To: BdU
From U-123 22.02.1941 Convoy CG9592 Kurs West. 8knts. Minimal escort. Sunk two large merchants and one Fiji Class. 26000 tons. Am keeping contact. |
Heavy damage. CG9592. One dead. Unable to submerge. Request Esco....
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u-47 first Patrol
After leaving Kiel i was headed west to the english channels to reach my patrol grid in the atlantic at a speed of 6 knots.
shortly after entering the channel a English destroyer suddenly engaged me in the storm he hit my batteries and destroyed the right starboard elektrick engine forcing me with no power to hit the buttom of the channel and right after i got dept charged causing flooding in the 3 front compartmens with sonar radio and both periscopes destroyed i waited for the end. But! the destroyer disapeared and after 1 hour the flooding was under control and i was able to surface. i quess it was just luck that the hull wasnt entirely destroyed and i was on shallow waters god bless me:) atm im on my way to kiel once again for repairs probally the worst patrol ive ever made but also the most exiting and a great start of the campaign:salute: |
U-538 IXC/40
Patrol 15
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Had dived after leaving the convoy but was picked up about an hour later by a contact which brought in three more. Over the next two hours I counted 47 depth charges. Suffered severe damage and major flooding. As I knew from the attack on the convoy it was raining and foggy with calm seas and it was 1945 hours I had a shot at escaping on the surface. I ordered the ballast to be blown and run at full speed. I surfaced with enough space from the attackers to get full top side and up to a top speed of just 11 knots before a corvette came at me from astern. It fired off several rounds which caused more damage (destroyed the radio antennae) and wounded three crew members. I shot off a torpedo that thankfully hit the corvette (I don't know if it sunk - wasn't credited for it) and it pulled away. I saw several star shells go up but the enemy lost contact. I then hugged the coast of Spain and Portugal all the way home at flank speed on the surface. Made it back to St Nazaire with 3% hull integrity. Total tonnage 44,000 tons. |
U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 3rd patrol - Oct. 1939 190636 - in the English Channel |
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Last I saw though, mine was no where near in that much distress.:nope: |
Torpedoed a small passenger/cargo ship. Two hits, and 50 shells from the 10.5cm. Attacked by aircraft, suffered engine damage. Target ship limped away.
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Hi guys, I'm a new member here.
English isn't my natural language, so excuse me if I making some mistakes.This is the first time I try to making a "RPG-like" patrol report. This is my new career : During May 1941, Kapitänleutnant Johann Mohr was transferred to the "Saltzwedel" Flotille in Lorient to taking command of the IXB U-124, his first submarine. This is the radio communications of his first patrol. 1 May 1941 00:49 / TO BDU / SITREP / OPENING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL / LEAVING LORIENT AND FOLLOWING ESCORT / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / RADIO SILENCE UNTIL PZ UNLESS SITUATION DEMANDS IT / U124 6 May 1941 04:15 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK THE BRITISH MERCHANT SS ACHILLES IN GRID CG81 X 8084 GRT/ FIRED THREE TORPEDOES / FOLLOWING ROUTE TO PATROL ZONE / U124 07:50 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS RAINBOW IN GRID CG81 X 6781 GRT / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES / FOLLOWING ROUTE TO PATROL ZONE / U124 11 May 1941 10:50 / TO BDU / SITREP / PATROL ZONE REACHED / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X HEAVY RAIN / U124 13 May 1941 03:38 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / GOOD WEATHER / U124 14 May 1941 13:47 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / REQUESTING NEW ORDERS / U124 19 May 1941 18:02 / TO BDU / SITREP / GRID CG94 REACHED / TWO BRITISH PLANES SPOTTED / CRASH DIVE / U124 20 May 1941 05:39 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN CG94 / TWO BRITISH PLANES SPOTTED / CRASH DIVE / U124 12:17 / TO BDU / SITREP / ATTACKED BY A BRITISH PLAN IN CG94 / CRASH DIVE / TROUBLES WITH DIESEL ENGINES / CAUTION THE ZONE IS FULL OF ENNEMIES