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22 July 1941 and commissioned under the command of Fregattenkapitän Hans-Werner Neumann on 25 October of that year. On 19 September 1942, U-117 departed...

with a similar name: SM UB-117, a Type UB III submarine launched in 1917 and was surrendered in 1918 German submarine U-117 (1941), a Type XB submarine that...

November 1941, and commissioned on 23 March 1942 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Günther Kuhlmann. After training with the 4th U-boat Flotilla...

October and commissioned on 2 January 1941 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Richard Zapp as part of the 2nd U-boat Flotilla. German Type IXC submarines...

September 1941, with Kapitänleutnant Erwin Rostin (Knights Cross) in command. German Type IXC submarines were slightly larger than the original Type IXBs. U-158...

by Kptlt. Werner Hartenstein, the boat was assigned in September 1941 to the 4th U-boat Flotilla for training. She conducted her first patrol from that...

German submarine U-155 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine built for service during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 1 October...

German submarine U-116 was a Type XB minelaying U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was ordered on 31 January 1939 and laid...

in Bremen, U-128 was laid down on 10 July 1940, launched on 20 February 1941 and commissioned by Kapitänleutnant Ulrich Heyse on 12 May 1941. The boat...

commissioned on 1 January 1941 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Karl-Friedrich Merten as part of 2nd U-boat Flotilla. U-68 conducted ten combat patrols...

from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941, seven months before the United States entered the war and three years before the US Navy captured U-505 and...

September 1941 and commissioned on 6 December under the command of Korvettenkapitän Werner Czygan. After a period of training as part of the 4th U-boat Flotilla...

U-47 ranks as one of the most successful German U-boats of World War II. U-47 disappeared in March 1941, and the 45 crewmembers are presumed to have died...

miles (117 km; 72 mi) at 4 kn (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph); when surfaced, it could travel 13,450 nmi (24,910 km; 15,480 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph). U-505 was...

36°7′N 0°50′W / 36.117°N 0.833°W / 36.117; -0.833. German Type VIIB submarines were preceded by the shorter Type VIIA submarines. U-73 had a displacement...

5 June 1941, and commissioned on 15 September under the command of Korvettenkapitän Wolf Henne. After training with the 4th U-boat Flotilla, U-157 was...

Atlantic. U-552's first patrol ended in Saint-Nazaire, France on 16 March 1941. On this patrol, Topp sank two ships of 12,749 GRT. The second patrol on U-552...

26 July 1941. In seven patrols, U-134 sank three ships for a total of 12,147 gross register tons (GRT). Being a German Type VIIC submarine, U-134 was...

had a complement of forty-eight. On 15 November 1941, U-153 collided with the German Type VIIC submarine U-583 in the Baltic Sea off Danzig (55°23′N 17°05′E...

– 17 December 1941) Kemp 1999, pp. 75–6. Gröner 1991, p. 68. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Patrol of U-boat U-131 from 27 Nov 1941 to 17 Dec". U-boat patrols -...