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Eternal Patrol
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Tea? Are you sailing in the right direction?
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Weps
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Who is going to sight convoys if you aren't in your assigned patrol grid?
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100% realism, DiD Harbor Traffic 1.47(incl. RUB) Using SH3 Commander to implement many custom realism tweaks Covered 1939-1945; now restarting in 1939 again. Completed 39 careers, 210 war patrols, 4.7Mt sunk, 19 subs lost |
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Machinist's Mate
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Fair Enough U48's 8th War Patrol took us to AN81, again just of the small port of Lowesoft, in Mid July 1940. After reaching our patrol grid we received reports of a convoy to our north west, making its way around Norfolk as we moved up the coast to investigate we spotted a asw trawler silhouetted against the rising sun at 7500m, Using the shroud of darkness we closed to within 3000m before opening fire with the deck gun on our unsuspecting prey, she barely got a shot off before exploding in flames and sinking to the bottom, Charging off to the NW we soon sighted a Black Swan leading 2 lines of merchants, sending off a quick contact report we dived to periscope depth and engaged, the Black Swan was soon dispatched by a single eel, rapily followed by a Large Tanker, One in the bows and one in the stern had her down, Next a large merchant received one in the side as did a granvile type freighter, tho both remained afloat, at this point a Black Swan which had been trailing the convoy appeared on the scene, a snap shot out of the rear tube missed, but some skilled piloting put us in the middle of the confusion of the 2 burning merchants and a coastal freighter that had gotten tangled up and alowed us to evade his depth charge attack, just as goerings boys turned up and missed everything However whilst manoeuvring to fire at the Luftwaffe the Swan put itself across our stern tube which due to some herculean efforts from the reload crew was ready to shoot again within 5 mins, down went the swan, and with the convoy now unescorted, it was surface time and let the gun crew loose.
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