Who else is holding up the honour of the U-Boats?

[Brag]

15 March 1941
U-123

Returned to Lorient without incident after cutting patrol short. Received serious damage by depth charge attack. 53523 tonnes including a Black Swan.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Originally Posted by Brag

Where were you? Chasing the nice girls in St Naz?

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

was chasing girls (and ships) in the med

Started new campaign after my old U-123 was sunk by destroyers in Liverpool Bay.Back again in October 1939,and again with Type IXB U-123,2nd Flotilla.

Currently in base at Wilhemshaven after my first patrol.5 ships sunk and 39888 tonns so far.

[KeptinCranky]

U-46 Oblt z.s. Hans Brix reporting 17 Oktober 39 0600 grid BF25

Passed through Dover strait on the way to AM79, lots of torpedo boats, came through on the surface on a calm clear but moonless night, no real hassle if you stick to the French side about 6nm off Calais, did not engage shipping in Dover Channel.
Cut a path of destruction through merchant shipping all the way from Brighton to the Scilly Isles, have dived 6 times to avoid Hurricanes, have been fired upon only once, no damage. Proceeded west submerged during day, on surface at night

9 merchant vessels sunk so far

Have received report of large convoy heading west from st George's channel, have 5 eels left for forward tubes, intent is to acquire convoy and shadow until well outside allied air cover, then attack and return to base by sailing around Scotland

[Brag]

Good Work , useful info and good plan.

[KeptinCranky]

Heh,
U-46 reporting in

I missed that convoy...

I used my last eels on a Whaling Factory south of Ireland, but since the weather was nice and calm I decided to continue on to patrol area AM79, I still had 207 rounds for the deckgun after all.

continued northward after my 24hours in AM79 were up, sank a large merchant off the Hebrides with about 20 rounds, continued around scotland, got badly bombed (see screenshot thread) but soldiered on, sunk 2 more small ones with the Gun, went past Scapa on the way to Kiel

Sunk a medium cargo in AN43 then ran into another Large Merchant, this took the last 35 rounds and all the remaining AA ammo, it stopped dead but didn't sink so I decided to not wait it out, gave it a 17 knot bump with the bow, that didn't help or so I thought

was Barreling toward it again at 17knts when I get the she's going down, had to slam on the reverse and left full rudder so as to not damage the boat any further, that worked (barely)

returned to Kiel 1 november of 39 with 70k tons (mostly small merchants) one dead sailor and 68% hull (they didn't tell me that until I got home) got an Iron cross for my efforts (the crew got a lot more)

No dud torpedoes at all, one tramp steamer that wouldn't sink and had Elco's crawling all around it in der Kanal and one bad miss (speed setting stupidity on my part)

all in all a good patrol for this Gung-ho Kaleun

[Brag]

Good patrol, Crancky! Bur ramming scratched the paint. Drinks are on you! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Brag]

21 April 1941
U-123
Departed Lorient for patrol off Cape Verde Islands.

[Steel_Tomb]

U-69, der von der Nordküste Irlands, 35k der versenkten Tonnage abpatrouilliert. Nette Ruhe t... ALLLLLAARRRMMM! Flugzeug entdeckt zum Steuerbord Herr Kaleun! tauchen Sie! tauchen Sie!

(lol I don't know if its correct used a translation website! With a few changes!)

Translation: U-69 patrolling off the north coast of Ireland, 35k of tonnage sunk. Nice calm d... Aircraft spotted to starboard Herr Kaleun! Dive! Dive!

One thing I'll miss when I head back to SHIV will be the crash dive sequence...its just so good i wanna crash dive all the time lol ALLLARRM!

[azn_132]

U-666 and 777 ready to head bak to the atlantic.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

good news boys... got a 200k+ patrol... only got shot when ariving home

[Lagger123987]

:rotfl: :rotfl: what happen? what did bernard do on your boat Mohr?

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Originally Posted by Lagger123987

:rotfl: :rotfl: what happen? what did bernard do on your boat Mohr?

see the happy hunting grounds thread

[KeptinCranky]

whoops Mohr

Started a new type IX career U-64 this time in order to get good contact reports for BDU Canovaro

8-12-40
Engaged a slow northbound convoy west of Ireland sank their Southhampton Cruiser, a medium cargo, 2 large cargos a large merchant and a smal merchant in 3 successive attacks in one night not bad tonnage if I do say so myself, after that the weather turned nasty all the way to my patrol area AD88, got there, encountered a ship on the way in thick fog, heard it on hydrophone and intercepted, turned out to be a hospital ship.
17-12-40
Have finished my 24 hours, am now going to loiter just south of Reykjavik hopefully catch some lone merchants.
we won't be home for christmas though, the crew doesn't like it much, neither do I but there's still a war on.

now we've got to chip the ice off the conning tower again.....

[Brag]

U-123
11 May 1941

0001 hrs. The day started perfectly. Torpedo treffer! Sank three ships with five torpedoes fired. Escorts did not bother us.

We left Lorient on 21 April did not have a single contact in transit and were stooging around 400 kms NW of Freetown hoping to intercept a convoy. Our position was almost perfect when we got report of large convoy, intercept point only 4.5 hours steaming at 10 knots.

We attacked at midnight then followed for an attack at dusk.

The second attack went even better. We attacked at dusk. Launched 4 torpedoes, sank 2 tankers and one large freighter. Tonnage for these 24 hours 78,000. Too bad can't catch convoy before midnight for a 100k day

Also sent first report to BDU Conavaro.