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U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Convoy Battle!
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++++ - continued from 25 September 1940, 1132h - 1147 - Getting in position to attack the Large Tanker with a bow shot. Shooter: Ltnt.z.S. & I.W.O. Emmo MARBACH. 1154 - Shot with Tube III, G7e, K-b (contact fuse), Running depth 6m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Previously torpedoed Large Tanker. Target distance 3200m, Target angle red86, Target speed 6kn, Firing angle 350°. Own course 350°, own speed 7kn. Torpedo understeeres! 1200 - Qu.3693BE - Days Run: 224.1sm - ↗ 218.9sm (22h 11') - ↘ 5.2 (1h 49') 1205 - Boat is too close to the convoy and has to retreat, to setup a final attack on the Large Tanker, with the last internal torpedo. 1219 - Boat in position for surface attack with bow tubes. Shooter: Ltnt.z.S. & I.W.O. Emmo MARBACH. 1221 - Shot with Tube IV, G7e, K-b (contact fuse), Running depth 6m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Previously torpedoed Large Tanker. Target distance 3400m, Target angle red74, Target speed 6kn, Firing angle 004°. Own course 350°, own speed 7kn. Torpedo is a hit! The tanker is burning across its entire length with loud explosions and sinks slowly on an even keel in Qu.3693BE. 1226 - After 5.5h, "Dismissed from Battle Stations." - to be continued - |
August 8, 1940
Entry Log: 010 Krvkpt Erich Hante, U-80, type VIIC Since my last entry we have completed two patrols, the last one earning me my promotion to Kroventtenkapitän! It hasn't even been a year since my last promotion! Still, the talks of retiring me to a desk job are circling. Though I hear that Donitz is defending me, saying that such an experinced skipper is needed in the operations areas. The men in the nightclub are talking about their lives on their own submarines. One of them is a real Nazi and talks about how the fatherland will be victorious. I'm glad that the Kriegsmarine is considered a place of politcal independence. Our next patrol will bring us to grid BD51, a pretty long ways away from home! Two sailors have been transferred out to new boats and two more have been transferred in. Signed, Erich Hante |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Convoy Battle!
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++++ - continued from 25 September 1940, 1226h - 1240 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: Sunk from convoy 2110/24, two tankers for 272524ts and one steamer of 7956ts. Also, torpedoed two steamers for 8000ts. Two eels understeered and one was a dud. No more internal torpedoes. Retreating to SW to load external torpedoes. 155cbm. N2/2, clear, vis.16000, >1000mb. - RST - 1242 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: Re.F.T.1240/25: Last position of convoy 2110/24 at 1240h is Qu.3693BE, course 260°, speed 6kn. - RST - 1300 - After sending the F.T., escort No.4 initially goes on a search pattern in our direction but returns to the convoy. 1335 - Incoming F.T.: From B.d.U.: RST: Congratulations. Excellent results! 1337 - Incoming F.T.: From B.d.U.: RST: When possible, continue operation on convoy 2110/24. Convoy is a OA-convoy. 1801 - Norddeich Radio reporting on the Battle of Dakar (Operation "Menace"). 2015 - "All engines Stop!". Flak gun manned. 2130 - Commenced loading of external torpedoes. 2203 - Steamer bearing 133°, E=16000, on convoy course with same speed - seems to be a straggler from convoy 2110/24. 2230 - First external torpedo loaded. Cmdr.: "Decided to continue with torpedo loading due to favorable weather and slow speed of steamer." RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
Summer of 43 once again tasked for the Caribbean this time just northeast of Aruba. As we transited the Bay of Biscay we began the dance anew of crash diving the moment we got a whiff of radar or sight of a plane. East of the Azores we caught a lone merchant on hydrophones we tailed him and then eventually sank him with a surface torpedo attack during a storm. This time I decided to go south and give the Azores a wide berth and it worked.
It was fairly smooth sailing west of the Azores well the weather was awful but it kept the planes away. Just east of Barbados we got a whiff of radar and dived lucky too as it turned out to be a destroyer. Sadly surfacing west of the chain of islands tragedy struck and some planes caught us charging our batteries. 2 men died one an enlisted and another fresh NCO. With a handful of others wounded. We left to our patrol zone to lick our wounds. We decided to again go south to Curaçao as it had been a while. A pair of destroyers were patrolling between Aruba and Curaçao but we dived deep and ran silent and slipped past. Checked out the harbor again in Curaçao and found there was a Defender this time but it was a lone armed trawler. So we slunked past and sank two tankers and a small merchant. Decided we had done our fill it was back across the Atlantic to Lorient. We were harassed by a lot of planes until we left the Atlantic. Otherwise the journey was uneventful. Great patrol other than the two dead from the aircraft attack. Could have been worse could have lost the whole boat. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Convoy Battle!
