[Bosje]

Reading the next couple of pages, Mr Bauer's writing is drole but what he writes about is fascinating: Accounts of torpedoes being fired at ships and then sailing away with another kill in their log. Also accounts of torpedoes missing or ships steaming on after being hit. And endless days of rain, wind, waves and boredom. Lots and lots of unimagineable boredom.

Entire pages seem to be missing and there are unconnected intermezzos, praying to Neptune, begging for or even demanding a change in fortune. I still can't quite make anything of that religious tone.
And then there is this entry for January 7th at 5 am:
“The damn steamer is still afloat even 6 hours after the attack. The convoy is long gone minus the three we struck. [...unreadable...] finish her off and then we'll only have one fish left. Three big kills in one night, the attack was perfect, the sea was calm although […] bloody cold. We'll sacrifice another case of beer to The [...]”

A convoy engagement, so early in the war! And in a Type II as well. It's a shame I don't have the ship's Kriegs Tagebuch to see the official entries, his personal diary is mostly about his own perceptions and feelings; Mr Bauer never really talks much about his torpedo settings and the convoy's speed, course and composition. All that stuff is probably already taken down in the KTB. But I can at least try to imagine what it must have been like.