German submarine U-99 (1940)
Date Ship Flag Tonnage ( GRT ) Fate
7 March 1941 Athelbeach UK 6,568 Sunk
7 March 1941 Terje Viken UK 20,638 Sunk
16 March 1941 Beduin Norway 8,136 Sunk
16 March 1941 Ferm Norway 6,593 Sunk
16 March 1941 Franche-Comté UK 9,314 Damaged
16 March 1941 J . B . White Canada 7,375 Sunk
16 March 1941 Korshamn Sweden 6,673 Sunk
16 March 1941 Venetia UK 5,728 Sunk
Service history -- 8th patrol
U-99 departed Lorient on 22 February 1941 to patrol in the North Atlantic ; eight ships were sunk . U-99 was attacked herself , with severe damage inflicted . Kretschmer surrendered and scuttled the submarine with the loss of three lives .
German submarine U-99 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down on 31 March 1939 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 593. She was launched on 12 March 1940 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Otto Kretschmer and was assigned to the 7th U-boat Flotilla based in Kiel and later in St Nazaire. U-99 was one of the most successful German U-boats in the war, sinking 38 ships for a total tonnage of 244,658 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping in eight patrols. She damaged five more ships and took one vessel as a prize.