Name Africaine Name UF-1 Name Africaine Length 74 m | Namesake "African" Acquired June 1940 Launched 7 December 1946 Draft 4.2 m | |
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Captured by Nazi Germany in June 1940 | ||
Africaine (Q196) ("African") was an Aurore-class submarine of the French navy.
Still incomplete, she was captured by the Germans in June 1940. She was renamed UF-1 on 13 May 1941 by the Kriegsmarine, but never completed during the German occupation of France.
She was recaptured, completed under her original name, and launched on 7 December 1946. The Africaine was taken out of service in 1961 and was stricken on 28 February 1963 as the Q334.
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