Man ...Can I Pick 'Em Or What?

[Seminole]

I selected U-35 as the number for my current career for no particular reason.

Today I idly did a search for the boat number and this turned up:

U-35 had long been known as the "bad luck boat" of the Saltzwedel flotilla due to several prewar accidents: rammed by a freighter in 1937; overrun and badly damaged in 1938 by the battleship ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE; struck by an airplane in 1939. :huh:

U-35 History (http://www.u-35.com/synopsis.htm)

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Well...guess it is time to endeavor to persevere.... :shifty:

[Palladius]

Wow.... mine was, apparently, sunk by a torpedo from a British submarine in the Bay of Biscay. I didn't know that even happened!


Every day's a school day....

[Scorpius]

Most of my subs that i get end up finishing the war or getting sunk at the end of it.

[Keelbuster]

I'm skipper of U-45. Apparently (uboat.net) she was sunk in October, 1939 by three attacking destroyers. That's harsh - must've been a noob kaleun. I don't know if they even had Asdic then. And, it seems that she was lost in open sea. A damned shame. It's hard to get DCed to death in SH3, '39. I once came close - in a particularly shallow part of the channel, a DD had me and did a few runs. He hit me with one, flooded me and I almost scraped the bottom. I rushed at flank and he lost me. Maybe if he had two friends it would have been different.

Kb

[Redbear]

When you think about how the war turned out for the ubootwaffe, they were ALL unlucky boats.

[U-104]

My uboat, U-104, disappeared during its first patrol in 1940. :dead:

[TheSamuraiJedi]

Indeed! Something odd happened to me too. Thiis is gods honest truth here.

I am playing thru from 1939, upgraded to a VIIC and was assigned Boat 96 (U-96). In around September of 1940 I'm assigned to a grid off the coast of spain, about 6 game hours from Gibralter.


Well, I managed to bag a few small merchants. It was calm weather so I elected to use the deckgun and save my fish for better targets.

After my patrol is satisfied, I cruise down towards vaseline straits (What I call Gibralter), hoping to catch an outward bound convoy or task force. About a day or so later after cruising along the spanish coast, I get a contact report of a large enemy convoy. Only 2 hours away at flank! SCORE! So I make a flank run, and close in until I suspect it's close. Going to periscope depth, I get a hydrophone pickup of merchants and warships closing! Staying at 'scope depth, I wait..and wait, until a nice fat T-3 and T-2 are in perfect firing position. I put two torps into both ships, who's backs break. Must have been carrying aviation fuel. I put my rear tube fish into a second T-3 that was near the rear of the convoy, which ends up hitting the stern, disabling it's engines.

I sit quietly, at 75 meters, waiting for the DC's and pinging to stop, occasionally changing depth and speed. The Convoy passes away..it's about 6:30 am, suns coming up. I surface...and prepare to finish off my prey. 15 AP rounds put her to her long sleep...then....ALARM! a Hurricane comes out of nowhere! Direct hit on the bow! deck crew killed, deck gun destroyed, watch officer killed.

I limp away underwater, slowly sinking due to flooding in the engine compartment and the bow torpedo room. I sink to a depth of 150 meters, where I hit bottom. After effecting repairs for about 8 hours game time, I surface and make a flank run for home. I arrive in Brest two days later, with 1 officer, 4 Petty Officers, 3 Crewmen dead, 4 injured and a hull integrity of 17 percent.

After that, I decided I needed a new chair pad, cause I had ripped the other one off! :o

[Alien]

WoW thats really interesting, that made me check my own boats history....

Operations information for U-54
12.02.1940 - 20.02.1940
First Sailing - active patrol
U-54 left Kiel under the command of Günter Kutschmann on 12th Feb 1940. U-54 was lost on 20th Feb 1940.

Geeze talk about a short tour :-)

[JU_88]

A few months ago I had an IXD2 U-864

You wont belive what happened to this Uboat......


On 9 Feb, 1945 the British submarine HMS Venturer, commanded by James S. Launders, torpedoed and sank this boat (U 864). This is the only known incident in all of naval warfare in which one submarine sinks another while both are submerged.

Well I guess with an IXD2 you cant really miss! :rotfl: but Its also anoying that I knewI had precisely zero chances for that to happen in SH3! How can you leave AI submarine out of a submarine simulator?? HOW?

I know Uboats didnt specifically hunt for Allied subs, but Allied subs - as sure as I got a hole in my @rse - hunted for them.

[Englebert Endrass]

Hello All,

First post.

The thread reassures me that I'm not the only one nerdy enough to check out what happened to 'my' boats in real life.

I used a book called the Encyclopedia of U boats from 1904 to the present, written by Eberhard Moller a German who trained to be a U boat engineer officer towards the end of the war. He served on the Tirpitz and an XXI boat.

Anyway I found my first boat U-5 was sunk in a diving acident off Pillau Ma 19 1943.

My new boat U-46 was skippered for a time by Englebert Endrass who in addition to being Priens first officer in the Scapa Flow attack went on to become an ace in his own right.

Hope I am not being presumptious in using his name as my net handle.

U-46 eventually scuttled May 1945.

Reading the book listing the fates of all the boats makes for salutory reading thinking about the lives lost.

Anyway here I am, currently bouncing around in a full gale somewhere off the Orkney Islands.

Englebert E.

[bill clarke]

well my current boat is U-100 a type VII B, but I have serious doubts about my long term survival:
6 Patrols
30 May, 1940 - 1 Aug, 1940 7. Flottille (training)
1 Aug, 1940 - 17 Mar, 1941 7. Flottille (front boat)

25 ships sunk for a total of 135.614 GRT
4 ships damaged for a total of 17.229 GRT
1 ship a total loss for a total of 2.205 GRT

Sank at 0318hrs on 17 March, 1941 south-east of Iceland, in approximate position 61N, 12W, after being rammed and depth charged by the British destroyers HMS Walker and HMS Vanoc. 38 dead and 6 survivors.

U100 was the first U-boat sunk after being located by radar. HMS Vanoc discovered her during an overcast night that would have kept U-100 safe from lookouts

[Khayman]

My boat is U-108 which is listed as a Type IXB, when in fact I'm in a IXC. Perhaps I should contact uboat.net and inform them of their error ;)

Mine survived its 11 patrols, with no casualties at all. Sank 25 ships for a total of 118.722 GRT and 1 auxiliary warship for a total of 16.644 GRT. Then she was retired to the 8th Flotilla as a training boat, where she was later sank by aircraft. A long and fruitful life.....until I got command of her.

[retired1212]

I sold my boat to allies

[SeeStark]

u124- 250.000 tons sent to the bottom in 11 patrols before she was depth charged by the black swan near Oporto, 1943 taking all 53 men with her. Interestingly there were no injuries on this boat before its sinking, much like my experience on SH3, however mine is still afloat in 1943. I must say its very strange but interesting to see the real Kpts of the boat.

[Seminole]

WoW thats really interesting, that made me check my own boats history....

Operations information for U-54
12.02.1940 - 20.02.1940
First Sailing - active patrol
U-54 left Kiel under the command of Günter Kutschmann on 12th Feb 1940. U-54 was lost on 20th Feb 1940.

Geeze talk about a short tour :-)


There was a shorter one involving the Polish Navy in the 60's or 70's...I recall reading about it.

The plan was to have the crew dive at dockside on the day it was commissioned in front of a large crowd, the media, bands playing and all that.

It went down and never came up...until cranes were brought in... :lol: :up:

[The Noob]

@TheSamuraiJedi, wich mod's do You used for this Patrol?

[TheSamuraiJedi]

SH World 3.0

That and some graphical enhancements

[CA406079]

A few months ago I had an IXD2 U-864

You wont belive what happened to this Uboat......


On 9 Feb, 1945 the British submarine HMS Venturer, commanded by James S. Launders, torpedoed and sank this boat (U 864). This is the only known incident in all of naval warfare in which one submarine sinks another while both are submerged.

Well I guess with an IXD2 you cant really miss! :rotfl: but Its also anoying that I knewI had precisely zero chances for that to happen in SH3! How can you leave AI submarine out of a submarine simulator?? HOW?

I know Uboats didnt specifically hunt for Allied subs, but Allied subs - as sure as I got a hole in my @rse - hunted for them.


Ay, I was assigned U-51, a type VIIb at the start of the war, and it was sunk in the Bay of Biscay by a British submarine...:cry:

Sunk 20 Aug, 1940 in the Bay of Biscay (http://uboat.net/maps/biscay.htm) west of Nantes, France, in position 47.06N, 04.51W, by a torpedo from the British submarine HMS Cachalot (http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3416.html)

[Rilder]

I just started a new campaign since i was bored of the long patrols in my IXC and I got U-23 for my boat and:

http://uboat.net/boats/u23.htm

Think I might enjoy this campaign

[HunterICX]

:o Ow Crap U-9

Successes
7 ships sunk for a total of 16.669 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 552 tons
1 warship damaged for a total of 412 tons

Fate:
Sunk at 1030hrs on the 20 Aug, 1944 at Konstanza, Black Sea (http://uboat.net/maps/black_sea.htm) in position 44.12N, 28.41E, by bombs from Soviet aircraft

Why do I get those Damn russians!!

[Rilder]

Maybe you should were one of those russian fur hats or (whatever there called) while you play shIII :yep: