It pays off to have strong repair crew

[Brag]

30 January 1942 (GWX)

To BDU
From U-67
Position ET2744

Sustained heavy damage by Depth charges.
Forward compartments out of service. Flooding contained. Forward batteries destroyed,aft batteries destroyed. Attack periscope damaged. Port diesel damaged. Diesel compartment flooding contained. Flack guns damaged. Radio repaired. Funker dead.
Able to do 7 knots. Will attempt return to base.

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All the above was caused by a Flower. It made 3 accurate passes causing flooding, in diesel room, zentralle and forward compartments. It looked like we had the banana. Had to keep shifting the repair crew from one compartment to another to keep the compartments from flooding completely.

Weight of water has us in a slow dive, which we were able to slow by diving plane controls. Slowly were able to reduce flooding to where we were able to keep 140 meters. All this while being mercilesly depth charged. We'd fix a leak and another would spring.

The repair crew worked like dogs. With the batteries destroyed, had to husband the little electric power left. Finally was able to return to silent running and the fiend above us lost us.

Though severely crippled we were able to surface normally.
We are a long way from home. Thanks to a strong repair crew, we're still alive.

What is the key for burial at sea?
Poor funker.

Here's the screenie once things were stabilized and creeping away: