Foreign U-boats was the title for a special section created by
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...
's ''
Kriegsmarine
The (, ) was the navy of Nazi 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 It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic.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 military branch, branche ...
'' that adopted 13 captured enemy
submarines and a single
Turkish vessel into the
U-boat
U-boats are Submarine#Military, naval submarines operated by Germany, including during the World War I, First and Second World Wars. The term is an Anglicization#Loanwords, anglicized form of the German word , a shortening of (), though the G ...
corps. Beginning in 1939 and lasting until the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
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 originally built for the
Turkish Navy.
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
*: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS ''O 25''
*: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS ''O 26''
*: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS ''O 27''
*''UF-1'': ex
*''UF-2'': ex
*''UF-3'': ex
*''UIT-22'': ex Italian submarine
''Alpino Bagnolini''
*''UIT-23'': ex Italian submarine
''Reginaldo Giuliani''
*''UIT-24'': ex
*''UIT-25'': ex
See also
*
Yanagi missions of the
Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II
During World War II, at the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world, and Japan's Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, naval air service was one of the most potent ...
to European waters
*
List of IJN World War II submarines, including non-Japanese submarines in IJN service
References
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Military history of Germany during World War II
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