Scapa Flow and the Royal Oak.

[Freiwillige]

I began a new career and on my second patrol I noticed that it was october 1939.
That is when U-47 and Gunther Prein snuck into the impregnable Scapa Flow and sunk the Royal Oak. Well odly Enough I was assighned U-47 by the game! So I decided that I would pull off the stunning attack using the same route that Prien did. (For maps showing Preins route into Scapa Flow see www.u47.org)

I carefully stuck to his Historic time table, and was easily able to slip in. But the Royal Oak was nowhere to be found. So I laid a pair of eels into a heavy tanker then a pair into a troop transport. Flairs shot up into the night and searchlights scanned the water. It was only when I was menouvering to make my exit that I realised What I thought was a destroyer parked in the distance due west was infact the Royal Oak! I would not have noticed if it wasnt for the flairs lighting her up.Okay so she was not where she should have been historically in fact she was off by about 1 1/2 miles but that matters little. Its so dark I have a hard time making out her distance. I let loose my final three torpedos. Minutes tick by as I await the reaction. I wasnt kept waiting long, One after another the torpedo's found their mark. First one about midship, Second along the stern and the third into the bow. I waited to see If she would go under. I turned the boat until my last torpedo was facing her out the stern tube. Torpedo Los! Again minutes tick by. I am giving up and creeping out of the estuary when my fourth and last torpedo finds its mark! She's going down!

11,000 ton tanker
7,000 ton Troop transport
35,000 ton HMS Royal Oak

833 men perished in that attack http://www.hmsroyaloak.co.uk/index.htm
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