What happened?

Mooncatt · 03-06-07, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Kumando

One thing is buggin me, when you hit a mine do you hear any explosion?

i dont think you do tbh or if you do i havent heard one

minute · 03-06-07, 10:46 AM

Talking about going through the channel.... previous sortie in VIIB was in february 1940 to patrol AN98 - on convoy alley just outside Bristol. So I took the shortcut through the channel. Dover straight was indeed awfully tricky, I got detected but I managed to survive several depthcharges and got away silent running for a day or so.

When I was north of Cherbourg I got a BDu message that an Aircraft Carrier and Auxiliary Cruiser are heading towards the channel expected to arrive on the 14th of Febr. in Portsmouth.... and this was the evening of 10th... So I ended up spending 3 days (that's three days) patrolling the area between Plymouth and Guernsey islands thinking it will be a good bottleneck to get a pot shot at the passing task force... those were 3 very long days... I even had to kick Bernhard off the boat cause he kept ****ting his pants after the 15th MTB encounter...

And guess what - there was no task force, I spend a all the 13th and 14th of february on silent running and glued to the sonar and nothing... and missed a fat juicy convoy reported in my patrol quadrant...

But on the way back I took the scenic route... I prefer freezing our ***es off in the north than going through that chanel again...

03-06-07, 10:46 AM	#2
minute Loader Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 87 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Talking about going through the channel.... previous sortie in VIIB was in february 1940 to patrol AN98 - on convoy alley just outside Bristol. So I took the shortcut through the channel. Dover straight was indeed awfully tricky, I got detected but I managed to survive several depthcharges and got away silent running for a day or so. When I was north of Cherbourg I got a BDu message that an Aircraft Carrier and Auxiliary Cruiser are heading towards the channel expected to arrive on the 14th of Febr. in Portsmouth.... and this was the evening of 10th... So I ended up spending 3 days (that's three days) patrolling the area between Plymouth and Guernsey islands thinking it will be a good bottleneck to get a pot shot at the passing task force... those were 3 very long days... I even had to kick Bernhard off the boat cause he kept **ting his pants after the 15th MTB encounter... And guess what - there was no task force, I spend a all the 13th and 14th of february on silent running and glued to the sonar and nothing... and missed a fat juicy convoy reported in my patrol quadrant... But on the way back I took the scenic route... I prefer freezing our *es off in the north than going through that chanel again...