U-46. One man from her crew was fatally wounded on 25 Oct, 1940.
These pages contain a compilation of all known losses of life from U-boats that either survived the incident or were put into commission shortly afterwards.
600 men were lost from U-boats in the 241 incidents we have listed here. Of those men 243 were killed in action or fell otherwise victim while serving on the U-boats, while 357 are listed as wounded, most of them probably seriously.
One of the more common cause of loss was man overboard which proved fatal in 47 incidents listed on these pages.
The biggest losses were on U-441 on 12 July, 1943 where 10 men died and 13 were wounded and on U-2503 on 3 May, 1945 when 13 men died.
This listing is pretty complete but we do not include all the injury cases, especially minor ones and when only 1-2 men were perhaps slightly wounded.
You can also view the data categorized by the U-boats involved. Please note that this is a big document (over 60kb) so please be patient.
Losses by year
| Year | Incidents | Losses | Dead | Wounded |
| 1939 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1940 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| 1941 | 16 | 38 | 18 | 20 |
| 1942 | 42 | 55 | 37 | 18 |
| 1943 | 91 | 219 | 77 | 142 |
| 1944 | 73 | 251 | 75 | 176 |
| 1945 | 12 | 24 | 24 | 0 |
| 241 | 600 | 243 | 357 |
This set of pages is generated from our new Attacks on U-boats database.