(Story) U-46 puts to sea again - Page 66

Jimbuna · 05-28-08, 04:08 PM

You tell him LS....."RTFM"

Laughing Swordfish · 06-06-08, 06:54 PM

Our celebrations at sinking a destroyer are short-lived.

U-344 has not reported in, for two days. She must be gone. Willi and Christian knew their opposite numbers on that boat, and did their training with them. They are taking it hard.

We are submerged during the day and popping up at night to run forward and plug the gap.

"I'm sorry about Pieter, and also about Sven, you guys"

We are sitting in the wardroom, and after two days it is clear they must be lost at sea.

I pour some brandy. "Let them go, my friends."

"They will not have suffered"

Of course I have no way of knowing that; being sunk in a u-boat is noone's favourite way to leave the earth.

"Take a break fellows, until it's time to surface again. It's not going to happen to us if we keep our wits about us, and we will get them back. Now sleep for the both of you"

LS

Laughing Swordfish · 06-07-08, 05:58 PM

Now we get a message fron U-862.

It was intended for BDU but Victor can still receive it.

And he calls me straight to his cabin. Christian and Willi are not far behind.

"U-862, Sir. That's Sigmund's boat. They have come across a rubber dinghy. One of ours! Four survivors from U-344"

Who are they, what are their names, Mensch?"

Victor bends to his morse key again. And listens patiently, shushing his officers away, as he scrawls with his pencil.

"Georg Muller, Heinrich Rotenblum, Pieter Weiss, and Sven Schoenstein.

He listens in again.

"That's all , Sir. Ariel in U-862 is making another sweep. but it doesn't look like there's much more hope."

Four survived out of 51, but Christian and Willi are cock a hoop. Against all the odds, their mates made it this time.

I don't even want to think about that last desperate scramble up onto the bridge, with the screams of terror going on behind, or the loss of shipmates as they one-by-one slip away in cold exhaustion back into the sea,

Reuben knows this better than anyone. He has been there, and now he just sits quietly, playing with his thumbs.

"Good work from Siggy!" I announce brightly.

Come on every one, let's help him out and get back on station....

LS

Kpt. Lehmann · 06-07-08, 10:58 PM

RdB,

I am sorry to hear about your injury, but glad to hear you are okay.

Sounds like you were having fun up until that moment though.

Seems like a trend of head injuries among friends I know and emergency calls of late at work.:hmm:

Be careful with your noggins people!

Cheers though! Looking forward to the next edition.

Jimbuna · 06-08-08, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

RdB,

I am sorry to hear about your injury, but glad to hear you are okay.

Sounds like you were having fun up until that moment though.

Seems like a trend of head injuries among friends I know and emergency calls of late at work.:hmm:

Be careful with your noggins people!

Cheers though! Looking forward to the next edition.

Aye.....definitely a worrying trend of late

Keep up the good work LS. I enjoy my regular fix

Laughing Swordfish · 06-11-08, 07:20 PM

Still slight head injuries, it was a nasty fall. It must be an English thing , but we were told within the group to mime an Olympic event, and when it got to me< I went for hurdling.

And the worst thing was, when I came out of German ER (which is very good by the way) picked up the trail of my mates and rejoined them for a beer.... they couldn't, not one of them, get that my disappearence over a hotel sofa was a hurdler taking his first jump.

That's the English for you. We're all stupid.

LS

Sailor Steve · 06-11-08, 07:50 PM

Well, since most Australians and Canadians, and a fair amount of Americans are still closely related to the mother country, I don't think I'm going to criticize too harshly.

JUST DON'T DO IT AGAIN!!!

Laughing Swordfish · 06-11-08, 07:59 PM

"Stop grinding your teeth, Christian. We're not going up in this weather, it's a perfect sunny day, and no wind or cloud, we'll have planes all over us like flies.

"....It seems to me that there is no perfect weather for an attack, with this boat....."

"Who said that?.. Otto, who said that...?!"

My Chief has already got the culprit by the scruff of the neck and swung him away from his guages.

"Say that again before your Kapitan, boy!"

"...I only meant...Ow!"

"Easy Chief, back to your station. You boy, you're new. It's Friedmann isn't it?

"Second patrol, Sir", all his bluster gone.

"Tell me Friedmann, do you know how many ships the U-46 has sunk?"

