BILL PLEXICO (4037-1994) put together a list of U-Boats that lived a little past the end of the War. As you might guess, there are a lot of boats in this list and it will spill over to another issue of our KTB Magazine. And when this list is finished, we will run another list that tells what happened to many of the US Navy submarines after the end of World War II. For this list - thanks BILL.

U-123 was paid off at Lorient 19 August, 1944. In 1945 she went to the French Navy as BLAISON (named for the commander of SURCOUF); and in 1957, U-123/BLAISON was scrapped.

U-190 surrendered to the RCN at Halifax, was used experimentally until she was sunk deliberately in 1947.

U-195 was taken over by the IJN in May of 1945 on the surrender of Germany, and was renamed I-506. She was surrendered to the USN at Djakarta in August 1945; was broken up in 1947.

U-219 was taken over by the IJN in May of 1945 on the surrender of Germany, and was renamed I-505. She was surrendered to the USN at Djakarta in August 1945; was broken up in 1947.

U-234 surrendered at Portsmouth, NH (USA) in May 1945 & used by USN for experimental purposes until November 1947 when sunk as torpedo target by USS GREENFISH off Cape Cod.

U-471 was bomb damaged at Toulon, was repaired and went to the French Navy. She was named MILLE, and scrapped in 1963.

U-505 - Between the time of capture and being put on display at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago, she was used experimentally by the USN. How many know that U-505 was actually commissioned in the US Navy as USS NEMO?

U-570 was captured by the RN south of Iceland and was renamed HMS GRAPH in the Royal Navy in 1941. Did you know that the boat was almost undamaged, but the Skipper (Ramlow) surrendered to an airplane and remained surfaced until British ships could reach the area and take over the boat? It was through the capture of this boat that the British learned the U-Boats could go far deeper than previously thought and reset their depth charges accordingly. Ramlow sent thousands of his comrades to their death through this single act.