U-76, 3rd patrol
3rd Patrol
U-76, type VIIB 7th/13th Flotilla, Kiel Departed: 21JAN40 Returned: 04MAR40 Assigned Grid: BF11 5 Merchant ships sunk 2 Tankers sunk 37,860 tons One torpedo remaining No damage sustained Oblt. Gunter Klauth(Knight's Cross) |
An update to my second patrol: As I watched the neutral tanker sail by I started getting hydrophone reports of a merchant off my port beam. With no time to turn around I engaged emergency speed reverse and readied tube 5. The other merchant turned out to be a Granville type freighter flying a British flag. I hit her in the engine room, surfaced and finished her off with the deck gun. This brought my patrol tonnage to roughly 21,400 tons. I set a southwesterly course and less than an hour later my watch crew sighted another merchant. I turned toward her and sighted two more darkened ships, sailing one behind the other. It's a good thing I still have three torps in the bow tubes. Sometimes things just work out. This will be my first multi-ship attack so hopefully all will go well.
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U-94:s most successful patrol.
6.4.42. 1227 Patrol 9 U-94, 2nd Flotilla Left at: April 6, 1942, 12:27 From: Lorient Mission Orders: Patrol grid ED98 17.4.42. 1137 Grid ED 95 Ship sunk! MV Teakwood (Modern Tanker), 10761 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 56. Crew lost: 48 18.4.42. 1723 Grid ED 98 Ship sunk! SS Scythia (Ceramic-type Ocean Liner), 14595 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 1420. Crew lost: 411 19.4.42. 0133 Grid ED 98 Ship sunk! USS Black (Fletcher class), 2325 tons. Crew: 360. Crew lost: 79 0212 Grid ED 98 Ship sunk! MV Inversuir (Large Tanker), 9944 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 45. Crew lost: 9 0219 Grid ED 98 Ship sunk! MV Rio Bravo (Small Tanker), 2014 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 24. Crew lost: 16 0255 Grid EN 32 Ship sunk! MV Athelprincess (Large Tanker), 9945 tons. Cargo: Gasoline. Crew: 66. Crew lost: 45 20.4.42. 0240 Grid ED 83 Ship sunk! SS Marie-Louise le Borgne (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 23. Crew lost: 3 1911 Grid ED 51 Ship sunk! MV Tarascon (Small Tanker), 2051 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 25. Crew lost: 19 2.5.42. 1312 Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 8 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 53504 tons |
Patrol number: 25
Uboot: U-123 Year: 1940 Realism: 100% max TC used: 128 Tonnage: 50150 Aircrafts:0 Days at sea: 09 On way back from Gibralter attempted to stop the evacuation of dunkirk. http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/w...n/report25.png Patrol number: 26 Uboot: U-123 Year: 1940 Realism: 100% max TC used: 128 Tonnage: 72140 Aircrafts:0 Days at sea: 10 Proper intel and good luck favored me this patrol. Did the most daring thing a commander can do, snuck into the port of Gibraltar on the surface (all be it later in the day and during a storm) and waited for a clear shot. Snuck out undetected and docked at supply ship for fuel. http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/w...n/report26.png |
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How many torpedoes did you shoot at her before she sunk? |
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Down under eating rice with the locals and getting banged up on ever patrol. Last patrol mid July 1944 wiped out a small convoy at a cost, bridge crew and AA crew were all killed. I hear Hideki Tojo is going to pin medals on my crew.
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23.10.42.
