_(9447881765).jpg) Wilhelm Bauer (U-2540) at the Maritime Museum (2013)
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| History | |
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 Nazi Germany | |
| Name | U-2540 |
| Ordered | 6 November 1943 |
| Builder | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
| Yard number | 2540 |
| Laid down | 28 October 1944 |
| Launched | 13 January 1945 |
| Commissioned | 24 February 1945 |
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 West Germany | |
| Name | Wilhelm Bauer |
| Namesake | Wilhelm Bauer |
| Commissioned | 1 September 1960 |
| Decommissioned | 28 August 1968 |
| In service | May 1970 |
| Out of service | 15 March 1982 |
| Fate | Museum ship on 27 April 1984 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Type XXI submarine |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 76.70 m (251 ft 8 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
| Height | 11.30 m (37 ft 1 in) |
| Draught | 6.32 m (20 ft 9 in) |
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| Test depth | 240 m (790 ft) |
| Complement | 5 officers, 52 enlisted |
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| Service record (Kriegsmarine) | |
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| Identification codes: | M 52 062 |
| Commanders: | |
| Operations: | None |
| Victories: | None |
German submarine Wilhelm Bauer (originally designated U-2540) is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy (Kriegsmarine), completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. In 1957, it was raised from the seabed off Flensburg Firth, refurbished, and recommissioned for use by the West-German Bundesmarine in 1960. Finally retired fully in 1983, it is the only floating example of a Type XXI U-boat. It has been modified to appear in wartime configuration and exhibited at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.[2]
- ^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Rudolf Schultze". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- ^ Gordon Williamson (2002). Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939–45. 841763640. ISBN 9781780966618.