Scapa Flow: The East Approach
 

U-47
04-09-39, U-47 is about to enter Scapa Flow from the eastern approach.

Almost midnight, a VW DD forced U-47 to submerge.

More to come...

Has anyone tried getting into Scapa Flow at night from the east?

WARNING: there are alot of wrecked ships.

Many times not to hard early in the war. Later on its suicide.

yes i have, i went through this little tight stretch of water however i kept hitting something took hardly any damage at all, no sub nets nothing, there were a lot of ship wrecks about though mmmmmm :-?

Been through there tons of times, its the best way to enter and exit.

I am now trapped in the harbour by 7 DDs, and no way out.

After I take care of a med tanker and a freighter then I will deal w/ the DDs.

Slowly running out of Co2, will need to leave soon.

Getting in is easy - you just go through the Eastern approach. Finding and attacking a target's pretty easy, too.

Getting out, now there's the problem:o.

Been there lots of times in the early war period,no real problems.
Later on, ...I only went once and got hammered to bits by abut 5 dd's + land defences .Never been there late-war since:D

The DD count is now down by one. He committed suicide.

There are still six out there.

6 hours of Co2 left.

Go on Deep-Six give them hell :arrgh!:
You can do it:up:

The last time I visited Flow, I went thru the eastern approach, sank a tanker and a small merchant. When I was heading back home, 6 DD´s tried to hunt me down, but they only ran aground. :rotfl:

One minor correction, that it was no freighter, but a troopship.:o

He will die on my last salvo of eels.

Err...U cant run out of CO2..becose that is what you breath out.. :D
If you dont surface you can get out of O2(the only thing that our body can use from air,which is actualy mixture of gasses),but trust me you will finaly get a lot of CO2,so many actualy that it will poison all your crew and make ghost-ship of your Uboat :know:

Well, to be specific, CO2 isn't a poison; it just keeps you from getting any O2, so you die from lack of oxygen.

Of the 4 eels, one was not loaded yet. 3 of them tore into the troopship

cutting it in half. Crew cheered.:D

I snuck in the eastern approach on my first patrol, the same route Prien took when he sunk the Royal Oak. It's easy, right now (late '39), but I seem to recall that Churchill ordered another blockship sunk to block that path.

Btw, I guess renown is actually rewarded on the basis of what is PERCEIVED to be important by the Kriegsmarine, i.e., battleships over carriers (even though the time of the BB is already past)