Transiting the Kiel Canal in realtime!

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Originally Posted by irish1958

The NYGM Tonnage War 2.0 mod has a feature to set the patrol course through the Keil Canal. If one uses this and sets the time compression via SH3CMDR to a reasonable level, the canal is a godsend as it adds a week to your patrol in a type II.
I would hope the GW team comes up with some sort of auto-plot for the canal.
When did the canal become unsafe for travel during WW2? And is there any records available that show it was used by U-Boats? After the French bases became available why would it be used?
irish1958

Even after the French bases were open new boats would have still had to shipped out from Kiel to operational flotillas

Deutsche Werke, Kiel (69)
Germaniawerft, Kiel (131)
Howaldtswerke, Kiel (31)

Even the Bismark used the canal on its way from Hamburg to Kiel and back



15 September 1940: The Bismarck leaves Hamburg for the first time. At 1658 hours, while steaming down the Elbe, collides with the bow tug Atlantik but neither ship is damaged, and at 1902, the Bismarck anchors in Brunsbüttel roads. During the night of 15/16 September, while anchored, there is an air raid alarm in which the anti-aircraft battery expends 13 x 10.5 cm, 136 x 3.7 cm, and 191 x 2 cm projectiles. No success observed. 16-17 September 1940: The battleship passes through the Kiel Canal assisted by tugboats. At 1448 on the 17th, the Bismarck enters the Kiel-Holtenau sluice, leaves the Kiel Canal, and then comes alongside Scheerhafen, Kiel.

Makes you wonder why my poor uboot has to go at T\C 4 because land is so close when that great big fat battleship made it
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