IXc June '41
June '41, a few hundred kilometers NW of Dakar with a IXc and in the mid-day picked up a contact in the distance, a large freighter and a destroyer which turned into a small convoy moving North. 4 merchants led by a destroyer.
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Tracking for over an hour with a small overhaul East of the contacts.
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Submerged attack and around 2pm sank a large freighter with 2x G7e. Withdrew and avoided the destroyer.
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Reloaded torpedoes, surfaced and went on a course of 350 degrees. Caught up with the convoy hours later and started another overhaul.
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The overhaul continued to past midnight. Some hours in I paced one of the ships for a 8.5 knot target speed.
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It was a clear night with the moon so I got ahead and did a submerged attack with the nightscope. Stopwatch against a ship ahead of my target and was showing 8.5 knot target speed.
1xG7e and 1xG7a from the stern tubes to hit the remaining large freighter in the formation.
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Success around 2am. Got away. Reloaded torpedoes; surfaced and put some torpedoes from deck storage down below.
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Later in the morning, headed back South to continue to look for other ships. |
