It’s a whale of a tale! 

A humpback which rose to celebrity status in Germany after being stranded — and near death — in shallow waters since March was finally rescued Saturday in a complex scheme funded by two millionaires.

Nicknamed Timmy, the 40-foot whale believed to weigh 26,000 pounds, was monitored by a livestream on YouTube and visited daily by well wishers invested in his fate.

After four failed attempts to rescue the mammal, Timmy was coaxed onto a barge that was the length of half a football field Saturday and released into the North Sea. 

“He is doing well,”  Walter Gunz, one of the millionaires, told the New York Times. 

“He actually swam in there all by himself. He proved all those people wrong who said he wouldn’t be able to swim anymore.”

Gunz, who declined to reveal the cost of the enormous rescue efforts, added that Timmy blew a “great fountain” as he swam into freedom.

The whale was first spotted on March 23 near Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, nowhere near its natural habitat in the Atlantic Ocean.

Previous rescue efforts included removing netting Timmy was entangled in, digging a trench for a channel to help him swim to safety — and even using air cushions and pontoons to try to move the giant sea creature. 

Due to the waters’ low salt content, the mammal began suffering from freshwater skin disease, and rescuers even went so far as to apply pounds of zinc ointment to his skin.

In early April, hope was fading and officials announced the end of rescue efforts, to allow the animal to die in peace. 

This caused animal rights activists to protest, calling for its liberation.

Crowds traveled to the beach daily to monitor Timmy’s condition — despite the fact that the animal hardly moved.

Experts say that Timmy’s condition remains uncertain, since the animal was sick and extremely weak.

“Even short-term survival is very questionable,” Burkard Baschek, the director of the Ocean Museum Germany, told the Times.