Ocean Liners

lobowwe · 02-03-16, 01:05 AM

can be found in the following areas- Calais up to June 1940, Durban, (S. Africa) late 1941, Freetown- 1941-on .
Also there is an ocean liner and another companion ship that travels to Freetown from the south around where sections EU and ET meet at their southern points

RConch · 02-03-16, 07:58 AM

Unless identified as troop ships CLEARLY, I leave them alone-too fast mostly and a real chance it may be a neutral. Just my opinion.

Plenty of other juicy targets to sink.

Walruss · 02-05-16, 10:55 AM

If it's unfriendly and it floats, it sinks!

U505995 · 02-05-16, 11:31 AM

Anything flying the Union Jack short of a hospital ship is fair game.

Arnold · 02-07-16, 05:53 PM

In the novel "Das Boot", I remember the reaction of the Captain upon the discovery his # 1 had failed to check the appendix to the recognition manual, after they had stopped a liner. The Captain was not indifferent to the lives of hundreds of passengers aboard the liner. He was angry they had almost made a terrible mistake. Sink a neutral liner.
Then what happens? Make the crew promise to keep the sinking a secret. Edit the patrol log. Blame the enemy for the sinking to incite hostilities with a neutral country.
It wasn't until recently I discovered the song, "It's a long way to Tipperary" was the last song played on the SS Athenia before she went down, hence the "inside joke" among U-boat crews when they sang it.
Should the war not end with our success, I'd rather spend a few years in prison than dangle at the end of a rope until I suffocate. If I'm going to suffocate, I'll do it while looking into the eyes of my crewmates as we travel to the bottom.

02-03-16, 01:05 AM	#1
lobowwe Watch Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 19 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Ocean Liners can be found in the following areas- Calais up to June 1940, Durban, (S. Africa) late 1941, Freetown- 1941-on . Also there is an ocean liner and another companion ship that travels to Freetown from the south around where sections EU and ET meet at their southern points

02-03-16, 07:58 AM	#2
RConch Captain Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: No. Virginia Posts: 619 Downloads: 518 Uploads: 0	Unless identified as troop ships CLEARLY, I leave them alone-too fast mostly and a real chance it may be a neutral. Just my opinion. Plenty of other juicy targets to sink. __________________ "Noch und Noch" Prowling the Nord Atlantik with GWX 3.0.

02-05-16, 10:55 AM	#3
Walruss Soundman Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 144 Downloads: 126 Uploads: 0	If it's unfriendly and it floats, it sinks! __________________ Lt. Z. S . Werner Krautsch Assigned: U-66 (IXc), 2nd Flot. 1. JAN 1941 Date: JAN 41 Patrols Completed: 0 Warships:0 Subs:0 Merchants: 0 Status: AT SEA

02-07-16, 05:53 PM	#5
Arnold Gunner Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: 44.26'N 83.20'W Posts: 100 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	In the novel "Das Boot", I remember the reaction of the Captain upon the discovery his # 1 had failed to check the appendix to the recognition manual, after they had stopped a liner. The Captain was not indifferent to the lives of hundreds of passengers aboard the liner. He was angry they had almost made a terrible mistake. Sink a neutral liner. Then what happens? Make the crew promise to keep the sinking a secret. Edit the patrol log. Blame the enemy for the sinking to incite hostilities with a neutral country. It wasn't until recently I discovered the song, "It's a long way to Tipperary" was the last song played on the SS Athenia before she went down, hence the "inside joke" among U-boat crews when they sang it. Should the war not end with our success, I'd rather spend a few years in prison than dangle at the end of a rope until I suffocate. If I'm going to suffocate, I'll do it while looking into the eyes of my crewmates as we travel to the bottom. __________________ "We shall pass this way on Earth but once, if there any kindness we can show, or good act we can do, let us do it now, for we will never pass this way again." - Stephen Grellet Last edited by Arnold; 02-07-16 at 06:00 PM.

02-05-16, 11:31 AM	#4
U505995 Planesman Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Wisconsin, the best state in the union. Posts: 191 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Anything flying the Union Jack short of a hospital ship is fair game.