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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.
The only boat to survive intact is Wilhelm Bauer (ex-U-2540), at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. [26] Records indicate that this sub was scuttled by her crew in 1945, salvaged in 1957 and refurbished for use by the West German Bundesmarine until retirement in 1982.
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-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 ...
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]
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 ...
The Type 206 is a class of diesel-electric submarines developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW).Its design is based on the preceding Type 205 submarine class. These small and agile submarines were built during the Cold War to operate in the shallow Baltic Sea and attack Warsaw Pact shipping in the event of military confrontation.