[Wrratt]

 <B>Row row row your boat gently down the stream</B>.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 04:47 we will not be diving with so many sailors on board. At 04:14 Karl radioed to Bdu, and we will be meeting an escort at 12:00, in Grid AN 83.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 05:48 U-49 has exited grid AN82
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 06:00 Willie has been doing sick call with the crew from T-21, most have been treated for dehydration and they have been given extra servings of food. There where two wounded men from T-21, that had temporarily lost their hearing.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 09:58 CE reports fuel down to 25%.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 12:00 noon time mess is a scene, Willie has some how made a nice feast for our komrades from T-21. Everyone is enjoying the gute fellowship, and gute food.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 12:40 we have rendezvoused with an armed trawler, out of Holland. They have signaled that there is light to no enemy traffic from here to base. Their orders are to stay with us till grid AN83.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 14:07 The captain of T-21 was standing watch with me, and was amazed at how well our ship cuts through the sea. He said it was a fine craft, with a gute feeling surrounding it.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 14:33 all is calm and U-49 is making gute head way towards home.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 The usual end of patrol routine has to be held off until we off load T-21’s crew.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 15:58 a medium rain has begun and the seas are being to swell, wind speed is 15 mps, and a heavy fog has rolled in.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 16:07 the rain is now heavy and the boot is rolling too much with the additional crew on board. Heintz and Willie are readjusting the trim.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 16:09 We have entered Grid AN83, NA reports depth under keel is 12 meters.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 16:16 we have been released by the escort, I saluted them from the bridge and soon the fog had obscured them from view. This heavy fog should keep us safe until we reach our next escort. The next escort should be in Grid AN96.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 17:00 we slow to ahead full we are averaging 15 knots in the heavy seas.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 18:02 I order ahead flank, we have sailed into Grid AN 95, depth under keel is 14 meters.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 18:22 the familiar sound of sea gulls can be heard off in the distance. Rain and fog is still heavy, wind 15mps. It seems Arends dying cast a littoral gray sky over U-49 since his untimely death we have not seen the sun.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 19:38 SO reports sound contact bearing XXX, distance constant.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 19:49 we have made visual and aldis lamp contact with a small German fishing craft, the “Sea Shtick”. I asked the skipper what he was doing?
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 He replied that was on a three hour tour, with Killagain, the Skippr too, a wealthy industrialist and his mistress, a striptease artist, the professor and Helga Ann.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 19:52 I wished them gute sailing, and not to become washed up on one of the uncharted deserted isles.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 19:53 Karl radioed to Bdu our report and we resumed heading to base.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 22:55 SO reports warship moving fast, moving away, bearing 029, long range.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 22:59 U-49 turns SSE grid AN95, ahead full. I do not want to miss this escort in the heavy fog and rain.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 23:20 We have lost sound contact with the warship.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 23:20 NA reports depth under keel 11 meters.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 23:20 I order depth 10 meters and all stop.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 23:23 The SO reports the sounds of a sunken ship at 330. I listen and I can hear the unmistakable groaning of a sunken ship.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 23:26 ahead standard and we surface the boot. We alter our course towards the wreck.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 23:30 U-49 slows to begin searching.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 23:47 approximately 6km from where we first heard the sounds, we have spotted a life boat, with 8 German sailors on board.
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 Ktb log 10th of June 1940 23:53 We have contacted the CO of the sunken armed trawler. I have explained that our boot is full to standing room only already. The plan is to tether a long line to his lifeboat and tow them towards Wilhelmshaven and then transfer them to the first escort we see.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 00:12 SO report warship, moving fast closing, bearing 339.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 00:14 Karl has radioed to the near by warship, we will meet them and transfer the crew in the lifeboats.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 00:39 U-49 has rendezvoused with S-boot 12. We are at an all stop and the crew is being untied and they will row over to the S-boot.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 00:46 we have bide farewell to the S-boot, they will take the crew from the lifeboat to their base, and we have resumed our treck to port.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 00:48 SO reports warship moving slow and closing, perhaps this is our escort.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 00:58 wind is down to 6mps, heavy rain, heavy fog. I hope I can spot the escort, and the light houses at our base.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 01:27 We are following an armed trawler towards base. We have to stay about 350 meters to remain in visual contact.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:14 I hear a dreadful sound.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:14 CE reports bow torpedo damaged.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:14 CE reports we have flooding
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:14 CE reports hull damaged.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:14 CE reports we are taking damage.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:14 I order the repair team assembled but hey are hampered by the over crowed fore torpedo room.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:14 I yell to Henitz emergency back., there is one last grinding sound, as we free U-49 from the nets.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:15 T-21.s crew has had a bit of a scare, the sounds and the flooding made them think the boot was sinking.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:18 order has been restored and the repars are complete. Hull integrity is now 89% . Dam the harbors are tough. Dumass escort.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02 23 I could not have missed the opening by much, so we back along parallel with the far away harbor lights. I measure on the navigation map we are about 4.8 km from base.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:28 we turn 35 degrees starboard and resume sailing ahead slow towards the light house.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 02:48 we have sailed past the light house and ahead 3 knots as we make our way to a open pen.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 03:11 U-49 has been secured to the pier and the gangplank will be up soon. T-21’s crew will disembark first.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 03:25 The CO has thanked me for the ride and his crew was equally grateful.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 03:37 my crew will not disembark for several hours, they must secure their personal possessions and secure their stations.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 03:38 U-49 sunk five merchants, 45,502.00 tons and downed one RAF plane.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 04:09 A runner from command has arrived and brought me gute news a “Review Board” has found no negligence on my part for Arend’s untimely death.
 I was right it was a bug that got him.
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 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 04::10 the crew of U-49 has won medals, one Iron Cross first class, two Iron Cross second class, one U-boot war badge and nine U-boot front clasps.
 Ktb log 11th of June 1940 04:33 I will walk over to the officers club for a shower, and be ready for when the base commander reports to his office at 06:00.
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 Ahoy captains and Hail and victory to you all, Thank you for checking up on U-49 as we did our eighth patrol. It was a great deal of fun more me to write up the Ktb log, I hope you enjoyed it and thanks once again for taking the time to read the patrol reports. <Wrratt (brisk salute) <B> Sein Finn</B>
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 <B> Schnellboot</B> I told Karl to be careful with the radio transmissions, I am glad it was you though and not some British warship!

