andy_311
05-22-06, 09:42 AM
April 12 45 I leave Bergan proberbly for the last time to Patrol grid BE 95.
April 23 I reach the N sea and get a message that Narvic is no longer available for operations, on my way down going through The am grid I get jumped by a hurricane which I soon get rid of then we get 2 more univited guests in way of 2 sunderlands which also won't be returning home, then am informed that radar signals are being detected, dived to pd, seems like a small TF heading north and doing some speed,turned out to be 4 dd's and a Bogue class carrier so I let it pass.
April 26th "Radio Message Recieved" Bergan no longer available for operations continueing towards BE95 on the surface.
April 29th detecting radar signals dived to pd 1,2,3,4 contacts what surely not anouther TF then more contacts of merchants heading towards me Fast,now am pondering what could they be contined on course for another hour or so took a peek through the peri first ship just came into view an Evart Class dd about 4900m away then a tanker then another and another nice I thought, in total 14 of them smallest being a T2 with 4 escorts a 2 Evarts a V&W and a river class boy I thought this convoys not going to get away closed in got to 1400M of the convoy to be told that "We have been Detected" took a peek and saw the rear Evart chargeing towards me @ 36knts open tube 1 am takeing these on no way am I gong to let 14 Tankers go, range closeing the evart now 3300m and closeing fast fire 1 lowered my peri and dived took a look from the external view still closeing I estimate now 2600m and closing in then all of a sudden she slows down and turns the other way and accelerates away from me so I order pd next thing we hear "Torpedo impact",we reach pd and take a look the torpedo missed the evart but hit the last T3 in the convoy the Evart still heading away in the wrong direction, open tube 2 aim for the nearest ship 1100m a T2 tube 2 fired,open tube 3 took aim for the second closist then the 3 closist,fired tube 4 tube 1 by now reloaded,and then I waited first fish hit a T2 she snapped in half then a few seconds later "Torpedo Impact" and again "Torpedo Impact" now I got 3 tankers ablaze from bow to stern.
The lead Evart Takes an intrest in me as does the V&W the Evarts closeing I fire tube 1 (USEING Ge7e torps)@2600m tube 2 now loaded take aim for the V&W range 3000m and closing @20knts fire 2 set depth for 50m just in case and on silent running, looking throught the external view the Evart (leader) explodes in a big fireball and goes down immediatly,the V&W is closing awfully fast, then "Torpedo impact" the v&w goes down takes a look on my nav map still no red line Where the hell is that last escort?orders pd increase speed to one third I hit pd about 3 mins later take a look still no Evart so make course correction to get closer to the convoy almost doing full speed my stealth meter is red as a beetroot closeing to the end tanker 3000m,takes a look on my nav map and sure as hell there it is a red line next sonar reports warship moveing fast closeing I get to about 2700m from the tanker the Evart closing in 4900+m at 30knts+I slow down take aim for the tanker and fire the Evart still closeing but I now have more univited guests the R.A.F with 4 sunderlands and they start dropping there stuff but missed like usual open tube 5 take aim for the Last Evart and wait for him to get closer I fired when it got within 3300m and hit the dive button.got to 70m before I had a peek where that escort is I know he's close because were getting pinged looking through the external view he must be within 6-700m away when he let loose the hedgehogs then "Torpedo impact"yes I thought but there was the hedgehogs but by some miricle they missed I recieved no damage but that escort although being hit by a torpedo she did not sink it was another 2 mins before she went down she just sat there,i think the air force contributed to her sinking too because they dropped a few bombs in the vicinity, before they bugged out.
So now I got a convoy totally unprotected and we sat sail to intercept them.We caught up with them not long after fired my remaing 4 torps all hit so I got 4 blazing tankers surfaced and opend up with my 105mm while reloading my tubes.then the RAF turned up again no way am I diving now order my flack crew into action they dropped ther bombs causing a little damage 1 got shot down the other collided in mid air and tthe other bugged out damaged.
It's now 2000HRS by the time all my tubes are reloaded and pressed on my attack some went down with 1 shot most stayed boyant so I finnished them off with my deck gun,all 14 Tankers went down for 158K+ and then return to my original course and headed for BE95 in all all I have left are 2 fish in my rear tubes 60 rounds of HE shells and around 200 rounds of flack shells.
May 4th "Radio Message Recieved" La Rochelle has finally fallen and no longer available for operations.
May 6th at last reached Be95 started to do my 24 hr patrol detecting radar signals ordered pd and it just started to rain 1,2,3,4,5,6 red lines all heading towards me, **** I thought dived to 125m hit silent running to a look through the ships camera it turned out to be 5 dds and a Bogue class carrier no way am I takeing them on not in the rain and fog with only 2 availible they didn't find me but neither did they leave BE95 in a hurry even when I hit tc 32 it took them ages go away eventually did my 24 hrs and set course NNE.and returned to pd.
Surfaced the boat around 2100hrs and got no more contacts until we reached BE13 which was on the 9th when we recieved the message that the war ended and to surrender.
Been here before dived to 20m and stayed there till dusk surfaced and then pondered where do we park our boat to surrender.
