Torpedoboot T12

On its way into the Atlantic, the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper is escorted by the torpedo boats T1, T4, T5, T8, T9 and T12.

The torpedo boats T1, T5, T8 and T12 escort the light cruiers Köln and Nürnberg during a mine laying operation in the North Sea.

The auxiliary cruiser Kormoran is escorted by T1, T5 and T12 into the North Sea.

The torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Seeadler, T1, T7, T9, T10 and T12 escort the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during their attempt to break into the North Atlantic. The operation is aborted.

Another attempt to lay the mine field "20 Pommern": T1, T5, T10 and T12 escort several mine layers, again the operation has to be aborted because of the weather.

Mine laying operation "21 Oder" of the mine layers Brummer, Hansestadt Danzig, Königin Luise and Tannenberg. The mine layers carry about 1400 mines. The mine layers are escorted by the torpedo boats T5, T9 and T12.

Mine laying operation "22 Rügen" of the mine layers Brummer, Königin Luise and Tannenberg. The mine layers are escorted by the torpedo boats Falke, T5, T9, T10 and T12.

T2, T4, T5, T7, T8, T11 and T12 are attached to newly formed 2nd Torpedo Boat Flotilla.

T4, T7 and T12 are sent to Cherbourg.

T4, T7 and T12 escort the Auxiliary Cruiser Komet to Germany. During a British MTB attack, two boats are set on fire by T7 and T12.

T2, T4, T7, T12 and T14 escort the auxiliary cruiser Thor from Wilhelmshaven to Brest.

T5, T11 and T12 transfer to St. Nazaire via the British Channel.

T2, T4, T5, T11 and T12 are transferred from St. Nazaire to Brest.

While doing trials in the Biscay, the battleship Scharnhorst is escorted by T2, T4, T5, T11 and T12.

Torpedoboats T2, T5, T11 and T12 escort the battleship Scharnhorst during trials in the Biscay.

T2, T5, T11 and T12 escort the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen during engine tests und gunnery drills in the Biscay.

The afterward torpedo tubes are replacd with a quadruple 2 cm anit-aircraft guns.

Torpedo boats T2, T4, T5, T11 and T12 are relocated to Le Havre.

Operation "Cerberus": On board of Z29, the "Füher der Zerstöer" and the destroyers Richard Beitzen, Paul Jakobi, Hermann Schoemann, Friedrich Ihn, Z25 and the torpedo boats T2, T4, T4, T11, T12, T13, T15, T16, T17 Seeadler, Kondor, Jaguar, Falke and iescort the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen through the Channel from Brest ot Germany.

T4, T5 and T12 are sent to the Trondheimfjord.

Escort of heavy cruiers Prinz Eugen by Z25 and Hermann Schoemann. After Prinz Eugen is hit by a torpedo of the British submarine Trident, return to Bergen. Additional escrot is given by T5 and T12.

Paul Jakobi and T12 join the Arctic Sea operation of battleship Tirpitz with additional escorts Friedrich Ihn, Hermann Schoemann, Z25, T5.

Friedrich Ihn, Hermann Schoemann, Z25, T5 and T12 escort the battleship Tirpitz during its transfer from the Bogenbucht to Trondheim.

Paul Jakobi, Z25, T11 and T12 escort the damaged cruiser Prinz Eugen back to Germany.

Richard Beitzen, Hans Lody, Z27, Z29 and T12 escort the cruiser Lützow from Kristiansand to Trondheim.

T7, T9, T10, T12 and T15 escort the heavy cruiser Lützow on its way back to Germany.

Z23, T9 and T12 escort the mine layer Ulm on its way to Narvik.

The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper is escorded by Z23, Z28, T9 and T12 on its way from the Altafjord to the Bogenbucht.

The torpedo boats T9, T12, T17 and T18 are sent from Germany to Brest.

T4, T12, T13, T21 and T22 are sent to the Biskay to meet the blockade runner Wismar. The search is abandoned as the ship cannot be found.

T9, T12, T17 and T18 sail into the Biscay to recover the blockade runner Kumerland.