[Kapitän]

Originally Posted by Kapitän

Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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Sunday, 6 July 1941 - North of Bornholm - AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. MÜLLER).

0051 - Trial Crash Dive. At T=10 in 35Sec. Water depth 80m.

0053 - T=70. Boat reacting good.

0104 - At reception depth. 65RPM, 1.6kn, Silent Running.

0303 - O₂=20%.

0337 - Sunrise.

0707 - Surfaced after 10.3sm and 6h 16'.
NW1/1, partly cloudy, light haze, visibility 8-9sm, >1000mb.

0713 - Boat ventilated.

1005 - Qu.8333AO - Evaded Swedish Stella Destroyer on surface. Was on course WNW, 30sm NE of Bornholm.

1130 - Patrolled ordered patrol grid for 24h.

1200 - Qu.8411AO - Days Run: 133.1sm - ↗ 122.8sm (17h 44') - ↘ 10.3sm (6h 16')
217.4cbm (2.5cbm in 24h). 9300Ah. Weather unchanged in 4h 53'.

1323 - Qu.8419AO - Allowed a neutral steamer to cross our bows on course SSW.

1628 - Qu.8455AO -

1720 - It's becoming overcast and beginning to rain.

1801 - Report from Norddeich Radio about Operation "Silberfuchs", in an attempt to seize the Russian harbor of Murmansk. Attacks of the German 2nd and 3rd Mountain Division across the river Liza on July 6th, are repelled by the Soviet 14th and 52nd Rifle Division, reinforced by a Navy-Battalion. The battle is continuing.

Cmdr.: "Seizing the harbor of Murmansk is of strategic importance in support of Operation Barbarossa!"

2020 - Sundown - NNW7/6, overcast, rain, limited visibility, <1000mb. Have to reduce speed due to heavy swell.

2140 - It's clearing up again, wind and sea shifting to West.

2320 - WNW4/3, clear, visibility 8-9sm, >1000mb.

Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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Monday, 7 July 1941 - Baltic Sea - AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. MÜLLER).

- Iceland is being occupied by US-Troops -

Cmdr.: With the occupation of Iceland by US-Troops and the increased enemy air cover, operation in that area and the break-through into the Atlantic will become more precarious.

0120 - Qu.9455AO -

0327 - Sunrise.

0340 - Qu.9465AO - A Russian twin-engine airplane - identified as a Tupolev Tu-2 - flies over the boat from bow to stern on course West without attacking the boat and flies off again on course NE.

0800 - Lightship "Hela" to our stbd. beam.

0815 - WSW1/1, partly cloudy, light haze, visibility 8-9sm, >1000mb - Coming into port.

Battleship "Tirpitz" and Aircraft Carrier "Sydlitz" are anchored in Danzig (historically, Sydlitz was not refitted to an Aircraft Carrier until 1942 and never commissioned as such).

1000 - Mooring boat in Danzig.

Since last Etmal - Days Run: 256.8sm ↗ (22h)
207.3cbm (10.1cbm in 22h). 9300Ah. Weather unchanged in 1h 45'.

The totals of this AGRU patrol with U 113 and the 14th patrol overall are:

Traveled surfaced: 649.6sm - 2 days, 13h, 14min.
Traveled submerged: 10.3sm - 0 days, 6h, 16min.
Traveled total: 659.9sm - 2 days, 19h, 30min.

AGRU-Front successfully completed.

RST

Kptlt.&Cmdr.