Graph (P 715)
Built By: | Blohm and Voss (Germany) |
Build Group: | V2IIC |
Fate: | Lost on 20 March 1944 when she ran aground on the west coast of the Island of Islay, Scotland |
Commanders
1941: | Lieutenant | George Robson Colvin | MID |
1941: | Lieutenant | Edward Dudley Norman | DSO DSC |
1942: | Lieutenant | Peter Barnsley Marriott | |
1943: | Lieutenant | David Swanston | DSC |
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Events
12-05-1940 | Laid Down |
20-03-1941 | Launched |
01-05-1941 | Commissioned as German U-570, later captured by the British |
27-08-1941 | The German submarine U-570 was captured by Britain in the North Atlantic south of Iceland after being damaged by a British aircraft. She was towed to Thorlaks-hafn, Iceland and salvaged. |
19-09-1941 | Former U-570 was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph |
19-09-1941 | Completed |
21-10-1942 | While on patrol in the Bay of Biscay, HMS Graph attacks but misses the German submarine U-333 with four torpedoes about 50 nautical miles north-north-east of Cape Ortegal, Spain. |
20-03-1944 | Lost when she ran aground on the west coast of the Island of Islay, Scotland |
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