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U-3542

This boat was not commissioned into the Kriegsmarine

However she had been ordered and was, at least at one time, planned for commission.

U-boat

U-3542

TypeXXI
Cancelled
Suspended29 Jan 1945
Launched
Laid down
Ordered6 May 1944
ShipyardF. Schichau, Danzig
Werk1687
 

Captured incomplete on Slip No 3 in Danzig on 30 Mar 45
Schichau Shipyard Hull No: G-1687
Designated TS-12 on 12 Apr 45
Launched at Danzig in July 1945
Provisionally allocated to the Soviet Baltic Fleet
Moved to Libau (Latvia)
Inspected by TNC in Libau on 8 Oct 45 - still incomplete
Defined in TNC Report on 6 Dec 45 as an “unallocated submarine afloat”
Moved to Kronstadt in late 1945/early 1946
No evidence of completion, commissioning or use
Renamed R-8 on 8 Mar 47

Struck from Soviet Navy list on 28 Feb 48 and released for recovery. Broken-up for scrap in 1948


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