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| rdfs:comment | - German submarine U-486 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werke in Kiel as 'werk' 321, launched on February 12, 1944 and commissioned on March 22 with Oberleutnant Gerhard Meyer in command. The boat began training on March 22 with the 5th U-boat Flotilla but moved on to the 11th flotilla for operations. She was one of nine Type VIIs that the Kriegsmarine fitted with an experimental synthetic rubber skin of anechoic tiles known as Alberich, which had been designed to counter the Allies' asdic/sonar devices.
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| abstract | - German submarine U-486 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werke in Kiel as 'werk' 321, launched on February 12, 1944 and commissioned on March 22 with Oberleutnant Gerhard Meyer in command. The boat began training on March 22 with the 5th U-boat Flotilla but moved on to the 11th flotilla for operations. She was one of nine Type VIIs that the Kriegsmarine fitted with an experimental synthetic rubber skin of anechoic tiles known as Alberich, which had been designed to counter the Allies' asdic/sonar devices. Her remains were positively identified in March 2013 after they were found during oil exploration operations off the coast of Norway, not far from the remains of U-864.
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