Africaine (Q196)

Africaine (Q196)

The "Africaine" ("African" ["Africaine" is the feminine form of "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, 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 striken on 28 February 1963 as the Q334.

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