L'Africaine (Q 196)

L'Africaine (Q 196) UF 1
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	L'Aurore class
Navy :	French Navy Navy
Commissioning:	December 7, 1946
Builder :	Ch. Worms ( Rouen )
Whereabouts:	Decommissioned in 1961 , scrapped in 1963 .
Sister ships
L'Africaine , L'Andromède , L'Artémis , L'Astrée , L'Aurore , La Créole , La Favorite
Technical specifications (see L'Aurore class )

The L'Africaine (Q 196) was a French submarine of L'Aurore class . After the armistice of Compiègne in June 1940, the boat under construction fell into the hands of the German Navy . The submarine was renamed UF 1 on May 13, 1941 , but was not completed.

After the war ended in 1945, the boat was completed and used by the French Navy until 1961 .

L'Africaine was scrapped in 1963.

See also

• List of submarines confiscated or captured by Germany

literature

• Erminio Bagnasco: U-Boats in World War II. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9 .

Web links

• L'Aurore class at www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk ( Engl. )
• in uboat.net (information about the three German loot boats of the L'Aurore class) ( Memento from January 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)