Currently evading British destroyers in Mediterranean. Bottomed out at 76 meters, grid CN22.

I Might be about to re-start my career in SH3 :woot:, it will give me something to concentrate on as I await scans to finish whilst repairing my partner's laptop/netbook! :stare:

Docked at Wilhelmshaven, June 1940. Awaiting orders to set out.

Carrier CTD due to corrupted saved game.
New career starts.

To: Neptune
From: U-53

Ok, we get it. Really. Sea is big. Sea is dangerous. Sea makes people seasick.

Now please, cut it out with the storm, will ya? It's not funny anymore, really.

Regards,

Oblt. z. S. Reuenthal and his vomiting crew

Destroyed by allied warplanes. Not even enough time to crash dive.

Back in my bunk, changing my under wear.

Attempting a night surface attack on a Convoy got a sonar bearing on the mass of ships, fired a spread of eels, blindly. Then I saw this. Black swan, about 300-400m away. Nobody saw anything, and we ran away, on the surface.

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/1...1194457311.png

I had ot lighten up the photo, you could barely see your hand. I couldn't even see anybody else on deck.

Oh I like those nights,bad weather,pitch black,creeping about knowing the enemy is there,...somewhere:timeout: can really get the heart racing!! :up:

Yeah, especially when you think you have about 1500m more space than you actually have!

U 46 first patrol
 

U 46 VIIB type u boat

Kaleun : Leutnant z. S. Von Harris

Left Wilhemshaven at : August 29 1939
Returned at : September 24 1939
Days at sea : 27
Ships sunk : 7 cargo ships (including 3 Q ships)
Tonnage sunk : 36108
Torpedoes used : All
Dud torpedoes : 4
8,8 cm shells : 82
20mm shells : none
Damage to hull : 2,53%
Crew losses : none
Medals : Iron cross second class

The outbreak of the war found us sailing west at grid BF19

Current status : Refiting for next patrol grid AM32

Unluckiest patrol I've had in a while. Fired all six torps at a convoy, all failed. Depth charged down to 30% hull integrity. Evaded escorts, stalked a second convoy. CTD.

:o you were very close to the DD, how fast were you going? 0 or 4 knots?
:salute:

U-46 2nd war patrol
 

Left Wilhemshaven : October 14 1939
Returned at : November 3 1939
Days at sea : 21
Cargo ships sunk : 10 (1 Q ship)
Tonnage : 36117
Warships : 1 HMS Hood
Tonnage: 48360
Torpedoes used : 13/14
Duds: 2
8,8 cm shells : 110/110
20mm shells: 120/2000
Damage : Destoyed periscopes + radio antenna
Crew losses : none
Promotions : Kapitanleutnant
Medals : Iron cross 1st class
Badges : U boat badge ---- U boat front clasp

picture of HMS hood sinking
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8...ingconditi.jpg

Damaged HMS Nelson with one eel in the same TF.

Current status : Refiting for 3rd war patrol grid AM52

Err... maybe 10? I was on the surface! Visibility was just that bad. Deck crew didnt even see it! If I hadnt looked around fromt eh bridge, never would have seen it.

U-Boot Location & tracking map