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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 19431943 is the common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 1 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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