Personally I like the plotting of the course and sailing out of harbour - especially Wilhelmshaven. Every time I leave there, or arrive home after a patrol I sail past the Tirpitz and as time and patrols have gone by I have to admit to feeling rather resentful of that massive heap of armour and guns which never seems to leave port while I and my crew have to take huge risks in a U-Boat. I sometimes believe that if I sailed close enough to it during an evening departure, or arrival, I'd hear the clink of cocktail glasses.
I know I volunteered, but ............as the Tommies would say "We should all do our bit, old bean."
I've even fantasised about putting a torpedo, or a few rounds from the deck-gun into it - just to wake them up and give them a taste of real action.
Needless to say, passing the "great ship" puts me into a nicely aggressive mood at the start of a patrol; so I go a-hunting for something I can take it out on without ending up facing a firing-squad.
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