PLANES /U124 16:47 / TO BDU / SITREP / BRITISH PLANE SPOTTED IN CG94 / CRASH DIVE / NO MORE TROUBLES WITH DIESEL ENGINES / U124 22:38 / TO BDU / CONTACT / FRENCH MERCHANT SPOTTED IN CG94 X HEADING WEST / U124 21 May 1941 05:29 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS FAIRLAND IN CG94 X 5081 GRT / FIRED FOUR TORPEDOES / U124 15:02 / TO BDU / ATTACKED BY A BRITISH PLANE IN CG94 / CRASH DIVE / NO DAMAGES / BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS / U124 22 May 1941 05:49 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH MERCHANT SS ASTRONOMER IN CG94 X 10615 GRT/ FIRED FOUR TORPEDOES / U124 11:16 / TO BDU / SITREP / BRITISH PLANE SPOTTED IN CG94 / CRASH DIVE / BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS / U124 23 May 1941 09:51 / TO BDU / SITREP / BRITISH MERCHANT SPOTTED IN CG94 / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES X TWO DULLS / ENNEMY SHIP IS DAMAGED BUT DOESN’T WANT TO SINK / WEATHER CONDITIONS REALLY UNFAVORABLES X WE LOST THE CONTACT / DECIDED TO RETURN TO BASE / U124 30 May 1941 12:00 / TO BDU / ENTERING LORIENT X REQUESTING ESCORT IN \ BAD WEATHER CONDITION X NO VISIBILITY / U124 Total GRT : 30561 Days at sea : 30 |
WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:
Very nice report. :rock: |
U-97 4th patrol
Patrol 4
U-97, type VIIC 7th/13th Flotilla, St. Nazaire Assigned Grid: AM27 Departed: 13FEB41 Returned: 24MAR41 4 Merchant ships sunk 2 Tankers sunk 53,769 tons 1 torpedo remaining No damage sustained Oblt. Ernst Walzer |
Second patrol of Johann Mohr with the U-124. In cause of some Diesel engines troubles during the first patrol, the U-124 remained docked in Lorient for revisions until August 1941. Hited by some Spitfire balls in the Gibraltar area, the hull needed some reparations too.
For his second patrol, Mohr was assigned to patrol the grid CG87. The radio communications : 30 August 1941 09:31 / TO BDU / SITREP / OPENING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL / LEAVING LORIENT AND FOLLOWING ESCORT / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / RADIO SILENCE UNTIL PZ UNLESS SITUATION DEMANDS IT / U124 31 August 1941 21:03 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH MERCHANT SS KWAI SANG IN GRID BF42 X 2253 GRT / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES / FOLLOWING ROUTE TO PATROL ZONE / U124 3 September 1941 12:55 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH MERCHANT SS CAP TARIFA IN GRID CG51 X 2230 GRT / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES X TWO DULLS / FOLLOWING ROUTE TO PATROL ZONE / U124 4 September 1941 22:52 / TO BDU / SITREP / PATROL ZONE REACHED / BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS / U124 6 September 1941 10:04 / TO BDU / SITREP /NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / GOOD WEATHER / U124 16:34 / TO BDU / CONTACT / PORTUGUESE MERCHANT SPOTTED IN PATROL ZONE X HEADING SW / U124 7 September 1941 07:55/ TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS GUDVOR IN PATROL ZONE X 1969 GRT/ ENGAGED WITH DECKGUN / U124 9 September 1941 20:30 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / BAD WEATHER / REQUESTING NEW ORDERS / U124 12 Septembre 1941 20:18 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS ORKLA IN BF42 X 2228 GRT / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES / U124 13 September 1941 19:39 / TO BDU / SITREP / GRID BE61 REACHED / GOOD WEATHER / U124 15 September 1941 20:50 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED LARGE CONVOY IN BE63 X SANK BRITISH WARSHIP HMS WILD GOOSE X 1250 GRT / FIRED TWO TORPEDOES / REQUEST PERMISSION TO CHASE CONVOY / GOOD WEATHER CONDITIONS / U124 16 September 1941 14:48 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED LARGE CONVOY IN BE63 X SANK BRITISH CARGO SS SEA DOLPHIN X 8621 GRT / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES / EVADING CONVOY WITHOUT DAMAGES / U124 17 September 1941 21:17 / TO BDU / CONTACT / BRITISH WARSHIP SPOTTED IN BE63 / CRASH DIVE / GOOD WEATHER / U124 18 September 1941 05:58 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS ROBIN DONCASTER IN BE63 X 5078 GRT / FIRED ONE TORPEDO X COUP DE GRACE WITH DECKGUN / U124 20 September 1941 05:37 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH CARGO SS BELGIAN SOLDIER IN BE63 X 6782 GRT / FIRED TWO TORPEDOES / U124 22 September 1941 13:22 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN BE63 / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X RAIN / RETURNING TO BASE X ESTIMED TIME 70H / U124 25 September 1941 00:20 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENTERING LORIENT X REQUESTING ESCORT IN / U124 GRT : 30411 Days at sea : 27 Career GRT : 60972 Total days at sea : 57 |
