Ordered on 15 August 1940 from the Germaniawerft shipyard in Kiel, she was laid down on 16 June 1941 as yard number 651, launched on 14 March 1942 and commissioned on 9 May 1942 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans-Hartwig Trojer.
A member of twelve wolfpacks, she sank a total of eleven ships for a total of 65,589 gross register tons in five patrols. In addition, it sunk
10 warships with a total tonnage 759 tons and damaged one ship with a total tonnage of 7,197 GRT.
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