Cadiz and Tonnage Alley
 

Ever feel depressed, lonely, hankering for sound contact, any contact in the middle of the Atlantic?

On my last patrol, out of torpedoes, I decided to re-supply in Cadiz (FEB 1940) instead of slogging it all the way to Willy.

Shortly after rounding Cabo San Vicente, ran into a 5,000 freighter and gave him the deckie gun treatment. In the afternoon before entering Cadiz, sighted and sank a 2,000 tonner.

After resuppliying, left Cadiz at 0345
Submerged at daybreak, immediate hydrophone contact. Sank 2,000 tonner with deckie at 0857.
Submerged again. Contact! Another 2,000 tonner down the bottom at 0955.
That's two ships in less than an hour.

The route between Girbraltar and San Vicente is thick with British shipping . Having Cadiz as a refueling base, after the couple of hours commute to work you can accumulate great tonnage fast. :D

Will have to check this route out tonight on my next patrol. Hopefully get some decent tonnage like you :up:

Cadiz looks neutral to me - can you resupply at a neutral port?

I'm finding that off Southern Portugal in July 1940 seems like a convoy hot spot. Lots and lots of convoys plus some loners. A couple of active Uboats as well!

Assuming a German milk cow is there, yes?

The German supply ship Thelia arrives in Cadiz January 1940. Vigo opens up a bit later. You can tell which ports are open for resuply by the blue dot and name of milkcow ship. :rock:

Viel danke für das information, herr kaleun! :up: I will check this out on my next patrol! (this is what we call "Nightclub intelligence"..:lol:)

Keep the reports coming, it's like being on patrol and getting a message that U-XX is following a convoy. :rock:

Aaaaahhhh.....nice. I've yet to use a milkcow in port. That should be schweet.

Yes! Have another drink :D

If I'm in the vicinity I usually loiter around there, mostly to sink french small convoys heading for the straits, I think Frenchmen shouldn't be using the straits to get from the Atlantic to the Med, they can just head to a french atlantic port, why else does france have internal lines of supply like canals and railroads :88)

sometimes I just have to sink ships on principle :-?

I've also noted that convoys heading for Gibraltar tend to have more capital ships in them early in the war, it always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to blow the big battlewagon right out of the convoy and sneaking off, leaving the merchies for later, i know Onkel Karl won't approve but the press love it:D