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U-534
Most
recently salvaged U-boat, now on display in Liverpool, England.
Type: IX C/40
Built: Deutsche Werft, Hamburg
Keel laid: 20 February 1942
Launched: 23 September 1942
Commissioned: 23 December 1942
Commander: KL Herbert Nollau
Fate: After an undistinguished career in training and weather-reporting duties,
U-534 departed Copenhagen on 5 May 1945 bound for Norway but was sunk by
British aircraft in the Kattegat with the loss of three crewmen. In 1986 the
U-boat was located near the Danish island of Anholt and brought to the surface
by a consortium of Dutch and Danish salvagers on 23 August 1993. In 1996 the
British Warship Preservation Trust acquired the boat and brought her to
Liverpool, where she is now part of the Historic Warships Museum at Birkenhead
Docks. (For more on U-534, see Resources.)
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