The cutting edge U-boat was scuttled in 1945 was raised in 1957 & returned to service. U-2540 was an advanced submarine which entered service on 24th February 1945. Less than 3 months later, on 4th May, she was scuttled by her own crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1957, she was raised and returned to service on 1st September 1960 as the research submarine Wilhelm Bauer. She served in a civilian role under various research projects before decommissioning on 15th March 1982. On 24th April 1984, she was <\/a>transferred to the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum) as the Technikmuseum Wilhelm Bauer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1957, she was raised and returned to service on 1st September 1960 as the research submarine Wilhelm Bauer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":173480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,408],"tags":[7,15278,15277],"class_list":["post-173479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","category-history","tag-transport","tag-uboat","tag-ww2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t