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 nine enemy ships were destroyed by Foreign U-Boats through the entire war. Seven of these were destroyed by German submarine U-A, which was a modified Type IX U-Boat originally built for the Turkish Navy.^[1] However, some were effective as minelayers.

The captured submarines

U-A: ex Turkish submarine Batiray
U-B: ex British submarine HMS Seal (N37)
U-C1: ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS B-5
U-C2: ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS B-6
U-D1: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 8
U-D2: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 12^[2]
U-D3: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 25^[2]
U-D4: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 26^[2]
U-D5: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 27^[2]
U-F1: ex French submarine Africaine (Q196)
U-F2: ex French submarine Favorite (Q195)
U-F3: ex French submarine Astrée (Q200)
UIT-22: ex Italian submarine Alpino Attilio Bagnolini
UIT-23: ex Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani
UIT-24: ex Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini
UIT-25: ex Italian submarine Luigi Torelli

References

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1 2 3 4 Jak P. Mallmann Showell (1973): U-boats under the Swastika, Ian Allen, ISBN 0-7110-0379-3, p.120

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