List of submarines confiscated or captured by Germany
This list only deals with German loot submarines from the Second World War up to 1945.
See therefore also:
- List of German submarines (1935–1945) / U 1 – U 250 ,
- List of submarine classes ,
- List of German submarine classes ,
- List of German submarines (1906–1919) and
- List of Bundeswehr submarines .
Also relevant: List of German naval shipyards
Legend
- † = destroyed by acts of war
- ? = missing in action
- § = seized, captured or captured
- × = accident or sunk yourself
- A = Decommissioned (scrapped, scrapped or put to another use)
- Lt.zS = lieutenant at sea
- Oblt.zS = First Lieutenant at Sea
- Complete = Captain lieutenant
- Kkpt. = Corvette captain
- Fkpt. = Frigate captain
| ship | origin | class | Original name | Commissioning | Capture | Decommissioning | Last in command | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA | Turkey | Batiray | September 20, 1939 | A May 1944, × 3 May 1945 | Oblt.zS Ulrich-Philipp Graf von und zu Arco-Zinneberg | built for Turkey, but not delivered | ||
| UB | UK | Porpoise class | HMS Seal | September 27, 1938 | May 5, 1940 | A July 31, 1941, × May 3, 1945 | Fkpt. Bruno Mahn | The only British submarine captured at sea in the service of the German Navy |
| UC 1 | Norway | Holland | B-5 | October 1, 1929 | April 9, 1940 | A March 28, 1942, broken up in 1942 | According to Karl Brockmann | captured during the occupation of Norway |
| UC 2 | Norway | Holland | B-6 | May 1, 1930 | May 4th 1940 | A October 1944, × 3 May 1945 | Oblt.zS Otto Wollschläger | captured during the occupation of Norway |
| U D1 | Netherlands | H-class | H 6 later O 8 |
June 10, 1915 | May 14, 1940 | A November 23, 1943, × May 3, 1945 | Oblt.zS Friedrich Weidner | Put into service as British H 6, interned by the Netherlands after an accident, put into service as O 8, captured during the German occupation of the Netherlands |
| U D2 | Netherlands | O 12-15 | O 12 | November 8, 1930 | May 14, 1940 | A July 6, 1944, × May 3, 1945 | Oblt.zS Günther Scholz | sunk on May 14, 1940, lifted by Germany |
| U D3 | Netherlands | O 21-27 | O 25 | June 8, 1941 | May 14, 1940 | A October 13, 1944, × May 3, 1945 | Complete Joachim Seeger | under construction taken over by Germany |
| U D4 | Netherlands | O 21-27 | O 26 | January 28, 1941 | May 14, 1940 | A March 19, 1945, × May 3, 1945 | Complete Fritz Bart | under construction taken over by Germany |
| U D5 | Netherlands | O 21-27 | O 27 | May 14, 1940 | ||||
| UF 1 | France | L'Aurore class | L'Africaine | December 7, 1946 | June 1940 | A October 1961 | Completed only after the end of the war | |
| UF 2 | France | L'Aurore class | La Favorite | November 5, 1942 | June 1940 | A July 5, 1944, × 1945 | Oblt.zS Heinrich Gehrken | under construction taken over by Germany |
| UF 3 | France | L'Aurore class | L'Andromède | October 1949 | June 1940 | A 1962 | Completed only after the end of the war | |
| UIT 1 | Italy | R 10 | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 2 | Italy | R 11 | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 3 | Italy | R 12 | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 4 | Italy | R 7 | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 5 | Italy | R 8 | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 6 | Italy | R 9 | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 7 | Italy | Bario | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 8 | Italy | Litio | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 9 | Italy | Sodio | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 10 | Italy | Potassio | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 11 | Italy | Rame | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 12 | Italy | Ferro | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 13 | Italy | Piombo | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 14 | Italy | Zinco | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 15 | Italy | Sparide | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 16 | Italy | Murena | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 17 | Italy | CM 1 | ||||||
| UIT 18 | Italy | CM 2 | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 19 | Italy | Nautilo | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 20 | Italy | Grongo | not put into service | |||||
| UIT 21 | Italy | Giuseppe Finzi | ||||||
| UIT 22 | Italy | Console Generale Liuzzi | Alpino Attilio Bagnolini | December 22, 1939 | September 9, 1943 | † March 11, 1944 | Oblt.zS Karl Wunderlich | used as a transporter after capture; sunk south of Cape Town by 3 Catalinas of the 262nd British Squadron; Total loss; 43 dead |
| UIT 23 | Italy | Console Generale Liuzzi | Reginaldo Giuliani | March 13, 1939 | September 10, 1943 | † February 14, 1944 | Oblt.zS Werner Striegler | torpediert from Brit. submarine HMS Tallyho , ( 4 ° 27 ' N , 100 ° 11' O ) 26 dead, 14 survivors |
| UIT 24 | Italy | Marcello / Marconi | Comandante Cappellini | March 13, 1939 | September 10, 1943 | † April 16, 1946 | Oblt.zS Heinrich Pahls | Taken by Japan on May 10, 1945, sunk by the US Navy on April 16, 1946 |
| UIT 25 | Italy | Marcello / Marconi | Luigi Torelli | September 10, 1943 | † | Oblt.zS Alfred Meier | Taken by Japan on May 10, 1945, sunk by the US Navy after the Japanese surrender |
literature
- Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9