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Please take it away from me! My first patrol I managed only to fire off a few rounds to finish off a wounded merchant, the rest of the time the weather didn't allow for it. But as an aside: Surely shells are cheaper than torpedoes, ja? Of course being English I forget that I can't just willy nilly sail through the English Channel. As the German's so lovingly call us Brits: Insel Afen. (Island Monkeys) one can sometimes forget that one is fighting on the "wrong" side so to speak. gazpode: Thank you, noted and I will give it a try and see if it works. I look forward to boring you all with wonderful escapades of my idiotic Captaincy errors (like damaging the hull substantially on my first patrol while waiting for the war to start to see just how deep she'll go...) and completely unblooded crew. |
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I often tell the story of how I died from being too close to a tanker I was shelling, and it exploded. This was in the Artillery class at the Academy. :dead: |
Well, made it to Feb. 1941, and got pasted off Gibralter. 5 DDs taking turns on us, and the damage got to be too much.
So the crew of the Seawolf is no more. :arrgh!: A woderful illustrious career, but in the end, they got us. |
U-64 New career
New career started because of CTD of unknown origin
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U-64 IXB
Patrol 3
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hey von just a question, why do you shoot down air planes? Do you have it modded so your guys are better shots, or are you just a god at shooting them down? I woulda just crash dove like they did IRL, unless I detected them on the attack run, then I would shot at it, then as it made away I would dive (like they did IRL.)
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It is the only type my flak gunners can shoot down. Check the grid - AN14 - and the date , they couldn't be anything else. In this patrol , those aircafts didn't appear all together but in pairs or one at a time, so it was tempting. They move pretty slow. Later in the war I crash dive as well. I haven't modded anything concerning the flak gunners , standard GWX. |
hum I actually haven't seen one of them before, I will try going there at the date.
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U-64 IXB
Patrol 4
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U-64 IXB
Patrol 5
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Kapitänleutnant Horst Schimanski
U-Boat Commands: U-2, type IIa (2 patrols) U-139, type IId (2 patrols) Career Tonnage: 7 877 tons Patrol 1 U-2, 1st Flotilla Left at: March 16, 1940, 13:18 From: Kiel Mission Orders: Patrol grid AF87 Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 0 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 0 tons Patrol 2 U-2, 1st Flotilla Left at: April 4, 1940, 03:14 From: Kiel Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN36 Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 0 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 0 tons Patrol 3 U-139, 1st Flotilla Left at: October 4, 1940, 09:51 From: Kiel Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM32 Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 0 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 0 tons Patrol 4 U-139, 1st Flotilla Left at: December 4, 1940, 02:13 From: Kiel Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM53 11.12.1940 17:50 Ship sighted. Small fishing trawler. Changed course to avoid detection. Also sighted shadow of a larger ship. Propably fourstack destroyer. AM 3987 20:30 Arrived operations area. AM 5321 12.12.1940 13:28 Two destroyers sighted steering west. Dived to avoid detection. AM 5354 20:39 Warship sighted. Changed course to avoid detection. AM 5344 13.12.1940 14:11 Ship sighted. Merchant sailing straight towards the boat. AM 5356 14:56 Attacked large merchant from periscope depth with two G7e torpedoes. Range 900m, speed 4 kts, AoB red 90. Both hit and target sunk soon after. AM 5359 16:58 Ship sighted. Merchant. Steered to run parallel to it. AM 5359 18:32 Attacked merchant with G7a torpedo. Range 1000m, speed 5 kts, AoB green 90. Hit 15 sec later than estimated. 20:01 Second attack with G7a torpedo. Range 900m, speed 4 kts, AoB green 120. Hit. 20:53 Third attack with G7e torpedo. Range 600m, speed 3 kts, AoB green 90. Hit and target finally sunk. AM 5367 21:24 Out of torpedoes. Returning to Lorient. AM 5359 18.12.1940 12:39 Docked at Lorient. Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 2 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 7877 tons Ships sunk: SS Empire Arnold (Empire-type Freighter), 5645 tons. SS Lina Matkovic (Passenger/Cargo), 2232 tons. Finally after three boring patrols, BdU decides to send me to an area with traffic. |
U-64 IXB
Patrol 6
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U-64 IXB
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Kapitänleutnant Horst Schimanski
U-Boat Commands: U-2, type IIa (2 patrols) U-139, type IId (3 patrols) Career Tonnage: 9 829 tons Patrol 5 U-139, 1st Flotilla Left at: January 8, 1941, 02:07 From: Lorient 9.1.1941 14:13 Ship sighted. Small steamer steering between 205 and 245 degrees. BF 1372 14:57 Attacked from periscope depth with G7e. Range 1200m, speed 7 kts, AoB red 75. Miss as target turned away after launch. BF 1372 19:04 Second attack surfaced with G7e. Range 800m, speed 5 kts, AoB red 80. Hit. BF 1623 19:42 Target sunk with coup de grâce. BF 1623 20:41 Warship sighted. Destroyer. BF 1397 10.1.1941 02:49 Ship sighted. Freighter on ESE course. BF 1333 03:44 Attacked with G7e and G7a. Range 1000m, speed 4 kts, Aob green 90. One hit and G7a malfunctioned. 11.1.1940 09:05 Out of torpedoes. Returning Kiel. 16:18 Ship sighted. Large freighter. Have to let her go. AM 7663 20.1.1941 16:02 Docked at Kiel. Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 1 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 1952 tons Ships sunk: HMS Kelantan (Small Freighter), 1952 tons. It's time to leave U-139 and take command of U-80. |
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