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Old 07-28-21, 01:08 AM   #5873
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Default U 113 (IXC) - 1st War Patrol - Leaving Port

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Sunday, 27 July 1941 - Danzig -5th Training Flotilla (Kvt.Kpt. MOEHLE).

Taking on of fresh food provisions and potable water.

Pre-War Patrol Preparations completed.

RST
Kptlt.&Cmdr.


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Monday, 28 July 1941 - Danzig - N2/2, clear, visibility 8-9sm, >1000mb.

0800 - Casting off. Left for First War Patrol with U 113 and Thirteenth War Patrol overall.

Op.-Orders: Transfer cruise to the new homes base of the 2nd U.-Flotilla in Lorient. Supplementing of Fuel and Water in Kristiansand.

0815 - Taking on escort (M35 boat), 300m, 8kn.

0845 - Releasing escort. 2xH.F.

0955 - Lightship Hela.

1200 - Qu.9547AO - Days Run: 53.5sm (↗ 4h).
238cbm (2cbm in 4h). Weather unchanged since Danzig.

1401 - Norddeich Radio sending O.K.W.-Report about Kptlt. Jost Metzler (U 69) being awarded with the Knights Cross.

1500 - It's clouding-up, wind and sea increasing.

1615 - Qu.9455AO - NNE4/3, overcast, hazy, visibility 3-4sm, ~1000mb.

1836 - Norddeich Radio sending O.K.W.-Report about Operation "Barbarossa".

1954 - Sundown.

2000 - Qu.8466AO -

2400 - Qu.8455AO -

RST
Kptlt.&Cmdr.
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