U-534, German U-boat museum in Birkenhead, United Kingdom.

U-534 is a German submarine from the Second World War now displayed at the Woodside Ferry Terminal in Birkenhead. The vessel has been cut into sections and mounted behind protective glass, showing the cramped crew quarters, control panels, torpedo tubes and engine room where sailors worked during long patrols.

U-534 was built in 1942 at Deutsche Werft in Hamburg-Finkenwerder, yard number 352, and commissioned on 23 December under Kapitänleutnant Herbert Nollau. It served in the 4th, 2nd and 33rd U-boat Flotillas, mostly for training and weather reporting, and sank no ships. On 5 May 1945 British B-24 Liberators attacked it in the Kattegat; a depth charge exploded beneath the hull and the boat sank. Three crewmen died and 49 were rescued by boats from a lightship off Anholt. The wreck was raised in 1993 and taken to Birkenhead.

Salvaged in 1993, the boat was kept as raised rather than restored, and at Woodside two of its five transport sections were rejoined, leaving four parts so visitors can see inside. Displays include an original Enigma-M4 and three T-11 acoustic torpedoes; only 38 T-11s were ever built and no other find is known.

Visitors can walk around the cut sections and choose angles that show how little space the crew had. Information panels explain the function of equipment and life on board during patrols in the North Atlantic.

U-534 was sunk in the Kattegat, not the Baltic, on 5 May 1945 by British B-24 Liberator bombers; one bomber was shot down and five of its six crew died. The 1993 salvage also recovered at least three T-11 acoustic torpedoes, of which only 38 were ever built.