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Old 03-10-09, 09:10 PM   #1
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mines...

i hit a mine off of scapa sunk to the bottom but managed to get pumped out and patched up ehough to start heading for home

so i think ive survived and i home free little do i know there a minefield just southwest of helgoland

critical flooding herr kaleun!!!!

all hands abandon ship!!!

u-51 went down within sight of home shores in water less than 20 metres deep and within sight of friendly mine sweepers
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Old 03-10-09, 09:27 PM   #2
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mines...

i hit a mine off of scapa sunk to the bottom but managed to get pumped out and patched up ehough to start heading for home

so i think ive survived and i home free little do i know there a minefield just southwest of helgoland

critical flooding herr kaleun!!!!

all hands abandon ship!!!

u-51 went down within sight of home shores in water less than 20 metres deep and within sight of friendly mine sweepers
That is a bummer!
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Old 03-12-09, 03:24 AM   #3
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indeed

the north sea is awfully cold
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Old 03-12-09, 04:48 PM   #4
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I was in a heavy fog moving slow. I had a sonar contact and knew I was coming up on a convoy and I was trying to feel my way into it. Then, without warning, a DD came steaming out of the fog and rammed me. Flooding. Panic. Screams. Damage control parties drowning in shattered compartments and then for laughs the DD decided to lay a pattern of depth charges.

It was a really messy death.
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Old 03-12-09, 05:12 PM   #5
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A Foggy day near the east coast of England. I was running with high time compression on. All of a sudden I get the message "ship spotted, sir." The moment I get to the bridge I see one of those armed trawlers 150m away. One second later, before I could even think about crash diving, the first shell hit me.

Being sunk on the surface by an armed trawler early in the war was somehow embarrassing.
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Old 03-12-09, 05:24 PM   #6
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Speaking of TC deaths. I was cruising along in 1024 TC about 70km from any land off western UK when All at once I am dead. Never even dropped out of TC so not sure what happened. Only thing I can think is there are a couple places that are not land but are shallow, maybe 8 to 10m. So I probably hit bottom. Only I was on the surface and the game should have at least came out of TC you'd think. Although I was lagging a bit at the time as well. I don't view it as an actually death just computer stupidity!
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Old 03-12-09, 05:37 PM   #7
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There is a micro-island between Scotland and the Hebrides. You have to zoom in to see it, and it apparently doesn't register with the watch officer as land.
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Old 03-13-09, 06:00 AM   #8
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Speaking of TC deaths. I was cruising along in 1024 TC about 70km from any land off western UK when All at once I am dead. Never even dropped out of TC so not sure what happened.
I have the same problem very often when I'm running along the English coast submerged (oddly enough never on the surface). I guess there are mines.
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