Longest Patrol (Distance)

[Grrbob25]

Originally Posted by Rose

I don't have any great epic journeys to Penang under my belt yet. That is not for the faint of heart. Longest I've done was a few months meandering through the wonderful Caribbean in a IXC. That place is a tanker graveyard now.

PS: I noticed you're from Chicago. I was born and raised in Chicago. It's my favorite city in America by far . I live in NYC now, but my family and I still go to Lake Geneva every August for the whole month. We usually travel back to Chicago to see old friends a few times every year. Where in Chi-town to you live? Do you ever go to Lake Geneva? I was at the corner of Clark and Belden in the Lincoln Park area. Great city.

yeah chicago is pretty great, i live on the way way way south side, if i walk 2 blocks I wont be in the city anymore I've been to lake geneva one time, and I was so little I dont remember it

[Biggles]

I've "only" been to New York, Florida,Georgia,Utah,Colorado,Arizona,New Mexico,Nevada,and California, and I'm a Swede! Aint that neet?

[JSalinger]

Now that I think of it, I think my farthest patrol has been to...*thinks some more* I want to say the west coast of India in early 1944 in my IXD2 (also turned out to be my last patrol...got swarmed by two British DDs and a Free French corvette coming back to Lorient in May of '44). Very little shipping there, Kaleuns. I think I bagged two coastal merchants there and that was it (nice deck gun practice though).

Now into my second career, I'm in December of 1942, on what number patrol I can't remember, but I'm in a IXC patrolling the Brazillian coast. Current tonnage is something like 154,000 tons (poor, I know). Let's sink more of der Englander schwein!

[_Seth_]

What about a trip around the world? would that be possible with a long-range sub and some serious fuel-saving? Since SHIV dont have a world map, we got to do it in SHIII..... Someone up for the challenge??

[CCIP]

My longest patrol was my famed Monsoon cruise during WaW I:
http://radioroom.wolvesatwar.org/viewtopic.php?t=4248

The farthest I went was east of New Guinea :hmm:

[GT182]

CCIP, where'd you get the skin for your IX/D2? The conn looks nice, I like it. Looks like there's 2 U-181's out on the high seas. LOL Upon upgrading from the IX/C I received my IX/D2 as U-181.

For the farhtest patrol I've ever been on, it's Lorient to Capetown to patrol Grid 58 in a VII/B. Talk about trying to save fuel, with no resupply available either.

[andy_311]

My longest patrol was in a IXD2 Lorient to Penang

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by GT182

CCIP, where'd you get the skin for your IX/D2? The conn looks nice, I like it. Looks like there's 2 U-181's out on the high seas. LOL Upon upgrading from the IX/C I received my IX/D2 as U-181.

It's a hybrid of fubar's normal IXD skin and the tower from his late war IXC skin. You can find these at realsimulation

The farthest I've been to on a Type VII was off Brasil, with resupply from a Milk Cow. The farthest I've been to on a Type II was around Rockall bank, although I keep meaning to have an experimental career where I'd use it to scoot around from resupply to resupply (I'll probably never get to it).

The furthest I'll be on a IXB/C will be this WaW patrol off Capetown