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++++ Thursday, 26 September 1940 - Western Approaches 0010 - Continue torpedo loading. Charging batteries. 0100 - Batteries charged (50min. for 1000Ah). 0515 - 6 bow torpedoes taken under deck. 0719 - 2 stern torpedoes taken under deck. 0720 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: All external torpedoes loaded. Continue operation on convoy 2110/24. - RST - 0746 - Incoming F.T.: From B.d.U.: RST: Message received. Be careful of enemy aircraft. 0840 - Tubes I - VI loaded with external torpedoes. 1200 - Qu.3832BE - Days Run: 123.7sm - ↗ (24h) 1209 - The 2203/25 steamer comes into sight, bearing 44, E=7000m. 1236 - Own course 315°. "Battle Stations!" Manning deck gun at E=2000m. Target is a Standard Tanker of 8054ts. At E=1000m, "Free to fire!" After firing 17 rounds with the deck gun, the tanker sinks by the bow in Qu.3831BE. Approaching 2 boats with 7 occupants. Questioned and gave provisions. Tanker was straggler of convoy OS-216. Quickly left the area on a westerly heading. "Dismissed from Battle Stations." (This was the third time I sank this tanker, after the tonnage was not counted the first two times in the game. After I loaded the game from two earlier game saves, the tonnage was not counted this time either.) - to be continued - |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Convoy Battle!
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++++ - continued from 26 September 1940, 1236h - 1415 - Convoy OA-216 in sight. Is still on course 260° and speed 6kn. 1422 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: Regained contact with convoy 2110/24 in Qu.3824BE, course 260°, speed 6kn. Convoy is OA-216. Have 8 internal eels. 149.7cbm. N2/2, clear, vis.16000, >1000mb. - RST - 1507 - Incoming F.T.: From B.d.U.: RST: Free to attack convoy OA-216. 1600 - Boat moving to the starboard side of the convoy. Another success report from U 31 (Prellberg). 1617 - On attack course 170°. "Battle Stations!" Boat has to retreat from the No.2 escort going on a search pattern. 1622 - Decks awash, ahead slow. Target ships are running in the back row of the No. 1, 2 and 3 stbd. column of the convoy. Shooter: Ltnt.z.S. & I.W.O. Emmo MARBACH. 1635 - Shot with Tube I, G7a, K-a (contact fuse), Running depth 5m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Large Freighter. Target distance 4000m, Target angle green75°, Target speed 6kn, Firing angle 000°. Own course 170°, own speed 1.6kn ahead. 1636 - Shot with Tube II, G7a, K-a (contact fuse), Running depth 3m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Refrigeration Ship. Target distance 3400m, Target angle green75°, Target speed 6kn, Firing angle 000°. Own course 170°, own speed 1.6kn ahead. 1637 - Shot with Tube III, G7a, K-a (contact fuse), Running depth 3m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Refrigeration Ship. Target distance 2600m, Target angle green75°, Target speed 6kn, Firing angle 000°. Own course 170°, own speed 1.6kn ahead. 1637 - Shot with Tube IV, G7a, K-a (contact fuse), Running depth 4m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Standard Freighter in front of the tube III Refrigeration Ship. Target distance 2000m, Target angle green103°, Target speed 6kn, Firing angle 030°. Own course 170°, own speed 1.6kn ahead. Right after launching the last torpedo, running off with slow speed hard to port in an easterly direction. Suddenly, star shells are being fired and search lights illuminated. The closest vessel is 1800m away. Blowing the dive tanks and running off with A.K. 1639 - Tubes I - III are hits; Tube IV is a miss, because the convoy turns hard to port. 1640 - Diving from approaching escort. At A-Meter ASDIC, which stops at A+10. At A+20, Wabos above the boat. Silent Running, 65RPM. Maneuvering away from the escort, always showing the stern of the boat. In total, 26 Wabos are counted. 1745 - Surfaced. Chasing the convoy. "Dismissed from Battle Stations." - to be continued - |
July 1943 you know what a unique idea is? Trying to leave port. Got caught leaving by a flight of bombers and goodbye U-Boat. Nowhere to dive, nowhere to run just dead. I did for giggles try to go out again but honestly the air cover is smothering in Biscay even with the snorkel. Furthest I ever made it in the game but damn was that brutal.
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U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Convoy Battle!
