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Originally Posted by gazpode_l
Has anyone had much luck with the Irish sea, a triangle between Holyhead, Dublin and Milford Haven (Not marked on Sh3)  |
So far in my limited experience (haven't made it past mid-1940 yet) I've had the best luck in and around grids AM52 & 53 in the upper Approaches, and the western half of sector BF in the lower Approaches.
Tyically I haven't had to go much further inland than that looking for targets, this last now-defunct career being the exception, however it was storming unmercifully for the last week of it so who knows what was out there that we just couldn't see.
Once I passed through the AM grids on my way south to my patrol station in the lower Approaches just as hostilities opened with GB, ended up using a third of my eels and quite a bit of gun ammo before I got any farther south. Prey was plentiful. Still had two torps for the stern tube when I passed through again on the way home, used those and the rest of the deck gun ammo on what I found there. As I recall we even finished off a couple of ships with the flak gun because we had nothing else left to shoot at them.