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aj906 · 01-06-10, 07:13 AM

U-30 (Typ VIIC)
KptnLt Jung
Attack on HMS Hood and escort

Grid: CG95
Date: 23.06.1940

Target: HMS Hood and Illustrious class carrier with destroyer screen.

Counter measures: screen 4+ destroyers/31+ depth charges/aircraft [swordfish]

Report: Sailing from supply ship Thalia [Cadiz harbour] morning 22 June 1940 (previously patrolling CG94, gross tonnage claimed 73,000), intention was to head to CF64 on return to Wilhelmshaven via St George's Channel. At 10:05 22 June local a report was received from BdU stating Enemy Task Force in Grid CG81, Kurs OSO, 14kts. Assumed T.F heading for Gibraltar so plotted kurs SSO [CG95:7] then tracked Ost, 3 kts submerged to reconnoitre. Surfaced at 23:50 [seegang 0, sicht 15 - 20] to recharge batteries. Submerged at 0701. Contact made 0732 [Seegang 0, sicht 10 - 15]: 3+ destroyer vanguard, Hood and carrier line astern plus undetermined rear guard, 15kts, Kurs Ost.

0807-09 tubes 1-4 fired at Hood, angle 042. All hit. Turn to starboard at 1kts, stern torpedo shot at carrier with 27 degree deflection, range 1,200m. Hydrophone reported hit during dive to 155 metres Kurs 270. Hood stopped, taking on water. Sunk 0814. Carrier slowed to c.10 kts. Destroyer screen vigours attack above (presumed depth 100 metres) and astern till 0856 then all withdrew save one. Final sweep [12 depth charges] concluded 0927. Course maintained 270. No damage sustained during depth charge attack.

Surfaced 1017. A/C [2+ swordfish] attacked 1018. Crash dive to 75 metres. Damage: Stern Batteries, stb diesel, attack periscope, stern torpedo, stern quarters, deck casing. Destroyed: flak gun, Port diesel engine, observation periscope, radio antenna. Took on water in command room (controlled and expelled in 22 minutes).

Casualties (10 KIA, 0 WIA, 0 MIA):
- Stabsoberbootsmann'
Peter Weller
Gustav Möllers
Engelbert Dahne

- Stabsbootsmann
Hilmar Blaudow
Manfred Eppen

- Matrosenhauptgefreiter
Willi Schroeter
Klaus Bildstein
Ernst Heldmann
Jorg Bauer
Eduard Geffe

Crash dive revealed two contacts, bearing 337/339, long range. Once flooding contained investigated: two large merchants c.6,100tn each. Closed for attack. Both confirmed sunk. Attack 1117, kurs 261 angle on the bow 349/353. Two torpedoes each, impact fuse at 8m depth. Merchant one exploded on impact of first topedo. Second merchant floundered, taking on water. Stern torpedo fired, kurs 090, angle of attack 0. Ship sunk 1133.

Dive depth hence forth restricted to 45 metres. Patrol aborted and making for Bordeaux.

File for award
Stabsoberbootsmann Gotthard Becker und Stabsbootsmann Reiner Richter both be awarded EK.I for efforts in damage control during flugzeug angriff.

Tonnage Claim
HMS Hood - sunk [48,360]
2x Large Merchants [2x 6,100]

60,560, Gross Tonnage

9 Torpedoes expended

Tonnage Damaged
Illustrious Class Carrier (23,000tns)

ETA Bordeaux, 29 June 1940.

01-06-10, 07:13 AM	#7
aj906 Helmsman Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 107 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	U-30 (Typ VIIC) KptnLt Jung Attack on HMS Hood and escort Grid: CG95 Date: 23.06.1940 Target: HMS Hood and Illustrious class carrier with destroyer screen. Counter measures: screen 4+ destroyers/31+ depth charges/aircraft [swordfish] Report: Sailing from supply ship Thalia [Cadiz harbour] morning 22 June 1940 (previously patrolling CG94, gross tonnage claimed 73,000), intention was to head to CF64 on return to Wilhelmshaven via St George's Channel. At 10:05 22 June local a report was received from BdU stating Enemy Task Force in Grid CG81, Kurs OSO, 14kts. Assumed T.F heading for Gibraltar so plotted kurs SSO [CG95:7] then tracked Ost, 3 kts submerged to reconnoitre. Surfaced at 23:50 [seegang 0, sicht 15 - 20] to recharge batteries. Submerged at 0701. Contact made 0732 [Seegang 0, sicht 10 - 15]: 3+ destroyer vanguard, Hood and carrier line astern plus undetermined rear guard, 15kts, Kurs Ost. 0807-09 tubes 1-4 fired at Hood, angle 042. All hit. Turn to starboard at 1kts, stern torpedo shot at carrier with 27 degree deflection, range 1,200m. Hydrophone reported hit during dive to 155 metres Kurs 270. Hood stopped, taking on water. Sunk 0814. Carrier slowed to c.10 kts. Destroyer screen vigours attack above (presumed depth 100 metres) and astern till 0856 then all withdrew save one. Final sweep [12 depth charges] concluded 0927. Course maintained 270. No damage sustained during depth charge attack. Surfaced 1017. A/C [2+ swordfish] attacked 1018. Crash dive to 75 metres. Damage: Stern Batteries, stb diesel, attack periscope, stern torpedo, stern quarters, deck casing. Destroyed: flak gun, Port diesel engine, observation periscope, radio antenna. Took on water in command room (controlled and expelled in 22 minutes). Casualties (10 KIA, 0 WIA, 0 MIA): - Stabsoberbootsmann' Peter Weller Gustav Möllers Engelbert Dahne - Stabsbootsmann Hilmar Blaudow Manfred Eppen - Matrosenhauptgefreiter Willi Schroeter Klaus Bildstein Ernst Heldmann Jorg Bauer Eduard Geffe Crash dive revealed two contacts, bearing 337/339, long range. Once flooding contained investigated: two large merchants c.6,100tn each. Closed for attack. Both confirmed sunk. Attack 1117, kurs 261 angle on the bow 349/353. Two torpedoes each, impact fuse at 8m depth. Merchant one exploded on impact of first topedo. Second merchant floundered, taking on water. Stern torpedo fired, kurs 090, angle of attack 0. Ship sunk 1133. Dive depth hence forth restricted to 45 metres. Patrol aborted and making for Bordeaux. File for award Stabsoberbootsmann Gotthard Becker und Stabsbootsmann Reiner Richter both be awarded EK.I for efforts in damage control during flugzeug angriff. Tonnage Claim HMS Hood - sunk [48,360] 2x Large Merchants [2x 6,100] 60,560, Gross Tonnage 9 Torpedoes expended Tonnage Damaged Illustrious Class Carrier (23,000tns) ETA Bordeaux, 29 June 1940.