The U-129 continued North into the Mozambique Channel. The weather got worse as we moved North, from 22-10-44 to 26-10-44 it rained constantly. On the 26th we received a radio intercept of a large convoy headed directly for us, but again I decided that we would have nothing to do with that and turned away. Visibility was terrible anyway.
On the 27th the skies cleared and we bagan to run a search pattern North and South in the Channel.
On 30-10-44 a Radar Contact, finially! A solid fix and we determine her course and set the ambush. An Empire Freighter going 9 knots, "Flood tubes two and three". "Torpedos Loos!" Since the seas were mild, I had set both torpedos .5m below her keel and we must have broke her back. She rapidly came to a halt, listed to starboard and went under.
With only 1 stern tube loaded with an offensive torpedo (I still had one bow and one stern homing torpedos), it is deffinatedly time to head home.
We plot out a direct route for Panang and set off.
The lads are tired, but the news that we are heading for port raises morale even higher.