1904 Patrol 12 U-94, 2nd Flotilla Left at: October 23, 1942, 19:04 From: Lorient Mission Orders: Patrol grid AK11 29.10.42. 1319 Grid AK 23 Ship sunk! HMS Striker (Bogue class), 15390 tons. Crew: 908. Crew lost: 708 30.10.42. 0151 Grid AK 23 Ship sunk! HMS Transylvania (Auxiliary Cruiser), 13850 tons. Crew: 147. Crew lost: 111 8.11.42. 1858 Grid AK 54 Ship sunk! SS Washington (Empire-type Freighter), 6782 tons. Cargo: Trucks. Crew: 65. Crew lost: 2 1859 Grid AK 54 Ship sunk! SS Bretwalda (Granville-type Freighter), 4708 tons. Cargo: Foodstuffs. Crew: 64. Crew lost: 24 10.11.42. 1516 Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 4 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 40730 tons Sunk my first carrier on this mission :woot: |
Late July 1944
Hideki Tojo flew in to penang to pin medals on me and my crew and why? Bag my very first passenger ship NW of Australia. :woot: Sunk the Queen Mary. :yeah: First ever passenger ship I clapped eyes on down under all these years and wow get to sink it as well. :D The crew and I are going to get drunk tonight. :()1: :()1: |
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Congrats Kaleun. Already line(r'd) up on the bar :03: :()1: Best regards. Fubar2Niner |
9 January 1943
U-94 now on the bottom of the atlantic (all hands lost) TOTALS: 13 patrols (228 days) Merchants/warships SHIPS SUNK: 55 (45/10) Merchants/warships TONNAGE: 309671 (251086/58585) |
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You deserve every bottle of beer you can drink. |
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Your death will not be in vain! |
U126 Holds 2 mins of silence to rememer how U94 fought tot he very end. The next ship is in your memory!
Jonny:salute: |
We hit a large cargo ship with 2 fish, calm seas, magnetic fuses. Two loud explosions on target bearing and the ship foundered almost immeditaely. A short time later, my weapons officers claims she's a goner, then... ...nothing. She sat there, decks awash for almost 24 hours!!
Her crew abandoned her, and she bobbed about in over 1000 meters of open ocean! It wasn't until we picked up a couple of her crewmen that we found out she was filled to the rails with timber! No way she was going under without wasting a couple for eels on her. :yeah: |
VONHARRIS, Jonny: Thank You! :salute:
It's allways a nervous moment when you blow ballast but the boat just keep sinking. |
Changed UBoats, now commanding U46. Start of war, in AN 87 san a partrol craft with 94% realism plus Realism V16B1-Patch-Kit, using it for the first time. Found it very hard, but rewarding. Can't manual target very weels to i have my weapon officer to help! substained heavy damage in the bow torpedo rooms! Nearly flooded, Managed to repair in 7 hours and reload all fish used. Sanka french merhant on the way back. 2016 T to finsh partrol on! After sinking the merchant U46 sent a status report and was ordered home and to abandon partrol for later date!
SS bosnia was sank and surviors picked up! Jonny:salute: |
Back Home
On my way to patrol AM79 I decided to visit my hometown.. the place where I live today :-) Changed a lot I must say ...:salute:
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In U-97 on my 20th patrol, August 1941 (looking forward to transferring to Norway in '42, hopefully).
Decided to attack a lightly escorted convoy off the north of Ireland in 40 meter water. Sink a light tanker and two coastal merchants, and cripple a C2. A destroyer and a corvette decide to do something about that. They started pinging away like mad, and in shallow water I choose a bold option: hiding under the C2 that is dead in the water. Which really seems to confuse the escorts. The destroyer, realizing it is on a collision course, slows down - just as she drops depth charges. Blew her own depth-charge racks off, which I've never seen before. So I figure it's a good time to make a quiet escape. I come up to periscope depth keeping the C2 between me and the corvette. And I put my last torpedo into the C2, the noises of her sinking apparently ruining the corvette's attempts to locate me. Currently making good my escape, as the destroyer and corvette have given up and returned to the convoy, and feeling very lucky. |
Patrol number: 29
Uboot: U-123 Year: 1940 Realism: 100% max TC used: 001 Tonnage: 61284 Aircrafts:0 Days at sea: 02 Lesson learned, TC of 1 is a very very hard to do thing with out getting bored. Returned to supply ship early, unsure of how much damage sustained when a torpedo boat caught us off guard. http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/w...n/report29.png |
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