 Right elevation and plan of the Type 1935
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| History | |
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 Nazi Germany | |
| Name | T12 |
| Ordered | 29 June 1936 |
| Builder | DeSchiMAG, Bremen |
| Yard number | 939 |
| Laid down | 20 August 1938 |
| Launched | 12 April 1939 |
| Completed | 3 July 1940 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Soviet Union as war reparations, late 1945 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | T12 |
| Acquired | 5 November 1945 |
| Renamed | Podvizhny, 1946, Kit, 1954 |
| Fate | Sunk in northwestern Lake Ladoga, 1959 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Type 35 torpedo boat |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 84.3 m (276 ft 7 in) o/a |
| Beam | 8.62 m (28 ft 3 in) |
| Draft | 2.83 m (9 ft 3 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range | 1,200 nmi (2,200 km; 1,400 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 119 |
| Armament |
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The German torpedo boat T12 was the last of a dozen Type 35 torpedo boats built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during the late 1930s. Completed in mid-1940, the boat was transferred to Norway where she escorted minelayers as they laid minefields in the North Sea. She was one of the escorts for several commerce raiders passing through the English Channel in 1941 and helped to escort a pair of battleships and a heavy cruiser through the Channel back to Germany in the Channel Dash in early 1942. T12 was assigned to the Torpedo School in late 1943 and was then transferred to the Baltic Sea in mid-1944 where she escorted heavy cruisers as they bombarded Soviet positions. The boat was allocated to the Soviet Union after the war and renamed Podvizhny (Russian: Подвижный, "Agile"), serving with the Baltic Fleet until she was seriously damaged in a boiler explosion. Renamed Kit (Russian: Кит, "Whale") in 1954 for use as a vessel in simulated nuclear testing on Lake Ladoga, the boat was scuttled in 1959.