worse it called its friends. I decide to take my chances, again. Back to periscope depth, ahead flank and the cat and mouse game begins. It did make a successful ramming, I'll give it that but my torpedo rams it even better, right under it's main magazine. Black Swan sunk, another Black swan sunk, and somehow I manage to sink another 2 Black swans :arrgh!: After that a Hunt I class comes from behind and catches my aft torpedo. Thinking I'm safe from the escorts I surface to get some air, wrong move, another hunt I notices me and opens fire, periscope depth and 2 forward torpedoes are reloaded, I order the boat to go heads on the destroyer and play chicken with it, or in other words I made the destroyer play chicken with my torpedo. Guess who won?
Looking at the convoy I understood that all of it's escorts have been destroyed all 4 Black swans and 2 Hunt I's. No merchant ships were hurt during this operation since I couldn't get close enough and I just decided that it's time to go home! The big convoy without escorts was reported to BDU and hopefully some wolf-pack had fun with it after I did all the dirty work.
Take that Royal Navy, next time I see one of you're sub hunters I will transmit a message to Churchill "Oh no you won't".
Gargamel
11-24-10, 10:47 PM
5 April, 1944.
Having helped design and build the first of the type XXI, I have been given command of one of the first to set sail. The war is seemingly waning against us, hopefully this new platform can help turn the tide and retake the Atlantic for Germany.
This first patrol would normally be a shakedown cruise, but we don't have time to waste not utilizing this weapon. We are to sail to the western approaches and help cut off the never ending convoys.
KptLt Kriener, U-95
Gargamel
11-25-10, 12:37 AM
Ack I dont like 1944!
indeed. Getting to be early 1944. Its getting harder.
Just got a right pasting. But U506 is a keeper, I dont care what they offer me - no aft batteries, no port diesel or electric engine, plenty of leaking fuel, no hydrophones, radar or RWR. Before she started to reverse up (full reverse and emergency blow, about 50% gas left). We lost a good officer from repair though. After limping back to bergan the logs stated 34450 (30430/4020)U-boat damaged (H.I. 39.80%)
198m!
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unterseemann
11-25-10, 02:48 PM
06FEB44
U-151, type IID, 3rd/11th flotilla La Rochelle
Kptlt Rudolf Eickmeyer
2 patrols
Patrol 1: Shakedown patrol- start 01/01/44 end 03/01/44
Patrol 2: Western approaches grid BF
23/01/44: Left La Rochelle
28/01/44: Sank danish unescorted whale factory ship in BF 14.
SS Thorshavet 12.016 tons. Speed 14kn
17:14 1 Gnat fired: failed 17:15 2 TIII fired:1 impact stern
17:38 Ship slowly sank by the stern
02/02/44: Sank english unescorted intermediate tanker in BF 15
MV Aletta 3.490 tons. Speed 12kn
19:02 1 TIII fired: 1 impact amidships. Immediate explosion
19:10 Ship rolled over and sank
03/02/44
15:30 1 Gnat fired at a unknown destroyer, distance +/- 1500m: failed
06/02/44
15:31 Docked at La Rochelle
Notes:
-Poor efficiency of Gnat torpedoes
-Intense air and sea allied ASW activity as expected
-Small size and fast diving of the IID are good points
-Lack of surface speed (max 12kn...)
-Not enough torpedoes on board
eBeaker
11-26-10, 03:31 PM
30 March 1940
A successful raid on Lerwick netted U-48 the following:
2 x destroyers
2 x submarines
1 x small depot ship
1 x coastal tanker
1 x asw trawler
All for a total tonnage of 12,964.
My last career ended in limbo, bloody CTD. Remove SH3 then re-installed and all is well again, new career Nov41.
VONHARRIS
11-28-10, 01:56 AM
Kurt von Richter and U-127 were lost at 15 May 1944 off the Bermuda island.
U-127 stumbled on a task force of a Bogue escort csrrier and five Clemson DDs. The weather was foggy and windy. U -127 made an approach at 50m listening carefully. The TF was unaware of the U boat presence and it was keeping a steady course which was about to put the Bogue in front of the loaded tubes of U-127.
Range was 1000m AOB 90 and fire. 4 TIs at high speed and impact pistols slammed on the hull of the carrier from bow to stern. She went down in flames.
The escorts were not happy at all. They quickly got a fix on U-127 and launched their attack. Despite the epic battle and the furious tries of U-127 to escape , she didn't make it.
U-127 was blown to surface. The Americans respected the brave fighter and let the crew come out. Kurt von Richter made sure that the Enigma machine was destroyed as all code books and set the charges to scuttle the boat.
The Americans did not interfere. When the U-boat dived beneath the waves for the last time , they picked up the survivors along with the ones from the carrier.
The German crew was put in a POW camp until the end of the war.
New career now.
Heinz von Harris and his U-37 VIIB is out at sea for his 3rd patrol. It is December 1939 and he is now attacking early convoys at Rockall Bank.
Gargamel
11-28-10, 02:50 AM
Grats on making it all the way to '44 VH.
Finished my first patrol in the XXI, 46 days, 35k tons. Not a great showing, but I was using it a test patrol to figure this boat out. Love it! Encountered a Convoy off the coast of Ireland, horrible visibility prevented me from making an attack although I was perfectly positioned, just couldn't see them! The trailing destroyer must have gotten a sniff of me, and hang back far enough to prevent me from getting into position to reacquire. :nope:
Started my second patrol, I couldn't even get out of the harbor proper before my radio man started screaming about multiple inbound contacts over the hills. Almost immediately after, air raid sirens started going off. Lookouts called out a flight of B17's on a bombing run. I immediately went to flank, manned the guns, and prayed. We managed (with the help of all the other ships and shore guns) to survive, and badly damage 3 of the bombers. Regretfully, a type II also leaving on patrol got blown to bits, along with another ship at port.
Then radio reports came in, showing a taskforce moving in from the south and a Convoy coming in from the north, both moving along the coast.
Moving to intercept both as we speak. This may be a short patrol.
Having a death wish decided to sneak into Gibraltar in Sept 1941. Much easier than I thought. Surprised to see a London class, two SouthHamptons behind the mined barrier. Easy to shoot above the barrier if you lay back from it and set torpedo depth a 5 meters or so. Sails right over the barrier. NW of the docks on the opposite shore you can find the Nelson, a coat tender and depot ship. Happy hunting.
Maximus Volker had a very successful conclusion to his campaign with 11 patrols and over 197,000 tons to his credit. The last patrol was one of the more eventful ones.
So, U-81 set off from St. Nazaire to patrol sector CA27. Yes, New York! It was November of '41, so I thought that we would set off for the U.S. East coast to give them a nice "Welcome to the War" present from the Kriegsmarine. We snuck into New York on the 10 of December, the day Germany declared war on the U.S. A ways up the harbor I found a Ceramic (?) type ocean liner from Britain stuck against the shore. I put three eels into her for 11,000 tons.
Next we went south to the main harbor and nabbed two large tankers for over 11,000 tons each. Next, we sunk a destroyer that was pinging us from the dock. We left New York in flames, which would have looked fantastic except for the fact that the weather was absolutely terrible.
We returned to port after New Years and missed all the celebrations, but we made up for it in more than 36,000 tons of British and American ships sent to the bottom. I also got my Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves!!!!!! A fantastic way to end a wonderful career if I don't say so myself.
I am now starting a career with a VIIC out of Salamis in the Med. I also plan to start another career to stay in the Atlantic in the 7th Flotilla.
Missing Name
11-29-10, 10:29 PM
Having a death wish decided to sneak into Gibraltar in Sept 1941. Much easier than I thought. Surprised to see a London class, two SouthHamptons behind the mined barrier. Easy to shoot above the barrier if you lay back from it and set torpedo depth a 5 meters or so. Sails right over the barrier. NW of the docks on the opposite shore you can find the Nelson, a coat tender and depot ship. Happy hunting.
I was a greedy bastard... Sank the Nelson, a Southampton and a modern tanker.
Refueled at the nearby supply ship. Went back, did the same and more. :D
VONHARRIS
11-30-10, 12:30 AM
I had the intension to play this career using the VIIB/C types.
No luck.
As soon as the IXB was available something guided my mouse poiter over it and ......
YES I am again in command of an IXB , U-106 this time. I can't help it!
Heinz von Harris is heading for grid BE 31 , it is now July 1940 and the patrol has not started well. A fishing boat was spotted. At first von Harris decided to leave her in peace , though she had a British flag. As U -106 was passing next to the fishing boat a member of the her crew fired his Lee Enfield against von Harris. The shot missed and von Harris immediatelly grabbed the 20mm flak and sent her to the bottom. It was then that he found out he could not reload the gun. It was the same with the heavy flak.
Three days later a convoy was encountered at perfect weather conditions , all six tubes fired but only an Empire type was lost. An ammunition ship was hit but she did not explode ....as she should..... , a large cargo was hit twice but she stayed afloat.
U-106 continues hopping in better luck!
Yesterday, on my third patrol, I've finally encountered and attacked my first convoy. It went hilariously wrong.
First attack - I shadowed the convoy, keeping well in fron of them, until the moon has set, then tried an AOD-style surface attack: around the leading escort and slowly crept towards starboard flank of the convoy, which seemed to be left unguarded. As I started to aim at those big fat tankers, I found myself in the middle of a spotlight cone, like a pop singer entering the stage. Turned out that the escort actually been there all the time, undetected by me and my watch crew - he closed to point blank distance before turning on the spotlight and unloading his ammo storage. Surprisingly, I managed to survive this.
So, second time I decided to go in submerged. I calculated a perfect position to shoot, dived and silently waited for them to come into my sights. When the hydrophone was picking up noises from freighters at desired bearing, I was about to launch but wanted to check just for a second whether they really are where they were supposed to be. So I go to periscope screen - start raising it and OH FU...! Well, my calculations proved to be a bit inaccurate. The ship I intended to attack was about 20 meters from my bow. Unfortunately, I was out of pikemen divers.
At least my crew is still alive, and with the damage my boat has taken in process they are guaranteed to have a long holiday.
A pretty eventful patrol, but my first post here. :D
U-99, 7th Flotilla
Left at: October 4, 1940
From: St. Nazaire
Mission orders: Patrol grid BE67
Sub type: Type VIIB
U-99 departed at 18:51 from the harbor of St. Nazaire, setting sail for sector BE67 to complete a 24-hour patrol there. The crew was a little scared due to setting sail for the first time. I'll have to admit I was too, even though I have spent a lot of time in Type II subs near the coast of Holland. We encountered 2 neutral ships during the night. When we reached BE67, we didn't ecounter a ship until around midnight. However, we failed to pursue and sink the ship, sadly.
Patrol results:
No crew lost
No ships sunk
No aircraft shot down
Total tonnage remains at 0.
How come I never encounter anything during my patrols? :down:
Missing Name
12-03-10, 03:52 PM
Waiting for a transfer to St. Nazaire.
Waiting for a transfer to St. Nazaire.
Ah, coming to join me and the U-99 in St. Nazaire?
Also, just got awarded my U-boat Front Clasp. Woo?
frau kaleun
12-03-10, 04:17 PM
How come I never encounter anything during my patrols? :down:
Welcome aboard!
How long are you staying out to sea, and what mods do you have enabled (if any)?
Welcome aboard!
How long are you staying out to sea, and what mods do you have enabled (if any)?
I usually stay out for a week or so until I decide to return to the harbor. I don't have any mods enabled. SH3 won't patch for some reason and I glitched up my copy of SH4 a few times due to mods. :dead:
frau kaleun
12-03-10, 05:44 PM
I usually stay out for a week or so until I decide to return to the harbor. I don't have any mods enabled. SH3 won't patch for some reason and I glitched up my copy of SH4 a few times due to mods. :dead:
If you're in a VII you should have enough fuel to stay out much longer than that, I would think, even in stock - provided you do most of your cruising around at the most economical speed. The best way to increase your chances of encountering the enemy is to stay on patrol as long as you have the fuel and ammo to keep going. The other best way is to "set up shop" in a known shipping lane and wait for them to come to you. If you want the renown for going to your assigned grid and staying there 24 hours, you can do that and then head off to some place where there might be a better chance of seeing some action. (Not very realistic, historically speaking, but the game doesn't care.) But I don't know where the best spots are in the stock version, sorry.
Anybody know the info for this kind of stuff in the stock game? I only know GWX.
I don't know for sure but I suspect that there is less traffic scripted into the game in stock than what you get with one of the supermods. Keep in mind though that it's a very big ocean and going a week or two or even a month on patrol without encountering an enemy unit is not necessarily unusual, in fact it's actually more rather than less historically accurate. Most u-boats sent out during the war never sank anything, and enemy contacts could be very few and far between. At any rate, if you only stay out for a week at a time your opportunities for action are going to remain very slim no matter what.
Ah, thankies for the advice. I tried to make a few more patrols, but I ended up almost getting my ass kicked and limping back to base in most of them, except for one in which I sunk a merchant with one well-aimed torpedo. My first kill of my career. :D
frau kaleun
12-03-10, 06:57 PM
Ah, thankies for the advice. I tried to make a few more patrols, but I ended up almost getting my ass kicked and limping back to base in most of them, except for one in which I sunk a merchant with one well-aimed torpedo. My first kill of my career. :D
:yeah:
How did you do on fuel? You can find your most economical speed by choosing a speed and then asking the navigator for your range at that speed. That's how far you can travel at the current speed on the fuel you've got left.
When you find the speed that he says will give you the most range with what you've got, stick to that speed unless you've got a good reason not to (intercepting a target, evading an attacker). That way you can stay out a lot longer and increase the odds of finding something to sink. :D
In GWX the most economical speed for a VII is around 7-8 knots. Don't know if that holds true in stock though.
desirableroasted
12-03-10, 08:29 PM
:yeah:
In GWX the most economical speed for a VII is around 7-8 knots. Don't know if that holds true in stock though.
I was playing around in stock back in the summer and found that just at 8 knots works for both GWX and stock for the VII.
In GWX, that will give you weeks of patrol time, and more than enough in stock to lose 14 torpedoes.
desirableroasted
12-03-10, 08:36 PM
I usually stay out for a week or so until I decide to return to the harbor. I don't have any mods enabled. SH3 won't patch for some reason and I glitched up my copy of SH4 a few times due to mods. :dead:
There are a lot of threads on patching problems, but I suppose you have seen those & have tried solutions.
I almost always play GWX, but with both stock and GWX I plan on a 40-45 day patrol in a VII. A week or 10 days to get to my assigned area, then at least a week to 10 days in the area. If I still have torpedoes, I roll some dice to see if I am allowed to proceed on my own to favorite hunting grounds for a few days. Then there is the long slog home.
Results vary. I once came home from a 55-day patrol with only one torpedo fired, and it was a miss. And the next patrol cut off at 15 days because of empty tubes and 120K on the charts. You never know.
Missing Name
12-03-10, 09:30 PM
A Type IX will allow you to stay out even longer. You get your best mileage at about 8 knots. You can easily head from St. Nazaire to New York and back without any need for refueling. And the 22 torps will last longer than the VII's 14. The larger deck gun is an added bonus. (That's actually the main reason why I captain a IX.)
Careful, though - you will have a harder time avoiding enemies because you have a larger turn radius and a longer dive time. Those are things I miss about the VII.
As for not finding anything: watch the first, oh, half of Das Boot.
Gargamel
12-03-10, 10:20 PM
I don't know for sure but I suspect that there is less traffic scripted into the game in stock than what you get with one of the supermods. Keep in mind though that it's a very big ocean and going a week or two or even a month on patrol without encountering an enemy unit is not necessarily unusual, in fact it's actually more rather than less historically accurate. Most u-boats sent out during the war never sank anything, and enemy contacts could be very few and far between. At any rate, if you only stay out for a week at a time your opportunities for action are going to remain very slim no matter what.
Just look at those kids in Indonesia. They spent, what, 50+ days in a row boat in what could be considered coastal/littoral waters, without seeing another ship. Luckily for them a trawler took a shortcut outside of the normal shipping lanes and found them. Imagine your a sub assigned to that patrol grid, almost 2 months with no contacts.
Actually, I haven't seen the threads on patching problems yet...
[insert Homer saying D'OH! image here]
Made a run on Gibraltar the other day. I at least made it through to the Mediterranean.
Axeman3d
12-04-10, 07:01 AM
It is October 1940, and i am in U104, a type IXb out of Lorient on patrol south of Iceland looking for convoys. On the way to my assigned grid I detected and tracked a freighter on hydrophones, but was unable to attack due to thick fog and heavy seas.
Several days later a contact report placed a convoy 200km NW of my route, so I plotted an intercept and raced at flank speed through heavy seas to the IP. On reaching my guesstimate I could see nothing in the storm, so submerged to see if hydrophones could pick up any sign. As I submerged a Flower class corvette ran over my position at top speed, missing my scope by 3m as he tried to ram. I crash dived to 150m and he began pounding me very accurately for 2 hours as the convoy sailed straight over me. I was unable to regain contact with it afterwards.
The weather cleared as I reached my patrol square a day later, where I had to dive to avoid air attack from an RAF Hudson. It dropped 4 bombs but wide of the mark, and left after 15 minutes.
Next day I intercepted a nearby convoy of 15 freighters and 4 escorts heading west. I came in at 45 degrees between the first and second column and fired all torps in snapshots along the rows, the immediately turned east and went deep. Four hits, two misses and ineffectual escort attack followed. I was able to get to periscope depth to see that I had hit 3 small freighters and one escort. Two freighters were sinking by the stern, one was afloat but dead in the water and the escort was down at the bows but still moving. When the two tin cans moved off I put a second eel into the stationary freighter, which blew up in spectacular fashion.
I am now running around the north of the convoys course to try and get in position for a night attack. All I got were three tiny freighters and I know there are at least 2 huge colliers and a good sized tanker in there waiting for me. I'd also like another crack at that wounded escort, just for old times sake.
Missing Name
12-04-10, 11:48 PM
My most successful non-harbor raid patrol ever. And also one of my most disappointing at the same time.
I had already picked off some small freighters and an ore carrier, when I saw a large convoy very near by. I got into position, waited and struck. 1 torp hit an ammo ship, sending her to the bottom instantly. The second hit a large merchant, but she didn't sink. 3 more torps failed, but the last one sank the Southampton cruiser escort.
I evaded the escorts, reloaded the tubes and set myself into position again. 4 more torps: 1 Empire and 2 large cargoes went down; the 4th missed an ore carrier. The escorts didn't even bother trying to find me again.
At this point, I realized that the large merchant I had hit earlier wasn't there. So I went back and there it was, not too far from where I had hit it. 2 more fish made sure she went down.
Total tonnage from this patrol: 71,899.
What makes this disappointing? I also ran into a task force composed of the Hood, a couple cruisers and a bunch of destroyers. All of my torpedoes exploded far short of their targets, and I couldn't match the 20 knots the force was going.
Axeman3d
12-05-10, 06:41 AM
Faulty torpedo nonsense just caused me severe issues as well. I regained position on the convoy I've been attacking and fired off two torps each at the large collier and a tanker. Or rather as I was firing the third, the first and then second shots blew up in the flat calm seas, bringing down the nearest 2 escorts, one of whom I think was already suspicious. After the customary depth charge attack and evasion, I waited until they moved off out of sight and surfaced.
I wanted to run at full speed to get ahead once again, but a straggling escort spotted me and started shelling and gave chase. I figured I was faster, he was probably damaged and at extreme range, so I manned the deck gun and went to flank to put some distance between us and draw him well away from the convoy. My gun crew actually blew the funnel right off him, but he eventually got lucky and one of his last shells killed my entire gun crew. Damn!
Sailor Steve
12-05-10, 03:54 PM
October 12, 1939. Oberleutnant zur See Karl Blauert set out in U-34, a Type VIIa armed with 11 torpedoes, on August 19, has just returned to Kiel and filed the following report:
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Gargamel
12-05-10, 04:15 PM
Were those post game edits to the Log file, or can you do that ingame?
Sailor Steve
12-05-10, 04:27 PM
SH3 Commander, post-game. It then automatically retrofits it into the games patrol log.
Gargamel
12-06-10, 05:06 AM
So, I was expecting to hit my patrol area, not see anything as per normal, and then go to new York to say hi before the war was over and mess up them yanks harbor some.
On previous patrols I've been mixing my torps, 6-8 steam advanced eels, small handful of acoustics, and the rest advanced electrics. This time I went all acoustics. I will try to stack that each time if I have the renown. 1k a pop per eel is not cheap.
19.1.45. 1631
Patrol 5
U-2502, 11th Flotilla
Left at: January 19, 1945, 16:31
From: Bergen
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN11
26.1.45.
1526 Grid AM 1 Ship sunk! USS Richard S. Bull (JC Butler class), 1350 tons. Crew: 209. Crew lost: 14
1533 Grid AM 1 Ship sunk! USS Duffy (Evarts class), 1192 tons. Crew: 190. Crew lost: 68
1600 Grid AM 1 Ship sunk! USS Munda (Casablanca class), 10400 tons. Crew: 888. Crew lost: 586
1930 Grid AM 1 Ship sunk! SS Ability (Coastal Freighter), 1870 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 21. Crew lost: 9
1930 Grid AM 1 Ship sunk! SS Frey (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 29. Crew lost: 25
1938 Grid AM 1 Ship sunk! SS Empire Citizen (Granville-type Freighter), 4707 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 73. Crew lost: 48
27.1.45.
1121 Grid AM 27 Ship sunk! SS Zaandam (Troop Transport), 8640 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 403. Crew lost: 145
1123 Grid AM 29 Ship sunk! HMS Zanzibar (Colony class), 1430 tons. Crew: 116. Crew lost: 87
1133 Grid AM 27 Ship sunk! MV Languedoc (Large Tanker), 12490 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 50. Crew lost: 6
1135 Grid AM 27 Ship sunk! SS Rangitane (Large Troop Ship), 16816 tons. Cargo: Troops. Crew: 604. Crew lost: 271
1145 Grid AM 27 Ship sunk! USS Rizzi (JC Butler class), 1350 tons. Crew: 194. Crew lost: 98
1145 Grid AM 29 Ship sunk! SS John Martin Miller (Liberty Cargo), 7335 tons. Cargo: Sugar. Crew: 49. Crew lost: 47
30.1.45.
1537 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 12
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 69449 tons
AS you can see, the patrol went in spurts. Hit my patrol area right off the bat, nada, plotted a course for New York. On my way, hit some warships, found this Carrier in the middle. Instead of sneaking in, I said screw it and blasted my way in. Thumped the carrier, damaged, but didnt sink a couple more DD's (which I found odd), Went to flank, popped a decoy, knuckled, and dove hard, going silent. Easy peasy slip away.
My escape path allowed me to blunder upon this 3 ship mini covoy, took three eels, three boats, boom boom hoohie woochie.
At this point, I had fired about 1/3 of my torps, And I felt it wouldnt be worth my time to head over to New York without having enough ammo to sink the island. So I plotted a patrol path around the western approaches, and soon got reports of a large convoy.
Snuck in at peri depth, popped up in the middle and started blasting away. Took out the heart of the convoy first, after a couple acoustics pulled a "SQUIRREL!" and went after an already sinking freighter. Weather was real bad, all the grey marks (and a couple of reds) are weather kills. They didnt need a uboat to kill this convoy, Poseidon was doing a good enough job as is. To escape, I picked a destroyer, ran at it fairly fast, shot my lost eel at it, decoyed, knuckled, dove silent, and slipped through the gap the now dead Destroyer left in the screen.
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So now I'm totally out of ammo, so I sprint home to hopefully get in as many patrols as I can before this war ends. The weather is so bad that I take 20% hull damage just trying to get down the Fjords near Bergen. IT was so bad that I had to turn around and head back out to deeper (like more than 10m) water so that I could safely make it into Bergen. A couple of the patrol craft had been bashed to bits already. Not me!.
Overall good patrol, and I really like the idea of having acoustics for DD work, just gotta be very careful in how you aim, it may completely veer off course and hit another target, or even me it seemed one shot.
Missing Name
12-06-10, 09:40 AM
On my way, hit some warships, found this Carrier in the middle. Instead of sneaking in, I said screw it and blasted my way in. Thumped the carrier, damaged, but didnt sink a couple more DD's (which I found odd), Went to flank, popped a decoy, knuckled, and dove hard, going silent. Easy peasy slip away.
Did you use the deck gun in part of your blasting away?
Gargamel
12-06-10, 02:51 PM
Did you use the deck gun in part of your blasting away?
No deck gun, XXI, early '45. The merchants would have chewed me up. I rarely ever surface if only to send status reports every few days.
Gargamel
12-06-10, 04:29 PM
U-2025, XXI
KptLt Hartmut Kriener
30 March, 1945, 2345
When I opened the sealed orders as we cruised out of the Bergen fjord, I saw that BDU has assigned us AN76 as our patrol grid. Checking my map, as I had never heard of operations occurring there before, I saw it lies right in the mouth of the channel. Not only that, but half the grid is on English soil.
Breaking protocol, I consulted with my other officers, all of whom I trust explicitly. We agreed the war is too close to a finish to go on a suicide patrol with no reward. We decided that since we were going to attempt to raid New York on our last patrol, only to be interrupted by wondrous targets, that we would go there again.
We avoided engaging multiple small and medium merchants as we threaded the UK-Iceland gap. We were forced to sink a destroyer as it's patrol path took it right on top of us.
We've been doing the math, and It'll be close on time. My 1WO, LtzS Tiederman, figures the war may be over by June, and our best fuel efficient speed gets us there by late April, early May. The RAF even make running at night schnorkeling a risky venture.
Maybe we can make one last big splash in the history books before we are retired, willingly or not. I would like to see Kiel again before I die.
VONHARRIS
12-07-10, 02:53 AM
This is our 11th patrol since the beginning of the war.
This time we were ordered to take our IXB to grid AE83 in the North frozen waters.
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
1.12.40.0133 Patrol 11
U-106, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: December 1, 1940, 01:33
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AE87
3.12.40.1524 Grid 14Ship sunk! SS Prosper (Tramp Steamer), 1964 tons. Cargo: Scrap Metal. Crew: 25. Crew lost: 24 (sunk by deck gun fire)
4.12.40.1152Grid AM 75Ship sunk! SS Sea Fiddler (Large Cargo), 8576 tons. Cargo: Sugar. Crew: 35. Crew lost: 33 (lone ship 3 torpedoes)
11.12.40.1509Grid AE 47Ship sunk! Big 3Funnel Liner , 42511 tons (in convoy 2 torpedoes)12.12.40.0156Grid AE 48Ship sunk! HMS Dunvegan Castle (Auxiliary Cruiser), 13850 tons. Crew: 242. Crew lost: 43 (lone ship 2 torpedoes)
0158Grid AE 48Ship sunk! SS Bonifacio (Small Merchant), 2390 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 37. Crew lost: 1 (lone ship 1 torpedo)
0218Grid AE 48Ship sunk! HMS Birmingham (Southampton class), 10725 tons. Crew: 975. Crew lost: 614 (in convoy 2 stern torpedoes)
19.12.40.0653 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 6
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 80016 tons
22 torpedoes fired
10 torpedoes hit and sunk the targets (45%)
3 torpedoes hit the targets but they didn't sink (13,6 %) Targets: Medium tanker + ore carrier
9 torpedoes missed (41,4%)
30 105mm rounds used
No AA fire
unterseemann
12-07-10, 06:59 AM
U-151 type IID ( kptlt Rudolf Eickmeyer)
3re/11th flotilla La Rochelle.
Patrol 3: 26/02/44- 08/03/44
01/03/44: Grid BE65
6h30 am: Two ships convoy, american medium merchant and granville type ,unescorted, spotted by crew. Unable to attack but course and speed eyeballed (25-28°, 7.5-8kn). Plotted interception course
10h30 am: Good position. Fired one torpedo to each ship. Explosions heard after 1'10 min and 1'38 min. Both ship disabled.
10h47 Medium merchant sank bow first. 5176 tons
11h01 Granville type MV Vinemoor sank. 4707 tons
02/03/44: Grid BE38
7h00 pm: Fired a gnat and a TIII to a danish medium tanker. 1 impact amidships followed by massive explosion.
SS Jedmoor sank. 8792 tons
04/03/44: Grid BE39
01h32 pm: Fast intermediate tanker spotted, good attack position. Fired last torpedo. Solid impact but tanker stay afloat. Uboot then attacked at periscop depth by airplane. Severe flooding and damages, uncontroled dive to 106m, attack periscop destroyed. Eventually situation under control
09h10 pm: Tanker still afloat nearly sinking. Submerged approach then surfaced uboot in front of tanker meters from it. Shelled deck with AA guns then submerged
09h16 pm: Tanker sinking. MV Athene. 3490 tons
08/03/44 Back to La Rochelle
4 ships for 22.165 tons
Total carreer: 6 ships sunk for 37.671 tons
VONHARRIS
12-07-10, 07:29 AM
U-106 12th patrol ended at the SS Belchen supply ship. Rearm and refuel to attack the convoys in the iced northen waters.
