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Saturday, 13 September 1941 - Lorient

The totals of this 1st war patrol with U 113 and 13th war patrol overall are:

Traveled surfaced: 9103,2sm - 41 days, 6h, 36min.
Traveled submerged: 187,5sm - 3 days, 21h, 09min.
Traveled total: 9290,7sm - 45 days, 3h, 45min.

Total of 1 Tanker, 1 Troop Transport and 9 merchants for 44230ts sunk!

Of that from Op. against convoys 2350/6 (most likely rompers from convoy SC-38):
- 1 Tanker of 8006ts and 3 Merchants of 12364ts sunk.

Independently travelling ships:
1 Troop Transport of 6619ts and 6 Merchants of 17241ts sunk.

Torpedo hits: 9 (5 ships sunk by torpedo, 4 ships sunk by deck gun and 1 ship sunk by combined torpedo/deck gun action).
Torpedo misses: 0
Torpedo failures:
- 1 Eto (Pi-G7H) hit but failed to ignite,
- 1 Eto understeered in medium sea and
- 1 Ato understeered in high sea.

Crash Dives: 5
- All from airplanes, 2 of which in the Bay of Biscay.

Depth Charges: 0

Pressure hull: 100% (Accumulated: 0%)

Lost two crew members from aircraft attack:
Coxwain(AA), Wilhelm BARSCH and
Coxwain & No.3, Konrad SCHMIDT

Took two enemy Sea Officers prisoner of war.

Honour points: 2433.83 (Accumulated: 25545.05)

RST

Kptlt.&Cmdr.

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Sunday, 14 September 1941 - Lorient

B.d.U. Assessment:

A solid war patrol by this highly decorated commander with a new boat and crew, returning to active duty after having served in a training flotilla and encountering a changed situation at the front. The boat encountered heavy enemy air cover in the area between the Hebrides and Iceland, as well as the Bay of Biscay. The loss of two crew members on 6 August, is to be attested to this new situation.
Furthermore, the enemy now has the possibility of avoiding the Uboat positions, which caused the boat to encounter only independently traveling ships, with the exception of the small convoy eliminated on 7 August.
For this reason, B.d.U. has given the directive of cyphering of the grid indicators and the limiting of knowledge of the key to departments to which this knowledge is indispensable, to prevent the enemy being unable to gain any information on U-boat dispositions from the Communications Service.
The loss of life at the sinking of the passenger ships on August 5 and August 17, have to be blamed on the captains of the sunken ships, as the commander took every precaution in both cases, to limit the number of civilian casualties.

Karl Dönitz

Vizeadmiral & B.d.U.

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Kptlt.&Cmdr.