List of all U-boats

U-2540

Type

XXI

 
Ordered6 Nov 1943
Laid down28 Oct 1944 Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 2540)
Launched13 Jan 1945
Commissioned24 Feb 1945Oblt. Rudolf Schultze
Commanders
24 Feb 1945 - 4 May 1945  Oblt. Rudolf Schultze
Career
No patrols
24 Feb 1945-4 May 1945  31. Flottille (training)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Scuttled on 4 May 1945 near the Flensburg lightship.

Post war information (see more post-war boats):
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.

Final location

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.


Media links


U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2

Wynn, Kenneth


German U-Boat Losses During World War II

Niestle, Axel


U-Boot Wilhelm Bauer

Schneider, Gerd-Dietrich




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