Postwar
One Type XXIII was allocated to the Soviet Union under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement, and a second unit was reportedly salvaged in 1948.
In 1956, the German Federal Navy raised two Type XXIII boats, U-2365 (scuttled in the Kattegat in 1945) and U-2367 (which sank near Schleimünde following a collision with another U-boat), and recommissioned them as U-Hai (Shark) and U-Hecht (Pike), with pennant numbers S 170 and S 171 respectively. U-Hai sank in a gale off the Dogger Bank in September 1966, taking 19 of her 20 crewmen with her. Her loss is the greatest maritime disaster that both the Bundesmarine and the Deutsche Marine have suffered during the more than 50 years of their existence. The experience gained from the two recommissioned submarines led to the construction of the Type 206 submarine, still in use today.
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