In
Service: 3 August 1940 to 1991
Ordered: Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 939
Laid down: 20 August 1938
Launched: 12 April 1939
Commissioned: 3 August 1940
Type: Torpedo boat
Class: T1 Class
Displacement:
844 tons standard. 1,082 tons full load
Length: 84.3 m
Beam:
8.62 m
Draft: 2.94 m
Propulsion: 2 × shaft geared
Wagner geared turbines producing up to 28,200 shp
Propellers: 2
Speed: 35 knots
Range: 1,070 nautical miles at 19 knots
Crew: 119 men and officers
Armament: 1 × 10.5 cm L/45
Tbts C/32
carried 600 rounds
2 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30 after 1944
12 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/39
carried 2000 rounds
3 × 53.3 cm torpedo
tubes
carried 6 rounds
30 mines
Armour Aircraft:
Electronics: Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants:
Other: Torpedo boats Articles:
3 August
1940 The T12 is commissioned.
27 December 1945 The
T12 is seized as a prize of war by the Russians.
1946 The
T12 is renamed Podviznyy.
1991 The Podviznyy is sunk.
Viktor
Mellin
Takes command on July 1940
Ends command on January 1942
Thilo-Leberecht
von Trotha
Takes command on January 1942
Ends command on November
1943
Werner
Gross
Takes command on November 1943
Ends command on May 1945
German
Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German
Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
For a complete list of
sources