German submarine U-167 was a Type IXC/40 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine built for service during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 12 March 1941 by the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG in Bremen as yard number 706. She was launched on 5 March 1942 and commissioned on 4 July with Kapitänleutnant Kurt Neubert in command.
The U-boat's service began with training as part of the 4th U-boat Flotilla. She then moved to the 10th flotilla on 1 December 1942 for operations. She was a member of three wolfpacks. She sank one ship of and damaged another of 7,200 GRT.
She was scuttled on 6 April 1943.
German Type IXC/40 submarines were slightly larger than the original Type IXCs. U-167 had a displacement of when at the surface and while submerged. The U-boat had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , a beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two MAN M 9 V 40/46 supercharged four-stroke, nine-cylinder diesel engines producing a total of for use while surfaced, two Siemens-Schuckert 2 GU 345/34 double-acting electric motors producing a total of for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to .
The submarine had a maximum surface speed of and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for at ; when surfaced, she could travel at . U-167 was fitted with six torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and two at the stern), 22 torpedoes, one SK C/32 naval gun, 180 rounds, and a SK C/30 as well as a C/30 anti-aircraft gun. The boat had a complement of forty-eight.
U-167 was laid down on 12 March 1941 at Seebeckwerft's Wesermünde shipyard, was launched on 5 March 1942 and commissioned on 4 July 1942.
On commissioning, U-167 joined the 4th U-boat Flotilla at Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland) for crew training. In December 1942, the submarine was assigned to the operational 10th U-boat Flotilla, leaving Kiel in Germany on 1 December and arriving at Bergen in Norway on 8 December 1942.
The submarine's first patrol took her from Bergen on 21 December 1942, across the North Sea and into the Atlantic Ocean through the gap between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. U-167 joined Group Falke, a group of 14 U-boats deployed in a line south-east of Greenland intended to intercept westbound convoys. The weather was extremely poor, and on 8 January 1943 U-167 lost a man overboard when heavy seas hit the submarine, while the boat's commander, Kapitänleutnant Kurt Neubert, was badly injured, causing the patrol to be abandoned, with U-167 arriving at Lorient in occupied France, on 16 January.
On 27 February 1943, U-167 left Lorient on her second patrol, with a new commanding officer, Korvettenkapitän Kurt Storm. U-167 was directed to join attacks on the New York to Gibraltar convoy UGS 6. After sunset on 17 March 1943, U-167 attacked the convoy, torpedoing the American Liberty ship east of the Azores. Storm claimed to have sunk Molly Pitcher, but the American ship remained afloat, and was sunk by next morning. U-167 was sent to join a patrol line south of the Canary Islands which was then moved to between the Canaries and North Africa to intercept the south-bound convoy RS-3. The convoy was sighted on 28 March, and that night U-167 sank the Moanda. Operations against RS 3 were abandoned on 30 March owing to the convoy having strong air cover, with U-167 remaining in the area between the Canaries and the African mainland.
On 5 April 1943, U-167 was attacked twice by Lockheed Hudson patrol aircraft of No. 233 Squadron RAF heavily damaging the submarine and badly wounding Sturm. As a result, the submarine was scuttled east of Gran Canaria on 6 April, with U-167s crew making their way ashore. They were briefly interned before being released for repatriation, being picked up by the submarine on the night of 13/14 April and being returned to France.
The boat was raised in 1951 and taken to Spain. The submarine was used as a film set before being broken up.