 <B>Oombongo </B> Hey! Please do not mention Spam around U-49, whenever my crew heres that word they put on Viking helmets and fur vests and start singing. “Spam, spam. Spam, spam, Spam, spam. Spam, spam Spam, spam. Spam, spam. Spam wonderful spam! marvelous spam!, Spam, spam. Spam, spam Spam, spam. Spam, spam, Spam, spam. Spam, spam Spam, spam. Spam, spam” and it is very hard for me to get them to stop, “Spam, spam. Spam, spam, Spam, spam. Spam, spam, Spam, spam. Spam, spam, Spam wonderful spam !marvelous spam!”

[donw]

[Duli]

Very good report indeed.

[wteapot]

Urgent Message:

Concern Wrratt not reported any messages for a while
Still Alive or Been Destroyed?

Rumours are flying about, a destroyer was seen with "4.1b" painted on the side, no one has managed to decode it's meaning yet

[Wrratt]

[Zie Chuckinator]

i predict ur comp will explode in.... 10,9,8,7,6.....

[Captain Strangelove]

Hello Wratt.

Will you continue with this thread some day? Or are your No-TC-days over? Or will you continue only in autumn when it turns cooler again, as mentioned in the post above?

Always enjoyed reading your journal a lot!

Cheers

Kai

[Wrratt]

[mr darcy]

Hey Wrratt, did you know that you've made it into print?

The latest issue of PC Gamer (UK) has a box-out about your first no-TC patrol.

[Neal Stevens]

Ahoy! Wrrat, your legendary patrol made page 88 of the Oct issue of PC Gamer

[Neal Stevens]

[Wrratt]

? Ahoy, thank you very much for posting the image, I would have missed seeing it. That’s cool too that they mentioned subsim, I would have played the game with no TC but having some place to chat and to place my Bdu reports was entirely due to Neal taking time to host this site. So I thank you sincerely.
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? Too bad about the name being missed spelled, I would have liked the Quake 2 players to have seem my name, oh well.
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? U-49 has been in dry dock, this summer its been way to hot, but come the cooler weather in a few weeks, and U-49 will resume patrols. I am anxious to hear the diesels, and to hunt down some tonnage.
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? Have a gute day and a better night. <Wrratt

[Farside]

lol, what an honour, in the company of a true celebrity

good luck on the next patrol.

[kiwi_2005]

Im also doing a 1x campaign as well on my second computer, on my first i playing normal with rub and commander, but on the 1x it just straight SH3 with the 1.4 patch and no mods. Theres nothing crazy about playing this way its what we call True Realism. Not even the RUB mod players that play the game normal can beat that.

[redstorm101]