Patrol #10
VIIB - U-336
6 Sept, 1939
07:00
Multiple sound contacts from the sonar.
A periscope up reveals bad weather, and we've drifted out of their course quite a bit.
We take up a position about 8000m from their left-flank. A Lone Flower Corvette patrols this side.
12:00
The bad weather continues, and the daylight doesn't give us much space to attack, we shadow the convoy more.
19:00
Sun is starting to set. It's getting time. After starting a few different plots, and comparing them with each other, we get the course and speed of the convoy down to an entire knot;
12 knots, 354 degrees true.
22:00
Now ahead of the convoy, we start to turn on a perpendicular track to get into position.
Bad weather is in our favor, and we manage to sneak past all the escorts, on the surface.
A Black Swan class was just 1500 meters away!
23:12 In the convoy. Behind us a large merchant, in front of us a Fiji class and a large merchant. Torpedo's los!
23:13 Torpedo 5 hits the merchant, it limps on at 12 knots.
23:14 Torpedoes 1 misses the Fiji, one detonates prematurely. The other 2 hit the Merchant, sending it down.
23:21 Reached the other side of the convoy undetected. We take up position and shadow them.
05:00 All tubes reloaded, external torpedoes are inside. Taking up a second position
05:48 There's the Fiji again. 2 torpedoes. One hits the ammo bunker, she explodes and starts sinking. The 2nd one hits the bow.
A medium cargo on the stern. Sinks by one torpedo
The last 2 bow torpedoes miss their marks (Probably a wrong range)
The escorts have no idea what's happening ,and run in the wrong direction
08:00 Time to surface and set course to Lorient, our new base as per BDU orders.
We transmit a message to BDU telling them of our attack.
"Return to port as situation permits. First round on Flotilla command"
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