U-51 Kapitänleutnant Hans Felix Hartmann

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**** So as to not make new threads every time a uboat goes to the bottom all future patrols will begin and end here on this thread****



6/16/1940 Wilhelmshaven Basin III 1st day at sea

U-51 is placed under the command of Kapitanleutnant Hartmann after her previous commander Oblt.z.S Kellogg didn’t achieve any success on her last 2 patrols U-51 was modified and underwent an extensive refit for an extended patrol in the Atlantic. Today she departs Wilhelmshaven her first objective is to patrol the convoy routes in naval square AL 8715.

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Look forward to reading the reports now facebook has screwed it

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6/2/1940 East Coast of England AN 5568 2nd day at sea

U-51 sank 3 ships with artillery , the British freighter KIRKLAND 2,430 grt in ballast from Bergen-London following her from and also in ballast was the British tanker FLORANCE 2,671 grt. During the sinking of the tanker lookouts sighted the British freighter PATTERSON 5,159 grt from Bombay-Grimsby loaded with army and RAF stores.

Hartmann plans to remain in the area until June 10th then begin to move north.

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U-51 went on to sink an additional freighter the HAROLD 4,789 grt from Freetown-Grimsby loaded with tin and rubber from Singapore, shortly after this U-51 was spotted by two aircraft patrolling the area she attempted to dive but a depth charge clipped the bow and detonated causing serious damage of the 59 officers and crew only 6 escaped the Kommandant, all officers, and 40 petty officers and ratings went down with U-51 in naval square AN 5273.

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6/15/1940 Wilhelmshaven Naval Base, Basin III

U-48 under the command of Kplt.z.S Hans Felix Hartman (SK/G) departs for the British East Coast her first area of operations where she will operate for 3 weeks then move into the Atlantic.

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6/25/1940 AM 1581 North Atlantic 10th day at sea

U-48 have has been on a role, 24 hrs after leaving port U-48 arrived off the British East Coast and began her work, a small 2 ship convoy was sighted in the and with artillery she sent the vessels to the bottom. They were the British freighter ALLISON 4,921 grt loaded with general cargo from Karachi-London and the small tanker BRITISH HUNT 3,502 grt loaded with 3,500 tons of fuel from Aden-London 2 days later she sank 2 small fishing boats. FISHING BOAT. No.4 91 grt and COASTAL BOAT No.21 92 grt.

Kplt.z.S Hartmann decided to move towards Blackness Bay and Firth of Forth here in a spectacular raid she sank with torpedoes and artillery 3 destroyers, 1 motor torpedo boat, 3 fishing vessels, and 3 small freighters for 8,497 grt while escaping she was attacked by 8-10 aircraft one a Hurricane Mk.I Fighter was downed and her pilot taken prisoner the amount of tonnage sunk isn’t spectacular what was is the amount of warships the British had to converge on the area leaving other areas devoid of harbor defense. She headed off towards the Norwegian Sea and broke through the Atlantic via the Iceland-Faroes Passage and on the 23rd she sank the British merchant ship AGUSTUS 2,428 grt.

On the 25th B.d.U. Ordered Hartmann to make for Ferrol, Spain to resupply from Ship No.42.

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July 19, 1939 Baltic, Kiel, Germany
During the night of the 10th of May a large Soviet freighter arrived at Kiel her master was instructed to dock at Pier N-21. She maneuvered into the dock and was tied down by midnight the following day a 50 car train arrived and the loading began, The freighter took on crate after crate aboard. The following day 2 coalers and 1 tanker came alongside and began to replenish the ship. In the afternoon of the 15th 3 Kriegsmarine officers boarded the Soviet ship. On the bridge they were greeted by the master of the mysterious ship, Fregattenkapitan Hans Felix Hartmann.
The camouflage has worked nobody suspects the freighter to be "Schiff 35". Here are the events leading up to the arrival. Schiff 35 departed Bremerhaven in late April then proceeded to Point Yellow to carry out "Operation Chamäleon" (The transformation of Schiff 35 into the Soviet KOSTROMA 8,284 grt (FVNU) Murmansk) this was completed in 4 days time and soon Schiff 35 sailed for Kiel via the Skagerrak, Great Belt route.
The crates the ship is taking on are everything from ammunition to tropical uniforms, cigars, flour, chocolate, and paper just to name a few of the hundreds of items she's taking aboard Hartmann has been informed by the Seekriegslietung that the ship will have to remain in port until at least July 20. This was unprecedented by Hartmann and now arrangements must be made to change temporarily the disguise of the ship so on the night of June 1 the crew painted the funnel black and removed all soviet emblems and names now Ship 35 is officially "Barracks Ship 13" On the 18th Hartmann gave the final briefing to the officers and final preparations are being made for departure.

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5/31/1939 Baltic, Kiel 24:00 hrs.
At midnight on the 31st of May a large Soviet freighter departed Kiel. loaded to the brim with cargo she sailed quietly out of port and into the Bay of Kiel. On her way out she met an incoming liner the 10,785 grt SS KURMANN the onlookers on deck thought nothing of the Soviet unaware they were actually looking at the first stages of Hitler's plan this mysterious vessel was in fact Schiff 35 and her crew of 440, Die Piraten des Diktators.....................

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Because im switching over to Hilfskreuzers for now I will be starting a new thread dedicated to my vessel The commerce raider "Afrika" (Schiff 44). Soon i will restart the patrol I've been developing it from scratch inspired by the raiders of WWI and WWII. I'll be using SH5 as the base unfortunately there is no playable raider however the voyage of Ship 44 will be recreated using the Mission Editor with the uboat actually in action. Soon I'll post the link to the new thread which will be of course here on subsim and I'll do some posts on the facebook group as well.

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Link to new thread for the Hilfskreuzer “Afrika”


https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...02#post2768502