The Flottenbegleiter F8 was used in the 1st Geleitflotille after being commissioned. Used in the Baltic Sea after the outbreak of the war and send to Helgoland on
06.09.1939 where it was operating as a escort vessel and used to lay mine fields. Sunk by the British submarine Ursula near Helgoland on 14.12.1939 while escorting the CLs Nürnberg and Leipzig .