Re: U570 number 2
- From: "a425couple" <a425couple@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:40:05 -0500
"SolomonW" <SolomonW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
Merry Christmas to you, good sir, and to all.
(changing your sequence)
The name itself is interesting as U570 was a Uboat that Hitler
felt had disgraced itself in WW2.
Yes.
As to the first (and easily read about, possibly only) U570,
a good source, go google books for:
Enigma U-boats By Jak P. Mallmann Showell
and a "preview" is avalible - page 80 and on.
Certainly plenty of different twists and turns,
strong emotions and conflicted stories,
and versions of the story are about.
Might also read:
http://submariners.co.uk/Dits/Articles/u570.php
I've checked:
"U-Boats, a Pictorial History" by Edwin Hoyt.
My 1947 version of Janes Fighting Ships.
note - google - wiki states of it (renamed "Graph")
-Defects, exacerbated by a shortage of spare parts, led to her being placed in reserve, and she was decommissioned from active service in February 1944. She was being towed by HMS AllegianceTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances to the Clyde for scrapping when she ran aground on the west coast of Islay, Scotland, on 20 March 1944. She was partially salvaged and scrapped in 1947. Some remains of HMS Graph remained visible at low tide on the rocks near Saligo beach on the West coast of Islay at least into the 1970s
And it is listed as such on a "shipwrecks" site.
Now, would Germany build another submarine,
and reuse that disgraced name / number?
No Janes, seems to indicate it so.
(frustration - I have another dandy book on
German ships and final end - can't find today!!)
In 1948, a Uboat U570 was abandoned off the coast of Brazil. This Uboat was
designed differently to any other German Uboat. Once it arrived in Brazil,
someone opened the hatch intending to sink it but the Uboat rested on a
sandbank. It was discovered in 1950. After examination by both the
Brazilians and the Americans, they felt it was an escape vehicle for
ex-Nazis. This German Uboat had been fitted out in Spain to transport
people to Brazil from Spain. The mission itself, they felt had been planned
long before the Uboat sailed. This was its only mission.
Anyone have any information on this Uboat or is it, a WW2 legend?
It's hard to prove a negative.
(that something did NOT exist).
I do note I have a book,
U-Boat 977, by Heinz Schaeffer,
and a wiki artical pretty well sumarizes it,
-"U-977 was a World War II Germany Type VIIC submarine launched in 1943. Commanded by Oberleutnant Heinz Schäffer (1921-1979), it sailed for Argentina on 10 May 1945 following German's surrender. The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to many legends and apocryphal stories: that it had transported Adolf Hitler or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a secret voyage to Antarctica, and that it had carried a secret death ray weapon.
U-977 pretty definitely existed (and it was off Brazil)
My likely belief is, a second U-570, did not.
In other words, I'd think your main paragraph,
is a mungled up merging of stories & legend.
.
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