60 K in 8 hours.

[Brag]

19 Aug 1940
While stalking the tanker route after 7 days of zero contacts, a convoy came my way. Though the weather was rough, I decided to attack.

Shortly after midnight, I skulked past the lead destroyer and swung perpendicular to the convoy, which was almost on top of U-123.

600 meters away a whale factoy came into my sights. I fired tubes 1 & 2. Another whale factory was behind it. Armed # 3 for 12 meters and looos!

Swung persicope around for a shot at a large tanker with tube 5. Time to go deep and do the wiggle-waggle.

Heard first explosion, a premature.
second torpedo hit, then the others. Soon we had three sinkers. Destroyers dropped a few DCs somewhere else. An hour later is was quiet and we surfaced.

Was still reloading torpedoes when we got a message of a task force approaching.

With torpedoes loaded, we dived and got sound contacts.

At first light, I recognized Rodney and Revenge barreling down toward us. 4 destroyers screened the task force.

One destroyer hading straight for U-123.
Scope down. The destroyer passed very close.
Up scope. There's Rodney 900 meters away--Salvo of two magnetics set for 13.2 meters.
One premature

Salvo of two for Revenge.

Good hit under No. 3 turret.
We dive deep.
Revenge salvo misses.

We hear breaking sounds.
We wait for an hour for destroyers to pounce. Nothing.
Periscope depth--there is Rodney, inmobile with it's bow down.
Eventually, I decide to let it have another torp so we can go away and look for tankers.

Magnetic torp under the stack--The mighty battleship goes down in 5 minutes.

Our midnight to eight shift was finished--65,000 tons in one night is not too bad.

Below is Rodney getting its brekfast sausage.