Noob alert!
My very first Silent Hunter III patrol...
(after training and practice single missions)
Realism 81% Type VIIB Home Port Willemshaven...
Headed out to a patrol grid in the Rockall Bank area...
Lots of neutral shipping encountered on the run North and West - US and French predominantly...Heading to pass north of Scotland between Orkneys and Shetland...first encounter with a British Flagged fishing vessel...engaged and sunk on the surface with Deck guns...Then encountered two separate lone merchantmen...one a Coastal Tanker and one a tramp steamer...sank both with torpedo's after submerged attacks...both had been located by hydrophone followed by a surface run to an intercept position...
Encountered a V&W class destroyer in the Fair Isle area...steaming along fat and happy in Fog...a four torpedo spread (overkill I know- but the destroyer frightened me) at extreme range resulted in one hit and the the destroyer sinking!
Expended an awful lot of torpedo's for very little tonnage - but pleased to head back to Willemshaven with an undamaged boat - 5000tonnes+ and a warship to point on my conning tower!
Bring on patrol no2
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