U-46 goes down

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Tonight, U-46 went on eternal patrol.

U-46 had a sensational first outing, sinking 6 merchants and one warship. She came home as a shining example of Germanic heroism. There were medals handed out. The crew and it's captain were held in high honors ! They had even earned a really cool picture of a Tyranosaurus Rex painted on the side of the conning tower as a reward for their great achievement !

A month later, U-46 went out on her seccond tour of duty. This time, the weather went a little sour. She was able to track several ships but was never able to actually catch them and when she was able to catch them, it took several torpedoes before one would finally hit because the sea state was so bad. She returned in disgrace, having spent all of her expensive torpedos with only two ships sunk. This time, there were no medals, no appreciation, no nothing.

Her captain decided that this time, he would go out reclaim U-46's former glory. Throughout the entire trip to the patrol area, not a single ship was sighted. Only a couple of british warplanes were spotted off in the distance, but even they were too far away to contitute kills. A 24 hour patrol of her patrol grid found nothing. It was as if there were no vessels sailing on the ocean at all that day.

The captain then decided to take U-46 south to the convoy lanes to try to intecept the Gibraltar-Liverpool convoy. The farther south U-46 got, the thicker the fog got. Then it started raining... and then.. as soon as the sonar man picked up the first ships of the Convoy steaming directly toward U-46, a HUGE Atlantic storm blew in. Visibility was down to only a couple meters and the waves made seeing anything impossible. The waves were so towering that the only way to get the periscope above them was to surface the boat.

The seccond time U-46 surfaced to try to see the fleet, she was rocked by canon fire from behind. Apparently a warship had come up directly behind her through the storm. U-46 crash dived and managed to evade the numerous depth charges exploding around her with minimal damage.

Then.. a half hour later, with the warship seemingly having taken since the captain checked himself over and over again on the hydrophone and heard nothing around, the sonar man reported that the whole convoy was coming into range.

U-46 slowly crept up to periscope depth. The captain raised the periscope. The periscope got about halfway up when there was a loud "CLUNK" ! He angled the periscope upward and saw the underside of a ship DIRECTLY over the U-boat traveling pretty much the same speed and the exact same direction ! A crash dive was ordered as the ship above suddenly sped up. The captain saw metal barrels... many metal barrels floating downward throught he periscope. The last thing he saw was one barrel coming down directly in front of the periscope and bouncing against it.

U-46 was lost somewhere west of Ireland. The only survivor was someone nammed Bernard.