![]() ![]() In June 1957, after more than 12 years on the floor of the Baltic Sea, U-2540 was raised and overhauled at Howaldtswerke, Kiel. Due to the ongoing fuel shortages at the end of the war, the boat was relocated to Swinemünde before being scuttled near the Flensburg lightship on. ![]() In April 1945 the boat went to the front after training at Rønne on Bornholm. She was launched on 13 January 1945 and commissioned on 24 February 1945 as part of the 31st U-boat Flotilla for training purposes. Construction and wartime service Ĭonstruction of U-2540 began on 28 October 1944 by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg-Finkenwerder. The complement was five officers and fifty-two men. ![]() She could carry twenty-three torpedoes or seventeen torpedoes and twelve mines. ![]() U-2540 was fitted with six 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes in the bow and four 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 anti-aircraft guns. When submerged, the boat could operate at 5 knots (9.3 km/h 5.8 mph) for 340 nautical miles (630 km 390 mi) when surfaced, she could travel 15,500 nautical miles (28,700 km 17,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h 12 mph). When running on silent motors the boat could operate at a speed of 6.1 knots (11.3 km/h 7.0 mph). The submarine had a maximum surface speed of 15.6 knots (28.9 km/h 18.0 mph) and a submerged speed of 17.2 knots (31.9 km/h 19.8 mph). The submarine was powered by two MAN SE supercharged six-cylinder M6V40/46KBB diesel engines each providing 4,000 metric horsepower (2,900 kilowatts 3,900 shaft horsepower), two Siemens-Schuckert GU365/30 double-acting electric motors each providing 5,000 PS (3,700 kW 4,900 shp), and two Siemens-Schuckert silent running GV232/28 electric motors each providing 226 PS (166 kW 223 shp). Like all Type XXI U-boats, U-2540 had a displacement of 1,621 tonnes (1,595 long tons) when at the surface and 2,100 tonnes (2,067 long tons) while submerged. It has been modified to appear in wartime configuration and exhibited at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany. Finally retired fully in 1983, it is the only floating example of a Type XXI U-boat. In 1957, it was raised from the seabed off Flensburg Firth, refurbished, and recommissioned for use by the West-German Bundesmarine in 1960. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. 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. Wilhelm Bauer ( U-2540) at the Maritime Museum (2013) ![]()
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