Wilhelm Bauer (U-boat)

The Wilhelm-Bauer at the German Maritime Museum

Another view

Originally designated U-2540, the Type XXI U-boat that would later be named Wilhelm Bauer was completed shortly before the end of World War II. She was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol.

In 1957, after more than 10 years on the ocean floor, she was raised, overhauled and commissioned as a research vessel in the Bundesmarine. It is at this time that she was named after Wilhelm Bauer, the designer of the first German U-boat Brandtaucher built in Kiel in 1850.

She served in the Bundesmarine until the early 1970s. In 1983 she was restored to her original World War II configuration and became a museum ship as part of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.

External links

A tour of the submarine (in German, requires QuickTime VR software)

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