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Post by crushedhat on Sept 20, 2020 17:32:21 GMT
April 1940
Still at Sea: U-40 IXA Seepferdchen – xgamer999 U-43 IXA Schwarzer Tod – aztiger98 U-44 IXA Haifisch – hartvig
New Patrol: U-36 VIIA Jagerin - falto U-37 IXA das Vergelten - siegmund U-47 VIIB Delphin - silentwolf U-51 VIIB Ra’n – crushedhat
In Refit: U-41 IXA Seeteufel – haplo02 (May)
Late, Presumed Lost: U-45 VIIB Seehexe - blaird U-75 VIIB Sturmkreig - andy
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Good evening Gentleman, I won't take much of your time, as I know that you have to prepare for tomorrow morning.
Special Instructions: If you have been allocated a Special Mission (Mine Laying, Wolfpack Patrol or Abwehr Agent Delivery) please receive instructions from the Executive Officer as early as you can, because you will not be leaving Port until you do.
Assignments (reminder, Type IX patrols are 2 months long) [P2] Apr 1940 - Jun 1940 (Germany Invades Norway on 9 Apr)
Spanish Coast None
British Isles U-36 VIIA Jagerin - falto U-37 IXA das Vergelten - siegmund U-40 IXA Seepferdchen – xgamer999 (continuation) U-43 IXA Schwarzer Tod – aztiger98 (continuation) U-44 IXA Haifisch – hartvig (continuation) U-47 VIIB Delphin - silentwolf U-51 VIIB Ra’n – crushedhat
British Isles (Mine Laying) None
West African Coast None
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NOTE: SO THAT WE DO NOT LOSE U-BOAT'S TO THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE ARCTIC, I AM RE-ROLLING ANY MEDITERRANEAN AND ARCTIC RESULTS!
Important Information for Patrol Reports
U-Boat Name and ID Number: Patrol: # Patrol Assignment: Successful Patrol: Number of Freighters Sank: Number of Tankers Sank: Number of Capital Ships Sank: Total Tonnage Destroyed: Refit Time:
Award Request:
Patrol Results are due no later than: September 26th, 2020 at Midnight your time.
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Post by silentwolf on Sept 22, 2020 15:01:43 GMT
U-Boat Name and ID Number: U-47 Delphin Patrol: # 4 Patrol Assignment: British Isles Successful Patrol: Yes Number of Freighters Sank: 1 Number of Tankers Sank: 0 Number of Capital Ships Sank: 0 Total Tonnage Destroyed: 3,500t (30,600t)
Ships Sank: 18.4.40 - SF69 "Denmark" 3500t
Refit Time: 3 months, ready August 1940
Award Request: None
Notes:
1.4.40 05.00 - We fired up the E-Motors and quietly made our way out of the harbor.
9.4.40 - No contacts to report
12.4.40 01.00 - Convoy located. Targeting a juicy freighter weighing in at 18,700 tons. Surface attack with 4 eels from medium range. 1 eel hits and fails to detonate!
We remain undetected and reload tubes 1 - 4. Another surface attack, this time targeting 2 freighters with 2 eels each.
Both targets are damaged but remain afloat.
Their escort quickly moves towards our position.
Now Tommy begins his counterattack.
The first wave of wasserbomben almost completely miss their mark, this skipper must be green. However, our radio is damaged.
I order the boat deeper, our hull creeks but holds fast.
The second wave is more effective. Tommy has zeroed in on our location.
Several blast rock the boat damaging the hull, batteries and e-motor # 1. We begin to take on water.
I order the boat even deeper.
Fortunately, the flooding has been stopped.
Green chlorine fumes begin to poison the air we breath.
We quietly wait and listen.
Hydrophones detect splashes. Another wave of wasserbomben!
The boat shakes violently as two depth charges detonate within close proximity.
A crew member falls and receives a nasty bump on his forehead and is rendered unconscious.
I order the boat to dive deeper.
270 meters.
Tensions rise as we descend even further into the dark and cold depths of the Ocean..........
