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List Of U-boat Aces Top-scoring U-boat aces of World War II | Captain | Tonnage | Ships | Cruises | Fate | Boat | | Otto Kretschmer | 238,327 | 42.5 | 16 | Scuttled U-99 and captured after depth charging by HMS Walker in March 1941. Post-war, rose to high rank within NATO | U-23, U-99 | | Gnther Prien | 211,393 | 32.5 | 10 | Sunk the battleship HMS Royal Oak, October 1939. Missing with all hands, March 7 1941. Cause unknown. | U-47 | | Wolfgang Luth | 229,000 | 47 | 15 | Promoted to shore command, January 1944. Failed to respond to a challenge and shot dead by a naval sentry 4 days after the war ended. | U-9, U-138, U-43. U-181 | | Johann Mohr | 135,067 | 29 | 6 | Lost with all hands, April 2 1943 after depth charging by HMS Stonecrop and HMS Black Swan | U-124 |
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