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pugwash59 · 10-09-05, 12:21 PM

Left Keil on 23/11/1939

Patrol grid heading meant sailing through the English Channel (oh great) so spent a lot of time submerged

finally got to my Patrool Grid did the 24 hours with no contacts decided to head towards Liverpool (again , hey it's amain Sailing from to Port for the enemy)

Contact reported tracked the contacts for a while hads the Ocassional look through the scope

Eventually spotted a nice big fat T3 Tanker , fired from 370mtr's whump blimey he miust have been full of fuel Massive Explosion .

Next up was a T2 he took 3 Torps before finally sinking

then a C2 Cargo 1 torp and it broke in half so maybe carying ammo i suppose

then all hell brok loose and the Next 2 hours i was playing hide and seek with VW Warship got my 1st taste of being Depth Charged i'd dive to the bottom 50 mtr's switch off the engines run silent and sit there and sweat the bang , bang , bang he's suomehow find me again ,

got fed up with being used for target practise so on his next run i waited till the last moment put on full starboard rudder and back Emergency , this seemed to loose him for a while i quickly got to Periscope depth and imediattley came upon a C2 Cargo so quickly fired a Torpedo and then ran straight at him .

the VW was giving chase the C2 didn't sink (suprise suprise) but had stopped dead in the water.

Rembering something one of my uncles had told me i slowed down and slipped U31 underneath the C2 put the engines in full back and managed to stop underneath the ship .

After 4 hours the VW finally gave in and dissapeared i slipped away quitley and as a thank you to the C2 Cargo sunk her with my bow tube

Damage to U31 was minor i still had half my Torpedo's left so carried on northwards .

10-09-05, 12:21 PM	#13
pugwash59 Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 14 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Patrol 3 Left Keil on 23/11/1939 Patrol grid heading meant sailing through the English Channel (oh great) so spent a lot of time submerged finally got to my Patrool Grid did the 24 hours with no contacts decided to head towards Liverpool (again , hey it's amain Sailing from to Port for the enemy) Contact reported tracked the contacts for a while hads the Ocassional look through the scope Eventually spotted a nice big fat T3 Tanker , fired from 370mtr's whump blimey he miust have been full of fuel Massive Explosion . Next up was a T2 he took 3 Torps before finally sinking then a C2 Cargo 1 torp and it broke in half so maybe carying ammo i suppose then all hell brok loose and the Next 2 hours i was playing hide and seek with VW Warship got my 1st taste of being Depth Charged i'd dive to the bottom 50 mtr's switch off the engines run silent and sit there and sweat the bang , bang , bang he's suomehow find me again , got fed up with being used for target practise so on his next run i waited till the last moment put on full starboard rudder and back Emergency , this seemed to loose him for a while i quickly got to Periscope depth and imediattley came upon a C2 Cargo so quickly fired a Torpedo and then ran straight at him . the VW was giving chase the C2 didn't sink (suprise suprise) but had stopped dead in the water. Rembering something one of my uncles had told me i slowed down and slipped U31 underneath the C2 put the engines in full back and managed to stop underneath the ship . After 4 hours the VW finally gave in and dissapeared i slipped away quitley and as a thank you to the C2 Cargo sunk her with my bow tube Damage to U31 was minor i still had half my Torpedo's left so carried on northwards .