German submarine U-510 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II, which later served in the French Navy.

Kapitänleutnant Alfred Eick took command of the U-boat on 22 May 1943, and she was transferred to the 33rd flotilla on 1 October 1944 while operating in Southeast Asian waters.

The submarine was powered by two MAN M 9 V 40/46 supercharged four-stroke, nine-cylinder diesel engines producing a total of 4,400 metric horsepower (3,240 kW; 4,340 shp) for use while surfaced, two Siemens-Schuckert 2 GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors producing a total of 1,000 shaft horsepower (1,010 PS; 750 kW) for use while submerged.

[4] U-510 departed Kiel on 7 July 1942, negotiated the gap between Iceland and the Faroe Islands and sailed across the Atlantic to the northern coast of South America.

[10] After "Operation Torch" began on 8 November, The boat was ordered to patrol the coast of Morocco, but was bombed by an unidentified aircraft, causing a serious oil leak.

[11] On 9 March at 03:00, U-510 attacked Convoy BT-6 about 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) north-east of Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, sinking the 3,872 GRT British merchant ship Kelvinbank,[12] and damaging the 7,176 GRT American Liberty ships George G. Meade, Tabitha Brown and Joseph Rodman Drake.

[2] Now under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Alfred Eick, U-510 sailed from Lorient on 3 June 1943 and once again headed for the northern South American coast.

[2] U-510 left Lorient on 3 November 1943, sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean to operate off the Arabian Peninsula.

On 7 March she torpedoed and sank the unescorted 7,229 GRT Norwegian merchant ship Tarifa about 250 miles east of Socotra in the Indian Ocean.

On 23 February she sank the unescorted 7,136 GRT Canadian merchant ship SS Point Pleasant Park about 500 nautical miles (930 km; 580 mi) north-west of Cape Town.