U-90 Luckiest Boat in the Atlantic!!

panzermeyer · 06-30-07, 09:10 PM

I am guessing convoys in 1939 are not as common, or numerous, am I right?

Schöneboom · 07-01-07, 01:32 AM

Hi panzermeyer,

There are indeed convoys in '39 -- I just attacked one on my first GWX patrol. And in fact they were running convoys that early -- just not so many, not so huge, and not over the vast distances that they did later on. I suspect the one BdU reported to me was the Gibraltar-Liverpool run.

Mach's gut!

panzermeyer · 07-01-07, 03:11 PM

Well I did get a message from another u-boat saying they ran into a convoy. However it was off the coast of Portugal, and I was off the Northern coast of Ireland. No way I can catch up with it, or intercept in time.

However, I do patrol to 1939 convoy routes, I've run into many ships out by themselfs, but no convoy yet.

Schöneboom · 07-01-07, 04:26 PM

Actually, according to the SH3 Kriegsmarine map, the Gibraltar-Liverpool convoy route goes round N. Ireland -- so stick around and let everything come to you -- that's efficiency!

Gute Jagd!

panzermeyer · 07-01-07, 08:34 PM

That is where I patrol, my last patrol I hung around there for about 5 days, no convoy. But a lot of single merchant ships. 20k Sunk.

06-30-07, 09:10 PM	#1
panzermeyer Watch Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: NC Posts: 29 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I am guessing convoys in 1939 are not as common, or numerous, am I right? __________________ "I am nothing; We are everything!" - Kurt 'panzermeyer' Meyer

07-01-07, 01:32 AM	#2
Schöneboom Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 651 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Hi panzermeyer, There are indeed convoys in '39 -- I just attacked one on my first GWX patrol. And in fact they were running convoys that early -- just not so many, not so huge, and not over the vast distances that they did later on. I suspect the one BdU reported to me was the Gibraltar-Liverpool run. Mach's gut! __________________ Dietrich Schöneboom, U-431 "Es wird klappen, Herr Kaleun. Ganz sicher."

07-01-07, 03:11 PM	#3
panzermeyer Watch Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: NC Posts: 29 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Well I did get a message from another u-boat saying they ran into a convoy. However it was off the coast of Portugal, and I was off the Northern coast of Ireland. No way I can catch up with it, or intercept in time. However, I do patrol to 1939 convoy routes, I've run into many ships out by themselfs, but no convoy yet. __________________ "I am nothing; We are everything!" - Kurt 'panzermeyer' Meyer

07-01-07, 04:26 PM	#4
Schöneboom Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 651 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Actually, according to the SH3 Kriegsmarine map, the Gibraltar-Liverpool convoy route goes round N. Ireland -- so stick around and let everything come to you -- that's efficiency! Gute Jagd! __________________ Dietrich Schöneboom, U-431 "Es wird klappen, Herr Kaleun. Ganz sicher."

07-01-07, 08:34 PM	#5
panzermeyer Watch Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: NC Posts: 29 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	That is where I patrol, my last patrol I hung around there for about 5 days, no convoy. But a lot of single merchant ships. 20k Sunk. __________________ "I am nothing; We are everything!" - Kurt 'panzermeyer' Meyer

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