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Old 06-13-09, 08:16 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by cj95 View Post
Recently took my little Type II for an 18 day cruise around the Baltic in Fall '39.

Only bagged one Small merchant, but during that itme I was wondering realistically how long these canoes could stay at sea.

Since GWX, fuel is no longer a concern (unfortunately) but Im wondering how much food could really be carried aboard.

Ideas?

I dont want to push things out of reasonable.
Looking at some of the patrols of Type II boats on uboat.net, it looks like around 4 weeks was the limit of their endurance.
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