Foreign U-boats

Foreign U-boats was the title for a special section created by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that adopted 13 captured enemy submarines and a single Turkish vessel into the U-boat corps. Beginning in 1939 and lasting until the end of World War II in 1945, the Kriegsmarine modified a total of 13 captured enemy submarines, then deployed them into combat with German crews. The special corps was not especially successful, as only ten enemy ships were destroyed by Foreign U-boats through the entire war. Eight of these were destroyed by UA, which was a modified Type IX U-boat originally built for the Turkish Navy.^[1] However, some were effective as minelayers.

The captured submarines

• UA: ex Turkish submarine Batiray
• UB: ex British submarine HMS Seal (N37)
• UC-1: ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS B-5
• UC-2: ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS B-6
• UD-1: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 8
• UD-2: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 12^[2]
• UD-3: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 25^[2]
• UD-4: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 26^[2]
• UD-5: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 27^[2]
• UF-1: ex Africaine (Q196)
• UF-2: ex Favorite (Q195)
• UF-3: ex Astrée (Q200)
• UIT-22: ex Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini
• UIT-23: ex Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani
• UIT-24: ex Comandante Cappellini
• UIT-25: ex Luigi Torelli

See also

• Yanagi missions of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II to European waters
• List of IJN World War II submarines, including non-Japanese submarines in IJN service

References