U-2540
Type | XXI | |||
| Ordered | 6 Nov, 1943 | |||
| Laid down | 28 Oct, 1944 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 2540) | ||
| Launched | 13 Jan, 1945 | |||
| Commissioned | 24 Feb, 1945 | Oblt. Rudolf Schultze | ||
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| Career | No patrols | 24 Feb, 1945 - 4 May, 1945 31. Flottille (training) | ||
| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | |||
| Fate | Scuttled on 4 May, 1945 near the Flensburg lightship. Raised in 1957. Became the research vessel Wilhelm Bauer in the Bundesmarine, 1 Sept 1960. Transferred to the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum) at Bremerhaven in 1984. | |||
General notes on this boat
Check out the U-2540 Gallery page
Men lost from U-boats
Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-2540 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.
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Books dealing with this subject include: German U-Boat Losses During World War II, Niestle, Axel, 1998  U-2540, Wetzel, Eckard, 1995 U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998 U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2, Wynn, Kenneth, 1998 U-Boot Wilhelm Bauer, Schneider, Gerd Dietrich, 1994 (transl.) |