U-46 goes down

[Blacklight]

Tonight, U-46 went on eternal patrol.

U-46 had a sensational first outing, sinking 6 merchants and one warship. She came home as a shining example of Germanic heroism. There were medals handed out. The crew and it's captain were held in high honors ! They had even earned a really cool picture of a Tyranosaurus Rex painted on the side of the conning tower as a reward for their great achievement !

A month later, U-46 went out on her seccond tour of duty. This time, the weather went a little sour. She was able to track several ships but was never able to actually catch them and when she was able to catch them, it took several torpedoes before one would finally hit because the sea state was so bad. She returned in disgrace, having spent all of her expensive torpedos with only two ships sunk. This time, there were no medals, no appreciation, no nothing.

Her captain decided that this time, he would go out reclaim U-46's former glory. Throughout the entire trip to the patrol area, not a single ship was sighted. Only a couple of british warplanes were spotted off in the distance, but even they were too far away to contitute kills. A 24 hour patrol of her patrol grid found nothing. It was as if there were no vessels sailing on the ocean at all that day.

The captain then decided to take U-46 south to the convoy lanes to try to intecept the Gibraltar-Liverpool convoy. The farther south U-46 got, the thicker the fog got. Then it started raining... and then.. as soon as the sonar man picked up the first ships of the Convoy steaming directly toward U-46, a HUGE Atlantic storm blew in. Visibility was down to only a couple meters and the waves made seeing anything impossible. The waves were so towering that the only way to get the periscope above them was to surface the boat.

The seccond time U-46 surfaced to try to see the fleet, she was rocked by canon fire from behind. Apparently a warship had come up directly behind her through the storm. U-46 crash dived and managed to evade the numerous depth charges exploding around her with minimal damage.

Then.. a half hour later, with the warship seemingly having taken since the captain checked himself over and over again on the hydrophone and heard nothing around, the sonar man reported that the whole convoy was coming into range.

U-46 slowly crept up to periscope depth. The captain raised the periscope. The periscope got about halfway up when there was a loud "CLUNK" ! He angled the periscope upward and saw the underside of a ship DIRECTLY over the U-boat traveling pretty much the same speed and the exact same direction ! A crash dive was ordered as the ship above suddenly sped up. The captain saw metal barrels... many metal barrels floating downward throught he periscope. The last thing he saw was one barrel coming down directly in front of the periscope and bouncing against it.

U-46 was lost somewhere west of Ireland. The only survivor was someone nammed Bernard.

[GoldenRivet]

too bad about that one survivor... cant seem to get rid of him!

unfortunate about the loss of the boat. better luck next time.

[Blacklight]

You should have seen my face when I raised that periscope, heard the clunk, angled it upward and saw the underside of that destroyer !
I have no idea how she snuck up on me. She had to have either been masked by the weather/convoy sounds somehow or was sitting directly on top of me matching my course and speed for quite a while before I tickled her belly with my periscope.

[Barkhorn1x]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

You should have seen my face when I raised that periscope, heard the clunk, angled it upward and saw the underside of that destroyer !
I have no idea how she snuck up on me. She had to have either been masked by the weather/convoy sounds somehow or was sitting directly on top of me matching my course and speed for quite a while before I tickled her belly with my periscope.

That is just rotten luck. Ouch!!

[bookworm_020]

I'm sure you said something of comfort to the crew when you spoted the depth charges! Something like "I think we will be OK!"

BTW When I saw you thread title I thought it was Laughing Swordfish's U-46! Glad for him that it wasn't, but sad for you.

[Sledgehammer427]

i believe you mean U-96. because it wasnt until later in the war did the 9th adopt the swordfish as a flotilla emblem. but when that rolled around the sub numbers were in the high triple digits
and, my own vocabulary issue, laughing SAWFISH.

as per, too many times watching Das Boot

[bookworm_020]

This is what I was refering to

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=83139

One of the best SH3 stories around!

[Blacklight]

I'm going to wait till I put in GWX 2.0 then, U-47 is going to take to the seas. They will wear the emblem of U-46's T-Rex mascot


with honor and try to carry on in their name. Honorary team member and only survivor, Bernard himself will command.

[T.Von Hogan]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

I'm going to wait till I put in GWX 2.0 then, U-47 is going to take to the seas. They will wear the emblem of U-46's T-Rex mascot


with honor and try to carry on in their name. Honorary team member and only survivor, Bernard himself will command.

Please let me know which flotilla you join with u-47.......i want to make sure i don't end up at the same base as Bernard:rotfl:

[Brag]

Bernard, of course!

[Blacklight]

Please let me know which flotilla you join with u-47.......i want to make sure i don't end up at the same base as Bernard:rotfl:

I'm sorry Mr. Hogan but that information is classified.

[U49]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

U-46 was lost somewhere west of Ireland. The only survivor was someone nammed Bernard.

Sorry to loose another good boat

If the allies picked that guy up, :hmm: what was his name again, Bernhard? For sure they will sent him to a POW camp far away in the forrests of canada, would they ?
And maybe they keep him there until 1946?
:rotfl:

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by U49

Sorry to loose another good boat

If the allies picked that guy up, :hmm: what was his name again, Bernhard? For sure they will sent him to a POW camp far away in the forrests of canada, would they ?
And maybe they keep him there until 1946?
:rotfl:

U-35 and her new kaleun (Albert Schmitz) salute the fallen, if the sea wasn't so bloody rough in our last patrol, we'd have fired a deck gun shot in memorial.
As for Bernard in a prison camp...well...all the more reason to go down with the boat I guess...

[Blacklight]

If the allies picked that guy up, :hmm: what was his name again, Bernhard? For sure they will sent him to a POW camp far away in the forrests of canada, would they ?
And maybe they keep him there until 1946?
:rotfl:

Strangely enough, they picked him up and sent him on a tramp steamer straight to Wilhelmshaven !!! Man ! Those Allied sailors. What gentlemen !!! They even escorted the ship to near our territorial waters just to make sure that he got back to the naval base ok at the risk of their ships !!!

[Canovaro]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

U-46 slowly crept up to periscope depth. The captain raised the periscope. The periscope got about halfway up when there was a loud "CLUNK" ! He angled the periscope upward and saw the underside of a ship DIRECTLY over the U-boat traveling pretty much the same speed and the exact same direction ! A crash dive was ordered as the ship above suddenly sped up. The captain saw metal barrels... many metal barrels floating downward throught he periscope. The last thing he saw was one barrel coming down directly in front of the periscope and bouncing against it.

:rotfl:priceless!!


It sucks that it ended your career though...