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HMS Graph (P 715)

Submarine of the Type VIIC class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSubmarine
ClassType VIIC 
PennantP 715 
Built byBlohm & Voss (Hamburg, Germany) 
Ordered 
Laid down21 May, 1940 
Launched20 Mar, 1941 
Commissioned19 Sep, 1941 
End serviceFeb, 1944 
Loss position
 
HistoryCommissioned as German U-570 on 15 May 1941.

The German submarine U-570 was captured by Britain on 27 August 1941 in the North Atlantic south of Iceland, in position 62.15N, 18.35W, after being damaged by a British Hudson aircraft (Sqdn. 269/S). She was towed to Thorlaks-hafn, Iceland and salvaged.

She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph on 19 September 1941. HMS Graph was decommissioned from active service in February 1944. Graph was lost on 20 March 1944 when she ran aground on the westcoast of the Island of Islay, Scotland.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. George Robson Colvin, RN
??? – 10 October 1941

Lt. Edward Dudley Norman, DSO, DSC, RN
10 October 1941 - 1 June 1942

Lt. Peter Barnsley Marriot, RN
1 June 1942 - 1 April 1943

Lt. David Swanston, DSC, RN
1 April 1943 - still in command in August 1943 according to the Navy List

The Navy List of December 1943 no longer lists HMS Graph as an active unit 

Former nameU-570

Noteable events involving Graph include:

21 Oct, 1942
While on patrol in the Bay of Biscay, HMS Graph (Lt. P.B. Marriot, RN) attacks but misses the German submarine U-333 with four torpedoes about 50 nautical miles north-north-east of Cape Ortegal, Spain in position 44º31'N, 07º25'W. (see map)




Diary of a Submariner

de Majnik, John

Books dealing with this subject include:

Battle of the Atlantic, Nesbit, Roy C., 2002
Captains of War, Gray, Edwyn, 1988
Diary of a Submariner, de Majnik, John, 1996
The Fighting Captain, Burn, Alan, 1993
Fleet Submarines of World War Two, Walkowiak, Thomas F., 1988
The Führer Led But We Overtook Him, Durham, Phil, 1996
In Some Foreign Field, Naisawald, L. VanLoan, 1997
Spadefish, Moore, Stephen L., 2007
Submarine Commander, Schratz, Paul R., 1988
Submarine Diary, Mendenhall, Corwin, 1995
Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1904-1945, Carpenter, Dorr and Polmar, Norman, 1986
Submarines versus U-boats, Jones, Geoffrey, 1986
Submarines with Wings, Treadwell, Terry C, 1985 (transl.)
Survivors, Bennett, G. H. and Bennett, R., 1999
The T-class Submarine, Kemp, Paul J., 1991


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