GWX, SH3Commander, 90% and I decide a raid in Halifax (mid 1940) with my VIIB U-33.
The Navigator gave me a funny look "Canada, Kaleun? This boat's engines wont run on seawater..."
"Dont worry Franz - there is always Greenland for refueling on our way back"...
Anyways, we arrive out of Halifax pretty easily, evading all destroyers patrolling. We wait 2-3 days for a change in weather and it eventually comes. Low visibility, high winds , rain. So I decide to go in and take a look.
Decks awash until we reach a position 4-5miles out of the harbour then depth 17 meters , speed 1knot silent running. We manage to stay undetected. We enter the port. 1 modern tanker and 1 large merchant in nice view on the southern docks. I send 4 eels their way (2 each) and make my way out. Both ships are hit, so after 2 hours of silent running since the weather is crappy i order decks awash to make a faster escape. We are now 7-8 miles out of the harbour moving east at 6 knots, feeling pretty happy when we bump into two destroyers heading directly TOWARSS me coming from 000. Due to low visibility I only saw them when we reached a distance of 250m.
Rammed and died...
Pretty annoying
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