[Kapitän]

Originally Posted by the beast

August 13, 1939
Entry Log: 0002
Oblt Willi Goft, U-21, type IIA

We have completed our first wartime patrol! We travelled mostly submerged once we made it out of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Canal and past Heligoland, we came across several merchant ships of diffrenent countries, even a few American ones! The weather was quite rough as well. The boat was being slammed around in the turbulent waters of the North Sea. I was nearly washed off of the bridge myself! Even the saltiest sailor would get terrible seasickness.
We transisted the Brunsbuttel locks at 0550 on August 2, and we reached our patrol grid by August 5. We completed our patrol and FdU ordered us back to base because our fuel and food supplies were dangerously low, we haven't sunk a ship yet but I awarded the 2WO and the LI the U-boat War Badge as the 2WO showed extreme skill and resillence in the rough waters and the LI because he had repaired the boat after we had struck shallow water in the Kaiser-Wilhelm Canal, our fuel tank was moderately damaged and we lost an estimated 6% of fuel before sealing the tank.
The FdU was neither impressed or dissatisied with my performance.
We brought on several new crew memebers after our last patrol ended.
We await new orders from FdU

Signed,
Willi Goft

Yep, it's not always "Shine & Glory" ...