JTS Wolfpack 3rd Party Scenarios by lecrop

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Third scenario added:

Attack on Convoy AT-46 - 18 May, 1942: The convoy AT-46 left Alexandria consisting of five merchant ships, escorted by four destroyers that formed an outer ring and two corvettes and two armed whalers as close screen. The convoy proceeded in three columns, but owing to heavy seas and a strong headwind at only 4 to 5 knots. The poor speed upset the carefully arranged routing and brought the convoy to positions where there was the greatest danger from U-boats during dark hours instead of daylight. At 19.11 hours on 20 May, U-431 (Kptlt. Dommes) spotted the ships about 65 miles east of Tobruk, submerged immediately, passed close to the leading escorts and dived deep after firing two torpedoes at the biggest of the five ships from within the convoy at 20.19 hours. One of the torpedoes struck the Eocene, the leading ship of the port column, which was immediately abandoned by her crew.

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