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The Atlantic and North Sea had u-boats everywhere. Why didn't they sink more British warships?
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They did sink enough ships,but there is the roulation thing,not all u-boats could be at sea at the same time,roughly there was 1/3 on patrol,1/3 was being overhauled and 1/3 was on their way back from patrols...at the start of the war when Germany calculated they needed 300 boats to have 100 on patrol,but they had only 47 on patrol,and alot of them were send to the Mediterranean...
Then Hitler himself ordered the production of more and more u-boats and they got their figures right and they started to really have effect in the later part of 1942,but after that more and more u-boats were sunk and the Germans didnt know why...it was a combination of Enigma code cracking(called Ultra)and Asdic..in 1944 u-boats were pretty much sacrificed for the reichs glory,30.000 of the 40.000 sailors died,making it the unit with the highest loss ratio of any combat force in written history..