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U338 VIIC 7. Flotilla St. Nazair

Patrol 8 complete.
14.mar.44 til 6.apr.44. Grid BE36

3 mechants sunk for 21.086 GRT.
1 C Class DD sunk for 1.375 tonnes. (T4).

Lt. JG Carlewitz and Flak Gunner 3. Eckermann were lost while holding off enemy aircraft.
U338 was unable to crash dive do to extremely high CO2 levels.

During the attack the flak gun, both periscopes, the radar antena, and the radio antena were destroyed. The fuel tank was damaged and ½ of the remaining fuel was lost.
No depth charges or bombs were dropped (fighter).
The aircraft suffered no damage.

U338 was able to dive, following the initial attack.
The attack took place on 2.apr.44 at 04.27 in Grid BE43.

U338 VIIC 7. Flotilla

Patrol 9 complete:
Patrol Grid BE37.
4.maj.44 til 1.jun.44.
4 ships sunk for 8.381 GRT

[KNomad]

Finished my first career after 10 patrols (retired).
9/39 to 8/40 -1st flotilla - Type IIA boat - 54% Realism.

My first experience with SH3 and it's been a fun ride. I think I've got a good grip on the basics but I can see I've got a way to go. I'm going to install GWX gold and either restart again in '39 or possibly start at one of the French bases in '40 and try the Atlantic waters in a Type VII.

[KL-alfman]

hello to all the Kaleus out there!

completely new to SH3 (i bought it for about 9€ - thought i got to have this classic game) i've read a lot lurking here and finally registered. use the GWX3.0-mod (thx to all of the team!!).
this forum is a great place to gather informations about getting used to all the controls, btw it really is fun to learn the basics of navigations and other (useful) stuff.

i'm in a U-IIA stationed in Kiel and right now it's the 3rd of september 39 and the u-boot is on its way to AN26.
looking forward to get some tonnage.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard KL-alfman

[Damo]

November 16th 1941.

Currently in DH56 searching for targets of opportunity after completing a weeks patrol in DH33. Just came out of a 10 day long storm where winds didn't drop below 14 knots, was hell on the men and we spent most of it submerged. Been pretty uneventful so far sinking 2 British Merchants for 9000GRT east of Spain enroute to our patrol grid. Nothing since except a neutral (Spanish) tramp steamer we intercepted that was belching smoke (?!?) from it's forward hold. We surfaced to offer help and find out what was wrong but we had a hard time understanding the spanish crew, only establishing that they had come from Columbia and picking up the words 'rocket fuel whiskey', 'matches', 'green tobaccococococo' and the name 'Bernardo'.

As their engines were still running and no flooding, we let them continue their course north, singing strange songs as they vanished into the fog leaving a plume of sweet smelling smoke behind them.

We left St Nazaire on the 21st October and have only used 2 torpedoes, I hope we find some targets soon before the food runs low, I don't want to be returning to port with most of our ordnance, command will think we've gone soft.....

[Ancient Mariner]

CAPTAIN'S LOG

Date and Time
Location
Occurrences
17.3.40. 1752 Patrol 6
U-35, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: March 17, 1940, 17:52
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid DH77 20.3.40. 0208 Grid AF 75 Ship sunk! SS Nagara (Large Merchant), 5948 tons. Cargo: Bauxite. Crew: 99. Crew lost: 9 22.3.40. 1502 Grid AM 36 Ship sunk! HMS Kelvin (J&K classes), 1690 tons. Crew: 213. Crew lost: 46 1512 Grid AM 36 Ship sunk! HMS Bulldog (A&B classes), 1350 tons. Crew: 169. Crew lost: 147 1539 Grid AM 36 Ship sunk! HMCS Skeena (A&B classes), 1350 tons. Crew: 175. Crew lost: 96 1557 Grid AM 36 Ship sunk! SS Bradfyne (Granville-type Freighter), 4709 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 110. Crew lost: 96 1557 Grid AM 36 Ship sunk! SS City of Hankow (Empire-type Freighter), 6781 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 68. Crew lost: 33 1616 Grid AM 36 Ship sunk! SS Empire Citizen (Granville-type Freighter), 4708 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 83. Crew lost: 41 26.3.40. 1723 Grid AN 42 Ship sunk! SS Raranga (Large Merchant), 5949 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 70. Crew lost: 28 28.3.40. 1037 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 8
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 32485 tons

Never made it to patrol area,bit of a dumb move to fire a full spread at HMCS Skeena!!! Had to be done picked off SS Bradfyne & SS City OF Hankow with Gun,was running low on Eels,wasted 2 further eels on SS Empire Citizen On return voyage ran across SS Raronga..Last 2 eels,one from fore tubes and 1 from aft.

Now I take it BDu will give me a grilling...have a look on map where i attacked the Convoy,I am sure those RN types put a huuuge amount of mine fields through that area....

U338 VIIC 7. Flotilla

Patrol 10 Grid CG18
29.jun.44: Underway from St. Nazaire
10.jul.44: Ship sunk enroute to grid. 6.395 GRT. 1 x T3FAT2.
Location is Grid CG16 (W of Spain).
1.aug.44: Base changed to Bergen message recieved.
Location is just off the NW corner of Spain.
13.aug.44: 2 ships sunk. 4.394 GRT. 1 x T3FAT2, 1 x T4 Acquistic.
Location is Grid AE83 (E of Island).
26.aug.44: U338 docks at Bergen. Hej Norge!!!
Total Tonnage: 10.789 GRT

[Ancient Mariner]

Sunk my second BB off the coast of Spain!!! Last night at 900m,3 eels set with magnetic fuses,all 3 did their jobs(for a change) one dead center other 2 under B turret & c turret... Damn convoy escorts nearly sent me to a certain watery grave for that,think i managed +40k tonnage in that patrol sank some large merchies on East coast of GB on way out in a heavy storm,again lady luck smiled on my Kaleun,quick depth under keel check revealed 20m,so when 1st DD turned up I got the hell out

[Rapt0r56]

U-96 VIIC 7.Flotille St. Nazaire.
November 1940 - Dezember 1941.

Sunk on my last Patrol yesterday,
with 56k tons. One Night Convoi attack, and 2 damn dd's.
Went to 190 meter, 3 dc's explode so near to the CT and RR that i can't stop flodding.
I changed to full speed and hard to port, but they don't givin' me a chance.
Next Campain waits for me.

September 1940
U-29, 2. U-Flottille, Lorient.

On my first patrol since what, a year?
Sunk two british merchants so far with 15,000 tons.

U338 VIIC 7. Flotilla Bergen

23.sep.44: Underway.
25.sep.44: AN23 enrout to AN41 (For the 2. time - SH3 crash).

We had sunk a Little Merchant and a Tug in AN41 prior to the crash .
Game crashed on 30.sep.44 at kl.23 while reloading tube 5 at 50 meter.
There was nothing within hydrophone range.
Oh well.

[Gabucino]

Ran into 3 Southampton-type CLs off the east coast of Britain, approached at periscope depth 90 degrees from their bow. One of them must have seen my periscope and/or the wakes of the two T1 I launched (both proven as duds), started firing at my direction with her deck guns...

... hitting and immediately sinking the other CL in formation (it was right between us). Tonnage thief. I got the third CL, though.

[Damo]

Originally Posted by Gabucino

hitting and immediately sinking the other CL in formation (it was right between us). Tonnage thief.

Did Bernard defect....?

[Oberon]

October 21 1939
U56 Type IIA
At port in Kiel after first wartime patrol
5,971 tons sunk