Q: This was a very successful start to your patrol, then! Did the success continue?
Well, luck doesn’t hold up that long - and it would not be a short patrol, that’s for sure. After this, contacts proved harder to find, but I would say the patrol was still a very interesting one. The bulk of it was spent in our fairly confined patrol sector, area No.2A just on the west side of Nordkapp.
Q: What was your next interesting encounter?
The next one was with a Norwegian merchant, on the evening of December 2nd off the island of Rolvsoy in our patrol sector. This one was going east, and seemed to be completely alone and unarmed. Great, I thought, we can have this worked out the “nice way”. I got the crew up on deck and ready to fire with guns. We approached slowly, and got to within about half a kilometer of the ship. With nowhere for him to run, I ordered a warning shot to reveal our position, and prepared for him to surrender...
To be continued...