U-27 struggle

[Canovaro]

Welcome!
Nice screens!

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard kaleun Hadrys

One helluva introduction

[SmokinTep]

Nice post and pics.....

Patrol 4

4 February 1940

It took nearly over month to get our boat fixed. When we got back to the shipyard guys just couldn't believe it! The hull was a complete mess! I wonder how we made it in one piece!? Henry was a genius and that DD kicked our ass hard.

We were heading to the full ocean, around the islands. With full load of TII torpedoes on board (which we hoped to be more reliable) and loads of strong will to sink some bastards! We were invincible! Even the see was flat with a light, cold breeze from the north. What could possibly go wrong??

Hainz was holding his earphones with one hand while quickly taking notes with we other one.

"Large convoy reported Her Kaleun! Heading NNW, 7 knots!"

Walter took some calculation, we turned 250 km south to the British coast making 13 knots on the interception course. After 12 hours we've had it! 16 small merchants in 2 columns with just 2 DDs only! The luck is on our side once again. The adrenaline was pumping.

Perfect! The sun was just to get off the horizon, we leaped ahead of the convoy at full flank and peacefully took our position. Let the blood bath begin! All tubes flooded, depth 15 meters, all stop, silence! This was too easy, convoy was just 500m in front of us! One torpedo missed, 3 merchants went down. The escorts didn't take much effort in finding us sitting still in place and shooting to sitting ducks... not for long. Finally the lights went up, flares turned night into day. We ducked under the convoy and got ourselves on the other side. Quick shot from the aft tube but it didn't do much to that C2 which we've just spotted.

Dive to 50m, all stop. They couldn't find us dropping bombs not even close to us! Than it happened. Hainz shouted from his cabin "Wasserbomben!!!".

"Full ahead flank, left full rudder"

We've heard a bomb bouncing off our deck! Long seconds passed and a loud explosion pushed us few meters up but now damage reported! Close one, too close...

It didn't take long. The enemy was furious, dropping bombs everywhere. First explosion kicked us like a soccer ball, engines and aft batteries flooding, lights went off, people where shouting but Henry was already in place with his entrusted damage handling team. Only when normal power was restored and most flooding stopped another explosion ripped a hole in the torpedo room. Heavy flooding, we were def, blind and going down fast. We hit the bottom at 80 meters and stayed there for 4 long hours in complete silence. Finally the last DD was gone, probably proud of their success, we started to pump out the water and slowly begun to rise.

We were home just 10 days after we left. With only 4 merchants sunk for 8000BRT but we made it in one piece once again... with our wolfs nose nearly below the water level.



Finally I've turned off the Gods eye mode, no contacts on the map, the GWX realism is killing me... literally.

PS These were supposed to be short stories with just most interesting parts of my patrols but there is so much happening!!

[CapZap1970]

Very nice stories!!!!!
I like very much the B/W pictures touch.
Congrats.
CapZap

[Growler]

It seems we are graced with the presence of both storyteller and artist!

Very cleverly done, and well assembled, Hadrys!

Excellent job!

Originally Posted by Growler

It seems we are graced with the presence of both storyteller and artist!

Very cleverly done, and well assembled, Hadrys!

Excellent job!

I'm very pleased with your warm welcome guys, couldn't expect anything better! You're far too kind! I must admit that this is either a good fun (thx to you willing to read all this) and hard learning cause I try to make my English more fluent and expressive as it's far from my native language and I'm mostly into narrow technical/economical stuff.