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Zetterling, Niklas
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U-496
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-496 |
| Type | XIV |
| Cancelled | |
| Suspended | |
| Launched | |
| Laid down | 8 Feb 1944 |
| Ordered | 14 Dec 1943 |
| Shipyard | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
| Werk | 746 |
| Construction cancelled on 23 Sept, 1944.
Broken up.
* Contracts originally signed 22 Sept, 1942 to Deutsche Werke, Kiel. Moved to Germaniawerft in 1943.
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