Tuesday,
1 June 1943 - West of Ascension
- 4th week at sea completed -
0900 - Qu.1348FL -
1045 - Early Morning Dawn. 7/8-Moon setting in the East.
1139 - Sunrise. Weather and Sea unchanged in 20h.
1200 - Qu.1613FL -
Days Run: 186.8nm - ↗ 184.4nm (23h 20') - ↘ 2.4nm (40')
Total: 5042.0 (27tg 22h) - ↗ 4830.6nm (24tg 17h 19') - ↘ 211.4nm (3tg 04h 41')
442.5cbm (2.5cbm in 24h); Battery 94%; Course 169°; 3xT-3, 2xEtoFat, 1xT-4; 9xBold; SSE6/5, clear, very good visibility, >1000mb.
1306 - Qu.1616FL - Crash dive for training. T=10 after 39 Sec. (1st Watch with Diving Officer).
1309 - A-Meter.
1310 - Setting for T=20 at 96rpm.
1319 - Leveled-off at Reception Depth (9min. for 60m). Battery 94%; Compressed Air Supply 280Atü.
1323 - Surfaced after 17min. and 1.1nm.
1327 - Compressed Air Supply filled. 2x225RPM/8kn.
1606 - Qu.1657FL - Crash dive for training. T=10 after 39 Sec. (2nd Watch with Diving Officer).
1609 - A-Meter.
1610 - Setting for T=20 at 96rpm.
1619 - Leveled-off at Reception Depth (9min. for 60m). Battery 93%; Compressed Air Supply 280Atü.
1623 - Surfaced after 17min. and 1.1nm.
1626 - Compressed Air Supply filled. 2x225RPM/8kn.
2026 - Qu.1925FL - Crash dive for training. T=10 after 41+ Sec. (3rd Watch with Diving Officer).
2029 - A-Meter.
2030 - Setting for T=20 at 96rpm.
2039 - Leveled-off at Reception Depth (9min. for 60m). Battery 91.5%; Compressed Air Supply 280Atü.
2043 - Surfaced after 17min. and 1.1nm.
2046 - Compressed Air Supply filled. 2x225RPM/8kn.
2306 -
Incoming Radio Reports:
From O.K.W.:
a) The Russian Airforce attacked rear communications and airfields at Smolensk, Orel and Bryansk.
b) British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden announced that British casualties in first three years of war were 92,089 killed, 226,719 missing, 88,294 wounded, and 107,891 captured.
c) While serving time in prison for embezzlement, Fritz Kuhn, leader of the dissolved, pro-Nazi, German American Bund, has his American citizenship rewoked.
From B.d.U.:
a) In search of U 563 (Oblt. Gustav Borchardt), 23 Ju 88's carried out a search without result. Sea was force 5. Nothing was seen of the crew. In air battles the Ju's shot down 4 English aircraft, including 2 Wellington bombers and one large carrier aircraft (Douglas).
b) U 409 (Oblt. Hanns-Ferdinand Massmann) was observed in CG 9472 during her passage through the Straits of Gibraltar. She was ordered to move away to the W and attempt to break through again after about 48 hours. The same goes for U 594 (Kptlt. Friedrich Mumm).
B-Dienst Report:
a) Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Card (CVE-11) arrived in Casablanca Harbor, Morocco.
b) Alerted by US direction-finders, the Brazilian police raid the house of German-born Werner Waltemath discovering his Abwehr radio, microfilm and other espionage paraphernalia hidden in a cavity under the living room floor. He will receive a twenty-five-year prison sentence, while a fellow–expatriate, Hans-Christian von Kitze, whom he had recruited to his spy group will become a double agent for the British.