My best patrol so far.....
Left Lorient around september 1940 and plotted a course to the north of Ierland when I got a contact report of a convoy not to far away from my position. Plotted an interceptcourse and headed full steam ahead.
After a short while made visual contact and went to periscope depth. Got into a position on the corner of the convoy to take a look at the escorts. Front escort was a Flower corvette and I let the convoy pass to see the escort in the back which turned out to be a Flower corvette as well. After the convoy is passed I surface the boat and position myself in front of the convoy. I decide to do a daring surface attack on the first Flower as a faily inexperienced CO
.....and attack the Flower with my deckgun from a fair distance headon. After a few hits the Flower sinks
and the Flower from the rear steams through the convoy to attack me. Because of this he cannot get to me head on and I have a good lock with my deckgun on the side of the second Flower which also sinks after a few hits
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Yes....finally we have a unescorted convoy at our disposal and I steam through the convoy to pick the best targets. Suddenly shell are impacting around the boat and get the message "Das boot ist beschadigd herr Kaleun"
. I make a quick sweep with my attack periscope and discover an auxillary cruiser on the far side of the convoy. ALAAAAARM. I go to periscope depth and attack the cruiser with 2 torpedos aiming at the ammo bunkers. Both torpedo's hit their target and the cruiser goes down
. I make a second sweep with my attack periscope and make sure there is absolutly no other warship in this convoy. Finally no more warships in this convoy and start attacking pyro ammunition ships, large cargo's and such.
After having uses all my torpedo's and deck gun ammo I report to BdU and I'm beeing orderd to return to base.
Final result
War ships sunk = 3
Tankers sunk = 1
Mechants sunk = 13
Total tonnage = 130000+
Also my first 100k patrol
