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And this is why I don't raid harbors. They're deathtraps! 
Eeeeeveryone wants to be Gunther Prien. I should put that in my sig. hee hee... |
Gunther prien was very lucky, it was a very dangerous raid, and perhaps if it were repeated could end in a disaster. nets...mines...scorts..shallow waters ..  . |
A couple of German U-boats were sunk when they tried raiding Scapa in WW1. You're absolutely correct. Prien was extremely lucky. |
Lucky………yes he was but as a German submariner in ww2 with the death rate at over 60% even if you came back from a standard mission you were lucky.
I remember reading that two u-boats were lost in Scapa Flow in ww1, one tried to follow a warship in thru the opening and was spotted, can’t remember how the second one was caught.
And I was also thinking. If you really get in the math of this submariner death rate, the 60% is figure of the whole war, when you calculate and consider that in the early stages of ww2 u-boats would go for months at a time without loosing a single crew (which is when the Scapa Flow raid occurred) so in order for the 60% fate at the end of the war it was just plain short of suicide to be on patrol in a u-boat towards the end years