U-538 IXC/40
Patrol 17
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Kapitänleutnant Sigmund Strand
U-6 type IIa (1 patrol) U-72 type VIIc (2 patrols) Career tonnage: 24 940 tons Patrol 3 U-72, 7th Flotilla Left at: April 6, 1940, 10:43 From: Kiel Mission Orders: Patrol grid DH28 18.7.1941 13:20 Arrived patrol area 29.7.1941 22:37 Ship sighted. DH5122. Small steamer on NNE course. 23:29 Fired tube I. G7e, range 900m, speed 5 kts, Aob red 80, depth 3m. Hit 30.7.1941 00:15 Target sunk with gunfire. Despite using heavy firepower target replied with accurate but short lived flak fire. Sustained minor damage. DH 2797 31.7.1941 12:23 /From BdU: Patrol grid CF95/ 1.8.1941 06:00 Arrived patrol area. CF 9577 2.8.1941 08:30 Took external forward torpedo on board. 16.8.1941 10:04 /From BdU: Patrol grid CG76/ 17.8.1941 20:10 Arrived patrol area. CG7611 20.8.1941 05:56 A/c, crashdive. CG 7668 22.8.1941 17:08 Convoy sighted. CG 7685 18:22 Convoy at CG 7684, heading W at 7 kts. 21:00 /From BdU: U-72 report location of the boat and convoy/ 23:00 /From BdU: U-72 report status of the boat/ 23.8.1941 03:00 /From BdU: U-72 has failed to reply communications. Presumed lost/ Nooooooooooo! Thrice cursed be that evil radar. |
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U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 4th patrol - Nov. 1939 260000 - Wilhelmshafen |
U47 - Lt.z.S. Willi Hartmann - 4th patrol - Dec. 1939 061902 - approaching the Orkney/Shetland gap homebound |
After a long break got back to playing SH3, was busy with SH5 but can't seem to really get into it even with mods added.
lol man I've had the VIIC a long time :cry: just got the IXB after my last mission now feel a bit better now. :D http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5661/sh3report.jpg |
Sad news about the U-124. During his third patrol, Johann Mohr and his crew were spotted by an American warship near Newport. Heavily deaphtcharged in shallow waters, the U-124 sank with all hands in January 1942.
After a unsucessfull patrol in south of Cape Vede (bad weather), Mohr received the order to ressuply at the Corrientes and to join a new patrol zone in the US east coast. Here are the radio communications before the incident : 5 November 1941 23:56 / TO BDU / SITREP / OPENING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL / LEAVING LORIENT AND FOLLOWING ESCORT / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / RADIO SILENCE UNTIL PZ UNLESS SITUATION DEMANDS IT / U124 12 November 1941 15:48 / TO BDU / CONTACT / BRASILIAN MERCHANT SPOTTED IN DH63 X HEADING NE / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / U 124 18 November 1941 15:10 / TO BDU / SITREP / PATROL ZONE REACHED / BAD WEATHER / U124 20 November 1941 11:07 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS / U124 27 November 1941 17:25 / TO BDU / CONTACT / BRITISH MERCHANT SPOTTED IN EK12 / WEATHER CONDITIONS REALLY UNFAVOURABLES TO ENGAGED / U124 1 December 1941 17:09 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN DU18 / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X HEAVY RAIN / U124 3 December 1941 13:12 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN DU18 / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X RAIN / U124 6 December 1941 06:56 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN DH84 / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X RAIN / U124 7 December 1941 15:53 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN DH84 / BAD WEATHER / RETURNING TO BASE / U124 9 December 1941 08:05 / TO BDU / SITREP / NEW ORDERS RECEIVED AND UNDERSTANDED / HEADING TO RESSUPLY AS FAST AS WE CAN / U124 11 December 1941 00:21 / TO BDU / SITREP / RESSUPLY AT THE CORRIENTES DONE / HEADING FOR NEW PATROL ZONE / RADIO SILENCE UNTIL PZ UNLESS SITUATION DEMANDS IT / U124 25 December 1941 07:40 / TO BDU / SITREP / NEW PATROL ZONE REACHED / GOOD WEATHER / MERRY CHRISTMAS / U124 09:30 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK AMERICAN MERCHANT IN PATROL ZONE X 2345 GRT / ENGAGED WITH DECKGUN / U124 15:03 / TO BDU / SITREP / AMERICAN PLANE SPOTTED IN PATROL ZONE / CRASH DIVE / U124 