The Mad Kpt Patrol Logs (very pic heavy)

[Jimbuna]

Bravo Herr kaleun...an excellent patrol log

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Bravo Herr kaleun...an excellent patrol log

Why thank you sir one try's ones best

[Rocketsocks]

I can't stop flipping through those pictures, they're beyond amazing. Great job!

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by Rocketsocks

I can't stop flipping through those pictures, they're beyond amazing. Great job!

Why thank you very much mate. Im glad you like them

[johnno74]

Mr Chris:

How did you place the markers on the nav map with your own text, as in the below screenie


Would be very handy to know how you do that!

Cheers
Johnno

[azn_132]

Originally Posted by johnno74

Mr Chris:

How did you place the markers on the nav map with your own text, as in the below screenie


Would be very handy to know how you do that!

Cheers
Johnno

How the hell u get that many ships sunk?

[Hakahura]

Johnno74

The marking and text on the map look like the work of SH3 generator to me. A top bolt on mod, try it! Lots of itop intel and so far as I am aware compatable with all other SH3 Mods.

Lots of sunken ships, in the same area, I'd say convoy.

[mr chris]

@Johnno74,
Hakahura is right SH3 Gen is the program that puts all the intel on the nav map. It is a great tool and i never leave base without it.
As for all the sunken ship icons in the same area it was not a convoy but lots of single ships that i picked up. It is my favorite hunting ground at the start of the war. I always make sure i use all means to sink anything i come across. You try that patrol area in the early war period and see what you find.
I have another update to add soon as i just got back from patrol number 4 and it was a very good patrol indeed.

[mr chris]

Once again all were present and correct and all stores and munitions were loaded and U49 was ready to depart on its 4th war patrol. It had only been 19 day since we had dock at the same pier coming back from our last patrol. But the fast turn around was due to the great hunting ground we had found N/W of Ireland. We had become a victim of are own success. We set off with out much fanfare due to the timing of are sailing. We push off and set a course down the Kiel Canal and out into the the open water of the Nordsee.








Once we made it to open water we conducted the normal drill to prepare are selves for every eventuality. The weather was clam and we started to make good speed to are hunting grounds. Till we started to round the top of Scotland north of Lerwick we ran into foul weather.
We had been travelling along in the storm front for a few day when we on of the lookouts spotted some smoke on the horizon and we move into investigate it turned out to be a heavily defended taskforce which from what we could make out was made up of 3 BB 2 Cruisers and a about 6 DD’s.
We moved into to see if we could get a hit on one of the capital ships we fired a spread at a Nelson class BB but just after we had fired the force changed course think that we might have been detected we went deep and went to silent running. We stayed down till the Taskforce had passed. Well we had wasted 4 torpedoes but it was too much of a target to not try and shot at. As I said to the crew we will have better luck next time.


The Very next day the weather got better if only it had been better the day before and we might have sunk that BB. But alas we used the weather as best we could and made good speed once again to the hunting grounds of AM52, 54, 53.


On the late night of the 8th of March the Hydrophone operator picked up a funny contact moving away at medium speed. We surface at once and ran off in pursiut at top speed. In the early hours of the 9th the lookout spotted a sail in the distance. Well we had run this far at top speed for a bloody sloop!!!! Well we were not impressed at all well I sent the deck gun crew to work and after a couple of shells the sloop was fire wood.


Well we turned back to the hunting grounds and started to patrol in search of great targets than a sloop.


We saw nothing for 2 days then the weather took a turn for the worse again and we were surprised by a enemy plane we just managed to get out of the way for it we will be paying much more attention to the sky in future.


The bad weather had been with us for a day when we picked up a sound contact we moved in to see what it was. We found a coastal tanker which we sent to the bottom with a torpedo to amidships.
In the early morning of the 9th we spotted a large cargo trying to make her way to England we closed up on her in the lighting sky and put 3 torpedoes into her and she went to the bottom with her precious cargo.

[NightCrawler]

Well the Uboot that he have is a VII class, and have 14 torps on board, plus he use allot of his deckgun....
If you're a good aimer, can use 1 torp a ship(1 shot 1 kill)... for deckgun it's a question when the weather is good, thats 70% bad weather and 30% good weather in GWX...

I use the deckgun allot(when the weather is perfect) and if there is a ship nearby...
Torps i use for bigger fish...
For me i use 2 torps a ship, and wait patience when the ship go down...
With deckgun average 30 a 40 rounds a ship...(if it's a big ship, i shoot), if small i let the crew shoot...

[mr chris]

The next day we came across 2 more enemy ships this time they were both small merchants. Both we attacked on the surface with torpedoes both needed to 2 torpedoes to send them on there way to the bottom. Though we did have another dud which was not good I thought we were going to have a patrol without a torpedo failure. Well maybe next time.










