Flender Werke
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Flender Werke was a German shipbuilding company, located in Lübeck. It was founded in 1917 as a branch of Brückenbau Flender AG of Benrath on the Rhine. In 1926, it became a fully independent business
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Type VII submarine
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The Type VII was a class of medium U-boats built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine from 1935 to 1945. Derived from the World War I design of the Type UB III and the Vetehinen class built for Finland, th
Flender Werke
…went on to become one of the largest shipyards in Germany, building nearly 700 ships in all. During World War II, Flender Werke built 2 Type II and 40 Type VII U-boats for the Kriegsmarine. After the war, Flender Werke continued to build merchant ships, and in 1973 it was renamed Flender Werft AG. In 2002, it…
U-995 Type VIIC/41 at the Laboe Naval Memorial near Kiel
A cross-section of a Type VIIC U-boat
The capture of U-570, which was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Graph