SM U 12
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| Submarine type: | Two-hull ocean-going boat | |
| Series: | U 9 - U 12 | |
| Builder: | Imperial Shipyard, Danzig | |
| Displacement: | 493 tons (above water) 611 tons (under water) |
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| Length: | 57.38 m | |
| Width: | 6.00 m | |
| Draft: | 3.13 m | |
| Pressure body ø: | 3.65 m | |
| Max. Diving depth: | 50 m | |
| Dive time: | 50-90 s | |
| Drive: | Petroleum motors 1000 HP E-machines 1160 HP |
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| Speed: | 14.2 knots (above water) 8.1 knots (under water) |
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| Armament: | 2 bow and 2 stern tubes, 6 torpedoes 1 revolver cannon (until the end of 1914) |
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| Crew: | 4 officers 25 men |
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| Successes: | 2 sinks (1 merchant and 1 warship) |
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| Whereabouts: | Self-sunk on March 10, 1915 off Scotland after being rammed and bombarded by British destroyers. | |
SM U 12 was a petroleum-electric submarine of the German Imperial Navy , which was used in the First World War .
Calls
U 12 was launched on May 6, 1910 in the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk from the stack and was put into service on 13 August 1911th The commissioning commander of the submarine was Claus Rücker . Walter Forstmann commanded it from August 1, 1914 to February 9, 1915 . On February 10, 1915, Lieutenant Captain Hans Kratzsch took command.
U 12 carried out four war missions in 1914 and 1915. On November 11, 1914, Forstmann sank the British minesweeper Niger with U 12 . On March 9, 1915, one day before its own sinking, U 12 sank the British steamship Aberdon .
U 12 was one of the first submarines to test the use of aircraft on board .
Whereabouts
On March 4, 1915, U 12 ran from Heligoland on a patrol on the British east coast. On the morning of March 10, 1915, the submarine was sighted by a British fishing vessel at the Fife Ness lighthouse near the Scottish town of Crail . The fishermen called in the three British destroyers Acheron , Ariel and Attack . The destroyers were there after about an hour and fired at the German submarine. Captain Kratzsch immediately started diving. However, the Ariel managed to ram the command tower of the submerged submarine, which was also damaged by at least one shell hit. This forced U 12 to appear. Kratzsch was then killed in the damaged tower by further artillery fire. The crew of the submarine armed explosives with time fuses in order to sink it themselves and to prevent confiscation by the British. The self-sinking caused by the explosion that followed took place so quickly that not all crew members were able to disembark in time. Of the 30 submariners, 2 officers and 8 NCOs and men who were rescued by the British survived. U 12 sank around 5 p.m. : Approximate position as the following coordinates are 56 ° 7 ' N , 2 ° 20' W .
The wreck of U 12 was found on January 13, 2008 by two Scottish divers. It is located around 50 m deep about 42.5 km from the Scottish port town of Eyemouth .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, p. 88.
- ^ Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, p. 11f.
- ↑ unterwasserwelten.de: U-Boot U12 ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Bodo Herzog: German U-Boats 1906–1966 . Erlangen: Karl Müller Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-86070-036-7 .
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Graefelfing before Munich: Urbes, 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 .
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