Your first sub lost... Tragic Tales.

BossMark · 09-26-11, 01:55 PM

I lost my first sub with all hands trying to sneak into Gibraltar a very bad idea

JazzJR · 09-26-11, 02:11 PM

I lost two Crew members (Watch officer and a deck gunner) and one injured after a deckgun fight against a Imperial Type Freighter. But didn't lost my ship.....yet.

frau kaleun · 09-26-11, 02:31 PM

I think the first time I lost a boat may have been when I tried to "re-ace" the flak exam after installing GWX.

Not sure about tragic but certainly the most memorable loss was when I managed to get us hung up on the outer gates of one of Wili's locks as they swung closed. The best part was that I was actually backing out through them at the time because I was in reverse after slamming the bow into the already closed inner gates of the same lock.

andwii · 09-26-11, 02:34 PM

just recently lost 9 members when I somehow survived a whole night of depth charging. Problem was I think I was the one who killed them. I forgot I was on the bottom and started the uboat to move, breaking all sorts of things and killing 9 members and wounding one other.

gt_magnus · 09-26-11, 03:27 PM

My first loss was on the east coast of England, in early 1940. Me and my Duck (IIA type) was on our 6th patrol. This was planned to be kind of a goodbye patrol with her. We spotted a convoy off south east England, dived quickly and raised my periscope to check for destroyers. Just one! A lousy ASW Trawler! Only problem is that I only have 5 torpedoes.

I planned to send two torpedoes towards a medium cargo and another one against a small tanker (Yeah, no big ships). Open tubes, los! ASW trawler didn't notice it. 30 seconds later:

Tripal class coming straight towards me and another unknown destroyer beside it. They dropped a lot of charges on me. I tried to evade them, but both ships dropped charges at the same time and one of them hit my radio room and killed both men inside. Depth charge after depht charge, I was nearing collapse when one of the destroyers suddenly turned towards the convoy again. Maybe one of my fellow kaleuns were also attacking the convoy? The questions had to wait. My Duck was hard to keep on depth. I had no option, blow ballast! We breached surface. I ordered my crew to abandon ship. I stayed on the boat. I wouldn't give away my lovely Duck so easily, so I wen't down to the engine room, put the engines on flank speed and started to zig zag. Try and catch me, brits. You killed my fr.. Wait! I couldn't just leave my two dead friends on the floor! So I dragged them to their stations while the destroyer was chasing me, wrote on a paper: In memory of... Look what you've done, brits! And put one of them in each of my friends pockets and started walking towards the bridge, but then, one of the destroyers cannons hit one of the torpedoes I had in the forward section, so they blew up, and I was trapped inside the u-boat. I then went down with the boat.

In memory of my two friendly, hard working radio and sonar men. And my faithful Duck! R.I.P.

As you can see by the length of this text, you'll understand I remember this moment very well.

Bye for now!

09-26-11, 01:55 PM	#1
BossMark Fleet Admiral Join Date: May 2011 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Posts: 15,272 Downloads: 278 Uploads: 0	I lost my first sub with all hands trying to sneak into Gibraltar a very bad idea __________________ Never trust the Tories look what Thatcher and Major did in the 80s and 90s and look what the wicked witch May is doing now doing now

09-26-11, 02:11 PM	#2
JazzJR Lieutenant Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Germany - Berlin Posts: 263 Downloads: 98 Uploads: 0	I lost two Crew members (Watch officer and a deck gunner) and one injured after a deckgun fight against a Imperial Type Freighter. But didn't lost my ship.....yet. __________________

09-26-11, 02:31 PM	#3
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	I think the first time I lost a boat may have been when I tried to "re-ace" the flak exam after installing GWX. Not sure about tragic but certainly the most memorable loss was when I managed to get us hung up on the outer gates of one of Wili's locks as they swung closed. The best part was that I was actually backing out through them at the time because I was in reverse after slamming the bow into the already closed inner gates of the same lock.

09-26-11, 02:34 PM	#4
andwii Frogman Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Bridge of U-123 Posts: 300 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	just recently lost 9 members when I somehow survived a whole night of depth charging. Problem was I think I was the one who killed them. I forgot I was on the bottom and started the uboat to move, breaking all sorts of things and killing 9 members and wounding one other.

09-26-11, 03:27 PM	#5
gt_magnus Sailor man Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Norway Posts: 46 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	My first loss was on the east coast of England, in early 1940. Me and my Duck (IIA type) was on our 6th patrol. This was planned to be kind of a goodbye patrol with her. We spotted a convoy off south east England, dived quickly and raised my periscope to check for destroyers. Just one! A lousy ASW Trawler! Only problem is that I only have 5 torpedoes. I planned to send two torpedoes towards a medium cargo and another one against a small tanker (Yeah, no big ships). Open tubes, los! ASW trawler didn't notice it. 30 seconds later: Tripal class coming straight towards me and another unknown destroyer beside it. They dropped a lot of charges on me. I tried to evade them, but both ships dropped charges at the same time and one of them hit my radio room and killed both men inside. Depth charge after depht charge, I was nearing collapse when one of the destroyers suddenly turned towards the convoy again. Maybe one of my fellow kaleuns were also attacking the convoy? The questions had to wait. My Duck was hard to keep on depth. I had no option, blow ballast! We breached surface. I ordered my crew to abandon ship. I stayed on the boat. I wouldn't give away my lovely Duck so easily, so I wen't down to the engine room, put the engines on flank speed and started to zig zag. Try and catch me, brits. You killed my fr.. Wait! I couldn't just leave my two dead friends on the floor! So I dragged them to their stations while the destroyer was chasing me, wrote on a paper: In memory of... Look what you've done, brits! And put one of them in each of my friends pockets and started walking towards the bridge, but then, one of the destroyers cannons hit one of the torpedoes I had in the forward section, so they blew up, and I was trapped inside the u-boat. I then went down with the boat. In memory of my two friendly, hard working radio and sonar men. And my faithful Duck! R.I.P. As you can see by the length of this text, you'll understand I remember this moment very well. Bye for now!