U-158 War Diary

[Gustav Schiebert]

Originally Posted by LemonA

There a some errors regarding the position entries. For example...
"Jun 14th 1942 1711hrs: position BE9233"
19hours later...
"Jun 15th 1942 1200hrs: position BD9411"

It's a distance of 696nm in 19 hours!

Thanks for taking the time to read - especially in such detail! You're dead right, I've traced the error.

The 14th's 1200 weather report should read BD93, not BE. The error's carried forward to the 1711 contact report which should be BD92 - but I get it right on the 15th, hence the time-warp jump. My obermaschinist is good - but he ain't that good. My Oberstuermann has been sent to the Russian front in recognition of this egregious error.

(There is a bit of a jump towards the end of the patrol, when I had a CTD and had to do the last week all over again).

Thanks for spotting that!