28th of September 1939 and sending complaints to BdU about the torpedoes. Was just north of Scotland when I came across a TF consisting of 4 destroyers surrounding a lovely Courageous class aircraft carrier heading on the perfect interception course. Got into firing positizon and fired a spread of 4 that headed straight and true towards the carrier from no more the 700 yards away. Every single one of them ran deep even though I set them to run shallow! Dönitz better get my messages about the torps or heads will roll!
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February 18,1941
U-46,VIIB 200km south of Rockall Bank im very,very quiet because we hunting convoy. I saw there is plenty of tankers in this convoy :rock: |
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I'm in between a dead career and restarting a new one so lets just stay studying so when ship selection day comes I can be on one of those shiny new Zerstroyers
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Just got a reminder to respect even early war destroyers.
December 23rd, 1939. I'm about 800 miles due west of Gibraltar when I encounter a convoy at night escorted by two destroyers. I slip past the destroyers and sink a Medium Oiler, Old Merchant, and Medium Merchant before I get bracketed by the destroyers and i'm forced to dive. Well once under water I could not shake either of the two and no matter how deep I went the kept finding me. Then lucky hit by a depth charge ends up destroying both periscopes and the radio antenna so if I survived i'd have to RTB. Eventually after going to 180 meters I was eventually able to shake them off and soon surfaced wondering if one of the captains name was Frederic John Walker. |
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16000 BRT to my account. They never knew what hit'em :) |
Oct-39 U-45 reporting.
U-45 TypeVII B
Hanging around AN16 area. I've sunk ten ships so far for 42,000 tons. I took a tour of Scapa Flow and put three eels into a battle ship. Royal Oak? I have two eels left and 40 rounds in the deck gun. When this patrol ends I'm going to install the no Vampire night vision mod. I'm having a blast! And so is my crew, but I think it's time for them to go back to port for some partying. LOL. |
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April 10th, 1942
Disaster heading out of Lorient as my crew were getting ready for a Caribbean trip. I ran into the escort(you turn away for 5 seconds...) and ended up with the sub dead in the water and barely afloat. I aborted the patrol at once and ended up having a tense talking with the Flotilla commander. |
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