"No Sir,"

"Well quite honestly neither do I. There are some logs somewhere. Perhaps forty, probably more. Two destroyers certainly"

"We're not in a fairground game, Lad. Every thing we do is for a reason, we didn't sink those enemies without a fair amount of stalking, and taking our chances. including this idling along and listening."

"Yes Sir"

"But I can't have talk like that in my Control Room, or anywhere else on the Boat, do you understand?"

"Yes, Sir?"

"You have a choice of two punishments; the first is to lay on your bunk for two days, and have your shipmates do all your work for you; the second is to return to your station report to the coxswain and stand in for a few extra duties for your
friends?

"Junge, we have to have everyone pulling together on this Boat. What's it to be....?"

LS

Sailor Steve · 06-11-08, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laughing Swordfish

"Well quite honestly neither do I. There are some logs somewhere."

:rotfl:

Brilliant! Didn't mean to interrupt so soon, but that was priceless!

Laughing Swordfish · 06-13-08, 06:20 PM

Sure enough, a chastened Friedmann chose the extra duties.

Maybe I was too harsh on him, but I can't have any whinging especially in the Control Room when we could be in contact.

Confidence is everything, and I don't need my boat's record put into question by some pup. (As it is, he emerged from the fore-ends with a black eye and split lip, one morning) our lordships administer their own justice at that end of the boat.

Noone saw anything of course. And he didn't want to press it.

"Friedmann, this isn't a yellow boat. You haven't been out into the Atlantic anywhere near enough as the other crew. Keep yoiur mouth shut until you have, because they will punch it. Now get back to work and fit in.

Tell the Chief I want to surface in fifteen minutes, have Viktor shaken from his bunk, for our regular report; and what happened to my hot coffee from the Galley? Go Boy, Go!"

We should be pretty much on station now.......

LS

Bosje · 06-16-08, 05:18 AM

brilliant

Jimbuna · 06-16-08, 11:44 AM

More fuel needed

Kpt. Lehmann · 06-29-08, 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

More fuel needed

...and apparently more coffee too!

Jimbuna · 06-30-08, 08:55 AM

Laughing Swordfish · 06-30-08, 10:18 AM

I lost a whole long new chapter with a click of a button. I wish that could be solved.
But I'm going to make this the first novel, if I can, and get it made into a book.
I've got Don and you guys who know who you are, but also a guy who's been published in small volumes back here in Blighty. He has no interest in U-boats, but will come down from Liverpool to London (which is a big distance on our Island), to beat me up if I don't publish. Enough already. Raoul

05-28-08, 04:08 PM	#976
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	You tell him LS....."RTFM" __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-07-08, 10:58 PM	#979
Kpt. Lehmann GWX Project Director Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: The Republic of Texas Posts: 6,996 Downloads: 124 Uploads: 0	RdB, I am sorry to hear about your injury, but glad to hear you are okay. Sounds like you were having fun up until that moment though. Seems like a trend of head injuries among friends I know and emergency calls of late at work.:hmm: Be careful with your noggins people! Cheers though! Looking forward to the next edition. __________________ www.thegreywolves.com All you need is good men. - Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock

06-11-08, 07:50 PM	#982
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Well, since most Australians and Canadians, and a fair amount of Americans are still closely related to the mother country, I don't think I'm going to criticize too harshly. JUST DON'T DO IT AGAIN!!! __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

06-11-08, 07:59 PM	#983
Laughing Swordfish Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Posts: 713 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	"Stop grinding your teeth, Christian. We're not going up in this weather, it's a perfect sunny day, and no wind or cloud, we'll have planes all over us like flies. "....It seems to me that there is no perfect weather for an attack, with this boat....." "Who said that?.. Otto, who said that...?!" My Chief has already got the culprit by the scruff of the neck and swung him away from his guages. "Say that again before your Kapitan, boy!" "...I only meant...Ow!" "Easy Chief, back to your station. You boy, you're new. It's Friedmann isn't it? "Second patrol, Sir", all his bluster gone. "Tell me Friedmann, do you know how many ships the U-46 has sunk?" "No Sir," "Well quite honestly neither do I. There are some logs somewhere. Perhaps forty, probably more. Two destroyers certainly" "We're not in a fairground game, Lad. Every thing we do is for a reason, we didn't sink those enemies without a fair amount of stalking, and taking our chances. including this idling along and listening." "Yes Sir" "But I can't have talk like that in my Control Room, or anywhere else on the Boat, do you understand?" "Yes, Sir?" "You have a choice of two punishments; the first is to lay on your bunk for two days, and have your shipmates do all your work for you; the second is to return to your station report to the coxswain and stand in for a few extra duties for your friends? "Junge, we have to have everyone pulling together on this Boat. What's it to be....?" LS Last edited by Laughing Swordfish; 06-12-08 at 05:27 AM.

