NYGM - I'm afraid

[NefariousKoel]

Well, I've started my first patrol with NYGM in a VIIB 1939.

I have to head through the Channel to get to my patrol zone. Passing Calais, I was thinking this might not be too difficult as I'd only seen 3 armed trawlers.

Now I'm north of Normandy. I've not seen one single merchant but I get attacked by a pair of Hurricanes constantly. They're obviously reporting my location, since a couple more armed trawlers headed directly for me. I dove and lost them.

Later, I spot 2 destroyers heading my way from the west. I dive and run silent letting them pass me by. After they're nearly out of sight, I surface to top off the batteries. I come under air attack 2 more times in a 10 minute span. When I surface after the last air attack, I spot a Destroyer heading my way from the north. It turns out to be three. The two to the east are now approaching. I dive and take her down to about 58m which gives me about 3-6m above the floor. Everything is getting depth charged to hell and I have a lot of sonar contacts. Out of curiosity, I use my external camera to see what the hell is going on.

I count 6 destroyers all circling my position. After about 2 hours of carpet DC'ing, I'm just letting it run silent at 2kts even though I've had a couple close calls. No damage yet, though. I hear some more commotion above and decide to take a peak. The six destroyers are still circling and dropping but I hear planes overhead. Oh hell. They look to be Me109s though. Whew! What do they do? Drop their bombs right on my head! Those Luftwaffe flyboys couldn't hit the broadside of a Battleship with accuracy like that! At least one of them strafed a Destroyer but I think it only pissed him off.

Anyway, I'm stuck down here, hiding for the long run because 6 destroyers have enough DCs to last about 3 years it seems. I wouldn't be surprised if more joined in shortly.