In SHII, Scapa was always a good place to go, but like all capital ship harbours, not deep enough to give you a chance if you get rumbled. I used to go in from the SW, not the Eastern approach, timing my run for maximum darkness, and when the the destroyer starts patrolling back the other way. Then lie up on the bottom during the whole of the next day in a narrow channel, to give me the whole of the next night to do the business and get out again
Did once try Loch Ewe with SHIII earlier on in single patrol mode.
Found the Nelson at anchor, and gave her all five! But it was so shallow, that although she capsized, or would have, she rested on the bottom at a 45 degree angle, and I wasn't even credited with the sinking.
Took it out on some torpedo boats and armed trawlers with the guns on the way out though. And that sort of cured me of wanting to mix it with warships once I got into career mode.
U-46 did once sink a destroyer but that was in pretty desperate self-defence, and have occasionally taken a pot shot at them just to break the defensive screen.
But what our Uncle wants is tonnage, and that's what we have to give him, by sneaking and sneaking out. Having got it out of my system, anything else is a bonus.
LS
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