German submarine U-977

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| Ship name = ''U-977'' | Ship ordered = 5 June 1941 | Ship builder = Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | Ship yard number = 177 | Ship laid down = 24 July 1942 | Ship launched = 31 March 1943 | Ship commissioned = 6 May 1943 | Ship captured = Surrendered to Argentine Navy on 17 August 1945 at Mar del Plata, Argentina | Ship fate = Sunk by torpedo from during torpedo trials on 13 November 1946 }} surfaced * submerged | Ship length = * o/a * pressure hull | Ship beam = * o/a * pressure hull | Ship draught = | Ship propulsion = *Surfaced: *Submerged: | Ship speed = *Surfaced *submerged | Ship range = *Surfaced: at *submerged: at | Ship test depth = Calculated crush depth: | Ship complement = 4 officers, 40–56 enlisted | Ship armament = *5 × torpedo tubes (four bow, one stern) *14 × torpedoes ''or'' 26 TMA mines *1 × deck gun (220 rounds) *1 × twin C/30 anti-aircraft gun }}

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'''German submarine ''U-977''''' was a World War II Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' which escaped to Argentina after Germany's surrender. The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to legends, apocryphal stories and conspiracy theories that it and had transported escaping Nazi leaders (such as Adolf Hitler) and/or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a secret voyage to Antarctica, and even that it sank the Brazilian cruiser ''Bahia'' as the last act of the Battle of the Atlantic. Provided by Wikipedia