German submarine U-567

German submarine U-567 (U-567) was a type VII C submarine in the German Kriegsmarine during the Second World War.

Her keel was laid down on 27 April 1940 at the Blohm & Voss yard in Hamburg as 'werk' 534. She was launched on 6 March 1941 and was commissioned on 24 April under Kapitänleutnant Theodor Fahr. She entered service with the 3rd U-boat Flotilla for training. She began operations with that flotilla on 1 August 1941 and joined the 7th flotilla on 1 November.

1st patrol
She left Trondheim in Norway on 5 August 1941 and entered the Atlantic via the gap between Iceland and the Faroe Islands, sinking the 3,485 ton British merchant ship Fort Richepanse west of Ireland on 3 September. She docked at St. Nazaire in occupied France on 12 September.

2nd patrol
The boat switched captains to Kapitänleutnant Engelbert Endrass, (who had been IWO [first watch officer] on Günther Prien's U-47 when she sank the battleship HMS Royal Oak in 1939), on 15 October. The boat left St. Nazaire on 25 October 1941 and returned on 26 November. It was unsuccessful.

3rd patrol and loss
She attacked convoy HG 76 in the North Atlantic, north-east of the Azores, which was made up of 32 cargo ships and escorted by five destroyers, seven corvettes and one aircraft carrier, sinking the 3,324 ton Norwegian merchant ship Annavore on 21 December 1941 but was sunk herself later that day at 44.03333°N, -20.16667°W by depth charges dropped by HMS Deptford and HMS Samphire - there were no survivors from her crew of 47.