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Unterseeboot 559
Unterseeboot 559 (or U-559) was a Type VIIC U-boat (or German submarine) of the Kriegsmarine built in 1941 at the Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg. She was most famous for an incident following her capture in the Mediterranean in 1942, in which British sailors were able to seize cryptographic material from U-559 without the German crew's knowledge, which facilitated the reading of the U-boat Enigma cipher.
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