[Phylacista]

1st a congrats and a "Thank you" for all your work.

Here's one suggestion:

When you are dead you can change your carreer also to surrendered or captured. How about making this random and adding a chance being picked up by friendly vessel.

This could be done by changing crew and boat and increasing time in harbour after you "died"

However the chance should be tiny perhaps increasing with proximity to german territorries and year of play (but as this is more work perhaps only the year).
It would add a moment of excictement after your Uboat is lost.

Of course this feature can be checked/unchecked as liked - similair to all the bunch of usefull things SH3 commander does.