WWI U-boats

UC 12

Type UC I
ShipyardA.G. Weser, Bremen (Werk 226)
Ordered 23 Nov 1914
Laid down 27 Jan 1915
Launched 29 Apr 1915
Commissioned 2 May 1915
Commanders
2 May 1915 - 26 Jun 1915 Oblt. Cäsar Bauer
27 Jun 1915 - 1 Jan 1916 Kptlt. Karl Palis
2 Jan 1916 - 16 Mar 1916 Oblt. Eberhard Fröhner
Career 7 patrols
27 Jun 1915 - 16 Mar 1916 Pola Flotilla
Successes6 ships sunk with a total of 3,289 tons. (View ships hit by UC 12)
Fate 16 Mar 1916 - Sunk by explosion of her own mines off Taranto 4027N 1711E. 15 dead

The Italians raised UC 12, and commissioned it in their navy as the X-1.

The French Memphis, a small military vessel is sunk northwest of Laghi by a mine laid by UC12.


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