SM U-62 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I. U-62 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
On 8 March 1917, SM U-62 sank the coal freighter , the ship that had rammed and sunk the ocean liner in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.
On 7 August 1918, she torpedoed the French armoured cruiser Dupetit-Thouars, which sank with the loss of 13 of her crew.