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27 |
Scuttled by Royal Navy through "Operation Deadlight"
(27th Nov 1945 to 11th Feb 1946) |
116 |
28 |
Scuttled by US Navy until 1946 off the US coast (U-805/ U-1228) and in the Northsea
(U-1197/ U-1232 |
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29 |
Within the framework of the agreement of the Alliied Tripartite Naval Commission (TNC) divided until February 1946, with 10 UBoats each to GBR, USA and UdSSR ("Operation Cabal"). GBR gave away from her share 1 UBoat (U-190) to Kanada and 2 UBoats (U-2326 and U-2518) to FRA ("Operation Thankful"). Most of these Uboats were operated further for a while, whether it be for test- and trial purposes or for normal operational allocations |
30 |
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Seaworthy Uboats, which did surrender and were not subject to "Operation Deadlight" or the distribution by the TNC (FRA = U-510 and NOR = U-310/ U-315/
U-324/ U-926/ U-995/ U-1202/ U-4706). 5 of those (FRA = U-510 as "Bouan", later Q-176 and NOR = U-926 as "Kya"/ U-995 as "Kaura"/ U-1202 as "Kinn" und U-4706 as "Knerter") were restored to full readiness and most of them re-commissioned (exempt U-4706, damaged by fire blast and used as floating store at Oslo Royal Yachtclub) |
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Post-war re-commissionings or other use (both not later than 1970) of UBoats
by GER and other states, which were either interned during the war or de-commissioned by the Kriegsmarine following non-repairable damage, or were even scuttled:
a. By GER = 3 (U-2365 as "Hai"/ U-2367 as "Hecht"/ U-2540 as "Wilhelm Bauer")
b. By FRA = 3 (U-123 as "Blaison" later "Q-165")/ U-471 as "Mille", later "Q-339"/ U-766 as "Laubie", later "Q-335")
c. By SPA = 1 (U-573 as "G-7")
d. By SWE = 1 (U-3503 in status sunk off Gothenburg used for salvage training) |
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Whereabouts of the 7 UBoats handed over to Japan after the Japanese surrender:
a. 4 UBoats scuttled by GBR (U-181/ U-195/ U-219/ U-862) in 1946
b. 3 UBoaty scuttled by the US (U-511/ UIT-24/ UIT-25) in 1946 |
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Whereabouts of the 15 UBoats taken over from foreign Navies and re-commissioned by the Kriegsmarine:
a. De-commissionings during the war = 10 (UA/ UB/ UC-1/UC-2/ UD-1/ UD-2/ UD-3/
UD-4/ UF-1/ UIT-21)
b. Sunk during combat missions = 2 (UIT-22/ UIT-23)
c. Handover to Japan after the German surrender = 2 (UIT-24/ UIT-25)
d. Return to the original Navy = 1 (UD-5, re-commissioned by Netherlands as O-27) |
15 |
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Kriegsmarine UBoats still to be viewed today as museum exhibits
a. In USA = U-505 since 1954 in Chicago
b. In GER = U-995 since 1972 at Laboe (Kiel) and U-2540 "Wilhelm Bauer" since 1984 at Bremerhaven
c. In GBR = U-534 since 1993 at Birkenhead (Liverpool) |
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