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Wow... memories.
I was in the Channel, about 22 KM S of Portland, on an easterly course. I started my war in '39 with my dinky little Type II. I was cruising along, marvelling at the birds when I noticed one of the birds was getting bigger and bigger...FAST. It was a Sunderland! I dove, managed to hit the bottom with my keel, boat took heavy flooding, crew shaken and stirred.....but not baked. I managed to get control back and surface and stop the flooding, with 2 torpedo tubes out.
On my way back to base, I ran into 4 destroyers patrolling. Yes, FOUR. It was raining though, and like a noob I didn't have ANY watch on deck, and noone one sonar or radar stations. Quite a feeling, ridin through a storm at night, marvelling at the awesome weather effects, when four spotlights shoot out of the night right onto your conning tower. Anyways, after I crapped myself sufficiently and fumbled with the keys, simultaneously ordering peroscope depth, crash dive, silent running, open torpedo tube three, and rudder hard aport, i finally got the boat down to 60 meters.
I didn't have my music enabled ingame, and it was quite an unnerving experience listening to the TRAM TRAM TRAM TRAM...... and silence before the barrage of the destroyers hunting me from above. The hull creaking also really, REALLY put me on edge. Anyway, after 15 minutes of this, I finally grew a pair and ordered periscope depth. Fired off a shot at a beautifully placed V&W destroyer in front of me, nice wide flank shot, and immediately took my scope down... 30 seconds...nothing. Then KERBLAM!! torpedo hit!! The boat broke in half and sank in under 20 seconds. In my elation however, I failed to notice one of the other three destroyers in ramming position. In conclusion, if any of you go diving in the Portland area anytime soon, please place a wreath over the gravespot of U-3...her commander was a moron.
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Originally posted by HimmelJaeger:
Wow... memories.
I was in the Channel, about 22 KM S of Portland, on an easterly course. I started my war in '39 with my dinky little Type II. I was cruising along, marvelling at the birds when I noticed one of the birds was getting bigger and bigger...FAST. It was a Sunderland! I dove, managed to hit the bottom with my keel, boat took heavy flooding, crew shaken and stirred.....but not baked. I managed to get control back and surface and stop the flooding, with 2 torpedo tubes out.
On my way back to base, I ran into 4 destroyers patrolling. Yes, FOUR. It was raining though, and like a noob I didn't have ANY watch on deck, and noone one sonar or radar stations. Quite a feeling, ridin through a storm at night, marvelling at the awesome weather effects, when four spotlights shoot out of the night right onto your conning tower. Anyways, after I crapped myself sufficiently and fumbled with the keys, simultaneously ordering peroscope depth, crash dive, silent running, open torpedo tube three, and rudder hard aport, i finally got the boat down to 60 meters.
I didn't have my music enabled ingame, and it was quite an unnerving experience listening to the TRAM TRAM TRAM TRAM...... and silence before the barrage of the destroyers hunting me from above. The hull creaking also really, REALLY put me on edge. Anyway, after 15 minutes of this, I finally grew a pair and ordered periscope depth. Fired off a shot at a beautifully placed V&W destroyer in front of me, nice wide flank shot, and immediately took my scope down... 30 seconds...nothing. Then KERBLAM!! torpedo hit!! The boat broke in half and sank in under 20 seconds. In my elation however, I failed to notice one of the other three destroyers in ramming position. In conclusion, if any of you go diving in the Portland area anytime soon, please place a wreath over the gravespot of U-3...her commander was a moron.
Vee will shtup here, and honor our fallen kamerad, Kaleu Dummkopf.
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"armed trawler",It was going SE and I think it departed from Scapa Flow. It was closing on me so I was trying to close on it. I dont know if it knew I was there or not since it went around me and passed me. 10-20 min later it did a sudden U turn and sped back to land. I was in a straight line on it and it was going the same speed I was so I fired torpedoes to see if that would kill it and it didn in one hit. (was facing west at the AN16 sector when I killed it)
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damm right u r ofcourse ... good one ... did that one too. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Maj_Solo:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by aaronblood:
One of the smaller ships in torpedo training.
Lol so we're talking about career right ?
