Eschem Schnuz's Letters, 7th Flotilla
Dear Onkel Karl,
Please accept my humblest apologies for nearly totaling the '42. However, in my defence, it's not like anyone was ever going to use U-923. So I thought: what's the harm in one quick joyride with just over forty of my closest mates before consigning her to the scrap-heap? Next thing I knew, damn bees nearly blew her bow off. I understand that downing 5 Sunderlands do not make up for risking a complete write-off. Nevertheless, I am eternally grateful to you for filing this incident under "Patrol 28". And for allowing me to keep the Type 7C/42. She is a thing of beauty. I've been told she'll be good as new come February. Allow me to make a solemn promise - not a scratch to her from this day onward. Realism @ 70%, original game specs. Pressed "Exit Patrol" button after 2 days. RTD: 1 (!) Nyan Cat Lives Used: 0 Wishing you a happy and prosperous 1945, Respectfully yours, Eschem http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=5095 |
U-101 VIIB
Patrol No 4
The patrol never started. U-101 didn't make it out of the harbor. Scopes useless(for the second patrol in a row) , diesels not responding. The boat is cursed. So I requested a new boat and it was accepted. My crew and I commissioned the brand new U-104 IXB. More to come soon. |
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Hard fighting against well protected convoys under scorching southern sun.
Patrol 5 U-555, 1st Flotilla Left at July 19, 1941, 00.09 Mission Orders: Patrol grid DH19 24.7.1941 09.00 Arrived patrlol area. DH19 7.8.1941 16.14 Convoy spotted. DH18 16.22 Detected by warship. Crashdive. 17.00 Escorts gave up. Convoy still nearby. Decided to attack from periscope depth. DH18 17.07 Fired two G7e torpedoes against large cargo ship. Range 1800m, Speed 6-7 kts, AoB green 90. Both duds. 17.08 Fired one G7a torpedo against small freighter. Range 1400m, Speed 7 kts, AoB green 90. A hit and target sunk immediately. 17.09 Fired one G7a torpedo against same large cargo ship with same data. A hit. 17.16 Fired one G7e torpedo from rear tube against large freighter. Range 1400m, Speed 7 kts, AoB green 105. Miss. 19.37 Regained contact with convoy. DH18 21.33 Fired G7e torpedo from rear tube against convoy straggler. Range 1000m, Speed 5 kts, Aob red 75. A definite dud. 21.42 Fired G7a torpedo against same target. Range 800m, Speed 5 kts, AoB red 100. A hit and target sunk immediately. DH18 23.17 Detected by escorts. Crashdive. DH18 8.8.1941 02.33 Contact with convoy regained. DH16 04.07 Detected by escorts. Crashdive. DH16 09.00 Contact with convoy lost. DH16 10.11 Received new orders. Patrol grid CG89. 9.8.1941 17.25 Took external torpedoes on board. DH31 11.8.1941 07.45 Arrived patrol area. CG89 08.48 Convoy reported in grid CG89. 13.29 Warship spotted. CG89 13.37 Convoy spotted. Shadowing. 14.51 Aircraft spotted. Crashdive. CG97 15.30 Contact to convoy lost. CG97 16.10 Contact regained. CG97 21.07 Fired rear torpedo against escort ship from periscope depth. Range 800m, Speed 10 kts, AoB green 60. Miss. CG97 21.13 Detected by asdic, depth charged. 23.18 Fired double shots of two G7a and G7e against two overlapping targets. Range 3000m, Speed 7-8 kts, AoB green 100. All missed. CG94 23.20 Detected by escorts. Depth charged. 12.8.1941 01.07 Ship spotted, possible convoy straggler. CG94 02.21 Fired G7e and G7a torpedoes against medium freighter. Range 1700m, Speed 9-10 kts, AoB green 95. One dud one miss. Out of torpedoes, starting return trip. CG94 16.8.1941 16.43 Docked at Brest. Ships sunk: Ship sunk! SS Maseio (Tramp Steamer), 1544 tons Ship sunk! SS Maja (Large Merchant), 12043 tons Ship sunk! SS Foo Shing (Tramp Steamer), 1543 tons Patrol tonnage: 15130 tons Kapitänleutnant Sigmund Strand U-2 type IIA (1 patrol) U-139 type IID (2 patrols) U-555 type VIIC (2 patrols) Career Tonnage: 62 128 tons |
I dropped my current career.
