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hampster · 01-19-11, 01:06 AM

6th patrol I was assigned AN26 for the second time in a row, completed my orders and found 1 ship which I sank. It was just raining and vis was 400 at the most. So I decide to head south for better weather. I get down to Southend at 8pm. It is dark and vis is still crap so I get a bright idea. Run in on the surface and sink everything I can see. Bar running into a destroyer literally it should go good. I use 2 torps to sink a coastal merchant 20 miles out. I get into Southend. Nothing is there. There is some burning oil and some buildings on fire. I zoom in to see the cause of fire ashore, and 1km inland is the front end of a C2

Some bad mojo went down here. 3 other ships are burning and 2 are sunk. I guess someone else got here first. So I decide to head to the entrance of the Channel.

I get to the mouth of the channel. Contact report. So I plot an intercept, I should meet this ship in an hour and a half. So an hour and a half later. Sonar contact Frachter Bearing 30 and closing. 90. His course is generally SW and Im coming around to north so I order SW. 170. Ill head on this course for a minute, buy then I should have the data for my usual 500 yard portside shot. Bearing 175 now as my ship hits SW. Bearing 180, hes getting loud, really loud. I set my aft tube for a 400 yard run Ill get him as soon as he comes out of the fog with a straight aft shot. Up goes my periscope, this will be sweet. Whats this? seas must be really rough its just foam, and the fog must have closed in to pea soup as all I can see is grey. Wait, this could be horrible. My fears confirmed and I look as high as the scope will go and see the bow of a ship. Ahead flank! Hard port!Dive!Belay that! as I realize my tail will swing into his path.Just the turn not the Dive! Mommy! A scream of metal. Banging. more metal scraping. A jolt as he brushes my tower out of the way. A minute later we are all still alive. Amazingly we just traded paint. The extent of the damage is a few dents and our Schweinchen must be repainted.

Reckless sailor is going to have to pay for ramming me. periscope depth. ahead full. I will put some eels up his rear. Fire one. Klang! a dud! Open 3, wait. He stopped and Im headed at him full speed ahead. Engines stop! Emergency reverse! Where the hell did this guy get his sailing license? A surprise egg? I manage to stop 50ft from his stern. He is noticeably settling aft. I motor up his starboard side and surface I want this fool to know whats coming. 90 off his starboard I put 2 torps into him. No fires, he just settles a little faster. Im about out of forward eels, so I will do a 180 and put the stern tube into him. 4 minutes later that manuever complete. Im just about to shout fire when he turns turtle. Good riddance. 1 front tube left,3 rear, 3 ships sunk a week into this patrol that is just storming.

01-19-11, 01:06 AM	#138
hampster Swabbie Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Alberta Posts: 7 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	6th patrol I was assigned AN26 for the second time in a row, completed my orders and found 1 ship which I sank. It was just raining and vis was 400 at the most. So I decide to head south for better weather. I get down to Southend at 8pm. It is dark and vis is still crap so I get a bright idea. Run in on the surface and sink everything I can see. Bar running into a destroyer literally it should go good. I use 2 torps to sink a coastal merchant 20 miles out. I get into Southend. Nothing is there. There is some burning oil and some buildings on fire. I zoom in to see the cause of fire ashore, and 1km inland is the front end of a C2 Some bad mojo went down here. 3 other ships are burning and 2 are sunk. I guess someone else got here first. So I decide to head to the entrance of the Channel. I get to the mouth of the channel. Contact report. So I plot an intercept, I should meet this ship in an hour and a half. So an hour and a half later. Sonar contact Frachter Bearing 30 and closing. 90. His course is generally SW and Im coming around to north so I order SW. 170. Ill head on this course for a minute, buy then I should have the data for my usual 500 yard portside shot. Bearing 175 now as my ship hits SW. Bearing 180, hes getting loud, really loud. I set my aft tube for a 400 yard run Ill get him as soon as he comes out of the fog with a straight aft shot. Up goes my periscope, this will be sweet. Whats this? seas must be really rough its just foam, and the fog must have closed in to pea soup as all I can see is grey. Wait, this could be horrible. My fears confirmed and I look as high as the scope will go and see the bow of a ship. Ahead flank! Hard port!Dive!Belay that! as I realize my tail will swing into his path.Just the turn not the Dive! Mommy! A scream of metal. Banging. more metal scraping. A jolt as he brushes my tower out of the way. A minute later we are all still alive. Amazingly we just traded paint. The extent of the damage is a few dents and our Schweinchen must be repainted. Reckless sailor is going to have to pay for ramming me. periscope depth. ahead full. I will put some eels up his rear. Fire one. Klang! a dud! Open 3, wait. He stopped and Im headed at him full speed ahead. Engines stop! Emergency reverse! Where the hell did this guy get his sailing license? A surprise egg? I manage to stop 50ft from his stern. He is noticeably settling aft. I motor up his starboard side and surface I want this fool to know whats coming. 90 off his starboard I put 2 torps into him. No fires, he just settles a little faster. Im about out of forward eels, so I will do a 180 and put the stern tube into him. 4 minutes later that manuever complete. Im just about to shout fire when he turns turtle. Good riddance. 1 front tube left,3 rear, 3 ships sunk a week into this patrol that is just storming.