However, at various times since the end of WW2, there have been considerably more. The stark official war statistics give the impression that 8 May 1945 marked the formal end of all the U-Boats, but this was not so. The purpose of this paper (which is an update of one written by the author in 1969 and published in the INRO Journal "Warship International" in June 1970) is therefore to provide a comprehensive record of all the German-built and German-commissioned U-Boats which surrendered at the end of the war, or were interned and captured during the war, or which have been raised since, and which were either used or scrapped after being raised.
A total of 156 U-Boats surrendered to the Allies at the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. Of these, 155 were German-built U-Boats and one was a Dutch submarine used by the Germans (UD-5). When the war with Japan ended in August 1945, seven of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarines which surrendered were either ex-German-built or German-commissioned U-Boats. Also, two U-Boats were captured during the war: U-505 by the US Navy and U-570 by the Royal Navy.
The U-Boats which surrendered included U-1406 and U-1407, which were advanced design Type XVIIB hydrogen peroxide-powered U-Boats which had surrendered in Cuxhaven on 5 May 1945, but which were then scuttled in Cuxhaven harbour on 7 May 1945. As these two were raised in June 1945, they were included with all the other U-Boats which had surrendered when decisions were made about the ultimate fate of the Kriegsmarine's U-Boat fleet.
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