After all those troubles with U-101 , the game crashed at the end of No 5 patrol. I am about to start a new career from December 1939 with a IXB. |
Damn it! Have I lost my convoy mojo?
Patrol 6 U-555, 1st Flotilla Left at September 21, 1941, 20.05 Mission Orders: Patrol grid CG11 24.9.1941 09.50 Arrived patrol area. CG11 1.10.1941 11.37 Convoy reported at grid BE98. Intercepting. CG11 Patrol tonnage: 0 tons Kapitänleutnant Sigmund Strand U-2 type IIA (1 patrol) U-139 type IID (2 patrols) U-555 type VIIC (3 patrols) Career Tonnage: 62 128 tons Summary Kapitänleutnant Sigmund Strand and U-555 surrendered to the Allies on 01OCT41. Sigmund Strand was sent to a POW camp in Scotland where he spent the rest of the war. After the surrender Sigmund Strand spent eight months in Allied captivity. He died on 28 September 1969 in Hamburg. |
U-107 IXB
New career
31 December 1939 13:22 hours U-107 left port for grid AM77. We had a large quantity of Becks on board to celebrate New year. 01 January 1940 Grid AN66 16:43 hours Intercepted Swedish medium cargo. No action taken 02 January 1940 Grid AN62 00:38 hours Intercepted Danish small merchant. No action taken 03 January 1940 Grid AN45 03:02 hours SS Kelso (Medium Merchant 17), 4020 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 62. Crew lost: 47. Sunk by gunfire - 26 105mm rounds used. When she went down she exploded and caused a hell of a damage to U-107 as the distance between the two vessels was just 100m. Hull integrity down to 15%. Some men were injured. 04 January 1940 13:25 hours Docked at port. 5 days at sea 1 ship sunk 4020 tons U-boat damaged (H.I. 15.69%) |
good job saving the ship and your men. Like an idiot I lost like 3 men that way.
Left bergen and over in the scapa flow area encountered small convoy, nothing was left floating except I... MUHAHAHA set sail for southern Ireland and took some damage after some DCs. (I sunk the destroyer so its ok). Ordered to dock at Brest for Refuel, Rearm and repair. Left Brest for Gibraltar, sunk a few lone merchant ships before the weather turned to crap. We decided to attack Casablanca. Almost sunk when a destroyer got wind of us as we were entering. She went down non the less. Armed trawler got wind of us, and suffered the same fate. Then we were homefree, as no other moving vessels were heard. In the port we spotted 3 troop transports! I only had 3 bow torpedos left and 3 stern left, all used and all sunk. Left port, surfaced and put in the 2 external stern tubes I had left (no more bow). Set sail for U-488 and encountered a huge convoy on the way, but the weather was so crappy. I lined up my shot, the ship was an ammunition ship. Last two stern tubes shot, one hit one dud. This made the five escorts mad. Crash dove to 120 meters, and went ahead slow hard to port. After some time they lost track of me and went back for the convoy. After two hours surfaced and set course for the milk cow, no other ships were encountered. Docked at a milkcow in the middle of the atlantic (I think it was u-488) |
On Patrol
Currently U-48 is passing through the English Channel and is being pursued by a flower corvette due to being spotted by a swordfish. Morale is high and we aren't planning on going to Davey Jones' locker any time soon.
