[Kapitän]

Originally Posted by Kapitän

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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.

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

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Tuesday, 29 July 1941 - Baltic Sea

0408 - Sunrise.

0552 - Southern tip of Bornholm 4sm to our stbd. beam.

0720 - Qu.8358AO - South of Bornholm, German convoy on course 100°, 6kn.

1200 - Qu.7666AO - Days Run: 308.1sm (↗ 24h)
226cbm (12cbm in 24h). Weather unchanged from east since 28.7., 1615h.

1515 - Qu.7655AO -

1830 - Falsterbo (SVE) 7sm to our stbd. beam; Entering the Oere Sound.

1907 - Norddeich Radio sending O.K.W. report about successes at the Eastern Front.

2011 - Sundown.

2057 - Finnish Steamer to our port beam on opposite course, E=2000m, does not send radio message.

2145 - Island Ven/Bäckviken, 2000m to our port beam. Wind and Sea increasing.

2237 - SE6/5, overcast, light haze, visibility 3-4sm, ~1000mb - Helsingborg 3500m to our stbd. beam.

2337 - Entering the Kattegat.

RST

Kptlt.&Cmdr.