 She was launched on 24 August 1942 and commissioned on 10 December under the command of "Korvettenkapitän" Hans Paukstadt.She was a member of two wolfpacks and carried out four war patrols in which she sank one ship, before being lost herself in the Bay of Biscay in April 1944.German Type IXC/40 submarines were slightly larger than the original Type IXCs.