German submarine U-957 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. Laid down by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, on 11 March 1942, the U-boat was launched on 21 November 1942, and commissioned on 7 January 1943, by Leutnant Franz Saar. Under the command of Oberleutnant Gerhard Schaar U-957 carried out seven war patrols between December 1943 and October 1944, sinking two commercial vessels; the British Fort Bellingham and the Soviet Nord; and two military vessels, the American submarine chaser USS PTC-38, and the Soviet corvette Brilliant.