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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