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
- ALEX VAN OPSTAL · 15 September 1939
U-38 Heinrich Liebe
- LUXEMBOURG · 21 June 1940
U-47 Günther Prien
- VILLE D'ARLON · 2 December 1940
- KASONGO · 26 February 1941
U-48 Hans Rudolf Rösing
- VILLE DE GAND · 18 August 1940
- LIMBOURG · 29 March 1941
U-52 Otto Salman
- VILLE DE LIEGE · 13 April 1941
U-68 Karl-Friedrich Merten
- BELGIAN FIGHTER · 9 October 1942
U-73 Helmut Rosenbaum
- INDIER · 3 April 1941
U-96 Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock
- MACEDONIER · 12 December 1940
- ELISABETH VAN BELGIE · 10 September 1942
U-132 Ernst Vogelsang
- HAINAUT · 5 July 1942
U-135 Friedrich-Hermann Praetorius
- GANDIA · 22 January 1942
U-147 Eberhard Wetjen
- MOKAMBO · 2 June 1941
U-155 Adolf Cornelius Piening
- BRABANT · 13 May 1942
U-172 Carl Emmermann
- MOANDA · 28 March 1943
U-204 Walter Kell
- MERCIER · 9 June 1941
U-336 Hans Hunger
- PRESIDENT FRANCQUI · 28 December 1942
U-453 Egon Reiner Freiherr von Schlippenbach
- JEAN JADOT · 20 January 1943
U-486 Gerhard Meyer
- LEOPOLDVILLE · 24 December 1944
U-502 Jürgen von Rosenstiel
- BRUXELLES · 8 June 1942
U-515 Werner Henke
- MOKAMBO · 1 May 1943
U-556 Herbert Wohlfarth
- GAND · 10 May 1941
U-564 Reinhard Suhren
- LUBRAFOL · 9 May 1942
U-607 Ernst Mengersen
- BELGIAN SOLDIER · 3 August 1942
U-617 Albrecht Brandi
- ROUMANIE · 24 September 1942
U-664 Adolf Graef
- EMILE FRANCQUI · 16 December 1942
U-857 Rudolf Premauer
- BELGIAN AIRMAN · 14 April 1945
U-1017 Werner Riecken
- PERSIER · 11 February 1945