Right now, I am at 150 meters below, running silent, hiding from a single furious Black Swan. Furious, because in a period of 24 hours, I have hit his convoy 4 times, sinking a total of 5 ships. That brings my total for this patrol to 8 ships sunk, some pretty big fish in there. Total tonnage for this patrol should be around the 55,000 mark.
Fortunately, it is pitch black up there and it seems my friend has given up the hunt already. He made several runs, dropped some charges, but never really got close.
I am totally out of torpedoes so better go home to pick up a new batch. Now if I can just make it back to Lorient in one piece. And there'd better be someone waiting on the dock for me with good news about my promotion to kaleun!
30 December, 1940, U-551, ObLtzS Dormann out.