[BillCar]

U-84's second patrol – on the way to AM64. Late April, 1941.

Encountered one single merchant in BF15, and somehow missed three torpedoes at her. Sank her with the deck gun for ca. 8000 tons.

Then I encountered a convoy.

The set up was perfect, though the weather could have been better – perfectly flat seas, no clouds. Ran decks awash until about 3000m from the lead escort, and then dropped to periscope depth, silent running, and angled into the convoy.

I was completely undetected, and fired off two torpedoes at a large merchant and one at an empire freighter behind me.

*boom* *boom* ... *boom*

Escorts never had a clue where I was, and never came close. However, neither ship sank, and they were not sitting on the surface when I came back up, either. I went to flank and spent the next 17 hours overhauling the convoy and ducking in and out of visual range.

The following night, I set myself up the same way. Drifted into the convoy at periscope depth. Suddenly, searchlights are on, and there's vicious pinging. I look behind me and see a Flower corvette bearing down at top speed. I make a quick calculation, and nail her with a magnetic torpedo.

I'm being pinged by two different ships, but I am not done yet. Torpedoes one, two, three and four are all fired at an assortment of targets. I dive.

*boom* *boom* *boom*... *boom*

Plus the Flower, that's five impacts for five eels. Soon the Flower sinks.

I spend an hour evading, though evading is pretty generous. The last three impacts were all on the far side of the convoy, and that is where the destroyers were depth charging. Still, I have not gotten a message about anything but the Flower sinking. I surface, and find a passenger cargo blazing away. I finish her off with the deck gun.

This is disappointing. There are 4 crippled ships in that convoy, still keeping pace, and not sinking. I've got a torpedo left for my stern tube, and that's it.

I slink up to AM64, patrol for 24 hours, and come back for 402 renown. It could have been so much better than that. There are some heavily damaged merchants docking in Bristol right now.