Foreign U-boats

Foreign U-Boats was the title for a special section created by the Nazi German 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 GS U-A, which was a modified Type IX U-Boat originally built for the Turkish Navy. However, some were effective as minelayers.

The captured submarines

 * GS U-A: ex Turkish submarine Batiray
 * U-B: ex British submarine HMS Seal (N37)
 * GS U-C1: ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS B-5
 * GS U-C2: ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS B-6
 * U-D1: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 8
 * U-D2: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 12
 * U-D3: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 25
 * U-D4: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 26
 * U-D5: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 27
 * U-F1: ex FRENCH SUBMARINE Africaine
 * U-F2: ex FRENCH SUBMARINE Favorite
 * U-F3: ex FRENCH SUBMARINE Astrée
 * 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