1941
January
VIIB
British Escorts: 1 c class, 1 V&W, 2 Flower, 1 Armed Trawler, about a dozan or so fighters.
Survived otherwise, how do u think i would have gotton back to tell my story?
Ok, lets say i had few Becks too much, i decided on a surface attack during a full moon at about 1730 hours. i know i know, ur about to say "ingenius timing". well thank u
. so yea, i got hit by a couple of shells and .50 cal bullets from that damn Trawler, and my watch officer got riddled with bullets and hes dead along with my only flak and sonar qualified petty officers. u might say, "thats not much" well i know so ill stop complaining
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so i went under to periscope depth and i forgot to take the periscope down from a previous lone c3
. so i decide to be Mr. Kretschmer and go up and down the lanes of the convoy
. shells from every single merchant start to land all around us. i reason that they're firing star shells and since im "completly" submerged i will be ok.
3 hours later, after a dozan DC runs from multiple destroyers im at 25 % hull integrity and i get the message observation periscope destroyed. so i look through the attack periscope and for a second i see the trawler but then theres an explosion and the screen in the periscope turns completly black. again, its no biggie
then i relize that i left it up the entire time and now its stuck there. oh well it could be worse
so i order the planes man to dive to 50 meters. as soon as we reach 25 meters the amazing silent-o-meter turns all green again. yay! BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOMB! and we start to sink. at about 70 meters i order blow ballast. When i come to the surface 2 km later, the escorts are going back to the convoy.
i set course for home and once i loose sight of the convoy, planes planes and more planes. i decide that im gonna be a stubborn bastard and fight them. i get within 50 km of Lorient and the planes are still molesting me. then they destory my diesal. so i go to eletric and periscope depth. with my periscope still up i go im still being attacked.
then they destroy my my electics and i dive to 70 meters. after 8 hours i blow ballast and theres no planes in sight. i order a tow boat to drag us back to lorient with 5% hull integrity.