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++++ - continued from 26 September 1940, 1745h - 1752 - The escort searching for us, returns to the convoy. 1806 - Norddeich Radio reporting on attacks of French naval and air forces on Gibraltar, in retaliation of "Operation Menace" (Battle of Dakar). 1820 - Regaining contact with convoy OA-216, which is zig-zagging around its general course of 260°, speed 4-5kn. The torpedoed steamers are still in formation. Boat is behind the convoy to stbd. 1845 - Tubes I and II reloaded. All the while, the No.3 escort - a US-American Clemson destroyer - goes on search patterns behind the convoy. 1900 - Boat is running on parallel convoy course. "Battle Stations!". Preparing for Running Attack with Angle Shot. Shooter: Ltnt.z.S. & I.W.O. Emmo MARBACH. 1912 - Shot with Tube I, G7a, K-a (contact fuse), Running depth 5m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Previously torpedoed Large Freighter. Target distance 3800m, Target angle green83°, Target speed 6kn, Firing angle 273°. Own course 263°, own speed 7kn ahead. 1912 - Shot with Tube II, G7a, K-a (contact fuse), Running depth 3m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Previously torpedoed Refrigeration Ship. Target distance 3400m, Target angle green81°, Target speed 6kn, Firing angle 270°. Own course 263°, own speed 7kn ahead. Both torpedoes are hits! Both targets sink in Qu.3815BE. Running off on a curve from heading north to west. The No.2 escort is searching aimlessly for us, while the No.3 escort is picking up survivors of the sunk steamers. 1940 - Boat in position for surface attack with the stern torpedoes. Shooter: Ltnt.z.S. & I.W.O. Emmo MARBACH. 1949 - Shot with Tube V, G7a, K-a (contact fuse), Running depth 3m, Torpedo speed 30kn. Target: Previously torpedoed Refrigeration Ship. Target distance 2000m, Target angle green77°, Target speed 4kn, Firing angle 355°. Own heading 350°, own speed 4kn astern. The torpedo understeers! 1952 - Shot with Tube VI, G7a, K-a (contact fuse), Running depth 3m, Torpedo speed 44kn. Target: Previously torpedoed Refrigeration Ship. Target distance 2000m, Target angle green94°, Target speed 4kn, Firing angle 003°. Own heading 350°, own speed 4kn astern. Torpedo is a hit after 89 Sec., under the aft mast! Running off on course 305°. 2003 - On course 261°. The refrigeration ship seems to fall slightly behind the convoy but remains in formation at a speed of 5kn and is being joined by No.3 escort. 2100 - The No.2 and No.3 escorts go on search patterns until 2200h. "Dismissed from Battle Stations." - to be continued - |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Convoy Battle!
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++++ - continued from 26 September 1940, 2100h - U 138 (Lüth) reports that it was attacked by an enemy submarine (HMS Tribune) with a 4-fan, right before entering Lorient. 2212 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: From convoy OA-216 two more steamers sunk for 12299ts and one steamer torpedoed for 4185ts. No more eels. 148.5cbm. N2/2, clear, vis.16000, >1000mb. - RST - 2213 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: Last position of convoy OA-216 at 2200h is Qu.3733/36 middle, course 264°, speed 6kn. - RST - 2225 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: About F.T.2212/26: At 1240h, sank tanker 8054ts with deck gun in Qu.3831BE, was straggler from convoy OA-216. - RST - 2228 - Incoming F.T.: From B.d.U.: RST: Return to base. 2248 - Incoming F.T.: From B.d.U.: B-Dienst reports convoy "RST" (OA-216) in Qu.3736BE top left, course 264°, speed 6kn. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol
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++++ KTB - U 112 Friday, 27 September 1940 - Western Approaches 0225 - Qu.3855BE 0255 - Evaded neutral steamer on heading ENE, on surface until 0325h. 1200 - Qu.6391BE - Days Run: 297.7sm - ↗ 295.6sm (22h 55') - ↘ 2.1 (1h 05') 1700 - Weather deteriorating. Sea and wind increasing, turning to east. Limited visibility. 1801 - Norddeich Radio reporting on the ratification of the Axis-Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan, as a precaution in case the USA should join the war. Lorient is attacked by enemy air forces! 2330 - E4/3, overcast, limited visibility, ~1000mb. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Return Voyage
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++++ KTB - U 112 Saturday, 28 September 1940 - Bay of Biscay 1200 - Qu.4664BF - Days Run: 304.8sm - ↗ (24h) 1206 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: Will arrive "Nanni1" on 29.9., 1200h. - RST - 1307 - Incoming F.T.: From B.d.U.: RST: Escort will stand "Nanni1" on 29.9., 1400h. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Return Voyage
