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Originally Posted by P_Funk
I think I remember a story in a book I read that one Captain of a XXI was shadowing a convoy when he received the surrender order. It was the first patrol for that XXI and rather than going home he decided to show what the XXI could do by infiltrating the convoy undetected and lining up a point blank firing solution on a tanker. At that pointy he disarmed and went home satisfied that he had proved the ship's worth and the skill of his crew.
Anyone else know of that? Or am I retelling a myth?
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I got this from uboat.net:
"U-2511 with a crack crew, sailed from Kiel on 16th March 1945 for the Norwegian base Horten in Norway. The war patrol was supposed to start on 26th March, but during deep dive test she sustained a periscope damage and was delayed. She sailed from Horten on the 18th April she was forced to put to Bergen on 21st April, due to diesel troubles. At last she sailed on 30th April 1945 with the orders to go to the Caribbean.
The first contact with the enemy was made on 1st May. On the following day U-2511 was detected by an escort group north of Scotland but easily got away with the increased underwater speed. She evaded other ships, too, as her objective was to get to the operation area first. Depth-charges were dropped but were helplessly wide. Soon after receiving the surrender message on 4th May, U-2511 detected a
Suffolk class cruiser,
HMS Norfolk, with destroyer escort at a long range. She made a text-book approach, closing at high-speed first, then diving deep and passing the destroyer screen at silent-speed. Finally, Schnee had the cruiser in sights 500 meters away with a perfect attacking position inside the destroyer screen and undetected- impossible not to miss. U-2511 did not fire but dived deep again, and still undetected returned to base, arriving at Bergen on 5th May 1945."
Nemo