German submarine 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 195
Wilhelm Bauer (U-2540) at night
Officers dining quarters
The four uppermost bow torpedo tubes on the submarine (Class 241)
Wilhelm Bauer in Bremerhaven (2002)
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Wilhelm Bauer was a German marine engineer and inventor who built several hand-powered submarines.
German submarine Wilhelm Bauer
…as a research vessel in the Bundesmarine, serving from 1 September 1960 until 28 August 1968 as a test boat (class 241). On relaunch she was renamed Wilhelm Bauer, after the designer of the first German U-boat, Brandtaucher, built in Kiel by August Howaldt in 1850. From May 1970 she again entered service, this…
Sculpture in Kiel, Germany
Sketch of the Brandtaucher
The Brandtaucher on display
The raising of the Ludwig in Lake Constance, 1863. Die Gartenlaube