When I first started researching U-boats, I quickly came to the conclusion that with so many U-boats there would be so many stories with each and everyone of them.

So I came up with a crafty plan to pick one U-boat among the 1,153 U-boats that served during WWII.

My plan was to count the amount of letters in my first, middle, and last name and add the letters up per name;

D***** S**** V******
6 5 7

From this I adopted my U-boat and from that day I researched everything about her, from the Korvettenkapitän [Heinrich Göllnitz] to the 47 individuals who perished on the 17th May 1943 [all hands lost].

I'm proud to present my boat U-657.


Her two Emblems
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...thFlotilla.gifhttp://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nate/U-657.jpg

Her Korvettenkapitän [Heinrich Göllnitz]
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...chGollnitz.jpgNote: Heinrich Göllnitz's hat emblem

Her internal tomb
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...hemap-U657.jpg

Ordered:

• 9th October 1939.

Laid down:

• 5th October 1940 [Howaldtswerke, Hamburg].

Launched:

• 12th August 1941.

Commissioned:

• 8th October 1941 [Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Radke].

Commanders:

• 8th October 1941 - 14th December 1941 [Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Radke]
  • Accidental death to poisonous fumes.

• 20th December 1941 - 17th May 1943 [KrvKpt. Heinrich Göllnitz]
  • Lost with U657

Career:

• 7 patrols [165 days].

Flotilla Postings:

8th Octobter 1941 - 28th February 1942 8th Flottille [training boat].
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...thFlotilla.gif

1st March 1942 - 30th June 1942 3rd Flottille [front boat].
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...rdFlotilla.gif


1st July 1942 - 17th May 1943 11th Flottille [front boat].
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...hFlottilla.gif

Successes:

• x1 ship sunk for a total of 5.196 GRT
  • Type: Steam merchant.
  • Name:Aymeric.
  • Nationally:British.
  • Home port:Glasgow.
  • Complement:78
    
  • Sailed with convoy:ONS-7.
  • Cargo:Ballast.
  • Time of sinking: 02.37 hours on 17th May 1943.
  • Internal tomb: East of Cape Farewell.
    
  • Additional Notes:52 crew members and one gunner were lost. The master, 18 crew members and six gunners were picked up by the British rescue ship.

Fate:

• Sunk 17th May 1943 East of Cape Farewell, Greenland, in position 58.54N, 42.33W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Swale. 47 dead [all hands lost].

Additional Information:

• U657 never ran with a wolf-pack, she never sunk large amounts of tonnage, her Korvettenkapitän was not a ACE, but to 47 men who lived inside her, she was their wolf and they were proud to serve with her.

• If you want me to research your U-Boat let me know, I'll be more than happy to help ;)

Very nice Venatore!

BdU just gave me U-47, I wonder if that boat ever did anything worth mentioning

;)

For my serious careers, I've commanded U-2 aka The Rooster (Hahn) because I was cocky

and U-72 aka Mickey Mouse (mickey with the torpedo) because I was getting good at the game of cat and mouse

now I have a new career going, 100% realism for the first time, first patrol underway in the western approaches. No emblem as of yet

Count the letters in your name [first, middle and surname] and see what U-boat number you get allocated :hmm:

that would be U-75

Bosje,

Using this method, your emblem would be the "Snorting Bull". U75 displayed this as their emblem.
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ortingBull.jpg
Oblt. Engelbert Endrass [the IWO of U-47] painted the emblem on the way back from Scapa Flow in October, 1939. The image chosen was based on one seen in a comic book the crew had on board the U-boat.

The emblem was adopted by the 7th Flotilla in St. Nazaire and was seen on many boats. It was complicated enough that a template was used to apply it to the boats.

cheers, i have been peeking at uboat.net for the history on U-75. upon returning from my 1st patrol i'll rename my VIIB

i'm hoping to make a name for myself though, and come up with a decent emblem to match

possibly i'll write a story on this career too

I use one that came with GWX2.0 called Mickey.....
Can just about see it in this pic.
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/a...066/Midday.jpg

Time to merge this one with the link to the original that good old Steve put up. :yep:

Aah I didn't notice there was already an 'emblem topic' up!
Should've done a search before creating this one, sorry guys!

In a Type VIIC/41.....U-997

http://www.uboataces.com/ref-insignia68.shtml

In a Type IXD" Monsun.....U-181

http://www.uboataces.com/ref-insignia14.shtml

Nice idea :up: Looking at this now.
Edit: Done


RDP

My non historical emblems:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8431/emblemaq5.jpg

Im sailing with the U-96 (Original a type VII B) and later, (i change to a type VII C) and my comming tower emblem its a golden shoehorse in both sides of the comming tower, for all aways have GOOD LUCK! :D

See the sig.

I have no idea how my custom emblem got in to GWX, but you can find it in the
emblem list there.

It is not historical. U69 did have a laughing cow emblem, but mine is a 1950s laughing cow.

I can't remember who it was that tidyed up my messt *.gif for me.