10/7/1940 North Atlantic 18th day at sea
U-48 arrived at her patrol area and again nothing was sighted 2 days later BDU ordered us to BD 3426 again 2 days were spent searching nothing was sighted, BDU ordered us to one final position, naval square AL 7823. On October 1st on the first day of searching lookouts sighted a vessel the neutral Swedish liner HELLEN 8,000 grt she was hit with artillery but a British warship responded to distress signals and we sank her with a torpedo. We headed SE at full speed.
On October 5th U-48 sighted a convoy, dived ahead, and fired a spread of 4 torpedoes (Atos) at the convoy 2 detonations were heard. We dived to A+20m and were depth charged for 50 minutes about 22 depth charges were fired after 2 hours we surfaced and on the 500m wavelength we heard that the British tanker BRITISH WAY 2,780 grt and the British freighter MATHIAS 3,605 grt were torpedoed in the North Atlantic we assume them to be the ships we hit
BDU gave us freedom of movement and we are headed towards the Gulf of Cadiz we will resupply from a tanker.