06-16-08, 05:18 AM	#986
Bosje Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 732 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 0	brilliant __________________ And when an 800-ton Uboat has you by the tits... you listen!

06-06-08, 06:54 PM	#977
Laughing Swordfish Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Posts: 713 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Our celebrations at sinking a destroyer are short-lived. U-344 has not reported in, for two days. She must be gone. Willi and Christian knew their opposite numbers on that boat, and did their training with them. They are taking it hard. We are submerged during the day and popping up at night to run forward and plug the gap. "I'm sorry about Pieter, and also about Sven, you guys" We are sitting in the wardroom, and after two days it is clear they must be lost at sea. I pour some brandy. "Let them go, my friends." "They will not have suffered" Of course I have no way of knowing that; being sunk in a u-boat is noone's favourite way to leave the earth. "Take a break fellows, until it's time to surface again. It's not going to happen to us if we keep our wits about us, and we will get them back. Now sleep for the both of you" LS

06-07-08, 05:58 PM	#978
Laughing Swordfish Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Posts: 713 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Now we get a message fron U-862. It was intended for BDU but Victor can still receive it. And he calls me straight to his cabin. Christian and Willi are not far behind. "U-862, Sir. That's Sigmund's boat. They have come across a rubber dinghy. One of ours! Four survivors from U-344" Who are they, what are their names, Mensch?" Victor bends to his morse key again. And listens patiently, shushing his officers away, as he scrawls with his pencil. "Georg Muller, Heinrich Rotenblum, Pieter Weiss, and Sven Schoenstein. He listens in again. "That's all , Sir. Ariel in U-862 is making another sweep. but it doesn't look like there's much more hope." Four survived out of 51, but Christian and Willi are cock a hoop. Against all the odds, their mates made it this time. I don't even want to think about that last desperate scramble up onto the bridge, with the screams of terror going on behind, or the loss of shipmates as they one-by-one slip away in cold exhaustion back into the sea, Reuben knows this better than anyone. He has been there, and now he just sits quietly, playing with his thumbs. "Good work from Siggy!" I announce brightly. Come on every one, let's help him out and get back on station.... LS

06-11-08, 07:20 PM	#981
Laughing Swordfish Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Posts: 713 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Still slight head injuries, it was a nasty fall. It must be an English thing , but we were told within the group to mime an Olympic event, and when it got to me< I went for hurdling. And the worst thing was, when I came out of German ER (which is very good by the way) picked up the trail of my mates and rejoined them for a beer.... they couldn't, not one of them, get that my disappearence over a hotel sofa was a hurdler taking his first jump. That's the English for you. We're all stupid. LS

06-13-08, 06:20 PM	#985
Laughing Swordfish Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Posts: 713 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Sure enough, a chastened Friedmann chose the extra duties. Maybe I was too harsh on him, but I can't have any whinging especially in the Control Room when we could be in contact. Confidence is everything, and I don't need my boat's record put into question by some pup. (As it is, he emerged from the fore-ends with a black eye and split lip, one morning) our lordships administer their own justice at that end of the boat. Noone saw anything of course. And he didn't want to press it. "Friedmann, this isn't a yellow boat. You haven't been out into the Atlantic anywhere near enough as the other crew. Keep yoiur mouth shut until you have, because they will punch it. Now get back to work and fit in. Tell the Chief I want to surface in fifteen minutes, have Viktor shaken from his bunk, for our regular report; and what happened to my hot coffee from the Galley? Go Boy, Go!" We should be pretty much on station now....... LS

06-16-08, 11:44 AM	#987
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	More fuel needed __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-30-08, 08:55 AM	#989
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	__________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-30-08, 10:18 AM	#990
Laughing Swordfish Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: London Posts: 713 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I lost a whole long new chapter with a click of a button. I wish that could be solved. But I'm going to make this the first novel, if I can, and get it made into a book. I've got Don and you guys who know who you are, but also a guy who's been published in small volumes back here in Blighty. He has no interest in U-boats, but will come down from Liverpool to London (which is a big distance on our Island), to beat me up if I don't publish. Enough already. Raoul