Wilhelm Bauer recommissioned

On 1 September 1960, type XXI U-boat Wilhelm Bauer (U-2540) , was recommissioned as a research vessel on the West-German Bundesmarine.
U-2540 had been scuttled on 4 May 1945, raised in June 1957 (12 years later!) and overhauled at Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany.