U-186´s campaign came to an end.

[Dowly]

I`ll update this as I make more patrols.

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Name: ADOLF BRUMMER
Date of Birth: 01JUL13
Place of Birth: BREMEN
Date of Intake: 01APR35

Promotions
07DEC35 SEEKADETT
01JAN37 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01DEC38 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01APR39 LEUTNANT Z. S.
26JUN41 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.

Medals
28FEB41 EISERNES KREUZ ZWEITER KLASSE
14MAY41 EISERNES KREUZ ERSTER KLASSE
05SEP41 RITTERKREUZ
18NOV41 RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB

Badges
11OCT41 U-BOOT-FRONTSPANGE

U-Bootwaffe Postings
08JUN40 1st Flotilla (Commander training)
19DEC40 7th Flotilla (11 patrols)

U-Boat Commands
19DEC40 U-52 Type VIIB (1 patrols)
22JAN41 U-186, Type VIIB (10 patrols)

PATROLS

1. Date: 19DEC40 - 22DEC40 (4 days)
Ships sunk: 2 merchants
Tonnage: 6364
Comments: 1 neutral sunk

2. Date: 22JAN41 - 25JAN41 (4 days)
Ships sunk:
Tonnage:
Comments: U-Boat damaged due to an convoy attack gone bad.
2 C3´s damaged.

3. Date: 25FEB41 - 28FEB41 (4 days)
Ships sunk: 3 merchants, 1 warship
Tonnage: 8284
Comments: 2 neutrals sunk

4. Date: 31MAR41 - 04APR41 (5 days)
Ships sunk: 1 merchant
Tonnage: 3355
Comments: 1 C2 damaged

5. Date: 05MAY41 - 14MAY41 (10 days)
Ships sunk: 1 merchant
Tonnage: 7378
Comments: My first Large cargo ship sunk! :rock:

6. Date: 14JUN41 - 26JUN41 (13 days)
Ships sunk: 1 warship
Tonnage: 1850
Comments: Took journey to find icebergs, didnt find any. :(

7. Date: 27JUL41 - 31JUL41 (5 days)
Ships sunk: 1 merchant
Tonnage: 1852
Comments:

8. Date: 31AUG41 - 05SEP41 (6 days)
Ships sunk: 1 merchant
Tonnage: 5091
Comments: Tried to go thru the Gibraltar on surfaced drive, with no luck.

9. Date: 06OCT41 - 11OCT41 (6 days)
Ships sunk: 0
Tonnage: 0
Comments:

10. Date: 11NOV41 - 18NOV41 (8 days)
Ships sunk: 0
Tonnage: 0
Comments:

11. Date: 19DEC41 - 01JAN42 (14 days)
Ships sunk: 0
Tonnage: 0
Comments: U-Boat lost

Oberleutnant z. S. Adolf Brummer and U-186 were lost sometime on 01JAN42

[Von Scheerbach]

What's the deal with preying on the neutrals???? :o

Have you no respect for our noncombatant friends?!?!?!?!?

[tedhealy]

What's the deal with preying on the neutrals???? :o

Have you no respect for our noncombatant friends?!?!?!?!?

[futurama joke]
How very neutral of you!

I hate these filthy neutrals! With enemies you know where they stand but with neutrals? Who knows! It sickens me.

What makes a man turn neutral ... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
[/f joke]

[Dowly]

Swedish coastal merchant
Reason of attacking: Sweden always beats our team in hockey (Finland). :)

2 USA ships
Reason of attacking: 2 ships less to sink when they join the war.

Oh and they sailed with lights turned off, Hitler´s orders to sink them. :yep:

[rulle34]

Swedish coastal merchant
Reason of attacking: Sweden always beats our team in hockey (Finland). :)

Of course we do :D

[Dowly]

:rotfl: I hate you! :rotfl:

[Dowly]

My last 3 patrols were just plain bad luck, all three patrols were almost constant storm from start to end.

On my last patrol, yet again I was returning to base empty handed. I decided to go visit the port of Portland to see, if I could find some easy targets there.

It was easy to get in, no destroyers guarding the port. I managed to get myself to a perfect position to attack a anchored merchant. Fired two eels, just to make sure it was a quick kill. Little did I know, there was a subnet in front of the merchant, my eels exploded on it.

I raised the periscope and scan the area, no threats. I surfaced the boat. I was ~1500m away from the merchant. I ordered the deck gun to be manned and target the merchant, fire at will.

We managed to score couple of hits, just under the waterline. No signs of sinking, just a minor fire broke loose on the merchant.

As the merchant was so far away, I didnt notice, that it had a gun mounted on it´s stern. It started blasting me with it, no luck.

We exchanged rounds for a ~7-10min, when I got hit in the conning tower. Fire broke loose, I dived to exhaust the flames.

I surfaced again and though that I must get to a better position to fire an eel to the merchant. As it was night, I didnt notice there was coastal guns on the shores, ofcourse, until it was too late.

U-186 got an direct hit to the conning tower, killing my watch officer, Karl Clausen instantly. As I tried to dive, my boat got hit in the bow compartments; all but 2 crew members died in the bow quarters.

The boat flooded heavily, damage control team was put to work. It was no use. After a couple of seconds, coastal gun landed a another direct hit to my bow, killing anyone in the bow torpedoroom and control room. We sank like a rock to the bottom, and it took just a ~5 seconds and the boat was flooded. All hands lost, another statistic on BdU´s papers.