HMS Graph

	HMS Graph in 1943
History
Nazi Germany
Name	U-570
Ordered	24 October 1939
Builder	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Yard number	546
Laid down	21 May 1940
Launched	20 March 1941
Commissioned	15 May 1941
Captured	Captured by the Royal Navy on 27 August 1941
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Graph
Namesake	Graph
Acquired	27 August 1941
Commissioned	5 October 1941
Decommissioned	21 June 1943
Fate	Ran aground on 20 March 1944; Scrapped in 1961;
General characteristics
Class and type	Type VIIC submarine
Displacement	769 tonnes (757 long tons) surfaced; 871 t (857 long tons) submerged;
Length	67.10 m (220 ft 2 in)
Beam	6.20 m (20 ft 4 in)
Draught	4.74 m (15 ft 7 in)
Propulsion	Two Blohm and Voss Diesel engines, 1,440 metric horsepower (1,060 kW; 1,420 shp; 1,060 kW) each; One 465 kW electric motor and one 276 kW electric motor;
Speed	17.7 knots (32.8 km/h; 20.4 mph) surfaced; 7.6 knots (14.1 km/h; 8.7 mph) submerged;
Range	8,500 nmi (15,700 km; 9,800 mi)
Test depth	230 m (750 ft)
Armament	5 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern); 14 × torpedoes or 26 TMA mines; 1 × 8.8 cm (3.46 in) deck gun (220 rounds); various AA guns;
Service record (Kriegsmarine)
Part of:	3rd U-boat Flotilla; 15 May – 27 August 1941;
Identification codes:	M 42 381
Commanders:	Kptlt. Hans-Joachim Rahmlow; 15 May – 27 August 1941;
Operations:	1 patrol:; 23 – 29 August 1941;
Victories:	None
Service record (Royal Navy)
Commanders:	Lt. George Robson Colvin; 31 August – 10 October 1941; Lt. Edward Dudley Norman; 10 October 1941 – 1 June 1942; Lt. Peter Barnsley Marriott; 1 June 1942 – 2 April 1943; Lt. David Swanston; 3 April – 21 June 1943;

HMS Graph (pennant number P715) was a German Type VIIC U-boat captured and recommissioned by the British Royal Navy during World War II.

Commissioned as U-570 in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in mid-1941, she was attacked and captured on her first patrol. She provided the Royal Navy and United States Navy with useful information about German submarines. Refitted for use by the Allies, she carried out three combat patrols with a Royal Navy crew, becoming the only U-boat to see active service with both sides during the war. She was withdrawn from service in 1944 due to problems maintaining her. While being towed to the breakers for scrapping, she ran aground on the Isle of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland. Some of the wreckage was removed as scrap but some remains to the present day.

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