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Originally Posted by BladeHeart
I started my current patrol from Kiel by utilising the canal.
From the patrol point of view, given how inhospitable the North Sea is for a U-boat, and travelling through the English Channel is definately unhealthy, I wonder how much fuel is to be gained by using the canal. Once exiting the canal I then had to travel across the North Sea to sail around the Orkneys, etc?
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It shortens the trip when you are assigned patrol grids east of the UK in the AN sector with a type II.
If on a VII and have to go to the Atlantic over the north, as I always go along the norwegian coast to avoid shallow waters near UK, it doesn't shorten much compared to the whole trip.