U-100 "Blackcat" at Sea again

[Bluewings]

Since not a lot of Cpt. have the desire to keep others updated on theirs whereabout , I decided to post AARs (After Action Reports)
on my boat , VII-B U-100 nicknamed "Blackcat" .

Just left Lorient after minor repairs with 4 more boats , including the now well known U-46 "Laughing Swordfish" and some others ...

Heading for AL14 . Beautifull weather , for us as well for Allied Patrol Aircrafts .

#1 : Sank 2 Small Marchants with our 88mm . Bad luck for them ...

#2 : Grid AL14 quiet for 2 days before BdU send a Covoy report heading right toward us , 250nm SSE . Moving to intercept ...

#3 : US Convoy heavily escorted by 4 Destroyers . One I have never encountered before : Somers (1850 T) This one came at us full speed zig-zaging ! Dived to 80m , floaded Tube 1 (acoustic Torp) , waited for him to get tired to chase a ghost then sank him with a flank shot .

#4 : Convoy composed mainly by big Tankers and few Cargos . Only 3 small Marchants . Creeping slowly amongst them before to go to peris depth and attack the tankers .

#5 : 2 T3s and 1 T2 sent to the bottom , with a C2 for size , before the escort react . I used Impact set to 9.5m as I do not trust mag in the middle of a Convoy as Torps tend to get confused ...
Fired another acoustic to a US Flower Class but missed .

After 25 mins of swinging around , Aircrafts (US ?) start heavy bombing runs where I was 5 minutes earlier , calvalry 's always late !
Nevertheless , the escort 's pinging hard and closing in . Had to go 120m deep silent running . Cannot reload ... Senior Torp Warrant pissed off .

Escaping slowly North to surface 25 nm away to get tubes back into shape . My early contact report did not bring any friendly to help . Where are they ?.. (C' Mon Swordfish !)

After accelerating to 19 kts ~thx to my boosted engine~ while following a paralelle course , I finaly catch up with the convoy again . This time I make myself seen by surfacing early on purpose to attract the escort . The Flower goes down to an acoustic and a Clemson soon follow by a TIII on its flank .

A C2 needs 2 torps to sink . Fired 2 T1s ~ never mind the bubbles now~ at a C3 but the bugger refuse to sink
The last Destroyer , another Flower , gives me hard time by escaping my last acoustic on tube 4 . A long dance follow before Aircratfs come again at me . 'had to dive deep one more time as the Flower sent depth charges like rain over London .

Enough is enough , going back to Lorient with very little left ...

Cheers .