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Originally Posted by Paul Riley
Tonight's report
13:27
Deep dive successful,held at 200m,hull intact,suffered no damage from earlier attacks.
15:00
Surfaced,all minor damage to foredeck repaired
distance smd - 13.2km
17:00
dusk dive,sun just beginning to set.Will surface when dark to RC
distance sfd - 43.6km
18:30
surfaced,RCing.
clear night,wind still 5
batteries 50%
distance smd - 12km
21:41
RCd (+3hrs 10mins RC time)
7th Nov
day 2 at sea
weather still clear and calm
no AAs so far
approx 630km west of S.Naz.
06:15
starting to get light,dawn dive
distance sfd - 236km
ST - 08:00
08:00
surfaced
still clear
distance smd - 14.1km
almost out of the bay of Biscay now.Maintaining strict radio silence from here on until we are out of max British air coverage (observed so far as being approx 2000km from known air bases)
10:00
left the BOB
approx 820km west of base
second leg of course,proceed to BE55 keeping just on the British air coverage perimeter,heading then into AE79,then east into patrol zone (PZ) AE87.
Icelandic air cover expected to be minimal in area of operations,however extreme caution must be maintained,after all,this is a vengeance mission,and we must prevail on this one!
12:00
weather still clear,wind 5
still no AAs
end of report 
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Tonight's report
17:00
dusk dive
distance sfd - 190km
new ST - 19:00
19:00
surfaced
distance smd - 16.1km
weather - no change
RCing
20:50
RCd
8th Nov
day 3
1080km west of S.Naz
06:30
dawn dive
weather - no change
distance sfd - 240km
08:30
new day ST - 08:30
distance smd - 16km
17:00
dusk dive
dist sfd - 193km
ST - 19:00
19:00
surfaced
RCing
dist smd - 12km
weather - still clear,wind 5
20:47
RCd
23:37
entering middle portion of BE sector,as traffic is high in this area perfoming first sound check.I can't believe our fortunes,we have a faint sound contact,bearing 330,moving slow,sounds heavy,sound moving from right to left,possible heading of SW towards S.America
turned to bearing 310 on a 20deg intercept course to attack port side of target
sound checks every 10mins
as E-Torps are the first load in the tubes we plan to attack at 500-1000m submerged.
23:50
gaining on target.seems to be heading more west,turned to put target bang on our bow,will follow him from astern.target may be a possible lone merchant heading for Halifax.
change of plan,as Russian shipping is our top priority to aid our troops in Stalingrad we will try to sink the target with the deck gun.if target is heavily defended then will probably abort the attack and report back to base,then proceed to our main objective.
9th Nov
day 4
00:01
still gaining on target after 3rd sound check
expect visual contact by 00:30 - 00:45
end of report
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Finally some bloody action!,wish me luck