U534
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- The U534 was a German U boat
Commissioned in Hamburg in late 1942, the U 534 is a Type IX C 40 long-range ocean going submarine. She was mainly used as a weapons testing platform, and until the late summer of 1944 was also used as a weather ship in the North Atlantic. During the autumn of that year she left the massive U. boat pens at Bordeaux and sailed back to Germany where she was laid up in Kiel. So far nothing out of the ordinary, just another U. boat. But during May 1945 things changed.
She was sunk in May 1945 off the coast of Denmark by a Royal Airforce coastal command Liberator bomber from 86 Squadron based at Tain in Scotland. U534 was found and raised in August 1993, she now rests at The Historic Warship Museum in Birkenhead, England where this picture was taken 14/03/04
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