Longest Patrol (Distance)

[Grrbob25]

I wanted to know from all you experienced kaleuns....whats the farthest you've ever gone on a patrol???

mine is with a IX-D2 from Speiza to Panang (or whatever it is) milkcowed once, the whole jouney took 5 months time at ahead slow (3 days real time) got many a good kill during that

[Rose]

I don't have any great epic journeys to Penang under my belt yet. That is not for the faint of heart. Longest I've done was a few months meandering through the wonderful Caribbean in a IXC. That place is a tanker graveyard now.

PS: I noticed you're from Chicago. I was born and raised in Chicago. It's my favorite city in America by far . I live in NYC now, but my family and I still go to Lake Geneva every August for the whole month. We usually travel back to Chicago to see old friends a few times every year. Where in Chi-town to you live? Do you ever go to Lake Geneva? I was at the corner of Clark and Belden in the Lincoln Park area. Great city.

[Myxale]

My longes was two months in my last W@W patrol!! Near the Ivory Coast! Sure the way's not that long but i had som extended Patrol orders that covered a good chunk of the South-Atlantic!


Gee, was a ugly ride with lots of storm! I so wished i had a Type IID. Something that only sails in the North sea! for a brief time!

[mr chris]

Am currently on my longest patrol in my type VIIB. Have been out just over a month and a half game time and have just docked for a resup looking at maybe raiding the odd harbour as i make my way back to base. As hunting has not been that great so far:hmm:

[_Seth_]

Penang?? Thats a long patrol, mate!

Well, my longest patrol was from St. Nazaire up through the northwest passage (looking for icebergs, found none... ) then out through the bering strait ending up on the west coast af alaska. Boring trip....

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by _Seth_

Penang?? Thats a long patrol, mate!

Well, my longest patrol was from St. Nazaire up through the northwest passage (looking for icebergs, found none... ) then out through the bering strait ending up on the west coast af alaska. Boring trip....

Hmmm...it never even occurred to me that that route WOULDN'T be iced in!!!! :rotfl:

[_Seth_]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

Hmmm...it never even occurred to me that that route WOULDN'T be iced in!!!! :rotfl:

I didnt even see an icecube (except the one in my whisky-glass). It was a horrific moment: Looked like some sort of global warming melted all the ice....

[JSalinger]

One can take the northwest passage? *blinks* And let me guess, there's no Milch cows off of Alaska...

Hmm, maybe you could dock at Yokosuka at convince the Japanese to give you a refuel and directions to the nearest American Task Group.

[melnibonian]

Hello

My longest patrol was from Lorient to Madagascar (with a small raid in Rio de Janeiro first!! ) on an IXC. I was planning to go to Mogadishu refuel and then go to the pacific but unfortunately it was 1944 and the Italians switched sides half way into my trip . So I killed as many targets I could and return to France.

[Biggles]

My longest patrol was from Brest to the Florida Keys.....I was foolin' around over there, did a trip around Cuba and it was quite a good partol, what I can remember, I sank about 5 ships (3 I think was in the middle of the Atlantic, and 2 ships near Cuba, probably going Miami-Brazil). I did shoot down some airplanes outside Cuba too, but don't remember how many......

[_Seth_]

Originally Posted by JSalinger

One can take the northwest passage? *blinks* And let me guess, there's no Milch cows off of Alaska...

Hmm, maybe you could dock at Yokosuka at convince the Japanese to give you a refuel and directions to the nearest American Task Group.

Thats right, mate...I recommend to use a long range sub, and not an IIA...
I didnt detect a single ship after i sailed into the Labrador sea. Went up through davis strait and baffin bay, turned west throught the "passage", no Ice at all..
Through Beaufort sea, then bering strait, then west coast of the 49' State... NO shipping at all..... AND NO ICE!!

Hmm, maybe you could dock at Yokosuka at convince the Japanese to give you a refuel and directions to the nearest American Task Group.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Grrbob25]

Originally Posted by Rose

I don't have any great epic journeys to Penang under my belt yet. That is not for the faint of heart. Longest I've done was a few months meandering through the wonderful Caribbean in a IXC. That place is a tanker graveyard now.

PS: I noticed you're from Chicago. I was born and raised in Chicago. It's my favorite city in America by far . I live in NYC now, but my family and I still go to Lake Geneva every August for the whole month. We usually travel back to Chicago to see old friends a few times every year. Where in Chi-town to you live? Do you ever go to Lake Geneva? I was at the corner of Clark and Belden in the Lincoln Park area. Great city.

yeah chicago is pretty great, i live on the way way way south side, if i walk 2 blocks I wont be in the city anymore I've been to lake geneva one time, and I was so little I dont remember it

[Biggles]

I've "only" been to New York, Florida,Georgia,Utah,Colorado,Arizona,New Mexico,Nevada,and California, and I'm a Swede! Aint that neet?

[JSalinger]

Now that I think of it, I think my farthest patrol has been to...*thinks some more* I want to say the west coast of India in early 1944 in my IXD2 (also turned out to be my last patrol...got swarmed by two British DDs and a Free French corvette coming back to Lorient in May of '44). Very little shipping there, Kaleuns. I think I bagged two coastal merchants there and that was it (nice deck gun practice though).

Now into my second career, I'm in December of 1942, on what number patrol I can't remember, but I'm in a IXC patrolling the Brazillian coast. Current tonnage is something like 154,000 tons (poor, I know). Let's sink more of der Englander schwein!

[_Seth_]

What about a trip around the world? would that be possible with a long-range sub and some serious fuel-saving? Since SHIV dont have a world map, we got to do it in SHIII..... Someone up for the challenge??