About uboat.net

On this site you will find all the German U-boats of both World Wars, their commanding officers and operations including all Allied ships attacked, technological information and much more. You can also browse our large photo gallery and thousands of U-boat books and movies. While hundreds of U-boats were lost some of the boats are preserved as museums today.

We also have a huge section covering the Allied forces and their struggle with the U-boat threat – not to mention the Pacific war. Included there are all the Allied Warships and thousands of Allied Commanding officers from all the major navies (US Navy, Royal Navy, …) plus technical pages and information on the air forces.

What's new on this site

26 Oct
U-boat Commander Decorations pages rebuilt
I have just relaunched the totally re-done section for U-boat Commander decorations for the officers of WWII. This meant building them all from our databases while keeping the historial information we had on the old pages. The new section is much nicer as now you can see all the recipients for each award. At the same time I am adding more information on decorations (and ranks) to as many officers as I can.

21 Oct
New book review published
Published a new review of the title K Boat Catastrophe, Eight ships and five collisions: The full story of the 'Battle' of the Isle of May by N.S. Nash. You can subscribe to our reviews via e-mail.


20 Oct
U-boat fates section greatly improved
Did a major rework on the U-boat fates section. The U-boat losses by year pages were all re-done. The Chart of U-boat losses 1939-1945 page was redone through our databases and now always shows accurate monthly totals throughout the war. Other pages were also improved but mostly behind the scenes.

Totally rewrote probably the oldest page on the site, U-boats bombed in safe waters. The page is now fully read from our fates database and includes a map of the hit locations. Non-commissioned U-boats destroyed in port are also included.

15 Oct
U-boat Commander photos added
Added photos of the following 4 German U-boat commanders of WWI;
Oblt. Wilhelm Bergemann, Oblt. Otto Eberlein, Oblt. Herbert Giesewetter and Kpt. Werner Musenberg.

15 Oct
Allied Commander update
We're now adding photos and personal information to as many Allied Commanders as possible. To aid that I have created a new page showing those officers. Example of vastly updated pages are Capt. Henry Glass Munson, USN, Lt.Cdr. Walter Juchereau Kingsmill, RCNVR and Radm. Hamilton Wilcox Howe, USN.

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From the Gallery


Diving the U-260 off Ireland

U-251

U-126 at sea

Announcement Board

HMS E18 found (24 Oct 2009)

U 40 from WWI has been located (6 Apr 2009)

U-864 to be raised after all (31 Jan 2009)

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