VERY bad start...
 

I just returned to SHIII last night after a long break and started a new campaign in 1939 with U-48, a Type VIIB. I was based in Kiel with 51 crew. September 1st came and passed as we set sail early in the morning. We spent 2 days cruising from Kiel to the channel when the English ports turned from green to red. On the morning of the third, even without a message from BdU to being hostilities, we recieved a contact not too far into the channel. We surfaced to Periscope depth, and in a desperate bid to get his attention, I surfaced. Getting his attention worked, but I had turned on TC (dumb move on my part) and turned it off after he got too close to me. I went into an emergency dive, but only has 80 or so meters between my hull and the floor. I was DC'd and had to blow ballast because of serious flooding and damage to my deck dun area and engine room. When I surfaced to meet the Hunt class Destroyer and try a little one on one with him, my deck guns were still functional, and scored 4 hits on the destroyer. I then looked forward to set a course and avoid running aground. When I looked back, he had turned and sped up, ready to ram me. I ordered forward flank, but it was too late. I almost cleared his path, but alas, I was aft-rammed :shifty: Boat sunk, all hands lost, and in the words of a fellow forum member :

"Rewind back to 1939 : In other news.... " :know:

A new type VIIB has been commissioned and is ready to set sail today :arrgh!:

Part of the learning process I guess!

:arrgh!:

Ya went down to Davey Jones fightin' mate

We be sending our regrets to the families

:lurk:

Are they still sending these new boat kaptains out without
going to sub school? Shame on the German High Command !!


JIM

hehe... the (virtual) captain that was sent out on that boat had 4 destroyers and a battleship to his name :) Sub school the hard way :arrgh!: Over 35,000 tonnes sunk in command of U-124 (IXB)

But yeah, the BdU must do a better job in sub school :know:

I have to say that was pretty, let's say, adventurous to duke it out with a destroyer on the surface in the middle of the English Channel on the opening day of the War!

Enthusiasm! That's what we need! (But those u-boats are expensive...!)

Lt de Bunsen, U-46

Stop playing silly games and get back to writing your story Mr. Swordfish.

;) :D