1- Uncle Karl will order you home if you use up your torps. With extra gas, I usually take a leisurely route home hoping for some targets and gunnin' weather!
2- You could probably sink a Granville with one forward torp hit, especially in poor weather. In better weather, use the deck gun to finish it off. But it's not awful to use an extra torp. Ore Carriers are big, but in my experience, they sink easily. One torp is usually enough. But I think you're doing very well for all those torp hits- good aiming, and excellent practice for rapid-action, high-pressure convoy shots!
3- I find that my patrols are averaging about 40ishK tons. 33K certainly isn't a bad patrol for the game. A lot has to do with getting lucky and finding good targets or good gunnin' weather. In reality, 33K tons and 8 ships would have been a very good patrol.
4- The English Channel is a piece of cake in bad weather. Just hug the French coast and move through quickly on the surface. In the middle of a storm, you're almost guaranteed safe passage. I've made it through there twice submerged in calmer weather too. Yes, that's risky because of mines, but I move very slowly to evade warships, then stop, then wait for night before moving on the surface again. I once got caught in a running gun battle with a patrol boat and a small surface ship, but that's because I was foolish enough to surface without checking my periscope first. I got away after exchanging gun fire and taking some serious hits.
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