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The Belgian Merchant Navy 1939–1945

U-boats

26 submarines sank the Belgian merchant ships in this database. The attributions come from reference works on the U-boat war; the crew lists themselves rarely name the attacker.

U-47 (Günther Prien), U-48 and U-96 each accounted for two Belgian ships. The Alex van Opstal struck a mine U-26 had laid five days earlier – not a torpedo.

U-26 Klaus Ewerth

U-38 Heinrich Liebe

U-47 Günther Prien

U-48 Hans Rudolf Rösing

U-52 Otto Salman

U-68 Karl-Friedrich Merten

U-73 Helmut Rosenbaum

U-96 Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock

U-132 Ernst Vogelsang

U-135 Friedrich-Hermann Praetorius

U-147 Eberhard Wetjen

U-155 Adolf Cornelius Piening

U-172 Carl Emmermann

U-204 Walter Kell

U-336 Hans Hunger

U-453 Egon Reiner Freiherr von Schlippenbach

U-486 Gerhard Meyer

U-502 Jürgen von Rosenstiel

U-515 Werner Henke

U-556 Herbert Wohlfarth

U-564 Reinhard Suhren

U-607 Ernst Mengersen

U-617 Albrecht Brandi

U-664 Adolf Graef

U-857 Rudolf Premauer

U-1017 Werner Riecken