Uboats in the Suez Canal - late 1942

[Akula4745]

Originally Posted by etheberge

Nice report, it seems like an exciting trip. But I'm a bit disappointed that "someone" isn't using my German map labels mod .

My dear friend, Big E... I made the Suez Canal trip using my OM "testbed" installation and not my "regular" OM install. Your German map labels mod is a core ingredient of my primary OM install and to be honest... I have no idea how I survived so long without it. It is only through my own laziness and neglect I have failed to add the delightful German map labels mod to my testbed iteration. I can only beg your humble forgiveness for being so inept and unthoughtful...

Originally Posted by Hunter

Then you should have said - 'Ich bin ein bisschen enttäuscht', I suppose I play German language version by myself for better immercion. Btw, where can I find this mod?

Big E's fantastic German Map label mod can be found here... and might I say it is truly the cat's meow when it comes to adding a deeper sense of immersion to the game:

Download:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1372

etheberge's release post:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=156896

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Congrats Akula! Now if you can transverse the Panama Canal on your way back to the Vaterland, you get the coveted Iron Cross with crossed sluice gates.

WoO-HOo! Once I have the coveted Iron Cross with crossed sluice gates in my possession... all the frauleins will swoon with sensual delight whenever I walk into the room... oh boy, Panama Canal here I come!!

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Akula4745

WoO-HOo! Once I have the coveted Iron Cross with crossed sluice gates in my possession... all the frauleins will swoon with sensual delight whenever I walk into the room... oh boy, Panama Canal here I come!!

Wow! looks like soon you'll be exploring...um..uhh...your way into five new...uh..umm...varieties of beer! Yeah, that's it. Beer. Don't forget to post the maps for these.

[Hunter]

Congrats Akula! Now if you can transverse the Panama Canal on your way back to the Vaterland

It would be the first trip around the world in Silent Hunter

[ivank]

Originally Posted by Hunter

It would be the first trip around the world in Silent Hunter

No I have done it with one of my ocean liners... it is very boring, not having guns.

[Akula4745]

Originally Posted by ivank

No I have done it with one of my ocean liners... it is very boring, not having guns.

LOL Yeah... but did you go thru the Panama Canal?

[Wijbrandus]

Akula,

How shallow was the canal? Was it even possible to submerge if you'd come under shore battery fire?

I'm a daring sub captain, but that seems beyond my acceptable risk. I salute your intestinal fortitude!

[Akula4745]

Originally Posted by Wijbrandus

Akula,
How shallow was the canal? Was it even possible to submerge if you'd come under shore battery fire?

I'm a daring sub captain, but that seems beyond my acceptable risk. I salute your intestinal fortitude!

You are far too kind, good sir... whats the old saying? "Only fools rush in where angels fear to tread" (? - anyway something like that). The canal itself was seriously shallow and I doubt I could have submerged completely even in the deepest of spots. In places I would have sworn I was kicking up mud because of the way the boat reacted... I tried to check the depth with the external camera a time or two when I felt like I was dragging bottom... but it was such a dark night I could not see my hand in front of my face underwater - which thankfully also created great cover for me.

However once you got into the Gulf of Suez there was 30 +/- feet of water to hide in. Quite truthfully if it had not been for perfect timing as far as darkness and good choices on my part... I definitely would have been toast a couple of times with the Elco boats and armed trawlers which were patrolling the north end of the Gulf of Suez - by the south exit of the canal. I obviously had good luck... one of the Elco boats was patrolling back and forth E to W slowly working his way south (ESE > WSW > ESE > etc) and good fortune smiled on me as I found myself in a perfect spot to slip past him as he started working his way back up the Gulf... and a light fog in the southern end of the Red Sea didn't hurt my feelings either.

I had several distant warship warnings in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden... but never made visual contact with anything but the Elco boats and armed trawlers just below the south end of the canal.

Originally Posted by ivank

no around it,

Well I guess if we can go through the Suez Canal... it would only seem logical the same is true of the Panama Canal too.

[ivank]

no around it,