List of U-boats never deployed

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During the Second World War, Nazi Germany built over a thousand U-boats or submarines for service in the Second Battle of the Atlantic in the Kriegsmarine. Although the majority of these had active service careers, and over 700 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 to Loch Ryan in Scotland and Lisahally in Ireland. 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 in Operation Deadlight.

Contents 1 Unterseeboot 3508 2 Unterseeboot 3509 3 Unterseeboot 3510 4 Unterseeboot 3511 5 Unterseeboot 3512 6 Unterseeboot 3513 7 Unterseeboot 3514 8 Unterseeboot 3516 9 Unterseeboot 3517 10 Unterseeboot 3518 11 Unterseeboot 3521 12 Unterseeboot 3522 13 Unterseeboot 3524 14 Unterseeboot 3525 15 Unterseeboot 3526 16 Unterseeboot 3527 17 Unterseeboot 3528 18 Unterseeboot 3529 19 Unterseeboot 3530 20 References

[edit] Unterseeboot 3508

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: July 25, 1944
  • Launched: September 22, 1944
  • Commissioned: November 2, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Detlef von Lehsten
• Fate: Sunk whilst empty in Wilhelmshaven by an Eighth Air Force raid on March 3, 1945. Raised by engineers, but sunk again on March 30, 1945.
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3508

[edit] Unterseeboot 3509

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: July 19, 1944
  • Launched: September 27, 1944
  • Commissioned: January 29, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commanders
  • Hans Hornkohl
  • Karl-Hein Vosswinkel
  • Heinz Franke
  • Wilhelm Neitzsch
• Fate: Scuttled at Wesermünde near Bremerhaven, May 3, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3509

[edit] Unterseeboot 3510

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: August 6, 1944
  • Launched: October 4, 1944
  • Commissioned: November 11, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Ernst-Werner Schwirley
• Fate: Scuttled in Geltinger Bay, May 4, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3510

[edit] Unterseeboot 3511

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: August 14, 1944
  • Launched: October 11, 1944
  • Commissioned: November 18, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Martin Grasse
  • Hans-Heinrich Ketels
  • Hermann Schrenk
• Fate: Scuttled at Travemünde near Neustadt, May 3, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3511

[edit] Unterseeboot 3512

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: August 15, 1944
  • Launched: October 11, 1944
  • Commissioned: November 27, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Hans Hornkohl
• Fate: Destroyed by Royal Air Force bombers whilst laid up empty in Kiel, 9 April 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3512

[edit] Unterseeboot 3513

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: August 20, 1944
  • Launched: October 21, 1944
  • Commissioned: December 2, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Otto-Heinrich Nachtigall
• Fate: Scuttled at Travemünde near Neustadt, May 3, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3513

[edit] Unterseeboot 3514

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: August 21, 1944
  • Launched: October 21, 1944
  • Commissioned: December 9, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Günther Fritze
• Fate: Captured at Bergen, Norway and transported to Loch Ryan awaiting a decision about its fate. The Soviet Union refused an offer to have it, as did Britain, so on the 11 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 in Operation Deadlight.
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3514

[edit] Unterseeboot 3516

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: Summer 1944
  • Launched: November 4, 1944
  • Commissioned: December 18, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Hans Wengel
  • Heinrich Grote
• Fate: Scuttled at Travemünde near Neustadt, May 4, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3516

[edit] Unterseeboot 3517

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: September 12, 1944
  • Launched: December 6, 1944
  • Commissioned: December 22, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Helmuth Münster
• Fate: Scuttled at Travemünde near Neustadt, May 4, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3517

[edit] Unterseeboot 3518

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: September 12, 1944
  • Launched: December 11, 1944
  • Commissioned: December 29, 1944
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Herbert Brünning
• Fate: Scuttled in Kiel harbour, May 3, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3518

[edit] Unterseeboot 3521

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: October 3, 1944
  • Launched: December 3, 1944
  • Commissioned: January 14, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Günther Keller
• Fate: Scuttled at Travemünde near Neustadt, May 2, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3521

[edit] Unterseeboot 3522

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: October 1944
  • Launched: December 3, 1944
  • Commissioned: January 21, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Diether Lenzmann
• Fate: Scuttled at Travemünde near Neustadt, May 2, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3522

[edit] Unterseeboot 3524

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: October 1944
  • Launched: December 14, 1944
  • Commissioned: January 26, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Hans-Ludwig Witt
• Fate: Scuttled in Flensburger Förde, May 4, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3524

[edit] Unterseeboot 3525

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: October 17, 1944
  • Launched: December 23, 1944
  • Commissioned: January 31, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commanders
  • Hans-Ludwig Gaude
  • Franz Kranisch
• Fate: Severely damaged by an air raid on Kiel, the wreckage was scuttled the following day, May 1, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3525

[edit] Unterseeboot 3526

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: October 15, 1944
  • Launched: December 23, 1944
  • Commissioned: March 22, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Kurt Hilbig
• Fate: Scuttled in the mouth of the Weser River at Wesermünde, May 4, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3526

[edit] Unterseeboot 3527

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: October 25, 1944
  • Launched: January 10, 1945
  • Commissioned: March 10, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Willy Kronenbitter
• Fate: Scuttled in the mouth of the Weser River at Wesermünde, May 4, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3527

[edit] Unterseeboot 3528

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: October 26, 1944
  • Launched: January 10, 1945
  • Commissioned: March 18, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Heinz Zwarg
• Fate: Scuttled in the mouth of the Weser River at Wesermünde, May 4, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3528

[edit] Unterseeboot 3529

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: November 2, 1944
  • Launched: January 26, 1945
  • Commissioned: March 22, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commander
  • Karl-Heinz Schmidt
• Fate: Scuttled in Flensburger Förde, May 5, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3529

[edit] Unterseeboot 3530

• Type: XXI
• Construction
  • Laid Down: November 3, 1944
  • Launched: January 26, 1945
  • Commissioned: March 23, 1945
  • Shipyard: Schichau, Danzig
• Commanders
  • Wilhelm Brauel
  • Walter-Ernst Koch
• Fate: Scuttled in Kiel harbour, May 3, 1945
• U-boat.net webpage for U-3530

• For all German Type XXIII submarines, see here

[edit] References

• Sharpe, Peter, U-Boat Fact File, Midland Pubishing, Great Britain: 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.
• U-boat.net U-boat database