12.4.40 06.00 - We've successfully eluded the enemy escort. The boat has been surfaced and repairs have begun. It is most unfortunate, but contact with the convoy has been lost.
12.4.40 11.00 - Damage reports indicate that all damaged systems, with the exception of the 2 cm flak gun, have been repaired. The hull has received an extensive amount of damage, but the boat remains sea worthy. We will continue to patrol.
18.4.40 04.00 - Intercepted and sank unescorted SF69 "Denmark" 3500t.
19.4.40 - We begin transit to Wilhelmshaven.
25.4.40 07.30 - Just after dawn, U-47 sails into port with a damaged Hull and one victory pennant on display.
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Post by crushedhat on Sept 25, 2020 2:45:11 GMT
26 Apr 1940, U-51 enters the harbor at Wilhelmshaven with two pennants flying from the periscope.
Patrol Report U-Boat Name and ID Number: U-51, Ra’n Patrol: Apr 1940, Patrol Area: British Isles Successful Patrol: Yes Number of Freighters Sank(This Patrol/cumulative): 2/3 Number of Tankers Sank(This Patrol/cumulative): 0 Number of Capital Ships Sank(This Patrol/cumulative): 0 Total Tonnage Destroyed (This Patrol/cumulative): 10,300/14,700 Refit Time: 2 months, Ready Jun 1940 Award Requests: Wound Badge in Black for Obermachinist Alois Richter & Machinenaat Karl Acckermann U-Boat War Badge for entire crew Iron Cross 1st Class for KptLt Viktor Radel
Narrative:
We set out on our second patrol with high spirits, slipping the mooring lines late on the 3rd. Our while were exuberant and the band was playing gaily, those we left behind were less excited. Still, we must all do our duty in whatever way it confronts us.
The passage to our assigned patrol area was thankfully uneventful except for one incident which set the tone for the rest of the patrol. It was while I came up for air that LtzS Leon Schmidt my 1WO, pointed to an object in the sky. About to sound the alarm and berate the lookouts for being lax, I then recognized it as an albatross. “Carrying the spirit of a submariner from the last war to watch over us Herr Kaleun.” Schmidt’s comment drew agreeing smiles and nods from those nearby. Soon the word had passed through the Boat that Good Luck was ours (Random Event: Hals und Beinbruh). It didn’t take long for the prophecy to come true.
The night of the 11th, off the NW coast of Scotland we encountered a convoy. With luck so obviously on our side, I decided to conduct a surface attack from medium range, firing both the bow and stern tubes. The closest column of the convoy held two small and two large freighters. In the hopes of crippling several to finish off later, I directed one eel at each, sending the aft pone after the largest for good measure. Out of the fie eels fired, we had two misses and two duds. The one hit was enough to cause one of the small freighters to fall out of the convoy and after evading the escort we caught up with her and finished her off with the deck gun. She was a stea freighter of 3500 tons. Our luck continued.
In the Irish Sea the night of 14 Apr, we made contact with another convoy. Again choosing a surface attack from medium range I confined myself to the bow tubes, concentrating on the largest of the four ships in the near column. Funkobergefreiter Friederih Radener reported hearing three impacts though there were only two explosions. Still it was enough to send the 6,800 ton motor merchant to the bottom. We quickly dove to escape the escort. But, by the time we surfaced the rest of the convoy had slipped away.
Three days later, the 17th, we encountered our third convoy. Another night surface attack at medium range, I fired the remaining three eels in the bow, saving the last stern torpedo as we still had a week to go on this patrol. I spread the shot out among the ships in the nearest column, hoping to cripple at least one to finish off later with the deck gun. As it is all three eels missed. This time the escort captain knew what he was doing keeping us down long enough for the convoy to escape. While the boat itself took no damage, Obermachinist Alois Richter and Machinenaat Karl Acckermann both were injured by equipetn loosened from nearby waserbomb detonations. Thankfully neither man’s injuries proved serious.
Finishing out our patrol in the Celtic Sea, LtzS Schmidt once more aught a glimpse of a flying object the evening of the 19th. Instead of an albatross this one proved to be a Blenheim and, the alarm sounded, we crash dived in time to avoid trouble.
