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During World War II, U-boat warfare was the major component of the Battle of the Atlantic, which began in 1939 and ended with Germany's surrender in 1945. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later wrote "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril."
The German military submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1944, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. Numbering was according to the sequence in which construction orders were allocated to the individual shipyards, rather than commissioning date; thus some boats carrying high ...
Here we've created a compilation of all the 1154* U-boats that were commissioned into the Kriegsmarine before and during World War Two. Each boat has a complete history file, including construction facts, commanders, flotillas, successes and final fates.
In 1939, when the Second World War broke out, Germany had only managed to construct 57 U-boats, but these new U-boats were far sturdier and more technologically advanced than their WWI predecessors, featuring heat-seeking torpedoes, large gun decks, and spiderweb mines.
This list contains the 10 most successful German U-boats during the Second World War based on total tonnage. Both commercial and military vessels (warships) are included but only sunk ships are included, not damaged ships.
In World War II Germany built 1,162 U-boats, of which 785 were destroyed and the remainder surrendered (or were scuttled to avoid surrender) at the capitulation. Of the 632 U-boats sunk at sea, Allied surface ships and shore-based aircraft accounted for the great majority (246 and 245 respectively).
41 pages of techical info covering all the U-boat types, ranging from the smallest coastal boats to the huge supply and mine vessels.
The German U-boats of WWII varied from relatively simple boats little changed from WWI to the highly advanced and ahead of its time Elektro boats of types XXI and XXIII plus many even more advanced research projects.
German U-boats threatened the Allies in World War II, but tactical changes and sheer numbers eventually negated the undersea peril.
The May 24, 1943, wireless message, encrypted and transmitted from U-boat headquarters outside Berlin, was intercepted at a time when the Allies at best held a tenuous grasp on Germany’s naval Enigma cipher system. Yet almost miraculously, experts at Bletchley Park, Britain’s code and cipher facility northwest of London, promptly cracked it.