U-81's Maiden Patrol

WidowMaker · 07-21-07, 08:38 AM

May of 1940

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edi...id=8RBFn5sZX0w (video of the harbor battle)

So heres the tale of my maiden patrol upon U-81 a VIIC boat; my crew and I had just recently transferred from U-83 which was a VIIB class. We went out on patrol like normal, sunk some ships, patrolled around, nothing special.

One night off the coast of France, I get a Radio message of heavy shipping around Dunkirk, i have like 25% fuel left so i decide what the hell so i sneak into the area around Dunkirk and what do i find? A harbor full of huge tonnage ships and a military convoy moving by. I find a nice juicy Fiji class Cruiser in the middle and decide to Fraps a video of me smoking it and the Troop Transport next to it.

After I finish torping the two ships and am starting to sneak out of the area, suddenly all of the air sirens go off and lights in the harbor area go crazy; then i realize it, The Luftwaffe is here!!! They start bombing all the juicy ships in the harbor, including the convoy and do major damage. By the next morning only a few ships remained and those that remained had taken major damage.

However that is not the end of my tale, for the next hour in realtime I fought a hard battle against 2 destroyers and their annoying sonar. You are probably saying, zomg its an early war sonar just dive, however I am near a harbor with only about 30 meters to dive in.

One of the bastards managed to get a good run on me and I hit the ocean floor flooding, luckily my repair crew is very good and we stopped the flooding, then I came to periscope depth and managed to fire off my last torpedo (aft tube) and sink of the destroyers. 30 minutes later the other destroyer still pinging me, i decide it has to end there, I come to periscope depth and go to flank speed, when he made his run over me I breached his bottom hull and he sank. 10 minutes later I was clear and i made my run back to Kiel for lots of beer and sleep.

07-21-07, 08:38 AM	#1
WidowMaker Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 8 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	U-81's Maiden Patrol May of 1940 http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edi...id=8RBFn5sZX0w (video of the harbor battle) So heres the tale of my maiden patrol upon U-81 a VIIC boat; my crew and I had just recently transferred from U-83 which was a VIIB class. We went out on patrol like normal, sunk some ships, patrolled around, nothing special. One night off the coast of France, I get a Radio message of heavy shipping around Dunkirk, i have like 25% fuel left so i decide what the hell so i sneak into the area around Dunkirk and what do i find? A harbor full of huge tonnage ships and a military convoy moving by. I find a nice juicy Fiji class Cruiser in the middle and decide to Fraps a video of me smoking it and the Troop Transport next to it. After I finish torping the two ships and am starting to sneak out of the area, suddenly all of the air sirens go off and lights in the harbor area go crazy; then i realize it, The Luftwaffe is here!!! They start bombing all the juicy ships in the harbor, including the convoy and do major damage. By the next morning only a few ships remained and those that remained had taken major damage. However that is not the end of my tale, for the next hour in realtime I fought a hard battle against 2 destroyers and their annoying sonar. You are probably saying, zomg its an early war sonar just dive, however I am near a harbor with only about 30 meters to dive in. One of the bastards managed to get a good run on me and I hit the ocean floor flooding, luckily my repair crew is very good and we stopped the flooding, then I came to periscope depth and managed to fire off my last torpedo (aft tube) and sink of the destroyers. 30 minutes later the other destroyer still pinging me, i decide it has to end there, I come to periscope depth and go to flank speed, when he made his run over me I breached his bottom hull and he sank. 10 minutes later I was clear and i made my run back to Kiel for lots of beer and sleep.