The transit hoe was peaceful and we entered Wilhelmshaven the evening of the 26th with two pennants flying from the periscope, another successful patrol. Richter and Ackermann should both be recovered from their injuries in time to sail with us in June.
Respectfully submitted, Kplt Viktor Radel, Kommandant U-51
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Post by andy on Sept 27, 2020 17:42:44 GMT
U-Boat Name and ID Number: U-75 Sturmkreig Patrol: # 3 Patrol Assignment: Spanish Coast Successful Patrol: Yes Number of Freighters Sunk: 1 Number of Tankers Sunk: 2 Number of Capital Ships Sunk: 0 Total Tonnage Destroyed: 17,800 (59,200t)
Ships Sunk: SF12 "Aylesbury" 3,900t TA41"Havbor" 7,600t TA85 "Barbo" 6,300t
Diary extract:
7th March 1940: Set sail from base.
8th March 1940: After exiting the first transit area Sturmkreig had a message transmitted from Luftwaffe recon that a lone freighter was in the immediate vicinity and that there was no escort to be seen. Sturmkreig made headway and found the vessel and following a short exchange of fire from the deck guns dispatched the small freighter later identified as SF12 " Aylesbury" believed to be circa 4,000t.
16th March 1940: Just off the Spanish Coast a large convoy of vessels was detected and followed through the night. Sturmkreig choose two heavily loaded tankers and fired off four torpedoes; two for each target. Both Tankers were hit and crippled TA41 "Havor" was sunk without further ado but one tanker survived the initial attack. Our attack was interrupted by a zealous escort which closed upon us quickly and subjecting our boat to a cycle of three successive depth charge attacks during which our vessel sustained significant hull damage, flooding and casualties aboard ship including the death of a tube operator. We finally broke free of our persecutor and were fortunate enough to renew the attack on the damaged tanker. Again following a short exchange and the expenditure of further torpedoes we sank TA85 " Barbo". There again followed about of depth charge attacks which lasted an hour or more before we again managed to break contact. The combined attacks on our boat had cost us damage to the Hull and deck gun and also the Hydrophone operating system.
22nd March 1940: A short fallow period was followed by a stroke of luck when we encountered a single freighter at some distance from the usual shipping lines. Again we used our favoured attack vector and damaged the freighter but again we were inhibited in our work and finishing our attack by the presence of an escort that we had failed to detect. It did not fail to detect us and again we were subjected to damage at the hands of an efficient crew who knew what they were doing and causing us significant damage to our fuel tanks and systems. Fortunately we once again broke contact from the escort and tried to make good the damage to our boat so that we could follow up on our crippled prey. It was not to be as our engineer informed me that the fuel system had been critically compromised and therefore our only course of action was to break with our patrol and seek port as soon as possible. We unhappily left our lame duck freighter and headed for safer waters.
31st March 1941: Crossing near our home waters danger was ever present and it was but for the keen eyes of one of the watch officers that we were able to prevent a calamity when we were dived upon by an unknown aircraft. Our training served us well today as we executed our best time yet for a crash dive and managed to make our way unbothered by our fly-boy friend!
13th April 1941: Finally managed to limp in to our home port, damaged but proudly flying three battle pennants aloft. I fear this boat will be in the service bays for quite some time, this time around.
Refit Time: Standard, + 2 month for Hull damage and + 1 month for damaged systems. Ready for next patrol September 1940.
Post Mission DAMAGE REPORT: 3.7cm Flak Deck gun inoperable. Fuel Tank damaged and Inoperable. Hydrophones damaged and inoperable.
AMMUNITION USAGE REPORT
G7 Steam Torpedoes: Carried: 16 Fired: 12 Hit Rate: 7/12 Effective on Target: 58% Failed to detonate: 3/7 Dud Rate: 43%
10.5cm Deck Gun Carried: 5 ammo containers Fired: 2 ammo containers Hit Rate: 2/2 Effective on Target: 100%
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