Patrol No 12 was not very good.
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
31.1.41.1131Patrol 12
U-106, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: January 31, 1941, 11:31
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AD88
6.2.41.2255Grid AL 25Ship sunk! SS Adroity (Coastal Freighter), 1872 tons. Cargo: Sugar. Crew: 32. Crew lost: 29 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
2338Grid AL 25Ship sunk! Old Passenger Ship, 2072 tons (in convoy 1 torpedo)
9.2.41.1646Grid AD 88Ship sunk! SS Aconcagua (Troop Transport), 8279 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 293. Crew lost: 43 (in convoy 3 torpedoes)
11.2.41.1808Grid AE 47Ship sunk! SS Margarita (Small Freighter), 2230 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 22. Crew lost: 5 (lone ship 1 torpedo)
12.2.41.0546Grid AE 47Ship sunk! HMS Meynell (Hunt I class), 1000 tons. Crew: 150. Crew lost: 75 (lone ASW patrol 1 torpedo)
0728Grid AE 48Ship sunk! HMS Montclare (Auxiliary Cruiser), 13850 tons. Crew: 104. Crew lost: 80 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
0751Grid AE 48Ship sunk! HMS Newcastle (Southampton class), 10725 tons. Crew: 885. Crew lost: 97 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
17.2.41.2016
Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 7
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 40028 tons
22 torpedoes fired
12 torpedoes hit and sunk their targets (54%)
3 torpedoes hit their target but they didn't sink (13,6%)
7 torpedoes missed (32,4%)
No deck gun or flak guns used
Weather too cold
Met icebergs on the way
Hoping to get some fresh food from the SS Belchen
Missing Name
12-07-10, 04:15 PM
Patrol 14.
April 4, 1941. Time: 1810.
To: BdU.
From: U-127, Type IXB. Captain Ohne einen Namen.
Have struck mine in St. Helena Harbor. Heavy flooding, boat going down bow first. Attempting to blow. No casualties at this point.
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Time: 1932.
Have managed to reach periscope depth while avoiding the enemy. Small scattered leaks. Main batteries severely damaged. Forward torpedo tubes non-functional. Periscope controls sluggish. No injuries except minor cuts and bruises.
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Time: 1954.
Main batteries cannot be repaired with our current equipment. Cannot risk surfacing to correct periscopes. Torpedo tubes 1, 3, 4 have been restored.
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Time: 2023.
Escorts are searching elsewhere. Have fired four torpedoes at two cruisers while retreating. Heading to rendezvous with KM Python.
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Time: 2027.
3 definite torpedo impacts. Hull breaking noises on one cruiser.
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April 5, 1941. Time: 2107.
Confused British radio chatter, unencrypted. One cruiser has sunk, one has heavy flooding.
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April 7, 1941. Time: 0200.
External damage to boat appears lighter than expected.
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April 7, 1941. Time: 1200.
Will meet KM Python shortly.
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April 7, 1941. Time: 1530.
Am alongside supply ship, repairs have started. Requesting confirmation of two cruisers sunk, 21000 tons.
Gargamel
12-07-10, 11:10 PM
Ok, dont go into New York unless you have a deck gun for defense against the fast moving boats.
I sank myself.
Yes that's right.
I sank myself.
With not one, but 2 acoustic torpedoes.
The stupid PT boat was dragging them both as he ran by me, and the eels thought I looked tastier.
VONHARRIS
12-08-10, 02:54 AM
As the number indicates the patrol was a total disaster.
We have encountered many ASW enemy units mostly MTB and ASW trawlers.
We have attacked three enemy convoys , but the the second attack was fruitless. All 6 torps that were fired either missed or failed to explode or did not sikn their target. No ships sunk there!
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
18.2.41.0459Patrol 13
U-106, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: February 18, 1941, 04:59
From: Belchen Supply Ship
24.2.41.1430Grid AE 47Ship sunk! SS Rothesay Castle (Empire-type Freighter), 6958 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 68. Crew lost: 66 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
1443Grid AE 47Ship sunk! SS Banderas (Small Freighter), 2231 tons. Cargo: Trucks. Crew: 24. Crew lost: 8 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
1855Grid AE 47Ship sunk! MV British Energy (Modern Tanker), 10762 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 70. Crew lost: 7 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
25.2.41.1523Grid AE 47Ship sunk! MV Tandora (Small Tanker), 2051 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 22. Crew lost: 7 (lone ship 2 torpedoes)
28.2.41.1547Grid AD 59Ship sunk! MV Dodata (Intermediate Tanker), 3490 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 16. Crew lost: 10 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
1755Grid AD 59Ship sunk! SS Rhexenor (Large Merchant), 10616 tons. Cargo: Textiles. Crew: 83. Crew lost: 11 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
5.3.41.2245
Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 6
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 36108 tons
22 torpedoes fired
9 torpedoes sunk their targets (41%)
6 torpedoes hit their targets but they didn't sink (28%) Targets : Large merchant - Ammunition ship - Modern tanker
7 torpedoes missed (31%)
We have returned to SS Belchen to rearm and refuel.
Our next patrol will be to the same area. The British seem to have learned their lesson. They are more cautious now and their convoys are heavily escorted , 7 - 8 escorts every time.
kaleun69
12-08-10, 03:53 AM
Restarted career in a type II september 1939. Trying to play as realisitic as absolutley possible. At this stage of the war, the 1930 london protocals were still in place... IE a ship must be stopped and visited unless known to be transporting troops, engaged in enemy activity, or under escort.
Well, a Type II with a max speed of 13 knots, and only a AA gun and small crew will have a very hard time stopping a faster cargo ship.
On 9-12-39 picked up a sonar contact of a merchant ship. I head towards it, just to take a look. Once I surface the watch crew immediatly pick up a patrol boat in the vicinity. I can use this to claim the target is under escort. I submerge and work out the targeting on the Medium cargo ship. At long range (4700 meters). I fire 2 torps, one either malfunctions or misses, but #2 hits! I recalculate and fire a 3rd, at about 4100 meters as the patrol boat is bearing down on my periscope. Hit! I dive to 25 meters and change coarse. The merchant goes down maybe 30 - 40 minutes later.
Anyway, I think this is the longest range shot Ive ever pulled off in SH III. Over 3 miles! Got a screenie of the distant impact from my scope.
On Sept 24th '39 the rules will change, Uboats are allowed to sink any ship broadcasting SSS. So.. I will model that by allowing me to close to the target, and once evasive action is taken, It will be within the rules to shoot.
ps.. Im re-reading Clay Blairs epic Hitlers Uboat war books, which is why Im replaying yet another Uboat campaign.:)
VONHARRIS
12-08-10, 04:16 AM
Ok, dont go into New York unless you have a deck gun for defense against the fast moving boats.
I sank myself.
Yes that's right.
I sank myself.
With not one, but 2 acoustic torpedoes.
The stupid PT boat was dragging them both as he ran by me, and the eels thought I looked tastier.
Do not ever engage fast torpedo boats with deck or AA gun. You might sink them but you will sustain heavy damages and crew losses from their machine guns.
Why did you fire a torpedo against it and especially an acoustic one? The torpedo is more expensive than the target itself and moreover it is slower than a MTB. A MTB travelling at 30 - 40 kts is not a torpedo target. Dive and let it go. It has no sonar to pick you up submerged.
Gargamel
12-08-10, 10:45 AM
Do not ever engage fast torpedo boats with deck or AA gun. You might sink them but you will sustain heavy damages and crew losses from their machine guns.
Why did you fire a torpedo against it and especially an acoustic one? The torpedo is more expensive than the target itself and moreover it is slower than a MTB. A MTB travelling at 30 - 40 kts is not a torpedo target. Dive and let it go. It has no sonar to pick you up submerged.
Well, errrrrrrrrr....... B trying to infiltrate NY in April 45. Only had acoustics. And in about 15m. Water. Surface is not where I wanted to be, but I didnt have a choice. Had Perfect weather too. Medium seas, overcast, decent fog. Was hoping their radar would think I was a tug or something.
Axeman3d
12-08-10, 01:27 PM
Do you know the difference between clever and wise? A clever man thinks up ways to try and get out of situations a wise man didn't get into in the first place. Why the hell were you trying to take on New York harbour single handed that late in the war?
VONHARRIS
12-08-10, 03:33 PM
Well, errrrrrrrrr....... B trying to infiltrate NY in April 45. Only had acoustics. And in about 15m. Water. Surface is not where I wanted to be, but I didnt have a choice. Had Perfect weather too. Medium seas, overcast, decent fog. Was hoping their radar would think I was a tug or something.
Does this mean that you took a XXI to NY harbor at April 1945?
I think that your navigation officer's name is Bernard.
VONHARRIS
12-08-10, 03:37 PM
This is U-106 14th patrol
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
6.3.41.1110Patrol 14
U-106, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: March 6, 1941, 11:10
From: Belchen Supply Ship
12.3.41.0655Grid AE 47Ship sunk! HMS Kingston Andalusite (ASW Trawler), 1100 tons. Crew: 55. Crew lost: 13
0700Grid AE 47Ship sunk! HMS Defender (C&D classes), 1375 tons. Crew: 175. Crew lost: 115
14.3.41.0446Grid AE 47Ship sunk! SS Port Auckland (Ore Carrier), 8083 tons. Cargo: Phosphates. Crew: 90. Crew lost: 37
0626Grid AE 47Ship sunk! RMS Empress of Britain, 42913 tons
0628Grid AE 47Ship sunk! Big 3Funnel Liner , 42511 tons
0629Grid AE 47Ship sunk! MV San Alberto (Large Tanker), 9677 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 39. Crew lost: 5
0641Grid AE 47Ship sunk! SS Martina (Nipiwan Park-type Tanker), 2476 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 23. Crew lost: 11
0642Grid AE 47Ship sunk! SS Royalite (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons. Cargo: Bauxite. Crew: 33. Crew lost: 25
0707Grid AE 47Ship sunk! MV Teakwood (Modern Tanker), 10762 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 65. Crew lost: 24
0713Grid AE 47Ship sunk! MV Lustrous (Modern Tanker), 10761 tons. Cargo: Gasoline. Crew: 72. Crew lost: 51
0824Grid AE 47Ship sunk! SS Port Hunter (Ore Carrier), 8085 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 74. Crew lost: 22
24.3.41.0425 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 11
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 139612 tons
I didn't count the torpedoes this time.
U-107 returned at Lorient with one bow torpedo left.
Gargamel
12-08-10, 10:37 PM
Do you know the difference between clever and wise? A clever man thinks up ways to try and get out of situations a wise man didn't get into in the first place. Why the he'll were you trying to take on New York harbour single handed that late in the war?
Never said it was a good idea, LOL. Cause it was fun, until i shot myself.
Thought I could sink anything that came at me with acoustics. shrug. live and learn.
Or die and learn in this case.
In our 1st patrol, a lesson was learned on our return trip home. While NE of Scotland, in heavy seas and heavy fog, we located a C-2 British ship. We were able to match speed and follow her by her stern while she zig/zagged. Due to the heavy fog, we were unable to observe the target for a shot when we were in a forward position.
Returning to Kiel at night, after sinking four enemy merchants, was awesome! A pair of blinking lights welcomed us, and guided us from a distance as we approached the pens! A few turns, and we back into the empty pen.
Medals were awarded to officers and a warrant officer. One warrant officer made a radioman rate.
After replacing our hydrophone set with a different one, we set sail on our 2nd patrol with the same officers and crew. Enroute to our patrol area, we encounter several neutral Norwegian ships and one unknown ship whose flag is hidden by the smoke from it's funnel. Better safe than sorry, I chose caution, and let her continue on her voyage.
Our boat settles down to a daily routine. As we approach Scotland, we stay submerged during the daytime, and surface at night to re-charge our batteries. Our patrol area is much further South than our 1st patrol area.
I've instructed our Chief Engineer to keep a close eye on our fuel reserves. The men are in good morale. Our journey continues....
Gargamel
12-09-10, 12:22 AM
Woohooo this is fun, trying to sheppard foreign ships into the shore with a type II prewar.
Axeman3d
12-09-10, 04:45 AM
U104 heading out on third patrol from Lorient in late Nov 1940. Patrol area is east of the Azores covering the South African convoy route, so head straight across the Bay of Biscay to designated square and patrol fruitlessly for a week. I turned north and followed the convoy route up on the edge of the Bay, submerging for long periods to escape the foul weather that has hit the area.
While submerged I pick up a convoy on the phones heading for the English Channel at 9 knots, but am in poor position for attack and chasing in foul weather will take ages. I decide on a long shot and fire 4 torps at extreme range at the 2 largest targets. Two explode prematurely, spooking the convoy who start to zig and speed up. One torp hits and eventually sinks an ore carrier as I evade west again. I plot a route to try and shadow the convoy but am unable to regain contact at all the next day.
Weather worsens, now very hard to make any progress. I submerge for long periods and again pick up a merchant passing nearby. On the surface for attack in black moonless night so i can get close, notice it's actually 2 ships, a small merchant and an ore carrier in front. I switch off magnetic triggers and use the stern tubes at 900m range on fast speed to ensure impact, and both ships are hit. The ore carrier goes down in 20 minutes leaving a trail of life rafts behind it, but the merchant didn't even slow down. As it passed the sinking ore carrier I reload the stern tube and put another one in him, this time with spectacular results. Lots of flames and he goes down in a minute, lots of secondary explosions as it slips under. One life raft spotted. Now continuing north to Ireland and then the Western Approaches.
unterseemann
12-09-10, 06:58 AM
U-151 Kptlt R.Eickmeyer
Patrol 4: 28/03/44-13/04/1944 (17 days)
Patrol zone: Channel western entrance
02/04/44 22h42 Coastal freighter sunk with 1 TIII torpedoe in BF24
SS Adm Nelson 1.869 tons
03/04/44 12h28 Motor vessel sunk with a TIII torpedoe in BF25
MV Matchlock 114 tons
04/04/44 Colony class frigate sunk with a gnat in BF24
HMS Somaliland 1.430 tons
09/04/44 08h48 Intermediate tanker attacked with a gnat in stormy weather. No impact. Unable to regain contact
09/04/44 16h20 Small convoy intercepted. Fired our last torpedoe (TIII) to a small merchant but missed. Resume patrol
13/04/44 8h55 Docked at La Rochelle. Return trip uneventful due to very bad weather
Patrol results:
3 ships sunk for 3.413 tons
Carreer total: 41.084 tons ( 8 merchants, 1 warship)
U29, Wilhelmshaven
Left at: Jan 6 - 1940
Orders: Patrol grid CF32
Captains Log:
Jan 6: Nothing out of the ordinary.
Jan 7: Nothing out of the ordinary.
Jan 8: British sloop sighted (16:43) grid AN13, radioed our position, moderate winds, sunk with five 8,8cm rounds, left the area at high speed, course 290
Jan 9: Nothing out of the ordinary.
Jan 10: Nothing out of the ordinary, winds now at 13 m/s. overcast.
Jan 11: Nothing out of the ordinary.
Jan 12: Nothing out of the ordinary.
Jan 13: Contact picked up on hydrophone BE59, moved to investigate, British Ore Carrier (SS Port Brisbane), sunk with two torpedos, one in bow, one under the bridge. Sunk in a matter of minutes. (08:01)
Jan 14-18: Reached PG CF32 - nothing out of the ordinary.
Jan 19: Reached grid CG94 in order to pick up convoys from Gibralta. Outbound convey picked up on hydrophone and intercepted, heavy winds, heavy fog and rain, made attacking difficult. One ship damaged with one torpedo, one ship sunk (SS Empire Bede, 10:58) Empire-type Freighter, two torpedos, infront and aft of bridge, heavy list to port, sank within minutes. Three torpedos wasted at targets too close, no sinkings. Went deep and silent, evaded depth charge runs by lone escort, no damage. Decided not to re-engage convoy because of bad weather.
Jan 20: Plotted course for the Corrientes supply ship.
Jan 21-23: Nothing out of the ordinary:
Jan 24: Docked at Corrientes supply ship.
Estimated sinkings: 15.000 tons
U29 - Peter Corpus
VONHARRIS
12-10-10, 03:23 AM
This is the patrol log of U-106 15th patrol
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
24.4.41.0407Patrol 15
U-106, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: April 24, 1941, 04:07
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AE47
5.5.41. 0738Grid AE 48Ship sunk! HMS Circassia (Auxiliary Cruiser), 13850 tons. Crew: 223. Crew lost: 129 (in port 2 torpedoes)
0746Grid AE 48Ship sunk! HMS Duncan (C&D classes), 1375 tons. Crew: 152. Crew lost: 33 (rammed by sinking cruiser)
0746Grid AE 48Ship sunk! SS Frances Dawson (Small Merchant), 2390 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 39. Crew lost: 28 (in port 1 torpedo)
0816Grid AE 48Ship sunk! HMS Glasgow (Southampton class), 10725 tons. Crew: 963. Crew lost: 57 (in port 1 torpedo)
0944Grid AE 48Ship sunk! SS Tajandoen (Large Merchant), 10401 tons. Cargo: Textiles. Crew: 106. Crew lost: 42 (in port 2 torpedoes)
14.5.41.1650Grid AM 53Ship sunk! SS Haiching (Small Freighter), 2228 tons. Cargo: Aircraft. Crew: 35. Crew lost: 28 (lone ship deck gun fire)
1904Grid AM 53Ship sunk! Typhoon (Sloop), 8 tons. Crew: 15. Crew lost: 9 (20mm flak guns)
2203Grid AM 53Ship sunk! SS Saint Palais (Passenger/Cargo), 2245 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 234. Crew lost: 91 (lone ship 1 torpedo + deck gun fire)
19.5.41.1105
Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 8
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 43222 tons
Engine troubles flank speed not possible
20mm flak guns jammed
18 torpedoes fired
8 torpedoes hit and sunk their targets (44%)
2 torpedoes hit their targets but they didn't sink (12%)
8 torpedoes missed (44%)
4 stern torpedoes were not launched because of extensive damages
to the stern tubes.
42 105mm shells fired
3 clips of 20mm AA fired
Sinking of the HMS Circassia (Auxiliary Cruiser), 13850 tons.
The ship was stationary out the port of Reykjavik. Three TI were fired against her targeted at the front mast , midships and aft mast.
In fact the cruiser was not anchored but she had steam on. The torpedoes were spotted (my bad I fired during the day) and she picked up speed. The one aimed aft missed but the other two hit and sunk her immediately.
As the sinking ship was moving forward she rammed the HMS Duncan (C&D classes), 1375 tons which exploded and sunk. The weird part is that I got credit for the sinking.
Sinking of the HMS Glasgow (Southampton class), 10725 tons.
The light cruiser was anchored in Reykjavik harbor. I fired a stern torpedo agoinst her just for not leaving her alone. The torpedo hit her under the front turrets , a huge explosion and down she went.
After leaving Reykjavik we had multiple contacts of DDs ASW trawles and MTBs. The DDs were US ships running at high speed and producing so much noise that we were safe to travel at 2kts and no one could hear us. When we reached open seas we surfaced but we were spotted by an ASW trawler which fired at us. She missed as we crash dived. The trawler called for help and a Tribal class DD appeared. He run an attack on us which caused severe flooding at the aft torpedo room and destroyed the tubes. The DD did not re-engage and left.
We decided to go to grid AM53 as the situation in AE47 was getting really bad. We radioded BdU and they agreed.
We encourntred a convoy on the way but all the torps we fired missed as the ships were zigzaging.
After sinking the SS Saint Palais (Passenger/Cargo), 2245 tons we decided to go back home as the weather was rough. Then they came out of the fog: 2 Fiji class CLs unescorted running at 20kts.
All 4 forward tubes fired , but the solution was not good enough. The CLs evades the 3 fishes and the fourth that hit caused only minor damages.
Now with no trops left we headed for Lorient.
We were still at grid AM53 submerged to avoid a lone Hurricane which was provinding escort to a hospital ship , when the hydrophones went crazy. A huge convoy of tankers , whale factory ships and large merchants was coming right at us in an ideal attack position. But with nothing to attack we just dived deeper and left.
After reaching Lorient I was offered the command of an IXC type. I agreed under the condition that I would take all my crew with me. The BdU said OK so here we are : U-505 IXC is about to devastate the Atlantic Ocean.
Missing Name
12-10-10, 08:56 AM
End of patrol 15, U-127 (IXC).
After hitting mine in St. Helena, I docked at the KM Python. Heading back to St. Nazaire, I traveled along African merchant routes, but this found nothing.
So I raided the ports of Libreville and Lagos. Both were heavily mined, but this time I was extra careful and did not hit any.
The defenses of Libreville were pitiful. There were only the mines. I sank everything in the harbor: A troop ship, medium cargo, tramp steamer, small freighter, passeger/cargo and modern tanker. I was able to move off on the surface at a leisurely pace.
Lagos was more complicated. A DD was patroling the minefield, while I was on the surface. I dove, waited for her to pass and sank her with a torp to the depthcharge storage. The other guardian was putt-putting over to my position. Being the daredevil I am, I surfaced and pumped ten 10.5cm rounds into the trawler.
Harbor now free of moving escorts, I navigated the minefield and sank a large merchant. I seriously injured a medium cargo but she didn't sink. Out of torpedoes, I escaped.
On the uneventful trip back home, I realized that St. Nazaire would never get the IXC wanted. Upon arriving, I immediately transferred to Lorient.
Patrol date: May 27 - June 24. 43000 tons.
VONHARRIS
12-11-10, 02:47 PM
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
16.10.41.0315Patrol 17
U-505, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: October 16, 1941, 03:15
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid EJ821
8.10.41.1548Grid 77Ship sunk! SS Winona (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 32. Crew lost: 25 (lone ship sunk by deck gun fire)
2146Grid CG 21Ship sunk! SS Eagle Wing (Medium Cargo), 5081 tons. Cargo: Timber. Crew: 55. Crew lost: 45 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
2159Grid CG 21Ship sunk! SS Saltwick (Small Merchant), 2396 tons. Cargo: Sulfur. Crew: 44. Crew lost: 21 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
20.10.41.0320Grid CG 46Ship sunk! SS City of Dublin (Passenger/Cargo), 2245 tons. Cargo: Mail/Packages. Crew: 108. Crew lost: 10 (lone ship sunk by deck gun fire)
27.10.41.1028Grid EJ 39Ship sunk! SS Thomas J. Jarvis (Liberty Cargo), 7336 tons. Cargo: Coffee. Crew: 70. Crew lost: 52 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
1032Grid EJ 39Ship sunk! SS Robin Sherwood (Medium Cargo), 5082 tons. Cargo: Paper Products. Crew: 35. Crew lost: 31 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
1033Grid EJ 39Ship sunk! SS Umkuzi (Large Merchant), 10617 tons. Cargo: Sulfur. Crew: 87. Crew lost: 54 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
1041Grid EJ 39Ship sunk! MV Vinemoor (Granville-type Freighter), 4709 tons. Cargo: Aircraft. Crew: 45. Crew lost: 23 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
1042Grid EJ 39Ship sunk! SS Carlota (Nipiwan Park-type Tanker), 2476 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 16. Crew lost: 7 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
7.11.41.1027Grid CG 57Ship sunk! SS Aberdovey (Coastal Freighter), 1870 tons. Cargo: Paper Products. Crew: 28. Crew lost: 15 (lone ship sunk by deck gun fire)
11.11.41.0956Grid BF 14Ship sunk! MV Santa Monica (Medium Cargo), 5084 tons. Cargo: Sulfur. Crew: 55. Crew lost: 50 (lone ship sunk by deck gun fire)
16.11.41.1718
Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 11
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 48765 tons
18 torpedoes fired
9 torpedoes hit their targets and sunk (50%)
3 torpedoes hit their targets but they didn't sink (17%) Targets : Whale factory ship + Dido class CL
6 torpedoes missed (33%)
4 torpedoes were not launched
80 105mm rounds used
No AA fired
All systems worked properly
Sonar coating does not have the desired effect
Note : If only those Zaoukonigs could be put into production soon.......
Gargamel
12-12-10, 03:18 AM
Started my first patrol in a new career, Sept '39. Running the Orkney / Shetland gap, encountered a couple trash ships, took them out with the deck gun. Then went about 2 weeks without even seeing another ship. The boys were getting restless. Then we got a radio contact report of a large convoy heading our way.
Moved to intercept, seas were dead flat, beautiful sailing weather, crappy for hiding a sub on an attack run. As we snuck in close, neither sonar nor periscope could find any escorts other than the lead destroyer. And then we saw her..... a Revenge sitting in the middle of the pack. Still couldn't believe there was only one ASW escort!
Took out the destroyer with a well placed eel. Sprinted into the center and quickly sank the BB with 4 eels. The first 2 probably would have sank her, but I was time pressed, and didnt want to wait around to see if there were really any other escorts.
Popped to the surface, finger on the crash dive alarm. Had the deck gun open up on all the big targets while the eels were reloaded. Was firing every thing I had at every target. Good Haul for first patrol. Was really wishing I had more torps. And a better weapons officer, his loading times were atrocious, I'll fire him after this patrol, he was a political appointment anyways.
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CAPTAIN'S LOG
2.9.39. 0255 Patrol 1
U-46, U-Flotilla Saltzwedel
Left at: September 2, 1939, 02:55
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid BE31
6.9.39. 1
422 Grid AN 14 Ship sunk! SS Aallotar (Passenger/Cargo), 2253 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 185. Crew lost: 74
1559 Grid AN 14 Ship sunk! MV Coral (Small Trawler), 98 tons. Crew: 20. Crew lost: 15
17.9.39.
1039 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! HMS Brazen (A&B classes), 1350 tons. Crew: 190. Crew lost: 1
1059 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! HMS Resolution (Revenge class), 31000 tons. Crew: 1199. Crew lost: 11
1107 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! MV Teakwood (Modern Tanker), 7292 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 51. Crew lost: 38
1109 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Ole Wegger (Whale Factory Ship), 12017 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 126. Crew lost: 5
1110 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS N. T. Nielsen-Alonso (Whale Factory Ship), 12016 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 131. Crew lost: 128
1122 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Port Auckland (Ore Carrier), 8085 tons. Cargo: Bauxite. Crew: 86. Crew lost: 15
1127 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Manaar (Large Merchant), 5459 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 107. Crew lost: 39
1132 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Ixion (Ore Carrier), 8083 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 86. Crew lost: 67
1142 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Talthybius (Ore Carrier), 8084 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 96. Crew lost: 82
1218 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Raranga (Large Merchant), 5460 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 98. Crew lost: 24
1242 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Krasnoe Znamya (Tramp Steamer), 2432 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 22. Crew lost: 0
22.9.39.
0228 Grid AN 41 Ship sunk! SS Ahoy (Coastal Freighter), 1873 tons. Cargo: Trucks. Crew: 34. Crew lost: 24
23.9.39.
2157 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 14
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 105502 tons
That's a rate of 833 tonnes per minute for that 2 hour period!
Also kinda glad to see out of the 1190 sailors on the Resolution, only 11 died. Actually a pretty low loss of life for the carnage I caused. Which is good. Tonnes = Good, Kills = Bad.
Jack Cutter
12-12-10, 04:45 AM
Great haul! I'm jealous of those numbers! :yeah:
I have SH3+GWX 3.0+ SH Commander, and it lists the ship names, but it never shows me the crew losses or the cargo aboard. Where do you find that, or what am I missing?
oldstyle
12-12-10, 08:57 AM
LIVRE DE BORD
Date et Heure
Quadrant
Evénements
10.2.41.
1534
Patrouille 2
U-93, 7e/13e Flottille
quitté à : février 10, 1941, 15:34
depuis : St. Nazaire
Ordres de mission : Patrouille carreau AL36
12.2.41.
0659
Carreau BF 43
Navire coulé ! SS Bonifacio (petit navire marchand), 2424 tonnes. marchandise : avions. équipage : 55. équipage disparu : 37
1936
Carreau BF 18
Navire coulé ! SS Scottish Star (cargo type Empire), 7661 tonnes. marchandise : machines. équipage : 78. équipage disparu : 75
13.2.41.
1001
Carreau BE 36
Navire coulé ! SS Umtata (gros navire marchand), 9466 tonnes. marchandise : minerai de cuivre. équipage : 50. équipage disparu : 28
1006
Carreau BE 36
Navire coulé ! SS Coracero (minéralier), 8595 tonnes. marchandise : bauxite. équipage : 80. équipage disparu : 22
17.2.41.
0654
Carreau AM 49
Navire coulé ! SS Sea Beaver (gros cargo), 9952 tonnes. marchandise : véhicules militaires. équipage : 57. équipage disparu : 21
18.2.41.
0431
Carreau AM 54
Navire coulé ! SS Glenshiel (gros navire marchand), 8347 tonnes. marchandise : vins/spiritueux. équipage : 82. équipage disparu : 46
26.2.41.
1006
Carreau BE 62
Navire coulé ! MV Languedoc (gros tanker), 12426 tonnes. marchandise : carburant d'avion. équipage : 57. équipage disparu : 2
1016
Carreau BE 62
Navire coulé ! SS Chandeleur (gros cargo), 7778 tonnes. marchandise : denrées alimentaires. équipage : 40. équipage disparu : 32
1029
Carreau BE 62
Navire coulé ! SS Sea Scorpion (gros cargo), 7777 tonnes. marchandise : minerai de fer. équipage : 39. équipage disparu : 10
28.2.41.
2216
Résultat de patrouille
Pertes : 0
Bateaux coulés : 9
Avions abattus : 0
Tonnage de la patrouille : 74426 tonnes
Best patrol ever : as I remember, only two torps missed and for one it didn't matter cause it was a salvo of two and one hit and sunk the tanker.
I had to say that I have good weather conditions during the patrol (wind never up than 4m/s and good or medium visibility), so all the torps were in magnetic. Result, all the big cargos were sunk with one torp as the tanker !
Futhermore, one of the convoy was just attacked by another U-boot as I was waiting submerged to attack it. A kind of wolfpack feeling...
And I saw two other U-boots during the patrol : one traveled mid-submerged with its tube's doors always opened and closed alternatively, strange...
I play with manual targering, all realistic except the external camera (but not to help, just for good eye).
Gargamel
12-12-10, 02:32 PM
Great haul! I'm jealous of those numbers! :yeah:
I have SH3+GWX 3.0+ SH Commander, and it lists the ship names, but it never shows me the crew losses or the cargo aboard. Where do you find that, or what am I missing?
Go to Update Personnel File in SHC, then click view when it pops up. Then in that webpage, click the patrol number.
You may also have to turn on a setting or two in SHC
VONHARRIS
12-13-10, 03:22 AM
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
2.1.42.0012Patrol 18
U-505, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: January 2, 1942, 00:12
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid CA31
19.1.42.0907Grid CA 33Ship sunk! USS Puffer (Gato class), 1526 tons. Crew: 60. Crew lost: 4 (sunk by deck gun fire)
20.1.42.0329Grid CA 31Ship sunk! MV Royster (Tugboat), 1130 tons. Crew: 20. Crew lost: 14 (sunk by deck gun fire)
0411Grid CA 31Ship sunk! USS William B. Preston (Clemson class), 1190 tons. Crew: 116. Crew lost: 8 (stationary 1 torpedo)
0412Grid CA 31Ship sunk! USS McDougal (Somers class), 1850 tons. Crew: 296. Crew lost: 59 (stationary 1 torpedo)
0551Grid CA 31Ship sunk! SS City of Lichfield (Small Merchant), 2430 tons. Cargo: Foodstuffs. Crew: 49. Crew lost: 9 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
0617Grid CA 31Ship sunk! SS William Hooper (Liberty Cargo), 7394 tons. Cargo: Timber. Crew: 45. Crew lost: 38 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
0627Grid CA 31Ship sunk! MV Hopemount (Modern Tanker), 10872 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 52. Crew lost: 2 (in convoy 2 torpedoes)
0806Grid CA 31Ship sunk! SS Reuben Tipton (Medium Cargo), 4894 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 39. Crew lost: 17 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
0919Grid CA 31Ship sunk! MV Solvoll (Fishing Boat), 84 tons. Crew: 18. Crew lost: 18 (stationary 37mm flak)
0920Grid CA 31Ship sunk! MV Orfasy (Fishing Boat), 84 tons. Crew: 24. Crew lost: 1 (stationary 37mm flak)
0921Grid CA 31Ship sunk! MV No. 1032 (Fishing Boat), 83 tons. Crew: 29. Crew lost: 17 (stationary 37mm flak)
29.1.42.0030Grid BC 83Ship sunk! SS Affirmity (Coastal Freighter), 1870 tons. Cargo: Steel. Crew: 24. Crew lost: 8 (in convoy 1 torpedo)
8.2.42.1758
Patrol results
Crew losses: 3 dead (The deck gun crew was killed)
Ships sunk: 12
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 33407 tons
The loss of my deck gun crew was terrible. The forward deck was hit by 5 inch shell by a DD which showed up out of nowhere when the tugboat was sunk. The deck gun was not destroyed!! The senior petty officer (gunner) was a holder of the Iron cross first class,.
I had an other bad moment in this patrol. In the convoy that the SS Affirmity (Coastal Freighter), 1870 tons was sunk , there was a big 3 funnel liner (42k tons) but I missed it.
In fact I launched a spread of 4 TIs at medium speed and impact against her in bad weather from a distance of 7.500m . swung around and fired 2 stern TIs with the same configuration.
All but one missed.
Yes, it takes time to get good crew, I had a similar situation some time ago they escaped with injuries, but a DD turned up behind a small promontory outside Dakar and received a few hits, and port-side engine was destroyed, also was bad weather, :yep:
Missing Name
12-13-10, 10:39 AM
Restarted from an an earlier save due to a CTD. I'm in a type IXB again, having decided to pass up the IXC available. It's August 1941, about ready to ship out near Gibraltar.
Got my fingers crossed and lucky Alberich!
Axeman3d
12-13-10, 11:13 AM
U104 out of Lorient, Nov/Dec 1940
Weather was miserable the whole trip, some of the worst seas I've seen. Running at ahead full in order to make 10 knots most of the time, I reached my patrol square off the Azores to prey on the South Africa/India convoy routes. Completely fruitless, so I decided to steam up and down the route from the Azores to Ireland, zigging all the way.
Picked up a large northbound convoy and spent most of my patrol harrassing it to death, picking off small merchants, a couple of medium cargos and a couple of Emprire frieghters. Eventually it was nearing the shallower waters leading to the English Channel so I backed off and headed back down the route, only to find and sink some stragglers.
The horrendous weather meant I had to use impact settings on the torpedos most of the time, and could not use the deck gun on the unescorted stragglers at all. On the last encounter before heading home, I found that this did not apply to a small merchant, who proceeded to strafe me with AA machine guns at extreme range while I waited to see if he would sink with my final eel in him. He didn't and I went home seasick and with bullet holes in the conning tower.
VONHARRIS
12-13-10, 02:41 PM
Upon return of his 18th patrol Heinz von Harris was having a beer with his dear friend Kptltn Herberd Kraous. Kraous and his U-754 have just received orders for transfer into the Med. Kraous was bragging that
U-505 wouldn't last not one patrol in the Med.
Von Harris was furious. The insult was too big to ignore. He got up , said something between his teeth and he went to the phone.
He called Bdu. He demended an immediate transfer to the 29th flotilla.
His demand was met.
So U-505 left Lorient for Salamis with one clear order : SINK EM ALL!!
eBeaker
12-13-10, 08:11 PM
At the helm of KM Prinz Eugen, I ran into a small convoy northeast of Dover soon after reaching my patrol point. Soon after sinking everything, I detected a large convoy to the north. At flank speed, I sped not to find a light cruiser at the center as I had expected, but HMS Rodney herself! After a long running battle which ended with me sinking all the merchants and smaller escorts to give me room to maneuver, I found to my dismay that my main magazines were empty and Rodney not even listing a bit.
After fleeing to the south, I was further dismayed to find Rodney was in pursuit! After a bit of maneuvering, I worked my way past her and hit yet another convoy, which I mauled with my single starboard-side secondary gun that still had ammunition. After a quick pass, and several more merchantmen sunk, I headed back to base with 102,000+ tons under my belt.
To:BDU
From: U-93
Date:30May41
Sunk Illustrious class carrier grid DH57.
Will stop at supply ship Corrientes to take on supplies, fuel and torpedoes before continuing to assigned grid DT72.
Reusch
:woot:
VONHARRIS
12-17-10, 12:46 AM
Things proved very hard for U-505 and Heinx von Harris in the Med.
All ships are escorted and the enemy air force has a constant presence in the skies.
Three patrols have been completed
No 19: 19 Mar 1942 - 8 Apr 1942 24 days 21998 grt
No 20: 14 Jun 1942 - 3 July 1942 20 days 20568 grt
No 21: 19 Aug 1942 - 12 Sep 1942 25 days 35895grt
During patrol No 19 U-505 met one of Sir Tovey's TFs : 1x King George 2xNelson 2x Fiji 10xDDs.
The weather was in favor of U-505 but a miscalculation during the submerged approach caused major trouble. When the pericope was raised von Harris saw the battleships crossing this path at bearing 160 - 190 and the DDs charged him immediately. The two stern torps were launched against the KG , one missed the other a dud. U-505 escped with medium damages and three dead men.
Note : I have seen that TFs are easier to find in the Med than in the Atlantic but they they travel faster (18 - 20kts) and it is very difficult to intercept them unless they come your way.
Missing Name
12-17-10, 03:34 PM
U-127, Kapitanleutnant Ohne ein Namen.
Type IXB: 10.5cm deck gun, 2 FlaK/30 Zwilling.
Patrol 24, set out from Lorient. Early July, 1942.
July 9: I came across a convoy, intercepted it beautifully. Fired two torps at a large merchant from about 4000m, but then the convoy changed course while the fish were en route. Due to large numbers of escorts and mainly low-value targets, I called off the attack.
July 10: Encountered an Irish convoy.
July 11: Shelled a large oiler near the Canary Islands. Used 57 shells. Enemy 20mm could not reach us. Pleasant weather.
July 12: Intercepting a small merchant. She is unaware of our presence...
Things proved very hard for U-505 and Heinx von Harris in the Med.
All ships are escorted and the enemy air force has a constant presence in the skies.
Three patrols have been completed
No 19: 19 Mar 1942 - 8 Apr 1942 24 days 21998 grt
No 20: 14 Jun 1942 - 3 July 1942 20 days 20568 grt
No 21: 19 Aug 1942 - 12 Sep 1942 25 days 35895grt
During patrol No 19 U-505 met one of Sir Tovey's TFs : 1x King George 2xNelson 2x Fiji 10xDDs.
The weather was in favor of U-505 but a miscalculation during the submerged approach caused major trouble. When the pericope was raised von Harris saw the battleships crossing this path at bearing 160 - 190 and the DDs charged him immediately. The two stern torps were launched against the KG , one missed the other a dud. U-505 escped with medium damages and three dead men.
Note : I have seen that TFs are easier to find in the Med than in the Atlantic but they they travel faster (18 - 20kts) and it is very difficult to intercept them unless they come your way. Intercept in the right way and in the vicinity, and as you say they are of a high speed. A CL Kent class passed by a while ago, she had 30 knots of speed.
VONHARRIS
12-19-10, 02:31 AM
Finally patrolling those dangerous waters of the Med paid off.
CAPTAIN'S LOG
Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
6.12.42.0219Patrol 23
U-505, 23rd/29th Flotilla
Left at: December 6, 1942, 02:19
From: La Spezia
Mission Orders: Patrol grid CH73
10.12.42.2332Grid CH 76Ship sunk! SS Snabb (Tramp Steamer), 1964 tons. Cargo: Bauxite. Crew: 32. Crew lost: 4
11.12.42.1222Grid CH 81Ship sunk! SS Matheran (Large Merchant), 10615 tons. Cargo: Textiles. Crew: 97. Crew lost: 80
14.12.42.1326Grid CH 76Ship sunk! SS A. M. Simpson (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 21. Crew lost: 7
15.12.42.1234Grid CH 73Ship sunk! SS Adriana Barbara (HMT Aquitania), 45557 tons. Cargo: Mail/Packages. Crew: 242. Crew lost: 14
16.12.42.0606Grid CH 75Ship sunk! SS Montrose (Large Troop Ship), 24010 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 312. Crew lost: 212
0631Grid CH 75Ship sunk! HMCS Uganda (Fiji class), 10725 tons. Crew: 829. Crew lost: 422
17.12.42.2333Grid CH 73Ship sunk! SS Stig Gorthon (Tramp Steamer), 1965 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 27. Crew lost: 13
18.12.42.0058Grid CH 73Ship sunk! SS Gauntlet (Medium Cargo), 5084 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 61. Crew lost: 21017
Grid CH 81Ship sunk! SS Typhoon (Medium Cargo), 5085 tons. Cargo: Military Stores. Crew: 56. Crew lost: 49
19.12.42.0835Grid CH 76Ship sunk! SS Farida (Small Freighter), 2230 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 20. Crew lost: 2
20.12.42.0756Grid CH 76Ship sunk! SS Lookout (Medium Cargo), 5077 tons. Cargo: Sugar. Crew: 44. Crew lost: 23
23.12.42.
0112 Patrol results (just in time to celebrate my birthday 23 December RL)
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 11
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 114181 tons
Sinking of the SS Adriana Barbara (HMT Aquitania), 45557 tons
15 Dec 1942 10:00
Von Harris and his sound man hear heavy screws fading away at high speed bearing 20 - 50. A task force has just crossed their path at a very long range.
10:30
As nothing is heard , von Harris decides to sutface the boat. Current depth is 40m.
10:35
While raising to the surface , new sounds appear bearing 295 and closing in a steady east course. Von Harris stays at periscope depth and waits , doing 2kts silent running.
11:00
Ships are closing in now bearing 310 Two warships and a merchant can be clearly heard
11:30
Targets speed is estimated to 5kts course east. Von Harris orders all 4 tubes flooded. Up scope
11:32
Targets are visualy identified : A huge 4 funnel liner a Black swan and a Hunt II.
11:40
U-505 continues at 2 Kts same course. Targets situation unchanged
12:25
The liner is at bearing 340 showing her huge hull in the periscope. Torpedoes are set at medium speed as range is estimated at 7500m , impact pistols.
12:27
Fire 1 - 4 spread 0f 4 torpedoes 3 sec delay
12:32
Impacts : 3 explode 1 dud
12:34
Breaking noises. The escorts can not be heard. The liner is sinking. Down to 160m Silent running escape
Note : How much mail would a 45k tonnage ship carry?
unterseemann
12-19-10, 04:56 AM
U-151 Kptlt R.Eickmeyer
3rd/11th flotilla La Rochelle
Patrol 5: 03/05/44-15/05/44 (13 days)
07/05/44:2 ships convoy detected by watch crew in BF21. 2 granville freighters. course and speed estimated 220°, 8kn. Position not ideal for attack. Match speed and course and slowly gain good position. Simultaneous attack, 1 TIII torp to each ship. Torpedo hit after 71 sec followed by the other 18 sec later. First ship sank in the minute. The other stay afloat and a coup de grâce is fired 15 min after
01:57 SS Tresillian 4.707 tons
02:18 SS Capo Olmo 4.708 tons
11/05/44: Large convoy coming at us in AM97. Choppy seas with quite good visibility. More than 35 ships and at least 7 escorts... Fired a gnat to a medium merchant in the left outer column. Impact after 85 seconds, sinking noise. Never detected and escaped harmless.
04:29 Unknown Medium Merchant 5.173 tons
12/05/44: Fast large danish tanker heading 70. Fired our last torpedoe but missed. Resume course to La Rochelle
15/05/44
16:12 Docked at La Rochelle
Patrol results:
3 ships for 14.588 tons
Carreer results:
12 ships for 55.672 tons
Kptlt R.Eickmeyer is now commissioning a type VIIC uboot
Next patrol not expected before mid-july 1944
To von Harris: good job with the liner! You seem to be quite lucky with those, i've only see two of them in almost five years of playing...:doh:
reignofdeath
12-19-10, 06:09 PM
Question as to this stuff below, (I copied it from someones patrol report) but is there a download that automatically sets this up for you?? the crew lost and cargo carried?? or is that all done manually??
1039 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! HMS Brazen (A&B classes), 1350 tons. Crew: 190. Crew lost: 1
1059 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! HMS Resolution (Revenge class), 31000 tons. Crew: 1199. Crew lost: 11
1107 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! MV Teakwood (Modern Tanker), 7292 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 51. Crew lost: 38
1109 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Ole Wegger (Whale Factory Ship), 12017 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 126. Crew lost: 5
1110 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS N. T. Nielsen-Alonso (Whale Factory Ship), 12016 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 131. Crew lost: 128
1122 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Port Auckland (Ore Carrier), 8085 tons. Cargo: Bauxite. Crew: 86. Crew lost: 15
1127 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Manaar (Large Merchant), 5459 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 107. Crew lost: 39
1132 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Ixion (Ore Carrier), 8083 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 86. Crew lost: 67
1142 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Talthybius (Ore Carrier), 8084 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 96. Crew lost: 82
1218 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Raranga (Large Merchant), 5460 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 98. Crew lost: 24
1242 Grid BE 64 Ship sunk! SS Krasnoe Znamya (Tramp Steamer), 2432 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 22. Crew lost: 0
kaleun69
12-19-10, 08:42 PM
SHIII Comander is a mod, that among other things, adds the those details (ship name, cargo, crew lost) at the end of your patrol.
Actually, SH3 Commander is not a mod, it is sort of an add-on to the game. It does not change the game like a mod would. It just adds more immersion.
reignofdeath
12-19-10, 10:29 PM
Point is I have Sh3 Commander and GWX and it doesnt do the cargo and crew lost and stuff like that, just ships and their names.? Forgot to mention that part lol
Sailor Steve
12-19-10, 11:21 PM
Do you have the latest version, 3.2? That is the only one that does it. If you do have that version I don't know what's wrong, because it works out of the box for most people.
Gargamel
12-19-10, 11:24 PM
May have to enable the option in the settings though.
reignofdeath
12-19-10, 11:28 PM
I just checked its 3.2.. hmmm
Sailor Steve
12-19-10, 11:30 PM
Gargamel might have a point. Check under Career Options and make sure that Use Historic Ship Names is checked. I didn't think it would give names at all without it, but you never know...
reignofdeath
12-19-10, 11:34 PM
Says Use Real Ship Names in patrol log, and that is checked.
Gargamel
12-20-10, 12:17 AM
Try randomize ship tonnage?
I've tried but I think it sucks,but of course, try this not hurt :lurk:
Jack Cutter
12-20-10, 05:53 AM
Point is I have Sh3 Commander and GWX and it doesnt do the cargo and crew lost and stuff like that, just ships and their names.? Forgot to mention that part lol
I'm having the same problems. I also get ship names in my patrol logs, but never any crew lost or cargo information. It's a strange problem...
I'm beginning to wonder if it's an OS problem. I have windows Vista Home Edition 32 Bit....what do you run?
Missing Name
12-20-10, 07:31 AM
U-127, Kapitanleutnant Ohne ein Namen.
Type IXB: 10.5cm deck gun, 2 FlaK/30 Zwilling.
Patrol 24, set out from Lorient. Early July, 1942.
....
July 12: Intercepting a small merchant. She is unaware of our presence. Took a good 10 minutes to sink after a torpedo to the middle.
Alright, enough with the dates. I'll just tell you all why I love the IX so much. Took down a destroyer with the deck gun and sank the ships in the small convoy. Slight damage.
Pissed off an ASW trawler. Destroyed my radio, sonar, hydrophone, periscopes, aft batteries, FlaK guns, and brought my fuel down to less than 25% after a fit to the tanks. Made it back from the Carribean to Lorient with a bit less than 10% of my fuel remaining. 37% hull integrity. (And no 10.5 shells left.)
reignofdeath
12-20-10, 04:40 PM
I'm having the same problems. I also get ship names in my patrol logs, but never any crew lost or cargo information. It's a strange problem...
I'm beginning to wonder if it's an OS problem. I have windows Vista Home Edition 32 Bit....what do you run?
Ive got randomize ship tonnage on but as far as OS im running windows 7 with SH3 and Commander installed straight to the C drive.
VONHARRIS
12-21-10, 04:37 AM
Yesterday night I completed the most succesful patrol ever : 185000 tons
The renown I took was 5000 points.
It took place in the Med.
I will post the patrol log soon. I am posting this from my laptop because I can not wait to go home to post the complete report.
I even sunk the RMS TITANIC!
EDIT : I am posting the logs
http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/5830/mostsuc.jpg
second page
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8011/mostsuc1.jpg
Gargamel
12-21-10, 05:43 PM
:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o
Nice haul!
Funny though... you dont have any "average" ships, theyre either huge or tiny lol.
VONHARRIS
12-22-10, 12:56 AM
@Gargamel ,
Yes indeed. The engagements were one after the other and I was extremely lucky finding them. Moreover everyone of these huge targets went down with the first torpedo salvo.
It is the first time for all the years I have been playnig SH3 that this happened.
Gargamel
12-22-10, 02:44 AM
Woot! Encountered another convoy with just a single ASW escort. I figured this could never happen again, I assumed the tommies would have learned from the first slaughter!
There were 2 "neutrals" (greek) in there too, sank one, left one to pick up the survivors. As it was getting dark, I "marked" the "rescue" boat by blowing off it's cargo with my AA guns.
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8731/sh3img21122010231645491.png
8.2.40.
1221 Patrol 6
U-123, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: February 8, 1940, 12:21
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid BD99
11.2.40.
2012 Grid AN 41 Ship sunk! MV Corheath (Coastal Tanker), 1069 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 22. Crew lost: 17
13.2.40.
0038 Grid AN 14 Ship sunk! SS Whirlwind (Medium Cargo), 5270 tons. Cargo: Wine/Spirits. Crew: 64. Crew lost: 49
1522 Grid AN 11 Ship sunk! SS Imperial Valley (Granville-type Freighter), 4707 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 73. Crew lost: 63
16.2.40.
2159 Grid AM 29 Ship sunk! SS Menelaus (Large Merchant), 7536 tons. Cargo: Timber. Crew: 88. Crew lost: 27
27.2.40.
2122 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! HMS Brilliant (A&B classes), 1350 tons. Crew: 182. Crew lost: 96
2128 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Kosmos (Whale Factory Ship), 12016 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 164. Crew lost: 90
2131 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Gleniffer (Large Merchant), 7537 tons. Cargo: Mail/Packages. Crew: 62. Crew lost: 35
2133 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! MV Athelduchess (Large Tanker), 10740 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 58. Crew lost: 25
2139 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! MV Mormacswan (Medium Cargo), 5272 tons. Cargo: Scrap Metal. Crew: 59. Crew lost: 28
2143 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Wild rover (Medium Cargo), 5271 tons. Cargo: Tobacco. Crew: 61. Crew lost: 46
2147 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Glenshiel (Large Merchant), 7538 tons. Cargo: Military Stores. Crew: 75. Crew lost: 49
2150 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Shelon (Passenger/Cargo), 2253 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 49. Crew lost: 36
2151 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Bretwalda (Granville-type Freighter), 4709 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 81. Crew lost: 48
2154 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Penolver (Small Merchant), 3559 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 44. Crew lost: 33
2154 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Garesfield (Small Freighter), 2228 tons. Cargo: Coffee. Crew: 34. Crew lost: 24
2201 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Katingo Hajipatera (Small Merchant), 3557 tons. Cargo: Trucks. Crew: 69. Crew lost: 14
2204 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS Bradfyne (Granville-type Freighter), 4708 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 68. Crew lost: 40
2208 Grid BE 47 Ship sunk! SS City of Lancaster (Small Merchant), 3556 tons. Cargo: Foodstuffs. Crew: 61. Crew lost: 31
6.3.40.
1514 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 18
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 92876 tons
But then....
On my way back to base, after being recalled before the invasion of Norway, I just about got ran over by a task force. Turns out it was the Hood and a Revenge. Managed to get 3 hits on each. Apparently they turned around and came back. Ran out of torpedos, after I had disabled the Revenge. :nope: Coulda bagged another 2 capital ships. Least they'll be out of action for a while.
Here's them about to run into each other in panic.
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2497/sh3img2212201013427194.png
VONHARRIS
12-22-10, 03:40 AM
@Gargamel
Nice out there. With one more ship you could have reached a 100K patrol.
Tough luck with the BBs.
At which point of the hull did you aim your shots?
Try to hit the ship at different points to cause more damage and flooding to take her down.
If you manage to hit her midships and below her forward gun turrets then you have a 70-80% chance to sink her.
Gargamel
12-22-10, 09:49 PM
@Gargamel
Nice out there. With one more ship you could have reached a 100K patrol.
Tough luck with the BBs.
At which point of the hull did you aim your shots?
Try to hit the ship at different points to cause more damage and flooding to take her down.
If you manage to hit her midships and below her forward gun turrets then you have a 70-80% chance to sink her.
I always have them shoot for the waterline. I close to about 1500m so they rarely miss. And During the convoy attack, theres no way I could control the gun. I have to be in the bridge, head on a swivel, trying not to get run over and planning the next target.
THe pisser about the BB's, I lost the Revenge in the dark, and Sonar couldnt hear her, so I thought she was going down, or soon at least, so I ended up firing my last two eels in a depseration shot that I knew would miss the Hood. Then 20 minutes later, she started her engines back up and took off.... Second time I caught them, the DD's were so far ahead I dont think they came back to help.
Jack Cutter
12-22-10, 11:35 PM
Ive got randomize ship tonnage on but as far as OS im running windows 7 with SH3 and Commander installed straight to the C drive.
That is strange. I have both SH3+GWX 3.0 and commander installed to my programs folder...hence my issue. :88)
Missing Name
12-23-10, 11:22 AM
Alright, what the heck? I thought ASW trawlers were a joke. I came across one escorting a passenger/cargo. Switch to silent running - engines doing about 75 rpm. Sank the merchy from a couple km away, boom boom. Dove to 60 meters, bottom is 70.
The damn trawler knows exactly where I am. Severely damaged the electric engines, destroyed the decoy launcher and the engine crew drowned almost immediately. It's a good thing milchkuh U-488 is around until 1944.
VONHARRIS
12-23-10, 02:42 PM
@Gargamel
I meant how do you aim your torps.
Gargamel
12-23-10, 11:27 PM
@Gargamel
I meant how do you aim your torps.
With the scope............
Baddum tish!
Full auto. :oops:
One of these days..... I'll learn full manual.
Aside from the initial escort hit, the convoy attack was all deck gun, aside from one or two torp shots. I think a few of the other kills were deck gun also.
VONHARRIS
12-24-10, 12:07 AM
With the scope............
Baddum tish!
Full auto. :oops:
One of these days..... I'll learn full manual.
Aside from the initial escort hit, the convoy attack was all deck gun, aside from one or two torp shots. I think a few of the other kills were deck gun also.
Even with full auto targeting you can aim your torps to the desired spot of the hull.
1. Select your target , lock it and fire your first torp. This is aimed automatically to midship section of the target
2. Unlock the target and move your scope right or left so that you can see the forward or the aft section of the target. Be careful not to lose the triangle sight. You can aim any spot along the hull of the target
3. Fire your second torp. It will hit at the desired point.
4. Repeat steps 2 - 3 if you want to fire a third one
All of the above assume that the target is not zigzaging.
With this tactic you can have kills at 6500 - 7000 m with medium speed TIs and impact pistols against BBs easily.
Gargamel
12-24-10, 12:36 AM
I do that already to get a good spread of a "salvo"
Pick farthest impact point, Open tube doors (Q), Fire (Ctrl-Enter), Cycle tubes (Y), Pick second spot, etc etc....
My miss on the hood though, was a stern shot at a high speed zigzagging target. I knew before I fired that it was a bad idea, yet I still fired. :nope::damn:
This dumkopf could have had 2 eels left over to finish off the Revenge disable a few thousand m away. But I couldnt find her in the storm.
EDIT: Weather made a good keel shot hard. I had the depth set, but all the shots ended up as impacts on the side, so I never got a magazine or the like.
desirableroasted
12-24-10, 12:41 AM
:har::har::har::har:
I love the "Big3 Funnel Liner."
Reminds me of Greta at the Officer's Club.
Seriously, though, let's not hijack the thread even with joke patrol reports.
Yesterday night I completed the most succesful patrol ever : 185000 tons
The renown I took was 5000 points.
It took place in the Med.
I will post the patrol log soon. I am posting this from my laptop because I can not wait to go home to post the complete report.
I even sunk the RMS TITANIC!
EDIT : I am posting the logs
http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/5830/mostsuc.jpg
second page
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8011/mostsuc1.jpg
Gargamel
12-24-10, 12:44 AM
I've seen the Titanic reported in other threads. Maybe a Joke, or maybe it's an easter Egg the GWX boys threw in? I know you can see Godzilla attacking Japan somewhere.
VONHARRIS
12-24-10, 02:10 AM
@Gargamel
The Titanic is no joke
I have found a mod in the download section of subsim that adds the RMS Titanic in your ships
As far as the HMS Hood I have been in a similar situation and I did the same thing : Fired both stern tubes.
@desirableroasted
Same for you. The Big 3 funnel liner can be found in the Subsim download section
The patrol is NO joke.
I will the patrol sheet from within the game to prove it.
Edit : The summary patrol report sheet
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/2395/5000krenown.jpg
I hope now that you can see it is NO joke
This patrol has happened once in all those years I have been playing SH3
Always good assignment from you, :DL
26.03.40 20:26
6th petrol 21:26
Just a couple of kms away from Vigo port, approaching resupply ship...
Escorted by dolphins.
Missing Name
12-24-10, 09:36 PM
I took on another destroyer with the deck gun. Blew off her forward guns, a DC rack and searchlights, but had to dive. She's out of depth charges. The small convoy got away.
Now we wait and see who gets bored first. She's hurt much worse than me, but she's still pinging away like crazy. Good thing my batteries and O2 are almost full.
19 SEPT 39. 2nd patrol. Heading Southwest, submerged in the A.M., along the Western English coastline. We picked up on hydrophones, a slow-moving merchant moving towards us! With heavy seas and thick fog, we tracked her for three hours with the hydrophones. Seaman Bernard causes a rukus during our silent run by sharpening knives with a gritty emery cloth much to the dismay to our L1.
We surface and move in a direction to intercept the merchant. Out of the fog she appeared on a collision course towards us! We circled to the starboard and checked out her flag as she passed us going the opposite way. Americans! :(
I order the Navigator to resume our course to our assigned patrol area.
For punishment, I assign Bernard to get his sleep on the deck for the next three days.
Our journey continues....
VONHARRIS
12-25-10, 03:07 PM
23 JULY 1943
Grid CH81
U-505 engages huge convoy escorted by 8 DDs
From: BdU
To : All uboats
U-505 has failed to make contact after she confirmed heavily escorted convoy in her sector. It is with great pity that we accept the loss of U-505 , her commander Kptlnt Heinz von Harris along with all hands.
A great career is finished in the dark waters of the Med in a dark stormy night. A new one is about to start all over again.
Gargamel
12-25-10, 09:33 PM
23 JULY 1943
Grid CH81
U-505 engages huge convoy escorted by 8 DDs
From: BdU
To : All uboats
U-505 has failed to make contact after she confirmed heavily escorted convoy in her sector. It is with great pity that we accept the loss of U-505 , her commander Kptlnt Heinz von Harris along with all hands.
A great career is finished in the dark waters of the Med in a dark stormy night. A new one is about to start all over again.
:nope: Sink Them All! (But not yourself!)
23 JULY 1943
Grid CH81
U-505 engages huge convoy escorted by 8 DDs
From: BdU
To : All uboats
U-505 has failed to make contact after she confirmed heavily escorted convoy in her sector. It is with great pity that we accept the loss of U-505 , her commander Kptlnt Heinz von Harris along with all hands.
A great career is finished in the dark waters of the Med in a dark stormy night. A new one is about to start all over again.:salute:
GoldenRivet
12-26-10, 08:14 AM
23 JULY 1943
Grid CH81
U-505 engages huge convoy escorted by 8 DDs
From: BdU
To : All uboats
U-505 has failed to make contact after she confirmed heavily escorted convoy in her sector. It is with great pity that we accept the loss of U-505 , her commander Kptlnt Heinz von Harris along with all hands.
A great career is finished in the dark waters of the Med in a dark stormy night. A new one is about to start all over again.
Someone notify the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry quickly!
they are going to need a replacement exhibit (http://www.hnsa.org/ships/img/u505-2.jpg)
GoldenRivet
12-26-10, 08:52 AM
Just launched SH3 via SH3 Commander.... I have orders to take command of the 5th Flotilla.
Looks like the career is over.
U-36 will continue to sail however under a new commander.
Career seems to go fast here, the probable successor to Dönitz, :DL
Missing Name
12-26-10, 10:52 AM
I got out of the pesky DD situation! I let her ram me. I lost almost everything on the control tower, but she exploded and broke in two. I guess I had weakened her more than I thought.
The next patrol, I shot down a Wellington. The last torpedo was less than five minutes from being fully loaded into the internal compartments, so I didn't want to dive. I almost got the Kingfisher that tried to come to the rescue, but after a bit, she retreated, smoking heavily.
I love that FlaKvierling 20mm, but I'm not making a habit out of this deck emplacement.
I rarely dive down when I see a Kingfisher they are slow and sluggish and can not tolerate as many rounds, :yep:
unterseemann
12-27-10, 05:32 PM
After his fifth patrol with U-151, Rudolf Eickmeyer took command of U-1193 a type VIIC uboot.
Patrol 6:
30JUL44 23h19 Left La Rochelle
07AUG44 BE75 14h13 Caught on surface by enemy airplane. Minor damages while emergency dive. Flooding controlled rapidly and boat levelled at -55m. Hydrophon check in case of enemy warships nearby. No warships but we heard a faint noise in the distance.
16h00 Surface the boat. No airplanes but as we managed to follow the underwater contact lookouts had no difficulties to find a nice tanker
17h01 Submerged attack. 2 TIII fired with a 30 seconds interval
17h03 1 hit amidships followed by massive explosions
17h05 Ship sunk. No life boats seen.
M/V British Ambassador. 10.228 tons
21AUG44 AJ29 South of greenland
5h30 Convoy detected with hydrophon. Stormy weather, poor visibility
9h02 Surface the boat ( stupid move...), immediately under fire by escorts in heavy fog, crash dive, levelled at -140m. first depth charges quite off. Decision to come back to periscop depth and to fire 2 gnat to the convoy.
9h09 Torpedoes fired and we dove again after 1 min of silence ( to avoid our own acoustic torpedoes).
9h12 Torpedo impact! Soon followed by sinking noises
9h17 Ship sunk. no clue about the type nor the tonnage...
9h50 Cat and mouse play with escorts ( i played it at 1x, totally nerve-wrecking...). at least 7 escorts on the hydrophon. Depth -203m. Bolds useless so far, pings and depth charges continue...
9h52 Damage report! Flooding! Blow ballast in emergency! Luckily we managed to repair fastly and the flooding is under control. Boat is now at -152m and hull seems to hold the pressure. I think we got damaged by hedgehogs
10h03 It seems that the last bold we launched is effective, depth charges explode behind us now
10h50 Despite some pings it seems that enemy escorts lost contact with us and can't regain
11h30 We slowly raised to -100m, escorts and convoy are now leaving the place
15h00 Surface the boat, damage inspection report medium damages to the pressure hull. We won't attack this convoy another time. We are lucky to be still alive and we can thank the storm... Drinks and food for everybody on board
25AUG44
12h00: Our base is no longer La Rochelle but Bergen in Norway. Fuel should be ok
10SEP44 21h18 Docked at Bergen
43 days at sea
2 ships sunk ( intel confirmed our second sinking, a 12.000 tons tanker!!)
22.380 tons (carreer total 78.052 tons, 14 ships sunk)
H.I 71.30%
Kptlt Rudolf Eickmeyer will make a last patrol with U-1193 before commissioning a new type of uboot...
Jimbuna
12-27-10, 08:36 PM
SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif
Missing Name
12-28-10, 10:38 AM
Capt. Ohne Eienen Namen, U-127 (Types IXB, IXC)
December 1, 1939 - December 6, 1943 (30 completed patrols)
169 Merchants sunk (1,100,759 GRT), including several neutrals
96 Warships sunk (453,429 GRT), including 48 destroyers
1 aircraft destroyed
Fate: Located and sunk by convoy defenses, 100km west of Gibraltar. No survivors.
*****
Capt. Kurt Tödlich, U-127 (Type IXB)
December 1, 1939 -
VONHARRIS
12-28-10, 02:03 PM
Capt. Ohne Eienen Namen, U-127 (Types IXB, IXC)
December 1, 1939 - December 6, 1943 (30 completed patrols)
169 Merchants sunk (1,100,759 GRT), including several neutrals
96 Warships sunk (453,429 GRT), including 48 destroyers
1 aircraft destroyed
Fate: Located and sunk by convoy defenses, 100km west of Gibraltar. No survivors.
*****
Capt. Kurt Tödlich, U-127 (Type IXB)
December 1, 1939 -
The U-boot Waffe has lost a valuable asset (U-127) and a great commander. The loss is heavy
May you rest in peace in the cold waters of the Atlantic! :salute:
VONHARRIS
12-28-10, 03:03 PM
U-30 VIIB type commander : Heinrich Ritter
5th patrol Dec 3 1939 - Dec 19 1939
1 . SS Aeneas (coastal freighter) 1869 tons
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2 . MV Fulton (tugboat) 1129 tons
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3. Speeding to intecept the next target
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4. SS Brynhild (small freighter) 2229 tons
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5. SS Adherence (coastal ferighter) 1872 tons
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6. under attack
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7. SS City of Carlisle (large merchant) 10616 tons
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8. MV Corheath (coastal tanker) 1240 tons
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9 . SS Reijnst (passenger/cargo) 2245 tons
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10. MV Ocean Victor (fishing boat) 83 tons
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11 . SS Philoctetes (ore carrier) 8084 tons
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12. SS Santa Monica II (medium cargo) 5081 tons
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13. SS Adm Courbet (coastal freighter) 1875 tons
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14. SS Golden Gate (medium cargo) 5083 tons
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15 SS Golden Gate splits in half after coup de grace
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Total tonnage :41406 tons
Upon return to Wilhelmhaven Heinrich Ritter was offered the command of U-110 IXB type boat
(I couldn't resist. I have decided to complete this career with the VII B-C types)
29 SEPT 39, 2nd patrol. U-53 has reached our patrol area in the Western area of the English channel with 60% of fuel reserves remaining. Several hours were wasted chasing phantom sound reports in heavy seas and thick fog. Hopefully, our weather will turn for the better.
I've instucted the navigator to plot a seach pattern in our patrol area. Considering the foul weather, I intend to remain submerged, in an attempt to pick up sound contacts. I intend to surface once a day, to re-charge the batteries while stopped, in order to conserve fuel. Our journey continues...
VONHARRIS
12-29-10, 02:38 PM
U-110 had an exceptional patrol
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2nd page
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3rd page
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Sinking of the HMS Hood
U-110 was patrolling at grid AM53 heading north when an incoming message informed H. Ritter about a TF sailng south at high speed.
An interception course was plotted and indeed U-110 met the TF.
She was at periscope depth when heavy screws were heard at bearing 310 - 330 closing in fast.
U - 110 turned left and set up an ambush for the enemy warships. The night was moonless and the seas not that rough. Visual contact was made briefly at range 5000m and the HMS HOOD and a Revenge class BB were indentified. There was time only for one salvo : 3 TIs fast impact at the HMS HOOD 1 TI fast impact at the Revenge.
U-110 fired her eels and dove to 70m starting her escape way. There was no time for visual comfimation of any hits.
3 explosions were heard. In fact H. Ritter didn't know what he had hit.
U-110 continued at silent running and dove deeper to 85m.
After 1 hour (game time) sinking noises were heard.
Upon return H.Ritter and his crew were informed that their victim was the HMS HOOD. The BdU couldn't confirm if they have damaged the Revenge class BB as well.
Gargamel
12-31-10, 01:52 AM
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That Makes 3! 1 Resolution and both the Nelson and Rodney! I won't update the sig till after the patrol is done. But this career is where I'm getting the material for my story from, so be ready for lots of action!! And to be frankly Honest, I had gotten the "arcade" style games out of me and am playing a fairly serious DiD career here. I have just been over lucky with target selection!! 2 Convoys completely wiped out, and a Full task force worth of warships.
The very southwest corner of AN11 is awesome for warship hunting. Seems to be their main entry/exit point for arctic waters from Scapa.
ijnfleetadmiral
12-31-10, 03:18 AM
U-2503 returned to port after sinking 11 merchants for 39,388 tons.
Current Date: 5 March 1945
KADM Kurt Hossel
Commanding Officer, U-2503 (Type XXI)
1,188,604 tons sunk
VONHARRIS
12-31-10, 04:11 AM
@Gargamel
I envy your luck!
Keep them sinking! :salute:
Tigershark624
12-31-10, 07:46 AM
I just restarted a career after forgetting that upgrades of any kind before the first patrol have a tendency to keep you from getting credit for anything sunk. I added a tower insignia before I started my last career. I'm about to enter the Straits of Dover on my way to my patrol grid. It's August 2, 1939.
Gargamel
12-31-10, 09:51 PM
U-2503 returned to port after sinking 11 merchants for 39,388 tons.
Current Date: 5 March 1945
KADM Kurt Hossel
Commanding Officer, U-2503 (Type XXI)
1,188,604 tons sunk
Grats on making it to '45! I think....... Thank god for snorkels... surface is evil!!!
ijnfleetadmiral
01-01-11, 08:38 PM
THE WAR IS OVER!
KADM Kurt Hossel
Career: 1 September 1939 - 25 May 1945
1,258,670 tons sunk
Awards:
4-Year Long Service Medal
Gold U-Boat Front Clasp
U-Boat Badge with Diamonds
Iron Cross 1st & 2nd Classes
Kriegsmarine Honor Roll Clasp
German Cross in Gold
Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, & Diamonds
The following is a copy of the letter handed out to the crew of U-2503 on the date the Allies took formal possession of the U-boat.
25 May 1945
Gentlemen,
Victory has been denied us. The Aliies have triumphed over us. The Fuhrer is dead, our beloved Fatherland lies in ruins, and countless numbers of our brothers have gone on eternal patrol. But there is one small light in our dark world: we have survived.
Those of you who have been with me since 1 September 1939...when we first took U-1 out of Wilhelmshaven, what a journey we've had, eh? Then our family was enlarged when we moved to U-48, and then to U-71. We grew larger still when we moved to U-182, and it was with you fine men that I sailed to America, coming within a stone's throw of New York Harbor. If it hadn't been for that old Clemson-class destroyer, we could've gone in, popped the hatch and thumbed our noses at Manhattan itself! Remember that Tribal-class destroyer who thought he'd sink us for sure? Then the torpedo we'd fired at him was set off by his own prop-wash, blowing his stern open and sinking him not two minutes later? Ha-ha!
In June 1944, we met the last members of our family when we boarded U-2503. What a boat she is! That Cannon-class destroyer-escort was quite surprised when our torpedo detonated right under her bridge structure and set off three or four ammo lockers! Sadly, we never did get that carrier or battleship we so yearned for...we never even sighted one! Sadder still, the great liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth never graced our periscope. But we made it home safely forty-nine times, my friends...the Allies never did get us.
And now I would like to thank several of you by name. To my Weapons Officer, Korvettenkapitan Udo Hartenstein, your efficient management of our torpedo rooms enabled us to sink as many ships as we did. I thank you and all those under you. To my Assistant Engineer, Korvettenkapitan Adolf Carlewitz, and the Senior NCO of Engineering, Stabsoberbootsmann Axel Thurmann, it was your constant presence in the engine rooms that honed those men into the best engineers in the U-boat service. To the senior-most NCOs of my torpedomen, Stabsoberbootsmen Jorg Zander and Herbert Andersen, it was your encouragement and leadership that brought such efficiency in torpedo reloading.
