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Type	VIIC
Ordered	30 May, 1938
Laid down	27 Sep, 1939	Germaniawerft, Kiel (werk 602)
Launched	15 Aug, 1940
Commissioned	28 Sep, 1940	Kptlt. Udo Heilmann
Commanders	28 Sep, 1940 - May, 1942   Udo Heilmann May, 1942 - 15 Oct, 1942   Friedrich Bürgel 2 Feb, 1943 - 16 Jun, 1943   Kptlt. Hans-Georg Trox
Career	13 patrols	28 Sep, 1940 - 31 Jan, 1941  7. Flottille (training) 1 Feb, 1941 - 31 Oct, 1941  7. Flottille (front boat) 1 Nov, 1941 - 30 Apr, 1942  23. Flottille (front boat) 1 May, 1942 - 16 Jun, 1943  29. Flottille (front boat)
Successes	15 ships sunk for a total of 64.404 GRT 1 auxiliary warship sunk for a total of 6.833 GRT 1 ship damaged for a total of 9.718 GRT
Fate	Sunk on 16 June, 1943 in Mediterranean, west of Haifa in position 33.00N, 34.00E by depth charges from an Australian Hudson aircraft (Sqdn 459/T). 27 dead and 21 survivors.

See the 17 ships hit by U-97 - View the 13 war patrols

Attacks on this boat

3 Mar, 1941
The boat lost 1 man overboard in the Bay of Biscay. [Bootsmaat Artur Mei]

  Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -

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Books dealing with this subject include: German U-Boat Losses During World War II, Niestle, Axel, 1998 U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998 U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998 ... see more Naval books

There was another U-97 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 4 Apr, 1917 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 16 May, 1917. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about the U 97 during WWI.