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The submarine was commissioned as a research vessel in the Bundesmarine, serving from 1 September 1960 until 28 August 1968 as a test boat (class 241). On relaunch she was renamed Wilhelm Bauer, after the designer of the first German U-boat, Brandtaucher, built in Kiel by August Howaldt in 1850.
Three Type XXI U-boats and one Type VII U-boat moored at Bergen, Norway (May 1945). The Type XXI in the middle is U-2511. U-2511 and U-3008 were the only Type XXIs used for war patrols, and neither sank any ships. The commander of U-2511 claimed the U-boat had a British cruiser in his sights on 4 May when news of the German cease-fire was ...
Brandtaucher (German for Fire-diver) was a submersible designed by the Bavarian inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer and built by Schweffel & Howaldt in Kiel for Schleswig-Holstein's Flotilla (part of the Reichsflotte) in 1850. The Brandtaucher is the oldest known surviving submarine in the world. [1]
In 1941, German director Herbert Selpin directed a biopic about Bauer with the title Geheimakte W.B.1 (Secret file W.B.1; W.B = Wilhelm Bauer)), which was released in 1942. It was a propaganda movie to further the submarine war.
German submarine U-2501; German submarine U-2502; ... German submarine Wilhelm Bauer This page was last edited on 1 May 2020, at 00:58 (UTC). Text is ...
German submarine U-4711; German submarine U-4712; W. German submarine Wilhelm Bauer This page was last edited on 24 July 2013, at 03:55 (UTC). Text ...
Wilhelm Bauer: Type 241 submarine, former Kriegsmarine U-2540; Wilhelm Bauer: submarine tender Wilhelm-Bauer-class; Wilhelm Florin (815): Shershen-class torpedo boat; Wilhelm Heidkamp (Z21): Type 1936 destroyer; Wilhelm Leuschner (824): P-6-class torpedo boat; Wilhelm Pieck (S61): Wodnik-class training ship; Wilhem-Pieck-Stadt Guben (323 ...
Germany has commissioned over 1,500 U-boats (German: Unterseeboot) into its various navies from 1906 to the present day. The submarines have usually been designated with a U followed by a number, although World War I coastal submarines and coastal minelaying submarines used the UB and UC prefixes, respectively. When Germany resumed building ...