To Stabsoberbootsmann Alexander Hartmann, Senior NCO of the Repair Crews, you and your men didn't have that much to do during the time you were aboard, but when you were needed, you were there. To Hauptgefreiters Otto Grau and Adolf Bahn, your efficient managment of the radio has earned you the distinction of being the only two enlisted men aboard my U-boat to wear the Knight's Cross. Congratulations, gentlemen...you are the best of the best.
And finally I'd like to thank the man who deserves to be thanked more than anyone else: our Sonar Operator and Chief of the Boat, Stabsoberbootsmann Carl Kreutz. Kreutz, you are the master of sonar. Your alert ears have saved us more times than I can possibly count, and if I were allowed to recommend any NCO for promotion to officer, you'd be first on my list. Had regulations permitted, you'd have been an officer long ago.
And now, gentlemen, I release you from your duties. The war is over. If at all possible, return to your families and make lives for yourselves in the civilian world. And if one day Germany is allowed to have a Navy again, I would be proud to once more have any of you under my command. May Almighty God bless you all. Deutschland Uber Alles!
Your friend and comrade-in-arms,
KADM Kurt Hossel
Commanding Officer, U-2503
Varduga
01-05-11, 03:06 AM
Began playing for the first time ever a week ago, and am loving it. Off on business now, and thought I brought my Alienware, im too busy to play.
Two Patrols ago, i had the good fortune of getting a wireless report that a large convoy was moving about 120km south west of my position, just off the Irish coast. I fled down, calculated their course, and set up. Another radio position telling me they'd moved further south. Once again fled further south.
1am finds me floating below the surface in a calm sea, when the sonar man (my chief warrant officer) picks up action on the hydraphone. I ease the periscope up, and I see silhouettes in the distance. I ease it back down. Wait 40 minutes.
A destroyer is making a pattern ahead of the convoy. I am tense, and he comes within 250m. Never spot me! He's like the lead doe in a herd of deer, and she wags her tail giving those in the woods the 'okay'.
The convoy closes slowly. The biggest I've ever seen.
There in the middle is a passenger liner. It HAS to be a converted troop carrier, so heavily escorted... Right? My god, but what if it isn't? No... It has to be. If not, a message must be sent: the seas are not safe for as lon as the allies support England.
I am in the middle of the convoy now. I triple check all targets. Once again, easing the periscope up. All crew, quickly and quietly from the bunks to the torpedo rooms. The best of them up front.
Five torpedoes, five targets. All torpedoes fired within ten seconds. All bets are off, now. Come on... Come on...
Fire rips through the night air. All five hit and detonated! What fascinating luck! What's more, is that two cargo ships are breaking up frm secondaries, and one is sure to not recover. Come on, reload... Reload...
The lead destroyer, 2,500 meters away is turning... 160 degrees...
Reload... Reload...
The destroyer is now 0 degrees and closing fast. 2,000 meters... 1,500 meters... 1,200 meters, and the aft tube and #1 is ready to go.
Resolve, double check, release.
Direct hits- Passenger liner sinking fast, tanker behind me going up in secondaries. Crash dive!
Tough job evading the destroyer, and its an hour before I'm able to surface.
Exhausted, i return to base where im greeted with NEGATIVE renown. Must not have been a troop ship, and now i feel sick.
Lt, U49
Missing Name
01-05-11, 12:40 PM
THE WAR IS OVER!
KADM Kurt Hossel
Career: 1 September 1939 - 25 May 1945
Wow. I have never even made it to 1944.
Obltn Strand
01-05-11, 01:48 PM
Cool Bismarck patrol
U-150 Oberleutnant Siegmund Strand
Left at May 19th from Bergen.
2nd day received order from BdU. Intercept and report warships leaving Scapa Flow.
4th day received convoy report from Luftwaffe. Convoy located some 75 km off northern coast of Scotland. Heading west.
Decided to attack after dusk despite unfavourable conditions, high winds,sweells and no total darkness. Managed to attack two last ships of the outer column. Double shot against bigger one and single for smaller. All three hit and detonated. Sunk 5000 and 2000 tonner. Depth charged for an hour no serious damage.
5th day received order to patrol grid BE32.
7th day received orders to assist Bismarck on it's return trip.
9th day arrived to a location ordred by Bdu. Spotted two Dorsetshire class cruisers closing fast hence failed to report contact. After crashdive hydrophone readings suggested a possibility to attack. Fired two torpedoes at 1000m distance against one cruiser. Hydrophone operator heard two detonations and sinking noises. A while later lots of fast screws closing in. Spent 6 hours at silent run avoiding possible escorts.
All torpedoes used, starting a return trip, 30 000 tons sunk.
kbak303
01-05-11, 03:31 PM
Finished with my patrol grid, and been stalking up and down the west coast of Ireland... March 1941
no luck interecepting a convoy three days earlier (nasty nasty weather)
84% realisim (yes I'm a woose)
and now south-south west of Scapa Flow and debating where to go next
fuel is half or bit better
dispatched med with two eels, and two coastal freighters with gunfire and an eel each thus far,
ijnfleetadmiral
01-06-11, 01:50 AM
Exhausted, i return to base where im greeted with NEGATIVE renown. Must not have been a troop ship, and now i feel sick.
I had a passenger liner turn up in a convoy once. Was all set to fire on the ship when I notice she was a NEUTRAL. To make sure your target is enemy, check the plot, which will show various colored IDs.
Blue = friendly
Red = enemy
Green = neutral
Sinking a neutral vessel would no doubt bring negative rep, but the way I look at it is, why was she traveling in a convoy if she was neutral?
-Matt
frau kaleun
01-06-11, 11:51 AM
I had a passenger liner turn up in a convoy once. Was all set to fire on the ship when I notice she was a NEUTRAL. To make sure your target is enemy, check the plot, which will show various colored IDs.
Blue = friendly
Red = enemy
Green = neutral
Sinking a neutral vessel would no doubt bring negative rep, but the way I look at it is, why was she traveling in a convoy if she was neutral?
-Matt
Because generally speaking it was safer to travel in convoy than to cross a known war zone alone.
And if Varduga's playing GWX the color-coding's been removed from the contacts on the Navmap, unless he's made a point of modding them back in.
Even with them modded back in (which is how I've been playing) I still have ships in most convoys that do not show up color-coded right away... they're just grey icons on the map. Sometimes when I get closer they turn out to be Allied ships, sometimes not. It's not all that uncommon to find neutral ships in an "enemy" convoy at least IME early in the war.
reignofdeath
01-06-11, 02:33 PM
Is there anyway though to through the game coding, make any 'neutral' ship traveling within a enemy convoy a 'enemy' since it is probably transporting the enemy supplies secretly or something?? Id liek to know so I dont get the renown hit for sinking them because my thinking is if theyre with an enemy convoy, theyre damn well fair game.
frau kaleun
01-06-11, 04:00 PM
Is there anyway though to through the game coding, make any 'neutral' ship traveling within a enemy convoy a 'enemy' since it is probably transporting the enemy supplies secretly or something?? Id liek to know so I dont get the renown hit for sinking them because my thinking is if theyre with an enemy convoy, theyre damn well fair game.
Not that I know of, but you can edit the renown penalty for sinking a neutral to zero, which many players do because it's unlikely that any RL commander would have been called on the carpet for sinking a neutral ship traveling in a convoy protected by the enemy's navy. If nothing else, it would be easy enough just to hit one by accident in that situation, even if it wasn't the ship you were aiming for when you gave the command to fire. Editing the renown award/penalty to zero means that you don't get renown for it when it happens, but you don't lose any either. There's no reward for sinking neutrals "just because" but also no penalty for sinking them by accident or because they appear to be supporting the enemy.
Some people do edit the renown to give a reward for sinking neutrals, and then exercise the appropriate discipline regarding when and where such an attack would be justified (a neutral in an enemy convoy, or clearly taking supplies in and out of an enemy port - whatever).
Jimbuna
01-07-11, 06:05 AM
I had a passenger liner turn up in a convoy once. Was all set to fire on the ship when I notice she was a NEUTRAL. To make sure your target is enemy, check the plot, which will show various colored IDs.
Blue = friendly
Red = enemy
Green = neutral
Sinking a neutral vessel would no doubt bring negative rep, but the way I look at it is, why was she traveling in a convoy if she was neutral?
-Matt
Because generally speaking it was safer to travel in convoy than to cross a known war zone alone.
And if Varduga's playing GWX the color-coding's been removed from the contacts on the Navmap, unless he's made a point of modding them back in.
Even with them modded back in (which is how I've been playing) I still have ships in most convoys that do not show up color-coded right away... they're just grey icons on the map. Sometimes when I get closer they turn out to be Allied ships, sometimes not. It's not all that uncommon to find neutral ships in an "enemy" convoy at least IME early in the war.
IIRC that will be because your using my contact colo(u)r mod which has been around quite a while and could do with some work on the alpha channel on those ships released post mod.
The grey ships icon will change to the correct colour when you are within visual distance of said ship though.
frau kaleun
01-07-11, 02:29 PM
IIRC that will be because your using my contact colo(u)r mod which has been around quite a while and could do with some work on the alpha channel on those ships released post mod.
The grey ships icon will change to the correct colour when you are within visual distance of said ship though.
Yep. :yep:
VONHARRIS
01-10-11, 02:06 PM
Wilhemshaven 10 January 1940
U 45 (VIIB) is docked inside her pen.
Adolf Klein (IWO) : Herr Kaluen , everything is going according to plan. She will be ready in time.
VonHarris (Kaleun) : Lets hope so. We have orders to sail at 21:00 on January 11th.
Adolf Klein : Don't worry Herr Kaleun. Torpedoes have been loaded TIs as you ordered , food supplies are expected tommoror morning. Refits are completed.
VonHarris : Alles klar, so we can go to have a last drink. All crew can spent the night at shore. Lets hope to survive the "fire drill" this time ha ha
Adolf Klein : Jawohl Herr Kaleun.
U 45 is ready to unleash hell in the Atlantic ocean.....
frau kaleun
01-10-11, 02:18 PM
IIRC that will be because your using my contact colo(u)r mod which has been around quite a while and could do with some work on the alpha channel on those ships released post mod.
Just out of curiosity, how would one go about updating the mod to account for the additional ships, if one were to be so inclined? Is it complicated?
Or in other words, what are a 'alpha channel' and what do it do? :O:
Set sail for warm waters in the Med and every damn merchant has one or two escorts! The last one I came across had two escorts for a coastal small merchant! Thats taking the p*** man.
Still alive in Dec 1942.
Tonnage is a joke.
Tripitaka
01-11-11, 05:13 PM
To Bdu
from
U-46, Oberleutnant z. S. Hans Schumann
11th Patrol
Assigned grid DH53
Left L'Orient Dec 25 1940
No contacts all the way to assigned patrol area so have decided to head toward Gibraltar - if needs be can refuel/re-arm at "cow" Thalia based in Cadiz.
January 3rd 1941 - Am approaching the Gibraltar Straits. Large Convoy heading straight for me approx 15Km away, am turning to 120 degrees as aerial recon tells me the southern edge of the convoy has 2 large Merchants @ 10,700 tons apiece and 1 Empire type freighter @ 6,700 tons.
Convoy in line 4 abreast, 4 ships per line. 3-4 Escorts (DD + ASW) + Sub, probably S-class, at rear of northern-most line, surfaced.
Is Grofaz still with us?
H.Schumann
Tripitaka
01-12-11, 12:48 AM
To Bdu
from
U-46, Oberleutnant z. S. Hans Schumann
January 3rd 1941
Grid CG95 - 35 55 N 5 50 W approx
Current depth 60 Metres, Course 91d.
Engaged Convoy:
1 Large Merchant - 7669 Tons
1 Large Merchant - 7670 Tons
1 Empire Freighter - 6780 Tons
Total - 22319 Tons, 5 eels used.
Have evaded escort but too close in to reload tubes as running Silent. Will continue on to Gibraltar to recon Harbour.
Eels set to Magnetic Detonation working ok at short ranges - runs of @ 50 seconds or less and depth set to 6 metres+. Please advise other U-boats.
H. Schumann
NoGoodLandLubber
01-12-11, 11:43 AM
I'm currently about 250km west of Brest returning to Lorient from my shakedown cruise. I've been tracking an Empire class freighter since it was 6000m out. I'm within 2000km now and just for giggles am planning to send her to the bottom.
Was going to let her slide; but when I saw how freakin' HUGE she was I just couldn't pass it up. :arrgh!:
Tripitaka
01-12-11, 04:30 PM
To Bdu
from
U-46, Oberleutnant z. S. Hans Schumann
January 5th 1941
Arrived Gibraltar Bay evening of the 4th, night falling. Rigged for Silent and went in. So many targets, so few eels . . .
Engaged enemy:
1 x Southampton Class - 10750 Tons
1 x Southampton Class - 10750 Tons
HMS Nelson - 36000 Tons!!!!
Total - 57500 Tons - 1 eel remaining (aft ext res)
Sat in Silence 12 hrs before escaping.
Heading for home.
H.Schumann
Tripitaka
01-12-11, 06:17 PM
Dearest Mother
Arrived home at L******* on the morning of January 12th after a good patrol. After we had docked I was called into the adjutants office. I thought that maybe I was being transferred but I was greeted instead by Admiral Canaris himself.
Your son is now a KapitanLeutnant zur See and a holder of the Knights Cross with Oak-Leaves, Swords AND Diamonds!! I am immensely proud that it has been seen fit to award me such a high honour for doing what is, essentially, my job.
I hope all is well with you and Father and I will see you next time I get leave.
Your loving son
Hans
Schwieger
01-12-11, 10:39 PM
Currently evading British destroyers in Mediterranean. Bottomed out at 76 meters, grid CN22.
gazpode_l
01-13-11, 11:28 AM
I Might be about to re-start my career in SH3 :woot:, it will give me something to concentrate on as I await scans to finish whilst repairing my partner's laptop/netbook! :stare:
Missing Name
01-13-11, 12:40 PM
Docked at Wilhelmshaven, June 1940. Awaiting orders to set out.
VONHARRIS
01-13-11, 01:44 PM
Carrier CTD due to corrupted saved game.
New career starts.
To: Neptune
From: U-53
Ok, we get it. Really. Sea is big. Sea is dangerous. Sea makes people seasick.
Now please, cut it out with the storm, will ya? It's not funny anymore, really.
Regards,
Oblt. z. S. Reuenthal and his vomiting crew
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