Foreign U-boats
# 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. 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
* UD-3: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 25
* UD-4: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 26
* UD-5: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 27
* UF-1: ex French submarine Africaine (Q196)
* UF-2: ex French submarine Favorite (Q195)
* UF-3: ex French submarine Astrée (Q200)
* UIT-22: ex Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini
* UIT-23: ex Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani
* UIT-24: ex Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini
* UIT-25: ex Italian submarine Luigi Torelli