Set course for the Irish sea on the surface contacts comeing in "unknown convoy heading SSE doing 9knts sail right through it and the escorts never batted an eyelid.So I decided to surrender by boat somewhere different this time and set course for Blackpool,
Englands version of Las Vagas arrived of the Flyde coast on May 16th 00:12hrs where me and the crew slipped ashore and thus ending our war :D
April 23 I reach the N sea and get a message that Narvic is no longer available for operations, on my way down going through The am grid I get jumped by a hurricane which I soon get rid of then we get 2 more univited guests in way of 2 sunderlands which also won't be returning home, then am informed that radar signals are being detected, dived to pd, seems like a small TF heading north and doing some speed,turned out to be 4 dd's and a Bogue class carrier so I let it pass.
April 26th "Radio Message Recieved" Bergan no longer available for operations continueing towards BE95 on the surface.
April 29th detecting radar signals dived to pd 1,2,3,4 contacts what surely not anouther TF then more contacts of merchants heading towards me Fast,now am pondering what could they be contined on course for another hour or so took a peek through the peri first ship just came into view an Evart Class dd about 4900m away then a tanker then another and another nice I thought, in total 14 of them smallest being a T2 with 4 escorts a 2 Evarts a V&W and a river class boy I thought this convoys not going to get away closed in got to 1400M of the convoy to be told that "We have been Detected" took a peek and saw the rear Evart chargeing towards me @ 36knts open tube 1 am takeing these on no way am I gong to let 14 Tankers go, range closeing the evart now 3300m and closeing fast fire 1 lowered my peri and dived took a look from the external view still closeing I estimate now 2600m and closing in then all of a sudden she slows down and turns the other way and accelerates away from me so I order pd next thing we hear "Torpedo impact",we reach pd and take a look the torpedo missed the evart but hit the last T3 in the convoy the Evart still heading away in the wrong direction, open tube 2 aim for the nearest ship 1100m a T2 tube 2 fired,open tube 3 took aim for the second closist then the 3 closist,fired tube 4 tube 1 by now reloaded,and then I waited first fish hit a T2 she snapped in half then a few seconds later "Torpedo Impact" and again "Torpedo Impact" now I got 3 tankers ablaze from bow to stern.
The lead Evart Takes an intrest in me as does the V&W the Evarts closeing I fire tube 1 (USEING Ge7e torps)@2600m tube 2 now loaded take aim for the V&W range 3000m and closing @20knts fire 2 set depth for 50m just in case and on silent running, looking throught the external view the Evart (leader) explodes in a big fireball and goes down immediatly,the V&W is closing awfully fast, then "Torpedo impact" the v&w goes down takes a look on my nav map still no red line Where the hell is that last escort?orders pd increase speed to one third I hit pd about 3 mins later take a look still no Evart so make course correction to get closer to the convoy almost doing full speed my stealth meter is red as a beetroot closeing to the end tanker 3000m,takes a look on my nav map and sure as hell there it is a red line next sonar reports warship moveing fast closeing I get to about 2700m from the tanker the Evart closing in 4900+m at 30knts+I slow down take aim for the tanker and fire the Evart still closeing but I now have more univited guests the R.A.F with 4 sunderlands and they start dropping there stuff but missed like usual open tube 5 take aim for the Last Evart and wait for him to get closer I fired when it got within 3300m and hit the dive button.got to 70m before I had a peek where that escort is I know he's close because were getting pinged looking through the external view he must be within 6-700m away when he let loose the hedgehogs then "Torpedo impact"yes I thought but there was the hedgehogs but by some miricle they missed I recieved no damage but that escort although being hit by a torpedo she did not sink it was another 2 mins before she went down she just sat there,i think the air force contributed to her sinking too because they dropped a few bombs in the vicinity, before they bugged out.
So now I got a convoy totally unprotected and we sat sail to intercept them.We caught up with them not long after fired my remaing 4 torps all hit so I got 4 blazing tankers surfaced and opend up with my 105mm while reloading my tubes.then the RAF turned up again no way am I diving now order my flack crew into action they dropped ther bombs causing a little damage 1 got shot down the other collided in mid air and tthe other bugged out damaged.
It's now 2000HRS by the time all my tubes are reloaded and pressed on my attack some went down with 1 shot most stayed boyant so I finnished them off with my deck gun,all 14 Tankers went down for 158K+ and then return to my original course and headed for BE95 in all all I have left are 2 fish in my rear tubes 60 rounds of HE shells and around 200 rounds of flack shells.
May 4th "Radio Message Recieved" La Rochelle has finally fallen and no longer available for operations.
May 6th at last reached Be95 started to do my 24 hr patrol detecting radar signals ordered pd and it just started to rain 1,2,3,4,5,6 red lines all heading towards me, **** I thought dived to 125m hit silent running to a look through the ships camera it turned out to be 5 dds and a Bogue class carrier no way am I takeing them on not in the rain and fog with only 2 availible they didn't find me but neither did they leave BE95 in a hurry even when I hit tc 32 it took them ages go away eventually did my 24 hrs and set course NNE.and returned to pd.
Surfaced the boat around 2100hrs and got no more contacts until we reached BE13 which was on the 9th when we recieved the message that the war ended and to surrender.
Been here before dived to 20m and stayed there till dusk surfaced and then pondered where do we park our boat to surrender.
Set course for the Irish sea on the surface contacts comeing in "unknown convoy heading SSE doing 9knts sail right through it and the escorts never batted an eyelid.So I decided to surrender by boat somewhere different this time and set course for Blackpool,
Englands version of Las Vagas arrived of the Flyde coast on May 16th 00:12hrs where me and the crew slipped ashore and thus ending our war :D