Let BdU know how you'r doing on patrol

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Many of us like to post our patrol results to the forum. I thought it might be interesting to have all the reports together on a day to day basis and also a final patrol report.

If you would like to participate copy and paste the below, highlighted, form to the "RESPOND" of this thread with your patrol details filled in.

BdU Patrol Report

Report Date:

U-Boot#:
Captain:
Home Base:
Patrol Grid:
Start Patrol:
End Patrol:
Days At Sea:
Merchants Sunk: Tonnage:
Warships Sunk: Tonnage:
Aircraft Downed:
Hull Integrity:

Brief Details Of Patrol:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Report Date: 12 Dec 40

U-Boot#: 345
Captain: VonKleg
Home Base: St Nazair
Patrol Grid: Null
Start Patrol:10 Dec
End Patrol:
Days At Sea:2
Merchants Sunk: 6 Tonnage:100,000
Warships Sunk: 0 Tonnage:
Aircraft Downed: 0
Hull Integrity: 100

Brief Details Of Patrol:

First day nothing but rain. Tracked and sank three unescourted merchants. Second day stopped raining. Tracked small merchant and sunk her by deckgun (12 rounds)

[meduza]

Report Date: July 14th 1942

U-Boot#: U-371
Captain: Johann Schwartz
Home Base: La Spezia
Patrol Grid: CN64
Start Patrol: July 9th 1942
End Patrol:
Days At Sea: 6
Merchants Sunk: Tonnage: 0
Warships Sunk: Tonnage: 0
Aircraft Downed: 0
Hull Integrity: light damage

Brief Details Of Patrol:
During the storm I was surprised by a destroyer which was escorting Aquitania and another smaller troop ship. When the weather improved I attack the Aquitania. All torpedoes missed. Both ships was sunk by Luftwaffe later. No contact after that, except for airplanes. Currently patrolling my assigned sector. Weather calm, visibility moderate.

[unterseemann]

Nice idea

Report Date: May 30th 1942

Uboot: 753
Captain: Hans Wette
Home Base: Brest 1st flotilla
Patrol grid: DT
Start patrol: May 15th 1942
Days at sea: 15
Merchants sunk: 3 Tonnage: 12579
Warships sunk: 0 Tonnage:
Aircraft downed: 0
Hull Integrity: No damage

Brief details of patrol: First war patrol- Convoy attacked 24th may 1 liberty ship sunk, another damaged. Escorts agressive, lost contact due to bad weather. Resume to patrol grid.

Report Date:

U-Boot#: U-131
Captain: Marcus Rikberg
Home Base: Lorient
Patrol Grid: CA 57
Start Patrol: June 26
End Patrol: July 23
Days At Sea: 27
Merchants Sunk: Tonnage: 82527
Warships Sunk: Tonnage: 0
Aircraft Downed: 0
Hull Integrity: 80%

Brief Details Of Patrol: After patroling Ca 57 i went to the northern convoy route and came across 2 large convoys. One i attacked twice for 4 ships. the second convoy i spotted was outside ireland and 6 ships went down in one attack two i had to finish with 2 extra torps cos they didnt want to sink. slite damage from dc.

[BasilY]

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BdU Patrol Report

Report Date: March 20, 1944

U-Boot#: 129
Captain: Georg Zinn
Home Base: Brest
Patrol Grid: EE81
Start Patrol: Feb, 20th
End Patrol:
Days At Sea: 29
Merchants Sunk: 18 Tonnage: 128,681
Warships Sunk: 1 Tonnage: 1,192
Aircraft Downed: 1
Hull Integrity: unknown, less than 100%

Brief Details Of Patrol: Fruitful patrol of Caribbean Exit North of Port of Spain. One lone patrolling DD sunk with Homing torpedo. Attack by numerous Airplanes, Damage unknown, Shot down one. Returning to base with last homing torpedo as defense.

