U-2540 ( Wilhelm Bauer ) A TYPE 21 UBOAT IN DOCK 14

U-2540 ( Wilhelm Bauer ) A TYPE 21 UBOAT 1945

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS SECTION WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: U-2540
Ordered: 6 November 1943
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Yard number: 2540
Laid down: 28 October 1944
Launched: 13 January 1945
Commissioned: 24 February 1945 (as U-2540)

Fate: Scuttled, 4 May 1945

Raised, June 1957

History

West Germany
Name: Wilhelm Bauer
Namesake: Wilhelm Bauer
Recommissioned: 1 September 1960
Decommissioned: 28 August 1968
In service: May 1970

Out of service: 15 March 1982

Status: Museum ship, 27 April 1984

General characteristics

Class and type: Type XXI submarine

Displacement:

1,621 t (1,595 long tons) surfaced
2,100 t (2,067 long tons) submerged

Length: 76.70 m (251 ft 8 in) (o/a)
Beam: 8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Height: 11.30 m (37 ft 1 in)

Draught: 6.32 m (20 ft 9 in)

Propulsion:

Diesel/Electric

2 × MAN M6V40/46KBB supercharged 6-cylinder diesel engines, 4,000 PS (2,900 kW; 3,900 shp)
2 × SSW GU365/30 double acting electric motors, 5,000 PS (3,700 kW; 4,900 shp)
2 × SSW GV232/28 silent running electric motors, 226 PS (166 kW; 223 shp)

Speed:

Surfaced:

15.6 knots (28.9 km/h; 18.0 mph) (diesel)
17.9 knots (33.2 km/h; 20.6 mph) (electric)

Submerged:

17.2 knots (31.9 km/h; 19.8 mph) (electric)
6.1 knots (11.3 km/h; 7.0 mph) (silent running motors)

Range:

15,500 nmi (28,700 km; 17,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced
340 nmi (630 km; 390 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged

Test depth: 240 m (790 ft)

Complement: 5 officers, 52 enlisted

Sensors and
processing systems:

Type F432 D2 Radar Transmitter
FuMB Ant 3 Bali Radar Detector

Armament:

6 × bow torpedo tubes
23 × 53.3 cm (21 in) torpedoes
or 17 × torpedoes and 12 × mines
4 × 2 cm (0.8 in) AA guns

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