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++++ KTB - U 112 Sunday, 29 September 1940 - Bay of Biscay 1200 - Qu.6464BF - Days Run: 297.8sm - ↗ (24h) 1223 - Point "Nanni1". Low visibility. 1227 - Diving to listen for escort. 1329 - Escort heard approaching from direction of St.Nazaire, bearing 0°. 1332 - Surfaced. 1350 - Escort in sight. Giving recognition signal. Signal returned. Taking on escort. 1801 - Norddeich Radio reporting that the Auxiliary Cruiser "Thor", sank the Whale Factory Ship "Kosmos" of 18000ts, in the Mid-Atlantic. 1853 - Released escort. Entering St.Nazaire. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol - Back in base
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++++ KTB - U 112 Monday, 30 September 1940 - Qu.6515BF - St.Nazaire - First week at sea completed - 0015 - Entering the lock until 0025h. 0050 - Mooring the boat in the box. Days Run since Etmal: 50.2sm - ↗ 48.7sm (11h 45') - ↘ 1.5 (1h 05') RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol completed
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++++ KTB - U 112 Tuesday, 1 October 1940 - St.Nazaire The totals of this 2nd war patrol with U 112 and 10th war patrol overall are: Traveled surfaced: 1781,8sm - 6 days, 22h, 15min. Traveled submerged: 12,1sm - 0 days, 5h, 5min. Traveled total: 1793,9sm - 7 days, 3h, 20min. Torpedo hits: 17 Torpedo misses: 1 Ato, when the target ship was zig- zagging. Torpedo failures: 1 Eto (Pi-G7H) hit but failed to ignite and 1 Eto and 2 Ato understeered. 6 ships sunk for 53340ts. Of these, from convoy OA.216: 2 tankers for 27252ts and 3 steamers for 20255ts sunk. 1 tanker of 8054ts (straggler) sunk with the deck gun. Also, 3 steamers for 12320ts torpedoed. Another unescorted steamer of 5833ts, was the first ship sunk on this war patrol. Crash Dives: 1 from convoy escorts during the attack run, in which course, the boat sustained 5.90% damage to its pressure hull from surface weapons. Depth Charges: In all, 96 Wabos were dropped on the boat, inflicting no damage. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 2nd War Patrol completed
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++++ KTB - U 112 Wednesday, 2 October 1940 - St.Nazaire Awards & Promotions: Upon arrival in St.Nazaire, the I.W.O. was promoted to Ob.Ltnt.z.S. and also awarded with the E.K.I and the U-Boot-Kriegsabzeichen in Bronze. During the stay in St.Nazaire, he also received special A/A training. The Quartermaster was promoted to Warrant Quartermaster and awarded with the U-Boot-Kriegsabzeichen in Bronze. He also received special Sea Watch Training in St.Nazaire. The Senior Midshipman and acting II.W.O., both Warrant Machinists-D/E and three Firemen 1cl., received the U-Boot-Kriegsabzeichen in Bronze. Three Firemen 3cl. and two Torpedomen 3cl., were awarded with the E.K.II. Second war patrol with U 112 and 10th war patrol overall completed. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 3rd War Patrol
Started a new career in August 2019, to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years ago ...
++++ KTB - U 112 3rd War Patrol Thursday, 3 October until Thursday, 10 October 1940 - St.Nazaire - Penhoét Shipyard Shipyard Overhaul. Crew Changes: During the stay in St.Nazaire, the Warrant Machinist-E was killed in an accident (unofficially, he was killed in a bar fight). An adequate replacement could not be found in time, so, we will have to leave on our next patrol with only the Diesel Warrant Machinist. A Diesel Fireman 1cl. was transferred to another Uboat and replaced with another Diesel Fireman 1 cl., on his first post-training deployment. Also, a Boatswain’s Mate 2cl. A/A Specialist, was newly assigned to our boat, on his first post-training deployment. Together with the A/A Training our XO received, we have been able to strengthen our overall A/A expertise of the crew. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 3rd War Patrol
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++++ KTB - U 112 Friday, 11 October 1940 - St.Nazaire Taking boat out of dry dock and putting on charging station. Beginning of pre-war patrol preparation. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 3rd War Patrol
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++++ KTB - U 112 Saturday, 12 October 1940 - St.Nazaire Taking on of Fuel Oil (176.2cbm) and Lubricating Oil. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
U 112 Type IXB 1940/2020 - 3rd War Patrol
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++++ KTB - U 112 Sunday, 13 October 1940 - St.Nazaire Trimming trials and test cruise. RST Kptlt.&Cmdr. |
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