List of all U-boats
U-612
Type | VIIC | ||||||||||||||||
| Ordered | 15 Aug 1940 | ||||||||||||||||
| Laid down | 21 Apr 1941 | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg (werk 588) | |||||||||||||||
| Launched | 9 Jan 1942 | ||||||||||||||||
| Commissioned | 5 Mar 1942 | Oblt. Paul Siegmann | |||||||||||||||
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| Career No patrols |
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| Successes | No ships sunk or damaged | ||||||||||||||||
| Fate | Sunk on 6 Aug, 1942 near Gotenhafen, after a collision with U-444. 2 dead and 43 survivors. Raised in August 1942 and returned to service on 31 May, 1943 as a training boat. Scuttled on 2 May, 1945 at Warnemünde, in position 54.11N, 12.05E. Wreck broken up in 1946. | ||||||||||||||||
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Men lost from the boat
6 Aug 1942
During training in the Baltic U-612 collided with U-444 killing two men from U-612 which sank to the seabed. The boat was later raised and used for training. [Obermaschinist Wilhelm Merz, Maschinenobergefreiter Gerhard Ehrlich] (The I WO Herbert A. Werner described the loss in his book ´Iron Coffins´)
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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