Look at U-570 under the command of Kptlt Hans Rahmlow.

The IWO (yes I know his name and have a copy of his death certificate) escaped from Grisedale Hall and hoped to get to Birkenhead(?) and scuttle the U-570 but, he was chased and, unfortunately shot and killed in his brave attempt.

Yes there was a trial, of sorts, by his peers and he tried to make amends for the actions of his commander.

You cannot say that the crew were ill trained, if they were then so were all the U-boat crews!
Mutiny? not that I know of in the Kriegsmarine at that point in the war.

The U-boat in question was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph.

There have been films made and books written about this incident but, it was and still is a sore point with German submariners.

MPCDave wrote:

> I have just finished reading an extremely well written, and
> fascinating book by Robert Kurson called 'Shadow Divers'. About
> the finding and identification of a WWII U-boat off the New
> Jersey shore in the early 90's. That said, I believe he is in
> error on page 235 when he states, in part, "The allies had
> predicted mutinies aboard these doomed U-boats. That never
> happened. The Allies had expect surrender from these doomed
> U-boats. That never happened either".
> While his point is well taken, I am certain I have read (a long
> time ago) about a U-boat with an unpopular captain and an ill
> trained crew where the crew mutinied and surrendered to a
> British Sunderland. I also seem to remember how the captain
> actually escaped from British captivity after experiencing a
> kind of Kangaroo Court by his fellow officers, with the idea of
> finding his U-boat and scuttling it. He was killed in the
> attempt.
> I have spent a good amount of time trying to find some info
> about this episode on the Internet but have not been
> successful. Is anyone familiar with this story?
>