Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Kriegsmarine — Submarine

HMS Graph

Type VIIC submarine

HMS Graph
UK Government — This photograph A 16040 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate U 570, a Type VIIC submarine.

Service

  1. Kriegsmarine as U-57015 May 1941 — in service1,571 days of the war
  2. Royal Navy as HMS Graph5 October 1941 — 21 June 1943624 days of the war
Type VIIC submarine Particulars
Name
HMS Graph
Builder
Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Ordered
24 October 1939
Laid down
21 May 1940
Launched
20 March 1941
Commissioned
15 May 1941
Decommissioned
21 June 1943
Fate
Ran aground on 20 March 1944
Scrapped in 1961 (1944)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, surfaced
757 long tons (769 t)
Displacement, submerged
857 long tons (871 t)
Length
67.1 m (220.1 ft)
Beam
6.2 m (20.3 ft)
Draught
4.74 m (15.6 ft)
Speed
17.7 knots (32.8 km/h, 20.4 mph)
Range
8,500 nmi (15,742 km)
Main gun
88 mm (3.5 in)

HMS Graph was a Type VIIC submarine in service with the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid at Blohm & Voss, Hamburg on 21 May 1940. Launched on 20 March 1941, she entered service on 15 May 1941.

612 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Type UB III, Vetehinen class and was succeeded by the Type XXI (Late-war replacement).

The boat displaced 757 long tons surfaced and 857 long tons submerged. She measured 67.1 m (220 ft) long with a beam of 6.2 m (20 ft). Her designed speed was 17.7 knots.

Her main battery was one 88 mm (3.5 in) guns.

She served with the Kriegsmarine as U-570. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Graph from 5 October 1941. She was in commission for 2,195 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 21 June 1943.

She was broken up for scrap on 20 March 1944.

Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.

Armament and machinery

Armament and machinery
Propulsion
  • Two Blohm and Voss Diesel engines, 1440 PS each
  • One 465 kW electric motor and one 276 kW electric motor
Armament
  • 5 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern)
  • 14 × torpedoes or 26 TMA mines
  • 1 × 8.8 cm deck gun (220 rounds)
  • various AA guns

Sister ships

587 more in the class

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Graph on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: UK Government — This photograph A 16040 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons