| Delanski |
02-21-17 08:11 AM |
Second Patrol of 1939, October. Things started off relatively smooth after leaving Wilhelmshaven. Smooth seas and such. Until I reached the waters between Faroe island and the UK. I receive a radio report sighting of a convoy near my location. I decided to turn around to make contact and engage. On my way, I encountered a RAF Swordfish coming up on my 6. Made the order to do a emergency dive. Just when I got to periscope depth, my boat rocked about quite roughly, then I was getting damage reports from all sections of my boat. Dived to 50 meters to keep out of danger of the Swordfish while my crew dealt with the flooding. I decided to raise the boat to 40 meters. I noticed something odd after the ascent. The stern was hanging lower than the bow and the depth gauge was slowing going up, the stern was sinking! I compensated by keeping on 4 knots to stay above 40 meters. After enough time has passed, I made the order to surface the boat hoping it was safe. It indeed was, the RAF plane was nowhere in sight. Thankfully it was a couple hours away from night time allowing me to continue repairs without being spotted by anything. Took until late morning for everything to be fully repaired.
The damage
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Not giving up! Not going back home without sinking a couple ships. So far it's been bad luck, after my repairs it's been nothing but rough seas and failing to catch up to reported convoys. I finally sighted a lone merchant but I had to break off the pursuit as it was quite clear that I wasn't going to catch up to him in this rough weather.
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