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Unterseeboot 404 (U-404) was a German type VII C U-Boat of World War Two.
U-404 carried out seven combat patrols during the Second World War as part of the 6th U-boat flotilla. KrvKpt. Otto von Bülow commanded her for the majority of her career, sinking 14 merchantmen and one warship (HMS Veteran). She also damaged two other ships while under the command of Bülow. For his numerous successes, Bülow received the Iron Cross.
On 20 July 1943, Oblt. Adolf Schönberg took command of the U-404 and eight days later it had been sunk by depth charges dropped from a B-24 Liberator aircraft of RAF squadron 224 and two similar planes from the USAF. All hands, a total of 51 men, were lost in the attack.
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