SM U-14 (Germany)

U-14
History
Germany
Name:	U-14
Ordered:	23 February 1909
Builder:	Kaiserliche Werft Danzig
Cost:	2,101,000 Goldmark
Yard number:	10
Launched:	11 July 1911
Commissioned:	24 April 1912
Fate:	5 June 1915 - Disabled by gunfire from armed trawler Oceanic II and sunk off Peterhead at position 57°16′N 1°16′E / 57.267°N 1.267°E / 57.267; 1.267Coordinates: 57°16′N 1°16′E / 57.267°N 1.267°E / 57.267; 1.267. 1 dead and 27 survivors.
General characteristics
Class and type:	German Type U 13 submarine
Displacement:	516 t (508 long tons) surfaced 644 t (634 long tons) submerged
Length:	57.88 m (189 ft 11 in)
Beam:	6 m (19 ft 8 in)
Draught:	3.44 m (11 ft 3 in)
Propulsion:	2 shafts 2 × Körting 6-cylinder and 2 × Körting 8-cylinder two stroke paraffin motors with 900 PS (660 kW; 890 shp) 2 × SSW electric motors with 1,040 PS (760 kW; 1,030 shp) 550 rpm surfaced 600 rpm submerged
Speed:	14.8 knots (27.4 km/h; 17.0 mph) surfaced 10.7 knots (19.8 km/h; 12.3 mph) submerged
Test depth:	50 m (160 ft)
Boats & landing craft carried:	1 dinghy
Complement:	4 officers, 25 men
Armament:	4 × 45 cm (17.7 in) torpedo tubes (2 each bow and stern) 6 torpedoes 1 × 5 cm (2.0 in) SK L/40 gun
Service record
Part of:	I Flotilla 1 August 1914 – 5 June 1915
Commanders:	Kptlt. Walther Schwieger 1 August – 15 December 1914 Kptlt. Otto Dröscher 17 December 1914 – 15 April 1915 Oblt.z.S. Max Hammerle 16 April – 5 June 1915
Operations:	1 patrol
Victories:	2 merchant ships sunk (3,907 GRT)

SM U-14 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I.

U-14 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic. U-14 was damaged by an air raid on the German-occupied port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, on the night of 12 February 1915.

On 5 June 1915, U-14 approached the trawler Oceanic II off Peterhead, firing a couple of warning shots, but Oceanic II was armed and was acting as a decoy and returned fire, being joined by the armed trawler Hawk. U-14 was hit several times, and unable to escape by submerging sank, with six officers and 21 ratings being rescued, and one man, her commanding officer, being killed. She was sunk by gunfire on 5 June 1915 .

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