German submarine U-316 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The submarine was laid down on 11 August 1942 at the Flender Werke yard at Lübeck as 'werk' 316, launched on 19 June 1943 and commissioned on 5 August under the command of Oberleutnant Hermann Stuckmann. The U-boat spent her career as a training vessel. She sank or damaged no ships. She was scuttled in May 1945 at war's end.