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12-20-18, 04:35 PM | #5341 |
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The Fate of U-254
I began the war with a Med command. U-254's war started in Salamis, Greece in October of 1941 and ended in Toulon in September of 1944.
The Mediterranean is a very busy place and being relatively small gets you into action very quickly and often on patrol. Had many success, including 3 Aquitania Class Liners during the course of the war. There were also some very close calls with the Grim Reaper, but we managed to sailor on. 1944 in Toulon is a dangerous place to be. In July of that year a B-24 raid, which I fought out on the surface, reduced my sub to 4% Hull integrity the most damage I have ever suffered without sinking. From then on I went to periscope depth when Air raids occurred. Now I knew that Toulon fell to the Allies in September of '44 so I was expecting a notification that my boat was captured along with myself and crew - end of career - but NO! SPOILER ALERT!!! What happened was I started my last patrol in the slip late Sept 1944. The band playing, nurses waving, etc. From the Conning Tower I could see that a Merchant Ship blocked the end of the slip. "That's odd, how do I get around that?" I asked myself just as the first shell hit the U-254. I was under direct fire from British destroyers just outside of the harbor! I ordered the boat to periscope depth and a turn to port to get around the Merchant even though there was not enough room. I then went to external view and watched shell after shell slam into my boat as, quite literally, the band played on. Until..... SPOILER ALERT!!! We all died. End of Career. |
01-05-19, 06:31 AM | #5342 |
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U-702 returning from the patrol -quadrant BE 59,4 1943 Base St Nasare Convoy meeting - two Crew lost-no Available torpedoes -3 Two in the stern, one in the bow Escape from destroyers - twice, past many hours Last edited by ivanov.ruslan; 01-05-19 at 06:54 AM. |
02-13-19, 02:10 AM | #5343 |
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Patrol ctd ed while off Freetown
Pity since I had sunk a Ceramic type liner and a 5k tonner merchant. I forgot to save so all over again. |
03-01-19, 05:36 AM | #5344 |
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Nov 28, 1939
In command of type IIA U19. Just been tracking a lone merchant (in AN43) for the last hour on my way to patrol grid AN26. Whilst manoeuvring around 9000m away my first fish malfunctioned and fired on its own command, luckily the merchant cannot of observed the following detonation of the defective torpedo. At 21:20 my 2nd torpedo was fired at a range of 4800m and ran true resulting in a strike under the boiler room, the merchant is now dead in the water and slowly sinking. With 3 fish left I hope my assigned quadrant proves fruitful. |
03-01-19, 06:43 AM | #5345 |
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1940 Western Approaches. Intercepted a convoy via a radio approach and hydrophone use once at the intercept point.
Foggy, raining, but light winds, so I've been following it's course via hydrophone for hours; convoy is approx. 10k meters to my WNW. Staying submerged until this fog lifts; visibility is terrible and don't need to have an escort pop out of the fog at close range if I was on the surface. Convoy has zig zagged of it's original NE course, now headed due north for awhile. I'm hoping it zig zags due east right into my path but I may lose it with the fog keeping me mostly submerged. If so, I'll try to regain contact after the fog lifts, if in a reasonable time. NYGM mod Hsie's and Stiebler's patches/files Envsim 10 Hitman's optics IABL ships Accurate telegraph speech (gets rid of that annoying "Jawohl....." line every time you do something)
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03-03-19, 09:57 AM | #5346 |
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Crap!
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03-04-19, 10:09 AM | #5348 |
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Keep quessing...
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03-06-19, 02:10 AM | #5349 |
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It is mid-September 1939, and U-46(Type VIIB) is currently being depth charged by 3 destroyers off of Scapa Flow after attempting to enter the harbor. Been evading depth charges for an hour and plan to go back home to Kiel when the attack is over.
Currently I have 30,000 tons of shipping in this patrol |
03-06-19, 04:42 AM | #5350 |
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Welcome aboard!
ASWarfare 255!
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03-15-19, 07:26 AM | #5351 |
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Hello everybody. Just starting new campaign with nearly vanilla SHIII (just with H.SIE) on a weak tablet pc. Hopefully it work. Greetings Paul
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03-15-19, 09:44 AM | #5352 |
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welcome aboard!
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03-15-19, 02:35 PM | #5353 |
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On patrol 5 with WAC5.2.
Ran into a huge convoy of 15+ ships with 2 escorts. Had a hard time getting into the convoy so just did a 3km surface attack with 4 torps. Unfortunately the outside column absorb all the hits. I was only managing to sink 2 small merchants. Then the escorts caught up. Somehow these early war destroyers can accurately locate me even without ADIC. I did not hear any Pinging sound. Wonder how their hydrophones can hear me when I am all stop and almost 200 meters deep. |
03-16-19, 03:20 PM | #5354 |
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On patrol 4 north from Loch Ewe i found 10 ships: 3 tanker, 6 cargo and 1 trooper. Trooper, tanker and 1 cargo didn`t survive this meeting.
Now before 6th patrol i got a brand new type IX from bdu. Patrol from Kiel to AM54 was without any contact. Bdu will not be happy. Last edited by SonarmaatU212; 03-18-19 at 04:13 AM. |
03-19-19, 08:04 AM | #5355 |
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Went towards CF32 on 7th patrol and found some ships:
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Von: Kiel Missiondbefehle: In Sektor CF32 patrouillieren 8.6.40. 2116 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! T3-Tanker, 11654 Tonnen 2119 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! C2-Cargo, 6449 Tonnen 2124 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! C2-Cargo, 6446 Tonnen 2133 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! T3-Tanker, 11655 Tonnen 2136 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! Truppentransporter, 8009 Tonnen 2213 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! T3-Tanker, 11653 Tonnen 2217 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! C2-Cargo, 6450 Tonnen 2219 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! C2-Cargo, 6451 Tonnen 2226 Planquadrat AM 31 Schiff versenkt! C2-Cargo, 6448 Tonnen 10.6.40. 2221 Planquadrat AM 51 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 2389 Tonnen 12.6.40. 0056 Planquadrat AM 73 Schiff versenkt! C Class Zerstörer, 1375 Tonnen 13.6.40. 0729 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Hunt I Zerstörer, 1000 Tonnen 0734 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Hunt I Zerstörer, 1000 Tonnen 0743 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! V&W Zerstörer, 1188 Tonnen 0755 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! T3-Tanker, 11656 Tonnen 0801 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 2337 Tonnen 0802 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Truppentransporter, 8012 Tonnen 0805 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! C2-Cargo, 6448 Tonnen 0808 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 2339 Tonnen 0810 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 2338 Tonnen 0813 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! C2-Cargo, 6446 Tonnen 0815 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 2335 Tonnen 0817 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! T3-Tanker, 11696 Tonnen 0819 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Küstenschiff, 2043 Tonnen 0821 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! C2-Cargo, 6447 Tonnen 0823 Planquadrat BE 64 Schiff versenkt! Kleiner Frachter, 2336 Tonnen 15.6.40. 1142 Patrouillenergebnisse Verluste: 0 Versenkte Schiffe: 26 Zerstörte Flugzeuge: 0 Patrouillentonnage: 146600 Tonnen |
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