Submarine support ship
U-boat support ship (also known as U-boat tender , U-boat mother ship and U-boat depot ship ) is a type of auxiliary ship that emerged in the navy at the beginning of the 20th century, parallel to the development of the submarine weapon. It serves as a supply and as a floating base for submarines and is intended to ensure the operational readiness of submarines away from land-based bases. Submarine escort ships can serve as floating repair bases , living ships for submarine crews and command ships, among other things . In smaller fleets, this type of ship is also used for other tasks or replaced by other auxiliary ships. Special newbuildings, but also ships converted for this purpose (former, mostly obsolete combat ships, other auxiliary ship types and merchant ships) were and are used as submarine escort ships.
Submarine escort ships
Argentina
- General Belgrano (1933–1941 retired), also a submarine dock ship
- Independencia (1947-1948)
Brazil
- Ceara (1915-1946 retired), also submarine dock ship
German Empire
New buildings
- Saar (1934–1945), as Gustave Zédé to France
- Wilhelm Bauer (1938–1945), sunk
- Waldemar Kophamel (1939–1944), sunk, lifted and sentto the USSRas a Kuban
- Otto Wünsche (1940–1945), as Pechora to the USSR
Modifications (commissioning in brackets)
- Vistula ex Syra (1937–1945), as Donjez to the USSR
- Danube ex Nicea (1937–1945), capsized and scrapped
- Warnow ex Vorwärts (1938–1945), after the war first British arrest ship in Hamburg, then back to shipping company
- Erwin Waßner (1938–1944), sunk
- Lech ex Panther (1939–1945), to the USA, 1949 as Artsa to Israel
- Isar ex Puma (1939–1945), as Nyemen to the USSR
- Ammerland ex August Schulte (1940–1945), sunk after a collision
- Neisse ex Minna Horn , ex Claus Horn , ex Claus (1940–45), to German Minesweeping Administration , 1947 to Yugoslavia
Security ships of the submarine removal command
- Messina (1937–1945), as Poljus to the USSR
- Seagull (1940–1945), sunk
- Helgoland (1941–1945), back to shipping company
- Ruhrort (1942–1944), sunk and scrapped after the war.
In the broader sense, the U-escort ships also include 15 torpedo clearing ships and 7 escort ships from U-boat training and instruction commands of the German Navy, which are not listed here.
Germany
- Lahn (A55) , class 403 , 1st submarine squadron (March 24, 1964 - April 25, 1991)
- Lech (A56) , class 403, 3rd submarine squadron (December 8, 1964 - June 30, 1989)
- Main (A515) , Class 404 , 1st Submarine Squadron (June 23, 1996 -)
Great Britain
- Forth (scrapped 1938–1985)
- Maidstone (scrapped 1937–1978)
- Medway (sunk 1928–1942)
- Titania (1915–?)
- Alecto (1911–?)
- Lucia (1907–?)
- Cyclops (1906–?)
- Cochrane (1903-?)
Chile
- Huáscar (1917-1924)
- Araucano (1929–?)
Denmark
- Henrik Gerner (1964–1975) also workshop ship and mine-layer
Finland
- Louhi (sunk 1916–1945) also mine layers
France
- Rhone (1962–?)
- Jules Verne (1931–1961 out of service)
- Pollux (1917–?) Also float plane tenders
- Castor (1916–?) Also a seaplane tender
Greece
- Ifaistos (1920–?) Also workshop ship
India
- Amba (1968–?)
Italy
- Antonio Pacinotti (1922–?)
- Alessandro Volta (1921–?)
- Sebastiano Caboto (1912–?)
Japan
- Yasukuni Maru (1941-1944)
- Takasaki completed as a light aircraft carrier
- Tsurugisaki (1939–1941) from 1941 converted into a light aircraft carrier
- Taigei (1934–1941) from 1941 converted into a light aircraft carrier
- Chōgei (1924-1945)
- Jingei (1923-1944)
- Komahasi (1913–?) Also survey ship
- Karasaki (1896–?)
- Ataka (1922–?) Also gunboat
Yugoslavia
- Zmaj (1929–1941) also seaplane mother ship, taken over by the German Navy
- Hvar (1896–?)
Latvia
- Varonis (1908–1940) also ice breaker , taken over from the USSR
Netherlands
- Cornelius Drebbel (1915–?)
Norway
- Horten (1977–?) Also for speedboats
- Sarpen (1860–?) Also workshop ship
Peru
- Lima (1880–?)
Poland
- Sławomir Czerwiński (1932–1937)
Romania
- Constanța (1929–1944) also cadet training ship
Sweden
- Patricia (1926–?)
- Svea (1885–?)
Soviet Union
- Ivan Kutscherenko (1961–?)
- Ivan Kolyskin (1962–?)
- Ivan Wachremew (1962–?)
- Volga (1972–?)
- Smolny (1907–?)
- Trefoliev (1893–?)
Thailand
- Angthon (1918–?)
Turkey
- Umur Bey (1955–?)
- Atak (1938–?) Also mine layers
- Dalaitch (1938–?) Also minelayer
- Erkin (1923–?)
United States
- McKee (1978-?)
- Frank Cable (1976-?)
- Emroy S. Land (1976–?)
- Dixon (1967–?)
- LY Spear (1976-?)
- Canopus (1964–?)
- Simon Lake (1962-?)
- Holland (1962–?)
- Hunley (1960–?)
- Fulton (1940–?)
- Holland (1926–?)
- Argonne (1920–?)
- Canopus (1919–?)
- Beaver (1910–?)
- Camden (1900–?)
- Macaw (? –1944 stranded)