Coastal Merchant sunk with deck gun Hawker Hurricane obliterated by AA U-48 Out:salute: |
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Thank you, Vonharris. I added that block in. And I think your luck is rubbing off on me.:stare:
BdU regrets to inform you that Oberleutnant z. S. Hermann Bauer and U-551 were lost on 16Nov40 during a convoy attack. CAPTAIN'S LOG 9.11.40. 0244 Patrol 2 U-551, 7th/13th Flotilla Left at: November 9, 1940, 02:44 From: St. Nazaire Mission Orders: Patrol grid BE61 13.11.40. 0033 Grid BE 62 Ship sunk! SS Kirnwood (Small Merchant), 2578 tons. Cargo: Trucks. Crew: 43. Crew lost: 25 - sunk by gunfire 1048 Grid BE 61 Ship sunk! MV Tannaquil (Small Tanker), 3382 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 24. Crew lost: 12 - sunk by gunfire Convoy attack 15.11.40. 0458 Grid BE 37 Ship sunk! SS Kenneth Whiting (Large Cargo), 9782 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 59. Crew lost: 48 0505 Grid BE 37 Ship sunk! SS Rajah (Large Cargo), 9783 tons. Cargo: Foodstuffs. Crew: 42. Crew lost: 7 0521 Grid BE 37 Ship sunk! SS Port Hunter (Ore Carrier), 8604 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 93. Crew lost: 31 Convoy attack, different convoy 16.11.40. 2125 Grid BE 37 Ship sunk! SS Glenartney (Large Merchant), 11510 tons. Cargo: Bauxite. Crew: 83. Crew lost: 6 2128 Patrol results Crew losses: 51 dead Ships sunk: 6 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 45639 tons http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/...rmannBauer.jpg |
Since I've come back to SH3 I've been meaning to keep this thread updated with my patrol logs. Sorry but I've been too addicted again :O: Just abouts to start patrol number 10. BDU decided that a nice training position would suit me well after patrol 8, I begged to differ. U-552 is my boat! Nobody else will run her whilst I have breath in my lungs.
Current career stats are. 228919 GRT of enemy ships, 192394 of that total are merchant, leaving 36525 of Warships. :arrgh!: I definitely will post the logs from patrol number 10... maybe... If I don't go straight on to patrol 11 as soon as I can :O: |
@Andwii
Job well done. @Roadrage You are welcome. The loss of U-551 will be avanged! |
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U-107 IXB
Patrol No 3
29 March 1940 16:19 hours U-107 left port. Everything was working fine this time. 30 March 1940 Grid AN65 23:30 hours Spotted Dutch tugboat , no action taken 07 April 1940 Grid AM54 01:26 hours Intercepted US medium cargo. No action taken although the ship was bound for England but with all her lights on. 14 April 1940 Grid CG87 10:20 hours Reached patrol grid 17 April 1940 Grid CG95 09:44 hours 4 torpedoes fired at small convoy. 3 explosions heard but no sinkings occured 21 April 1940 Up to this day we had numerous sound contacts but no visual contact obtained due to the bad weather 23 April 1940 Grid CG86 11:50 hours Finally good weather , externals brought in. 24 April 1940 Grid CG94 - convoy attack 05:39 hours Torpedoes fired (4 bow + 2 stern) 08:04 hours Surfaced. Heavy merchant 01 spotted DIW MV Java (Heavy Merchant 01), 9092 tons. Cargo: Foodstuffs. Crew: 102. Crew lost: 45 - finished off by gunfire - 23 105mm rounds used 23:16 hours Engaged French small convoy 23:18 hours FR Ardent (Gunboat), 480 tons. Crew: 44. Crew lost: 11 - sunk by 1 torpedo 23:23 hours SS Mironych (Tramp Steamer), 1967 tons. Cargo: Steel. Crew: 33. Crew lost: 8 - sunk by 19 105mm rounds 23:25 hours SS Ninghai (Small Freighter), 1766 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 20. Crew lost: 2 - sunk by 17 105mm rounds 23:25 hours SS Goulburn (Small Merchant), 2624 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 29. Crew lost: 17 - sunk by a single 105mm round! 