- List of U-boats never deployed
During the
Second World War ,Nazi Germany built over a thousandU-boats orsubmarines for service in theSecond Battle of the Atlantic in theKriegsmarine . Although the majority of these had active service careers, and 784 of them were lost at sea, there were still several hundred boats which were never completed or completed too late to see any war service. These boats were sometime solely commissioned as training craft, or were too badly damaged by bombing to be worth completion. Most however were finished in the last six months of the war and never had time or enough fuel to complete their training programs. These boats remained in German harbours up until April/May 1945, when most were taken out to sea by skeleton crews and scuttled to prevent the allies capturing them. Most of the wrecks were raised and sold for scrap after the war's end. The boats that were captured were taken by the Allies toLoch Ryan inScotland andLisahally inIreland . Some were presented to allied navies for commissioning or experiments, but the majority of captured U-boats were dragged out to sea in the autumn of 1945 and sunk by gunfire inOperation Deadlight .Unterseeboot 3508
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:July 25 1944
** Launched:September 22 1944
** Commissioned:November 2 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Detlef von Lehsten
* Fate: Sunk whilst empty inWilhelmshaven by anEighth Air Force raid onMarch 3 1945 . Raised by engineers, but sunk again onMarch 30 ,1945 .
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3508.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3508]Unterseeboot 3509
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:July 19 1944
** Launched:September 27 1944
** Commissioned:January 29 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commanders
** Hans Hornkohl
** Karl-Hein Vosswinkel
**Heinz Franke
** Wilhelm Neitzsch
* Fate: Scuttled atWesermünde nearBremerhaven ,May 3 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3509.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3509]Unterseeboot 3510
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:August 6 1944
** Launched:October 4 1944
** Commissioned:November 11 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Ernst-Werner Schwirley
* Fate: Scuttled inGeltinger Bay ,May 4 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3510.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3510]Unterseeboot 3511
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:August 14 1944
** Launched:October 11 1944
** Commissioned:November 18 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Martin Grasse
** Hans-Heinrich Ketels
** Hermann Schrenk
* Fate: Scuttled atTravemünde nearNeustadt ,May 3 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3511.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3511]Unterseeboot 3512
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:August 15 1944
** Launched:October 11 1944
** Commissioned:November 27 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Hans Hornkohl
* Fate: Destroyed byRoyal Air Force bombers whilst laid up empty inKiel ,9 April ,1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3512.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3512]Unterseeboot 3513
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:August 20 1944
** Launched:October 21 1944
** Commissioned:December 2 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Otto-Heinrich Nachtigall
* Fate: Scuttled atTravemünde nearNeustadt ,May 3 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3513.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3513]Unterseeboot 3514
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:August 21 1944
** Launched:October 21 1944
** Commissioned:December 9 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Günther Fritze
* Fate: Captured atBergen, Norway and transported toLoch Ryan awaiting a decision about its fate. The Soviet Union refused an offer to have it, as did Britain, so on the11 February 1946 it was sunk by the naval tug "Prosperous" with gunfire and a "Shark" anti-submarine weapon. "U-3514" was the last submarine to be disposed of inOperation Deadlight .
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3514.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3514]Unterseeboot 3516
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down: Summer 1944
** Launched:November 4 1944
** Commissioned:December 18 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Hans Wengel
** Heinrich Grote
* Fate: Scuttled atTravemünde nearNeustadt ,May 4 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3516.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3516]Unterseeboot 3517
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:September 12 1944
** Launched:December 6 1944
** Commissioned:December 22 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Helmuth Münster
* Fate: Scuttled atTravemünde nearNeustadt ,May 4 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3517.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3517]Unterseeboot 3518
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:September 12 1944
** Launched:December 11 1944
** Commissioned:December 29 1944
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Herbert Brünning
* Fate: Scuttled in Kiel harbour,May 3 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3518.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3518]Unterseeboot 3521
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:October 3 1944
** Launched:December 3 1944
** Commissioned:January 14 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Günther Keller
* Fate: Scuttled atTravemünde nearNeustadt ,May 2 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3521.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3521]Unterseeboot 3522
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down: October 1944
** Launched:December 3 1944
** Commissioned:January 21 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Diether Lenzmann
* Fate: Scuttled atTravemünde nearNeustadt ,May 2 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3522.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3522]Unterseeboot 3524
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down: October 1944
** Launched:December 14 1944
** Commissioned:January 26 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Hans-Ludwig Witt
* Fate: Scuttled in Flensburger Förde,May 4 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3524.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3524]Unterseeboot 3525
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:October 17 1944
** Launched:December 23 1944
** Commissioned:January 31 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commanders
** Hans-Ludwig Gaude
** Franz Kranisch
* Fate: Severely damaged by an air raid onKiel , the wreckage was scuttled the following day,May 1 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3525.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3525]Unterseeboot 3526
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:October 15 1944
** Launched:December 23 1944
** Commissioned:March 22 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Kurt Hilbig
* Fate: Scuttled in the mouth of theWeser River atWesermünde ,May 4 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3526.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3526]Unterseeboot 3527
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:October 25 1944
** Launched:January 10 1945
** Commissioned:March 10 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Willy Kronenbitter
* Fate: Scuttled in the mouth of theWeser River atWesermünde ,May 4 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3527.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3527]Unterseeboot 3528
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:October 26 1944
** Launched:January 10 1945
** Commissioned:March 18 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Heinz Zwarg
* Fate: Scuttled in the mouth of theWeser River atWesermünde ,May 4 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3528.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3528]Unterseeboot 3529
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:November 2 1944
** Launched:January 26 1945
** Commissioned:March 22 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commander
** Karl-Heinz Schmidt
* Fate: Scuttled in Flensburger Förde,May 5 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3529.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3529]Unterseeboot 3530
*Type: XXI
*Construction
** Laid Down:November 3 1944
** Launched:January 26 1945
** Commissioned:March 23 1945
** Shipyard:F. Schichau ,Danzig
*Commanders
** Wilhelm Brauel
** Walter-Ernst Koch
* Fate: Scuttled in Kiel harbour,May 3 1945
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u3530.htm U-boat.net webpage for U-3530]*For all
German Type XXIII submarine s, see "here"References
* Sharpe, Peter, "U-Boat Fact File", Midland Publishing, Great Britain: 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.
* [http://www.uboat.net U-boat.net U-boat database]
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