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 |
