Type: X-B
Built by: Germania Werft (Kiel)
Launched: 28 September, 1941
Commissioned: 6 December, 1941
Feldpost Nr: M41181
Sunk: 12 June, 1943
Sunk by: USN A/C from USS BOGUE
Location sunk: West of the Canary Islands
Position sunk: 30.49N x 33.49W (40 of 55 men lost with the boat)

The only C. O. of U-118 was K.K. Werner Czygan. This big mine-laying boat took a mission to resupply frontboots in the Atlantic September 1942 and February of 1943. She also laid mines in the Strait of Gibraltar over the night of 1/2 February, 1943.

SHIPS SUNK BY U-118
07.02.43	BALTONIA	Brit stmr	2,013 GRT
07.02.43	MARY SLESSOR	Brit mtrshp	5,027 GRT
07.02.32	EMPIRE MORDRED	Brit stmr	7,024 GRT
(NOTE - These ships struck mines in the field laid by U-118 on 1/2 February.)
SHIPS DAMAGED BY U-118
10.02.43	DUERO	Span stmr	2,008 GRT
22.02.43	THORSHOLM	Norw mtrshp	9,937 GRT
22.02.43	HMS WIVERN	BRIT DD	1,120 GRT
23.02.43	HMS WEYBURN	BRIT CV	1,060 GRT
(NOTE - these ships were damaged on the minefield laid by U-118 on 1/2 February)