Urgent Message from U-8008: All U-Boat Captains..

[Silverleaf]

Greetings,

I did not start this thread to ask anyone to read my current work "The war" #2 said "is passing us by"...

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=145693&page=3

However something happened within the context of the story that has me completely at a loss for where to go from here. Call it writer's block if you will, but for those of you that write or know of the process, many times stories take on a life of their own, and the author doesn't really control what is happening. Such is the case here as my last entry on page 3 testifies:

Recent events have led to the discovery of a bell attached to the net cutter of my boat U-8008. Said bell is British and has quite a history - HMS Hood.

I feel attached to this story on a very personal level, and my gut instinct is to try and contact someone in the British navy and return this bell in person. It's one thing to sink an enemy ship, and not be connected to it, but this is a very different circumstance.

I need your help to decide what I should do as Captain of the boat as a couple options come to mind, but I want the story to (pun not intended) ring true, to continue in a manner that would be consistent with a real Sub skipper.

Naturally I need to contact BDU 1st, since we came through quite an adventure. From there I could:

1) Return to base, hand the bell over to my commanding officers and go about my business.

2) Contact - in some way - a British ship and give them the bell back first hand.

Other options and suggestions/considerations are more than welcome.

I'll take the best option, and include it in the story.

Many thanks for your help and time. 8)

[A Very Super Market]

A dilemna! I haven't read all your stories yet, but they look good!

It's (fairly) early war, so either path is alright. Are you a by-the-book kaleun? Or a honest figher kaleun? This could really be a marking point in your character's personality, so make the coice you think is right.

[RoaldLarsen]

Delivering the bell to British navy personnel is too risky. Send it through an intermediary.

Next time you sink a ship and there are survivors in a lifeboat in a location where they are likely to be rescued, leave them the bell as well as a compass and some provisions.

Or stop a neutral, inspect it, and let it go if it is on its way to England, but doesn't carry contraband. Give them the bell.

[coronas]

Deliver the bell in a neutral port: Vigo or Cadiz has British Embassy. You could deliver it throw Spanish authorities or to British Embassy Naval Clerk.
A kind gesture from enemy always is significant as Fair Play.

[TheDudTorpedo]

Mmm.... a significant dilema for Kaleun.

Perhaps his dilema is made worse by the fact that his 1st watch officer and senior torpedo officer are ardent Nazi Party members (and well connected in the Party leadership) who feel the bell should be presented to the Fuhrer by Donitz himself, and are pressuring Kaleun to hand it in to BdU without fail. The other officers however aren't so sure that his the right thing to do...and so a serious rift amongst the boats officers is quickly forming, threatining the morale on the boat as it sails into dangerous terriritory....

[Freiwillige]

I beleive that any and I mean any U-boat commander would bring the bell back to Germany to add to the Kreigsmarines moral while taking away from the R.N.s