27 December 1941 09:01 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK AMERICAN CARGO IN PATROL ZONE X 5079 GRT/ FIRED FOUR TORPEDOES X TWO DULLS X COUP DE GRACE WITH DECKGUN / U124 09:17 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK AMERICAN MERCHANT IN PATROL ZONE X 2396 GRT / ENGAGED WITH DECKGUN / U124 13:33 / TO BDU / SITREP / AMERICAN PLANE SPOTTED IN PATROL ZONE / CRASH DIVE / U124 28 December 1941 10:08 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK AMERICAN TRAWLER IN PATROL ZONE X 926 GRT / ENGAGED WITH DECKGUN / U124 13:50 / TO BDU / SITREP / AMERICAN PLANE SPOTTED IN PATROL ZONE / CRASH DIVE / U124 29 December 1941 06:16 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK AMERICAN CARGO IN PATROL ZONE X 8083 GRT / FIRED THREE TORPEDOES / U124 07:00 / TO BDU / CONTACT / AMERICAN WARSHIP SPOTTED IN PATROL ZONE / CRASH DIVE / U124 30 December 1941 (last message received from the U-124) 15:43 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK AMERICAN CARGO IN PATROL ZONE X 8620 GRT / FIRED ONE TORPEDO X COUP DE GRACE WITH DECKGUN / U124 |
3 patrols done,
First one in Polen, sunk 3 ships(intro mission) 1 september 1939 Second one on the Eastern coast of Engeland, suck 8 ships, 10 oktober 1939 Third one and current on. At the moment right in the middle of a convoy in the canal of Dover between Engeland and France about 15 Freighters with 1 Escort, 3 Freighters are sinking while the Escort is hunting me :cool: 27 oktober 1939. |
In October 1940, Leutenant Fritz Lemp taking command of the IXB submarine U-110 (docked at the "Saltzwedel" Flotlille in Lorient). For his first war patrol as Kaleun, Lemp is sent to grid BE86.
1 October 1940 21:16 / TO BDU / SITREP / OPENING COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL / LEAVING LORIENT AND FOLLOWING ESCORT / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / RADIO SILENCE UNTIL PZ UNLESS SITUATION DEMANDS IT / U110 3 October 1940 17:25 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED AND SUNK BRITISH MERCHANT SS STIG GORTHON IN BF41 X 1964 GRT / ENGAGED WITH DECKGUN / HEADING FOR PATROL ZONE / U110 6 October 1940 03:46 / TO BDU / SITREP / PATROL ZONE REACHED / BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS / U110 8 October 1940 06:18 / TO BDU / CONTACT / ITALIAN MERCHANT SPOTTED IN PATROL ZONE X HEADING W / U110 10 October 1940 01:01 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN PATROL ZONE / BAD WEATHER / REQUESTING NEW ORDERS / U110 16 October 1940 02:36 / TO BDU / SITREP / GRID AM54 REACHED / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X RAIN / U110 18 October 1940 10:30 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN AM54 / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X RAIN / U110 20 October 1940 00:07 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN AM54 / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X RAIN / U110 22 October 1940 20:20 / TO BDU / SITREP / GRID BF17 REACHED / BAD WEATHER / U110 25 October 1940 07:29 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENGAGED LARGE CONVOY IN BF17 X SANK BRITISH CARGO SS GORTHON X 8578 GRT / FIRED FOUR TORPEDOES / EVADING WITHOUT DAMAGES / REQUES PERMISSION TO CHASE CONVOY / U110 26 Octobre 1940 04:48 / TO BDU / SITREP / LOST CONTACT WITH LARGE CONVOY X WEATHER CONDITIONS UNFAVORABLES / U110 28 October 1940 03:49 / TO BDU / CONTACT / BRITISH WARSHIP SPOTTED IN BF17 / CRASH DIVE / U110 30 October 1940 21:35 / TO BDU / CONTACT / ITALIAN TANKER SPOTTED IN BE63 / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X HEAVY RAIN / U110 3 Novemver 1940 12:03 / TO BDU / SITREP / HUNTING IN BF17 AGAIN / 50 FUEL / BAD WEATHER / U110 6 November 1940 08:37 / TO BDU / SITREP / GRID BF44 REACHED / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X HEAVY RAIN / U110 8 November 1940 02:55 / TO BDU / SITREP / HEADING TO INTERCEPT CONVOY IN BF11 / BAD WEATHER X NO VISIBILITY X RAIN / U110 10 November 1940 12:00 / TO BDU / SITREP / NO TRAFFIC IN BF11 X LOST CONVOY TRACKS / BAD WEATHER / U110 15 November 1940 15:51 / TO BDU / SITREP / ENTERING LORIENT X REQUESTING ESCORT IN / U110 Patrol GRT : 10542 Days at sea : 46 In three words : bad weather, bad weather and bad weather ! The conditions were catastrophic : heavy rain, high waves, strong wind and no visibility during the major part of the patrol. Chasing convoys was impossible. |
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