Patrol zone I can't reach

derrinurban · 03-29-10, 12:10 PM

September 1943, Brest, VIIC, I get assigned to patrol GF19. I leave harbor and plot the course. I know it is a long patrol so set speed at 8.5 - 9.0 knots (best fuel efficiency) and ask the navigator for range to end and max range at current speed. There is no possible way I can make it that far and get back. I would run out of fuel about 1000 km's from base.

I just scrapped it and went hunting southwest of england for single merchants (convoys with 5-6 destroyers seem to be my demise by this time in the war).

Has anyone else experienced unreachable patrols?

03-29-10, 12:10 PM	#1
derrinurban Mate Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 54 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Patrol zone I can't reach September 1943, Brest, VIIC, I get assigned to patrol GF19. I leave harbor and plot the course. I know it is a long patrol so set speed at 8.5 - 9.0 knots (best fuel efficiency) and ask the navigator for range to end and max range at current speed. There is no possible way I can make it that far and get back. I would run out of fuel about 1000 km's from base. I just scrapped it and went hunting southwest of england for single merchants (convoys with 5-6 destroyers seem to be my demise by this time in the war). Has anyone else experienced unreachable patrols?