Type: X-B
Built by: Germania Werft (Kiel)
Launched: 6 January, 1942
Commissioned: 2 April, 1942
Feldpost Nr.: M43666
Sunk: 24 June, 1943
Sunk by: HMS STARLING
Location sunk: NW of Cape Ortegal
Position sunk: 45.00N x 11.59W (All hands, 57 men, lost)

The first Skipper of U-119 was Kplt. Zech until 16 April, 1943 when he went to the 12th Flotille HQ and Kplt Horst-Tessen von Kameke took command. U-119 was with the 12th U-Bootflotille based at Bordeaux.

U-119 had a mine-laying mission in the Skagerrak in August 1942; another off Iceland over 20/21 February, 1943. Her final mission brought her across the Atlantic to lay mines off Nova Scotia and to resupply Frontboots in the Western Hemisphere.

SHIPS SUNK & DAMAGED BY U-119
03.06.43	HALMA	Pana stmr	2,937 GRT
28.06.43	JOHN A. POOR	Amer stmr	7,176 GRT
(NOTE - HALMA was sunk and JOHN A. POOR damaged in the minefield laid down by U-119 on 1 June, 1943.)