I leave the Sub pen at brest at 2300 hours heading for the Grand Banks. The boat is running well at 2/3 when the bridge crew spots a V and W destroyer berring down on us . I order Crashdive and hear the Xos shout of Alarm of the closing of hatches. Yet i am a dumkoff! i have dove with only 15 meters under my kiel. the crew braces for impact as our VIIC hits the bottom destroying tubes 3,4. I curse loudly and cut the engines. soon we have flooding through the bow compartments. Yet we can not fix the problum because of the now lurking v&w pack above us. We creep along at ahead slow for 1 hour before losing the brits thank god for decoys!. We surface and make repairs. We head north at ahead flank when we spot a c3 operating alone. we surface and manover around the freighter firing our 88' at her keel. We finally send her to the bottom when the sound of aircraft reach our ears. there is no time to dive and we are to shallow to even think of it. The gunners man there stations and continuosly pump out 20 cm shells aluminating the night with there muzzle flashes. we score one hit and a smoldering B-24 lets of a hiss of steam as its super heated metal hit the atlantic but i suffered the fate of many captans and was destroyed by the 2nd flight of 24's in the next 5 min.
