24 - 30 June 1932
10 boats on patrol
1 boat in transit
9 boats returning to base
0 boats in bases
6 boats in repair
Angry captain of S-44, as a first, rapported torpedos problem. On his patrol he took perfect attack position on huge 16000 tons tanker. Torpedo salvo missed, a too long ship to be missed,attacked from just 500 meters. Stunned captain, ordered second salvo into another closest massive 9000 tons supply ship, to unbeliveable missed again. Frustreated, he radioed the complains. Many of other boats captains confirmed the problem. I ordered more rapports from captains.
Meantime S-1 on South China Sea spotted small convoy. During the night attack, medium merchant appeared from nowhere and crossed the torpedos path. Burning 3000 tons ship, helped to hit another maru. Both damaged ships sunk shortly after for total 8000 tons.
Another success belong to S-39. After chasing the small convoy, she sunk big 5000 tons merchant on Philippine Sea.
I am really pleased from this week performance, 13000 tons sunk this week is a big success. Till this week our total was 27000 tons, so in one week we sunk half of 10 weeks work total. I only hope that week was not a last one.
This week total: 3 ships sunk, 13000 tons
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