[Paul Riley]

Report Date: 3rd Sept 1939

U-Boot#: U14/Type IIA
Captain: L.z.s. Willie Werner
Home Base: Kiel
Patrol Grid: AN14 , SE of Shetland Is.
Start Patrol: 27th Aug 1939
End Patrol: Still on patrol
Days At Sea: 7
Merchants Sunk: Tonnage: 1 x small merchant for 2.229GRT
Warships Sunk: Tonnage: 0
Aircraft Downed: 0
Hull Integrity: Approx 99% due to slight pressure damage from deep dive test.Hull rated for 162m

Brief Details Of Patrol:
After almost 1 week of inaction due to restrictions against British shipping we had our first kill on the 2nd Sept at 08:44.Fired 1 at 1000m,contact with bow,vessel still afloat at a 20-30deg angle into the sea.Fired a second approx 30mins later from 600-700m slightly aft of 1st hit,vessel exploded and sank.
Currently just picked up a second sound contact and proceeding to follow,time is 17:08.Expecting visual contact within the hour.
Weather - calm at 4mps,medium visibility.

U14 signing off.

[meduza]

Report Date: 19 Oct 1942

U-Boot#: U-371
Captain: Johann Schwartz
Home Base: La Spezia
Patrol Grid: CO62
Start Patrol: 25 Sep 1942
End Patrol: 19 Oct 1942
Days At Sea: 25
Merchants Sunk: 7 Tonnage: 32466
Warships Sunk: Tonnage: 0
Aircraft Downed: 1
Hull Integrity: 98%

Brief Details Of Patrol: Attacked by single Kingfisher in shallow waters around Messina. Plane shot town, no damage.
Traffic low, all merchants escorted. Had to repeat 2 attacks because I didn't hit target (3 torpedoes missed). Depthcharged 5 times. Weather very changeable.

[Jaman]

BdU Patrol Report

Report Date: 10 Jul 1941

U-Boot#: U-104
Captain: Hayden von Beier
Home Base: Lorient
Patrol Grid: ET13
Start Patrol: 18 May 1941
End Patrol: 9 Jul 1941
Days At Sea: 53 Days
Merchants Sunk: 9 Tonnage: 49981
Warships Sunk: 0 Tonnage: 0
Aircraft Downed: 0
Hull Integrity: Light Damage

Brief Details Of Patrol: Suprised on surface due bad weather by armed merchant near Spanish northwest coast, light damaged caused by 20mm fire at short range, crash dive. Merchant attacked and sunk by single torpedo.
Attack on small convoy near Gibraltar aborted after being spotted by escort. Deep charged for nearly half an hour. No damage. Tried to make contact again, no success.
Spotted by aircraft near Freetown, had to dive. No damage.
Very light traffic through all west African coastline, only 3 merchants sunk.
Ignored couple American tankers into blockade area following Führer orders.

[Paul Riley]

Report Date: 4th Sept 1939

U-Boot#: U14/Type IIA
Captain: L.z.s. Willie Werner
Home Base: Kiel
Patrol Grid: AN14 , SE of Shetland Is.
Start Patrol: 27th Aug 1939
End Patrol: Still on patrol
Days At Sea: 8
Merchants Sunk:2 Tonnage: 4.080GRT
Warships Sunk: Tonnage: 0
Aircraft Downed: 0
Hull Integrity: Approx 99% due to slight pressure damage from deep dive test.Hull rated for 162m

Brief Details Of Patrol:
3rd Sept
After our previous sinking we picked up another sound contact in the area.Visual contact made shortly after,vessel observed as a passenger/cargo,course 332,6-7kts.1st attack came at 20:48 submerged at 1000m,aim point foremast,torpedo impact at dead centre due to vessel speeding up at last moment.Vessel still afloat.Decided to run alongside and finish with the AA gun,vessel finally sunk on even keel,195rds exp.1.851GRT.
Recent radio messages- "AO94,attacked Polish sub,found wreckage and oil" "sss.sss.sss.56deg44'N,14deg05'W,SS Athenia" Returning to previous contact area.
4th Sept
05:30 - Spotted a 3 ship convoy,probably heading towards our last sinking,unsure.Turns out to be a small taskforce consisting of 1 Fiji class escorting,2 Aux Cruisers,heading 335,15kts.Convoy moving too fast to conduct any actions against,decided to lurk 1000m from this track in an attempt to intercept the lead escort if they return.If after approx 48hrs and no sign of them will return to previous contact area.
Weather - excellent,sea 4mps.
2 steam torpedoes left,805 AA rds

U14 signing off