Attack convoy BE3366

[Sea Hawk]

I’m just returning from a patrol W of Norway Oct 1939, Hurricane conditions most of the time. Used up most of my fuel chasing hydrophone contacts. Still have all torpedoes.

I’m on my way down the W side of Denmark heading for Kiel Canal. I get the following messages:-
Convoy sited, inbound, moderately escorted BE3366
SSSI 50.20N 12.45W SS Bretagne
SSS Request assistance 50.20N 12.45W SS Karamea
SSS Request assistance 50.20N 12.45W SS Lockavon
To U6 (me) from U45 attack convoy.

How do I find the convoy?
Is there a way of showing latitude and longitude on my charts while I am mid patrol?
What is BE3366? Is it a part of a British chart? How do I find out where it is?

[FIREWALL]

Sorry. That's for immersion.

[Bent Periscope]

In real life, I can imagine how many reported convoys/contacts were not reachable by real U-boats.
That really would have been frustrating!

BP

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by Bent Periscope

In real life, I can imagine how many reported convoys/contacts were not reachable by real U-boats.
That really would have been frustrating!

BP

Hopefully this might get fixed in SH5 or GWX4.

[RoaldLarsen]

Originally Posted by Sea Hawk

I’m on my way down the W side of Denmark heading for Kiel Canal. I get the following messages:-
Convoy sited, inbound, moderately escorted BE3366
SSSI 50.20N 12.45W SS Bretagne
SSS Request assistance 50.20N 12.45W SS Karamea
SSS Request assistance 50.20N 12.45W SS Lockavon
To U6 (me) from U45 attack convoy.

How do I find the convoy?
Is there a way of showing latitude and longitude on my charts while I am mid patrol?
What is BE3366? Is it a part of a British chart? How do I find out where it is?

I presume you are using GWX. Most of those messages are just for immersion. If you go to the location indicated in the message you will not find anything. The message to U-6 is not meant for you in particular. If I was running with GWX, I'd mod it to take out the "immersion" messages.

I am not certain about the first message. It might refer to an in-game sighting. Let's work it out.

I hope you know how to find BE33. It is one of the rectangles on your <F5> map. BE3366 is a subdivision of a subdivision of BE33. Imagine that BE33 s divided into three rows and three columns, all of equal size. This yields nine equal subdivisions of BE33. Number the parts in the top row 1, 2, 3, from left to right, 4, 5, 6 in the middle row, and 7, 8 and 9 in the bottom row. So the rightmost section of the middle row in BE33 is number 6. Rather than call it part 6 of BE33 we call it BE336. Now subdivide BE336 the same way to find BE3366.

Since BE is between the Azores and Ireland, there's no way you are going to get there in time from just off the Danish coast.

If you really want to convert from lat/long to a location on the map, you can do it the following way in the game. (This does not work on a real map of our oblate spheroid world.) Multiply the number of degrees by 120 to get a distance in kilometres, and then measure that many kilometres North or South from the equator, and East or West from the Prime Meridian. 50.20N 12.45W is 6040km North of the equator, (50 x 120 + 20/60 x 120) and 1,530km West of Greenwich (12 x 120 + 45/60 x 120). That would seem to correspond fairly closely with BE3366, so it seems that the three SSS messages are from ships in the convoy reported in the first message.

[Sea Hawk]

Thanks Roald.
I thought these messages were a direct order to me personally, and I did not want to get back to base and be accused of disobeying orders.
I can see now that it is impossible for me to respond.

Thanks for explaining BE3366

[Sea Hawk]

Its all accademic now.

I sailed into the Kiel canal, got board and increaced the time compression. Crashed into smothing killing all hands.

That must be a 1st, killing your self in the Kiel Canal!!!!

Helps the British war effort.