Wilhelm Bauer (U-boat)

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.

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Type XXI - U-boat - World War II

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In 1957, after more than 10 years on the floor of the Baltic sea near Flensburg, she was raised, overhauled at Howaldtswerke, Kiel, 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 by August Howaldt in 1850.

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1957 - Baltic sea - Flensburg - Howaldtswerke - Kiel - Research vessel - Bundesmarine - Wilhelm Bauer

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She served in the Bundesmarine until 1980. 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.

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1980 - 1983 - Museum ship - German Maritime Museum - Bremerhaven - Germany

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