[Kapitän]

Originally Posted by Kapitän

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Saturday, 5 July 1941 - Baltic Sea - AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. MÜLLER).

0240 - Wind and Sea increasing, shifting West.

0330 - Sunrise - W6/5, clear visibility 16000, >1000mb.

0621 - U 108 (Scholtz) reporting sinking of unescorted ship of 2486ts.

1130 - Qu.8199AO - Reached ordered patrol grid.

1200 - Qu.8199AO - Days Run: 270sm ↗ (21h 30') - since Danzig
219.9cbm (10.1cbm in 21h 30'); Weather unchanged in 14h 30'

1233 - Outgoing F.T.: To F.d.U.:
Reached ordered patrol grid. 219.9cbm. NW7/6, overcast, hazy, visibility 3-4sm, ~1000mb.

1800 - Incoming F.T.: From F.d.U.:
RST: Continue according to Op.-Order.

2036 - Sundown - SSW6/5, overcast, hazy, visibility 3-4sm, ~1000mb.

2100 - Qu.8155AO -

Standing up and down in ordered patrol grid.

Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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Sunday, 6 July 1941 - North of Bornholm - AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. MÜLLER).

0051 - Trial Crash Dive. At T=10 in 35Sec. Water depth 80m.

0053 - T=70. Boat reacting good.

0104 - At reception depth. 65RPM, 1.6kn, Silent Running.

0303 - O₂=20%.

0337 - Sunrise.

0707 - Surfaced after 10.3sm and 6h 16'.
NW1/1, partly cloudy, light haze, visibility 8-9sm, >1000mb.

0713 - Boat ventilated.

1005 - Qu.8333AO - Evaded Swedish Stella Destroyer on surface. Was on course WNW, 30sm NE of Bornholm.

1130 - Patrolled ordered patrol grid for 24h.

1200 - Qu.8411AO - Days Run: 133.1sm - ↗ 122.8sm (17h 44') - ↘ 10.3sm (6h 16')
217.4cbm (2.5cbm in 24h). 9300Ah. Weather unchanged in 4h 53'.

1323 - Qu.8419AO - Allowed a neutral steamer to cross our bows on course SSW.

1628 - Qu.8455AO -

1720 - It's becoming overcast and beginning to rain.

1801 - Report from Norddeich Radio about Operation "Silberfuchs", in an attempt to seize the Russian harbor of Murmansk. Attacks of the German 2nd and 3rd Mountain Division across the river Liza on July 6th, are repelled by the Soviet 14th and 52nd Rifle Division, reinforced by a Navy-Battalion. The battle is continuing.

Cmdr.: "Seizing the harbor of Murmansk is of strategic importance in support of Operation Barbarossa!"

2020 - Sundown - NNW7/6, overcast, rain, limited visibility, <1000mb. Have to reduce speed due to heavy swell.

2140 - It's clearing up again, wind and sea shifting to West.

2320 - WNW4/3, clear, visibility 8-9sm, >1000mb.