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Foreign U-boats was the title for a special section created by
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Kriegsmarine The (, ) was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the a ...
'' that adopted 13 captured enemy
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and a single
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vessel into the
U-boat U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ...
corps. Beginning in 1939 and lasting until the end of
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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 , which was a modified
Type IX U-boat The Type IX U-boat was designed by Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' in 1935 and 1936 as a large ocean-going submarine for sustained operations far from the home support facilities. Type IX boats were briefly used for patrols off the eastern Unit ...
originally built for the
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. However, some were effective as minelayers.


The captured submarines

*: ex Turkish submarine ''Batiray'' *''UB'': ex British submarine *''UC-1'': ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS ''B-5'' *''UC-2'': ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS ''B-6'' *''UD-1'': ex Dutch submarine *''UD-2'': ex Dutch submarine *''UD-3'': ex Dutch submarine *''UD-4'': ex Dutch submarine *''UD-5'': ex Dutch submarine *''UF-1'': ex *''UF-2'': ex *''UF-3'': ex *''UIT-22'': ex Italian submarine *''UIT-23'': ex Italian submarine ''Reginaldo Giuliani'' *''UIT-24'': ex *''UIT-25'': ex


See also

*
Yanagi missions The , or more formally the , were a series of submarine voyages undertaken by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Second World War, to exchange technology, skills and materials with Japan's Axis partners, principally Nazi Germany. These v ...
of the
Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II The Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II, at the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, was the third most powerful navy in the world, and the naval air service was one of the most potent air forces in the world. During the first six mo ...
to European waters * List of IJN World War II submarines, including non-Japanese submarines in IJN service


References

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