APPENDIX 16

THE TOP TWENTY U-BOAT SKIPPERS1

1939-1945

 

German U-boat skippers sank about 2,900 Allied ships of about 14.6 million gross tons in World War II. Twenty skippers accounted for about 20 percent of all sinkings and about 23 percent of the tonnage. In detail:

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1 Sources: Tarrant (1989); Rohwer, Successes (1983).