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CPTLTJASON · 08-21-22, 05:17 PM

1.3.1940 Barents Sea 72°52’N, 25°51’E 30th day at sea

Schiff 19 continues to hunt for shipping. The day after sinking the tanker and freighter on the bridge Oblt.z.S Wessel and Mtr.O.Gfr Richter sighted a smoke column on the starboard bow. Kapitan.z.S Hartmann ordered the ship steered towards the sighting and soon 3 small coastal freighters were sighted. At a range of 2200m, set war flag, and decamouflage fore battery, and fire a warning shot on leading vessel with the 7.5cm cannon. Hoisted signals to stop and do not use wireless. All vessels comply and 3 search commandos simultaneously go aboard the ships. (Picket Boat Nr. III L.z.S Schmidt, Picket Boat Nr. I L.z.S Neumann, and Picket Boat Nr. V L.z.S Fischer). All three were found to be carrying contraband and were sunk with demolition charges The demolition commando (Oblt.z.S Wolff Picket Boat Nr. IV) completed the work just after noon and by 13:00 hrs. all three ships went to the bottom.

All three coastal freighters were enroute from Narvik to Grimsby, England. 66 crew were taken aboard including a Royal Norwegian Navy officer Lieutenant Bjorn Hansen after hours of interrogation he gives no details or reasonable explanation for him being aboard the coastal freighter. Kapitan.z.S Hartmann suspects that these vessels are in fact spy ships enroute to German ports to spy on naval and merchant sailings. Some of the crew stated that a large tanker and another British vessel were overdue at Narvik by a week as no other surface raiders or submarines are operating in this area and therefore no further sinkings have occurred we presume that it’s the PINEDALE and the NORTON.

The Seekriegslietung informs of the sailing of Schiff 16. Due to the sailing of the Hilfskreuzer we will have to delay our entry into the North Atlantic so Kapitan.z.S Hartmann now plans to operate as far as the Kara Sea. For this she will venture north towards the Spitzbergen to change her disguise from Norwegian Freighter to Soviet auxiliary ship.

Ships sunk:
BUD 981 grt
GOLMA 1,110 grt
BRANA 880 grt
Total sunk: 22,269 grt

08-21-22, 05:17 PM	#52
CPTLTJASON Kapitan.z.S Hartmann Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Texas Posts: 305 Downloads: 247 Uploads: 1	1.3.1940 Barents Sea 72°52’N, 25°51’E 30th day at sea Schiff 19 continues to hunt for shipping. The day after sinking the tanker and freighter on the bridge Oblt.z.S Wessel and Mtr.O.Gfr Richter sighted a smoke column on the starboard bow. Kapitan.z.S Hartmann ordered the ship steered towards the sighting and soon 3 small coastal freighters were sighted. At a range of 2200m, set war flag, and decamouflage fore battery, and fire a warning shot on leading vessel with the 7.5cm cannon. Hoisted signals to stop and do not use wireless. All vessels comply and 3 search commandos simultaneously go aboard the ships. (Picket Boat Nr. III L.z.S Schmidt, Picket Boat Nr. I L.z.S Neumann, and Picket Boat Nr. V L.z.S Fischer). All three were found to be carrying contraband and were sunk with demolition charges The demolition commando (Oblt.z.S Wolff Picket Boat Nr. IV) completed the work just after noon and by 13:00 hrs. all three ships went to the bottom. All three coastal freighters were enroute from Narvik to Grimsby, England. 66 crew were taken aboard including a Royal Norwegian Navy officer Lieutenant Bjorn Hansen after hours of interrogation he gives no details or reasonable explanation for him being aboard the coastal freighter. Kapitan.z.S Hartmann suspects that these vessels are in fact spy ships enroute to German ports to spy on naval and merchant sailings. Some of the crew stated that a large tanker and another British vessel were overdue at Narvik by a week as no other surface raiders or submarines are operating in this area and therefore no further sinkings have occurred we presume that it’s the PINEDALE and the NORTON. The Seekriegslietung informs of the sailing of Schiff 16. Due to the sailing of the Hilfskreuzer we will have to delay our entry into the North Atlantic so Kapitan.z.S Hartmann now plans to operate as far as the Kara Sea. For this she will venture north towards the Spitzbergen to change her disguise from Norwegian Freighter to Soviet auxiliary ship. Ships sunk: BUD 981 grt GOLMA 1,110 grt BRANA 880 grt Total sunk: 22,269 grt __________________ "The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him" Sun Tzu Kapitan.z.S Hartmann's (U-35,U-46-U-204-U-332-U-256-U-293, U-838, U-830, U-834, U-1188, U-1180, U-835, U-840, U-839, Schiff 44 “AFRIKA”, Schiff 77 "Stortebecker", "Schiff 66 "WOLF", Schiff 19, Schiff 30) motto: Eastward Ho! "Be more aggressive" *Schiff 30 wird sie alle versenken!* Last edited by CPTLTJASON; 08-21-22 at 05:26 PM.