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Class: U-2501 Built by Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, Germany. Keel Laid: 19 Jul, 1944. Commissioned U-2513, 12 Oct, 1944.
Fate: Surrendered at Horten, Norway on 8 May, 1945. Taken to Oslo on 20 May. Left Oslo for Lisahally, Northern Ireland to which it reached on 7 June. Transferred to USA in August 1945 and used for trials. Sunk at 24.53N, 83.15W west of Key West, Florida during rocket tests by the destroyer Robert A. Owens (DD-827) on 7 Oct, 1951. Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 1,621 t., Submerged: 1,819 t.; Length 251' 9"; Beam 21' 9"; Draft 20' 3"; Speed, Surfaced 15.5-16 kts, Submerged 17,2; Complement 57; Armament, 23 torpedoes stored in six 21" torpedo tubes, 4 20 mm.;, or 12 TMC mines and 14 torpedoes .Max depth: ca. 280 m (919 feet); Power: (hp) 4000 (sf) 4400 (sm); Range: (miles / knots) 15500/10 (sf) 340/5 (sm)
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 | 9k | Port side view of U-2513, circa 1945. | Courtesy of u552.de. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 174k | U-boats at New London: U-2513, U-3008 & possibly U-505, circa 1945. | Photo i.d. courtesy of John Hart, Ric Hedmen, Gudmundur Helgason, John Hummel & Robert Morqan. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com Photo added 06/04/11.  98k | U-2513, off the Key West Naval Station, Florida, 30 October 1946.
| Official U.S. Navy Photograph, # 80-G-705562,
now in the collections of the National Archives. |  136k | Port side view of the U-2513 underway off the Key West Naval Station, Florida, possibly on 30 October 1946.
| Photograph courtesy of Skip Riser. His father was stationed in Key West, serving on the Chivo 341, Corporal 346 and the U-2513. |  63k | View of the U-2513's sail, taken at an Atlantic Coast port on 5 November 1946, during a visit by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the Chief of Naval Operations. Nimitz is in the right center, with his back to a "whip" radio antenna. Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, is in the center, just to the left of FAdm. Nimitz.
Note the submarine's insignia, at left.
| Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, # NH 58138, now in the collections of the National Archives. |  87k | President Harry S. Truman (right center, in light cap)leaves U-2513, after visiting the former German submarine on 5 December 1947, probably at Key West Naval Station, Florida. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy is at the far right.Photographed by MacAfee. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, # NH 99322, now in the collections of the National Archives. Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.
|  149k | German sub U-2513 with snorkel (fore) US fleet type submarine Cobbler (SS-344) in the center and Cubera (SS-347), with snorkle off the coast of Florida, September 1948. | Photographer: Ralph Morse, courtesy of time.com. via images.google.com & Life. |  119k | German sub U-2513 with snorkel, September 1948. | Photographer: Ralph Morse, courtesy of time.com. via images.google.com & Life. |  125k | Men on U-2513 checking out snokel device. | Photographer: Ralph Morse, courtesy of time.com. via images.google.com & Life. |  100k | Snorkeling intake seen through periscope of U-2513. | Photographer: Ralph Morse, courtesy of time.com. via images.google.com & Life. |  132k | Snorkling device on top of water. | Photographer: Ralph Morse, courtesy of time.com. via images.google.com & Life. |  138k | Men checking out equipment on board of submarine U-2513. | Photographer: Ralph Morse, courtesy of time.com. via images.google.com & Life. |  138k | German snorkle submarine U-2513 that the USA got at the end of the war . | Photographer: Ralph Morse, courtesy of time.com. via images.google.com & Life. | | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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