That was the end of are torpedoes now we only had deck ammo left but we had over 200 shells left so I very confident we would still sink so major shipping with it going past patrols.
Then followed a days patrolling without a contact but on the second day we found are next victim by hydrophone. The sound contact was closing on us so we wait for him to come to us and surfaced and when he came within good range we opened up on her she was soon ablaze and went down without to much hard work for the deck gun crew.




The next day we spotted a ship in the distance we went to to find out more and found a medium merchant a nice target for the deck gun crew. After a while they had the ship listing and going down.


The next morning we found are best target of the patrol so far a nice fat large merchant. The deck gun crew were ordered on deck and when the gap to the target had closed they went to work and start to pump shot after shot under her water line and before long she was heading to join the rest of the ships we had seen so far this patrol. This was great we had sunk a medium and large merchant with the deck gun in the space of two day happy time indeed.

[mr chris]

The then followed 9 days of very bad weather we spent most of are time submerged being that we could hear more than we could see up top. We picked up a few contacts in that 9 day period but were unable to do any damage to the contacts as we had no torpedoes left, only the deck gun so we had to wait to for the weather to improve. Then on the morning of the 27th when we surfaced to recharge are batts we were greeted with a sunny sky and clam seas it was time to get back on the hunt with are remaining deck gun ammo.
It did not take long for us to get a visual contact on an enemy ship we closed the distance to her and we had a small merchant before are gun and she was soon dispatched of and we had another pennant to make for are arrival when we got back to Kiel.




The following day we came across a large ship that we identified as a large cargo. We closed to her and started to do battle with the deck gun but we ended up fight a two front war as a plane happened to find us and we decided to stay and duke it out on the surface with the buzzard, she came at us and fast from the stern. The flak gunner went to work and must have managed to put the pilot of his run as the bombs dropped wide. The plane beat a retreat from the boat and the flak gun. We put a few more shells into the merchant and submerged to take cover should the the plane have called for backup. 30 minutes later the merchant was sinking from view to the bottom of the sea.
We made are escape submerged till dark to aviod any planes that might have been sent to find us.




Early on the morning of the 29th We came across another large cargo this was Christmas come early I only hoped that we had enough deck gun shells left to put her under we closed the range and went to work trying not to waste a single shell. With only 4 shells left she put on a list and started to sink from view. It was time to radio HQ off are haul and to report that we were on are way home.




It was a very uneventful trip home with the weather very bad most of the way but when we were within sight of are homeland we received word that operation harmut was being this I fear will put payed to are long needed leave. With the first rays of the new sun we slipped next to the pier and so ended are 4th war patrol. The flotilla commander came aboard and congratulated the crew and myself on another great patrol he said. He said he would do all he could to get us the leave we deserve but we might still be needed in the up coming operations in Norway.


24 Feb 1940
03:14 Patrol 4
U-49, 7th/13th Flotilla
Left at: February 24, 1940, 03:14
From: Kiel
Mission Orders:
Patrol grid AM 54

09 Mar 1940
02:39 AM 57 Ship sunk! Sloop, 8 tons
12 Mar 1940
04:49 AM 52 Ship sunk! S.S. Corte Real (Coastal Tanker), 941 tons
06:48 AM 52 Ship sunk! M/V Exchequer (II) (Large Cargo), 9676 tons
13 Mar 1940
03:01 AM 52 Ship sunk! S.S. Exford (Small Merchant), 2434 tons
06:47 AM 52 Ship sunk! S.S. Neva (Small Merchant), 2433 tons
15 Mar 1940
19:43 AM 52 Ship sunk! S.S. Challenger (Coastal Tanker), 942 tons
16 Mar 1940
04:05 AM 52 Ship sunk! M/V Bendoran (Medium Merchant), 3736 tons
17 Mar 1940
05:24 AM 52 Ship sunk! S.S. Embassage (Large Merchant), 10849 tons
27 Mar 1940
13:09 AM 52 Ship sunk! S.S. Kenneth McKay (Small Merchant), 2236 tons
28 Mar 1940
12:27 AM 52 Ship sunk! M/V Mormacland (Il) (Large Cargo), 9730 tons
29 Mar 1940
05:49 AM 52 Ship sunk! M/V Striker (Large Cargo), 9722 tons
07 Apr 1940
06:07 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 11
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 52707 tons
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[Jimbuna]

Yes sir....this just gets better and better

[mr chris]

Thanks very much Jim Im glad your enjoying it

[JSalinger]

Congrats from the crew of U-26! Keep 'em coming!


And to echo Onkel Karl...

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!