27 April 1940 Grid CG95 05:42 hours SS Lowana (Medium Merchant 11), 3129 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 25. Crew lost: 3 - sunk by 13 105mm rounds 09:42 hours MV Marie Bakke (Medium Merchant 40), 5926 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 33. Crew lost: 22 - 8 105mm rounds were fired when U-107 came under attack by an Elco torpedo boat. Dived to PD and finished the ship with 2 torpedoes. Left the area submerged. Took light damages while diving 11:28 hours Spotted two unescorted merchants and closed in for deck gun attack 11:34 hours Warship spotted - dived to PD 11:44 hours SS Tacoma Star (Large Merchant), 8994 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 93. Crew lost: 20 - sunk by 4 torpedoes. Had to leave the other ship escape. 23:48 hours SS Alice Marie (Small Freighter), 1767 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 31. Crew lost: 18 - sunk by 13 105 mm rounds 23:50 hours SS Cens (Small Merchant), 2618 tons. Cargo: Wine/Spirits. Crew: 24. Crew lost: 9 - sunk by 12 105mm rounds 28 April 1940 Grid CG95 01:29 hours SS Lord Byron (Medium Merchant 22), 4290 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 50. Crew lost: 49 - sunk by 24 105 mm rounds Grid CG94 11:47 hours SS Ability (Coastal Freighter), 1870 tons. Cargo: Scrap Metal. Crew: 32. Crew lost: 18 - sunk by a single 105mm round! 29 April 1940 Grid CG86 00:26 hours SS Carolus (Tramp Steamer), 1973 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 25. Crew lost: 11 - sunk by 16 105mm rounds 09 May 1940 21:02 hours Docked at port 42 days at sea 13 ships sunk 46496 tons 150 105mm rounds used - all carried 2 bow + 3 stern torpedoes not used No casualties U-boat damaged (H.I. 98.46%) Map of operations http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9...operations.jpg |
After mandatory type II patrols it's time to commission a larger type VIIB boat and get my convoy mojo back.
Patrol 1 U-5, U-Flotilla Weddigen Left at: September 1, 1939, 10:56 From: Kiel Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN82 3.9.1939 01:10 Arrived patrol area. AN82 8.9.1939 08:15 Docked at Kiel Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 0 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 0 tons Patrol 2 U-5, U-Flotilla Weddigen Left at: September 12, 1939, 03:11 From: Kiel Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN36 13.9.1939 19:20 Arrived patrol area. AN36 21.9.1939 11.10 Docked at Kiel. Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 0 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 0 tons Patrol 3 U-5, U-Flotilla Weddigen Left at: September 26, 1939, 23:47 From: Kiel Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN81 28.9.1939 21.50 Arrived patrol area. AN81 30.9.1939 19:26 Ship spotted. AN81 22.02 Fired two G7a torpedoes from tubes I and III. Range 1300m, Speed 7 kts, AoB green 80. One hit, other missed. AN81 22:31 Fired G7e torpedo from tube II. Range 1400m, Speed 0 kts, AoB green 80. Target sunk immediately after hit. AN81 1.10.1939 02:56 Ship spotted. AN81 04:21 Fired G7e torpedo from tube I. Range 700m, Speed 8 kts, AoB Red 100. Exploded prematurely after about 300m run. Fired G7a torpedo from tube III with same firing data. After hit target sunk fast. Out of torpedoes, starting return trip. AN81 04:50 Patrol boat spotted with search light on. Evaded it without being detected. 3.10.1939 12.50 Docked at Kiel. Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 2 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 3827 tons Ships sunk: SS Kilissi (Small Merchant), 2073 tons. SS Margarita (Small Freighter), 1754 tons. Oberleutnant z. s. Siegfried Strand U-5 (3 patrols) Career Tonnage: 3 827 tons |
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07 Sep 1940
U-53 (Kptlt Von Giesen) docked at Lorient 9 patrols (8 war patrols) 44 merchants sunk for 241.201 grt 1 warship sunk for 31.000 grt (HMS Royal Sovereign- Revenge class) Kptlt Von Giesen is now affected to 2nd flotilla headquarters. Former 1st WO Oskar Zapf is the new captain of U-53. Some footage of the last patrol, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhPqOab3q-o |
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