1 a.m.
As we dived I ordered the helm hard a starboard , to counteract the expected depth-charge attack . We must have been a hundred and fifty metres from the first charge and a little below it , five others followed in rapid succession , but were further away , and we suffered no damage beyond a couple of broken lights . The situation was now extremely unpleasant . I did not dare venture to the surface , and thus missed my 1 a.m. signal from Headquarters . I wanted a charge badly , and so proceeded at the lowest possible speed . At regular intervals our enemy dropped one depth-charge somewhere astern of us , but these reports always seemed the same distance away . At dawn I very cautiously came up to periscope depth , and had a look .