List of successful U-boats

Top-scoring U-boats of World War II
Boat     Type Commissioned          Tonnage Ships Cruises Fate Captains
U-48 VIIB April 22 1939 320,429 54.5 12 Scuttled, May 3 1945 Herbert Schultze, Hans-Rudolf Rosing, Heinrich Bleichrodt
U-103 IXB April 18 1940 238,398 45 11 Decommissioned March 1944. Sunk by bombs in Kiel, 15 April 1945 Victor Schütze, Werner Winter
U-99 VIIB April 18 1940 238,327 35.5 8 Scuttled, March 17 1941 after depth charging by HMS Walker Otto Kretschmer
U-124 IXB June 11 1940 224,053 48 11 Lost with all hands, April 2 1943 after depth charging by HMS Stonecrop and HMS Black Swan. Georg-Wilhelm Schulz, Johann Mohr
U-107 IXB October 8 1940 212,802 38 14 Lost with all hands August 18 1944 after depth charging by a RAF 201 Squadron Sunderland. Günter Hessler, Harald Gelhaus, Volker Simmermacher, Karl-Heinz Fritz
U-47 VIIB December 17 1938 211,393 32.5 10 Missing with all hands, March 7 1941. Cause unknown. Günther Prien
U-123 IXB May 30 1940 209,817 41.5 12 Decommissoned June 1944. Scuttled in port, August 19 1944. Refloated and taken into French service as Blaison.. Karl-Heinz Moehle, Reinhard Hardegen, Horst von Schroeter
U-68 IXC February 11 1941 198,022 33 10 Sunk April 10 1944, depth charges and rockets fired by Grumman Wildcats and Avengers of USS Guadalcanal. Karl-Friedrich Merten, Albert Lauzemis, Ekkehard Scherraus, Gerhard Seehausen, Albert Lauzemis
U-66 IXC March 20 1940 197,316 33 12 Sunk May 6 1944 by Grumman Wildcats and Avengers of USS Block Island, rammed by destroyer escort USS Buckley Richard Zapp, Friedrich Markworth, Paul Frerks, Gerhard Seehausen
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