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Graf Paper · 04-17-08, 09:56 PM

I thought the average patrol length was thirty days but I'm no U-boat scholar by any stretch of the imagination.

I belive the longest patrol I've had so far, out of ten patrols, is twenty-eight days. I usually expend all my torpedoes within twenty days and head for home.

It's currently Christmas Eve, 1940, and my crew and I have been on patrol for two weeks with not a single ship sighted. You couldn't cut the restless boredom on board with a chainsaw! Although, when the action does start, I'm sure every last soul in the crew would gladly exchange the inevitable "tin can fever" for the cabin fever permeating the confines of U-47 right now.

04-17-08, 09:56 PM	#4
Graf Paper Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Pacific Northwest United States Posts: 1,146 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 2	I thought the average patrol length was thirty days but I'm no U-boat scholar by any stretch of the imagination. I belive the longest patrol I've had so far, out of ten patrols, is twenty-eight days. I usually expend all my torpedoes within twenty days and head for home. It's currently Christmas Eve, 1940, and my crew and I have been on patrol for two weeks with not a single ship sighted. You couldn't cut the restless boredom on board with a chainsaw! Although, when the action does start, I'm sure every last soul in the crew would gladly exchange the inevitable "tin can fever" for the cabin fever permeating the confines of U-47 right now. __________________ Still sailing the high seas, hunting convoys with those who join me.