Very Bad Patrol

1916 · 08-16-05, 10:24 PM

Just came back to Lorient after 26 and a half days (637 hours) at sea going all the way to EJ19 (just west of Africa, don't know the name of the islands there). If you have your map near you, you can see how far it is, perhaps farther than NY. It was an adventure getting down there as I passed a convoy that was heading away from me so I couldn't do much. When I got down there, the conditions just started to deteriorate (I'm a new Oblt. Zur See). When I got up to periscope depth, the waves got so low it was like being surface. While surfaced, the waves broke over the conning tower, preventing me from using my deck gone on lone Merchants and putting the watchouts at risk of being washed overboard. I submerged to prevent that (I don't want to find out if it CAN happen or not).

This might be a seasonal thing since I was gone late March - early April. The water was bad everywhere so I'm willing to give Africa another chance.

But for those of you patrolling near Africa in the winter, enjoy the sun

Damo1977 · 08-17-05, 02:20 AM

Lol..........I love it in bad weather (not dense fog) you line up a ship and "pow" a wave hits you and all your targeting goes down hill rapidly. SO you mutter some foreign language and line everything up again and "pow" another wave. SO again you try and line everything up, now you don't care you going to sink this ship or be sunk.... You fire the eels and crash dive..... and its all up to you...........

SmokinTep · 08-17-05, 05:20 AM

I'm on my 3rd patrol off the city of Halifax. Catching up with convoys coming out of that area.

1916 · 08-17-05, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Damo1977

Lol..........I love it in bad weather (not dense fog) you line up a ship and "pow" a wave hits you and all your targeting goes down hill rapidly. SO you mutter some foreign language and line everything up again and "pow" another wave. SO again you try and line everything up, now you don't care you going to sink this ship or be sunk.... You fire the eels and crash dive..... and its all up to you...........

Okay.... sounds good.... but how do I see over the waves with the scope?

08-16-05, 10:24 PM	#1
1916 Loader Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Captain's Quarters eating dinner Posts: 82 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Very Bad Patrol Just came back to Lorient after 26 and a half days (637 hours) at sea going all the way to EJ19 (just west of Africa, don't know the name of the islands there). If you have your map near you, you can see how far it is, perhaps farther than NY. It was an adventure getting down there as I passed a convoy that was heading away from me so I couldn't do much. When I got down there, the conditions just started to deteriorate (I'm a new Oblt. Zur See). When I got up to periscope depth, the waves got so low it was like being surface. While surfaced, the waves broke over the conning tower, preventing me from using my deck gone on lone Merchants and putting the watchouts at risk of being washed overboard. I submerged to prevent that (I don't want to find out if it CAN happen or not). This might be a seasonal thing since I was gone late March - early April. The water was bad everywhere so I'm willing to give Africa another chance. But for those of you patrolling near Africa in the winter, enjoy the sun __________________ U-100 1. Flotilla Brest, France New Rammstein album out October 24, 2005!!

08-17-05, 02:20 AM	#2
Damo1977 Captain Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 487 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Lol..........I love it in bad weather (not dense fog) you line up a ship and "pow" a wave hits you and all your targeting goes down hill rapidly. SO you mutter some foreign language and line everything up again and "pow" another wave. SO again you try and line everything up, now you don't care you going to sink this ship or be sunk.... You fire the eels and crash dive..... and its all up to you........... __________________ \"If man is called to be to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well\" Martin Luther King, Jr

08-17-05, 05:20 AM	#3
SmokinTep Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Suffolk, Virginia Posts: 1,027 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'm on my 3rd patrol off the city of Halifax. Catching up with convoys coming out of that area.