January '41, patrol out of St Naz to some nondescript BE to no avail. Tried Rockall - zip. Came back down the W coast of Ireland and was running out of patience, I'd come across a very large convoy but hit diddly with five eels before sitting at 120m to long to catch up. I thought I'd tip-toe toward Bristol.
My reward, a meagre 1930 GRT merchant and a paultry 2599 GRT mail/liner, a tremendous loss of 119/130 souls for little tonnage. Eager to get back and start another patrol, one that was more fruitful I headed rapidly back to St N when I came across two tankers and a large cargo in good old BF16, but only two torpedoes left, and one of those was stored externally at the stern!
38 Tons of wreckage later, mostly thanks to the deck gun (only 12 rounds of HE left) with a little help from the flak gun and one torpedo that did actually work.
So that takes my tonnage to around 53k for this career
which means I'm getting better, woo hoo!
Goodnight all, this crew needs it's sleep
