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U-685
This boat was not commissioned into the Kriegsmarine.
However she had been ordered and was, at least at one time, planned for commission.
U-boat | U-685 |
| Type | VIIC |
| Cancelled | 23 Sep 1944 |
| Suspended | |
| Launched | |
| Laid down | 8 Mar 1943 |
| Ordered | 25 Aug 1941 |
| Shipyard | Howaldtswerke, Hamburg |
| Werk | 834 |
| Launched in April, 1944. Never finished. Scuttled in front of the Elbe II bunker in Hamburg on 3 May, 1945. |