Since then I've been placed under command of U-777, this number chosen deliberately due to its luck. I've gotten to know the boat really well as the final components are being installed, she even has a small freezer and shower below the forward bunks, unheard of luxury. Two week passed and she is finally ready for sea trials.
I stepped aboard this time with my seabag and arranged my bunk. After 4 hours of final provisioning and final tests we are ready to depart. In the pen there is a small crows of high ranking officers and political figures. A band is playing Deutschland Uber Alles. At the conclusion of the anthem I ordered the gangway and forward lines to be released. After the final ok from the chief the stern lines were released as well and the pen doors opened, faint glow of a sunrise is in the distance.
"both turbines ahead slow"
The telegraph bells rung and without sound U-777 glided forward effortlessly. We slipped out of the harbor one hour before sunrise so the public cannot get a good glimpse of the boat.
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