So I was just east of Freetown and my boat got chewed up by some lucky merchants with their deck guns.
So I docked with the Python down south and patched up my boat, and then decided to round the cape of South Africa and see what it was like on the east coast of Africa.
In many years of playing this game I have never done that.
So I cruise up the coast...and it's rather boring. And it was non-stop rain. I bagged a couple of ships, and then wondered, "Hey, I wonder if you can travel through the Suez Canal?"
So I tried it.
As you enter the canal from the south, you pass a couple of gun emplacements on the way in. I submerged to get by those, but it was too slow being so shallow to go submerged the whole way. So I surfaced.
Everything went smoothly until you reach the little lake just inside the canal. The Brits had a surprise for me. Not one, not two, but three V&W class destroyers. Tried to sneak by them but they heard me and came after me. I nailed them all with down-the-throat shots, though they ran over me a couple of times. Fortunately no major damage.
It is 1941 after all.
So I continue along the canal and I took the branch of it that took me furthest away from Port Said. As I cleared the canal I could make out gun emplacements once again, so I ran decks awash, but again it was so stormy they never saw me.
Had to dodge an ASW trawler in the shallow waters off the canal, but I was home free in to the Med.
Bagged a small convoy on the way to La Spezia, and now my crew is on the Italian beach enjoying the sun and girls.
When we leave via Gibraltar, I will have completely circumnavigated Africa.
Steve