page_title: German submarine Wilhelm Bauer
section_title: Conversion to museum ship
hierarchical_section_title: German submarine Wilhelm Bauer / Conversion to museum ship
caption_attribution_description: English: u-boat wilhelm bauer bremerhaven, germany by Uwe H. Friese 2002 . Deutsch: U-Boot von Uwe H. Friese aus Bremerhaven 2002 selbst fotografiert.
context_page_description: Wilhelm Bauer is a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's navy, completed shortly before the end of World War II. It was scuttled at the end of the war, having never gone on patrol. In 1957, it was raised from the seabed off Flensburg Firth, refurbished and recommissioned for use by the West-German Bundesmarine in 1960. Finally retired fully in 1983, it is the only floating example of a Type XXI U-boat. It has been modified to appear in wartime configuration and exhibited at the Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, Germany.
context_section_description: U-2540 was put on sale by the Ministry of Defence and acquired by the board of trustees of the German Maritime Museum Association and the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. The boat was restored to its original World War II configuration after its transfer in August 1983 to the Seebeck yard, opening on 27 April 1984 as a museum ship in Bremerhaven, now sponsored by the Wilhelm Bauer Technology Museum association. It has imitation twin 30mm cannon and the bridge is not glazed as it was during service with the Bundesmarine.
caption: Wilhelm Bauer in Bremerhaven
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