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U-2540
A
salvaged and restored advanced-model U-boat, open to the public in
Bremerhaven.
Type: XXI
Built: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Keel laid: 29 October 1944
Launched: 13 January 1945
Commissioned: 24 February 1945
Commander: OL Rudolf Schultze
Fate: As with virtually all of the advanced Type XXI U-boats, U-2540 did
not make an operational patrol before war's end. Scuttled 4 May 1945 off
Flensburg, Germany, the boat was raised in 1957 and recommissioned into the
Bundesmarine as experimental U-boat Wilhelm Bauer. Since 1983 she has
been a floating museum associated with the Deutsche Schiffahrtsmuseum at
Bremerhaven. (For more on the museum, see Resources.)
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