The Most Successful U-boats

This is a simple table showing the most successful U-boats of WWII. Warships are not included in those figures.

	U-boat	Patrols	Successes
1.	U-48	13 patrols	51 ships sunk (306,874 tons) 3 ships damaged (20,480 tons)
2.	U-103	12 patrols	46 ships sunk (238,944 tons) 3 ships damaged (28,158 tons)
3.	U-123	12 patrols	43 ships sunk (220,158 tons) 6 ships damaged (53,568 tons)
4.	U-124	11 patrols	46 ships sunk (219,862 tons) 4 ships damaged (30,067 tons)
5.	U-107	13 patrols	37 ships sunk (207,375 tons) 4 ships damaged (25,638 tons)
6.	U-37	11 patrols	53 ships sunk (200,063 tons) 1 ship damaged (9,494 tons)
7.	U-66	10 patrols	33 ships sunk (200,021 tons) 4 ships damaged (22,738 tons)
8.	U-99	8 patrols	35 ships sunk (198,218 tons) 6 ships damaged (40,101 tons)
9.	U-68	10 patrols	32 ships sunk (197,453 tons)
10.	U-38	11 patrols	35 ships sunk (188,967 tons) 1 ship damaged (3,670 tons)
11.	U-96	11 patrols	27 ships sunk (181,206 tons) 5 ships damaged (41,931 tons)
12.	U-552	15 patrols	30 ships sunk (163,756 tons) 3 ships damaged (26,910 tons)
13.	U-47	10 patrols	30 ships sunk (162,769 tons) 8 ships damaged (62,751 tons)
14.	U-160	5 patrols	26 ships sunk (156,082 tons) 5 ships damaged (34,419 tons)
15.	U-172	6 patrols	26 ships sunk (152,080 tons)
16.	U-129	11 patrols	29 ships sunk (143,748 tons)
17.	U-94	10 patrols	26 ships sunk (141,852 tons) 1 ship damaged (8,022 tons)
18.	U-515	7 patrols	22 ships sunk (140,196 tons) 4 ships damaged (13,972 tons)
19.	U-181	4 patrols	27 ships sunk (138,779 tons)
20.	U-106	10 patrols	22 ships sunk (138,581 tons) 4 ships damaged (51,980 tons)

These U-boats were of course also manned by the most successful U-boat commanders of WWII.

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