SM UB-14

SM UB-14
History
German Empire
Name:	UB-14
Ordered:	15 October 1914
Builder:	AG Weser, Bremen
Yard number:	223
Laid down:	9 November 1914
Launched:	23 March 1915
Commissioned:	25 March 1915
Fate:	scuttled off Sevastopol in the Black sea in 1919
Service record
Part of:	German Imperial Navy Pola Flotilla (July 1915) Constantinople Flotilla (July 1915 – November 1918)
Commanders:	Heino von Heimburg (March – December 1915) Albrecht von Dewitz (December 1915 – February 1916) Heino von Heimburg (February – June 1916) Kurt Schwarz (June – November 1916) Ernst Ulrich (May 1917 – March 1918) Bodo Elleke (March – November 1918)
Operations:	22 patrols
Victories:	6 ships (24,453 GRT) sunk 1 ship (11,899 GRT) damaged
General characteristics
Class and type:	German Type UB I submarine
Displacement:	127 t (125 long tons) surfaced 141 t (139 long tons) submerged
Length:	27.88 m (91.5 ft) (o/a)
Beam:	3.15 m (10 ft 4 in)
Draft:	3.03 m (9 ft 11 in)
Propulsion:	1 × propeller shaft 1 × Körting 4-cylinder diesel engine, 59 bhp (44 kW) 1 × Siemens-Schuckert electric motor, 119 shp (89 kW)
Speed:	7.45 knots (13.80 km/h; 8.57 mph) surfaced 6.24 knots (11.56 km/h; 7.18 mph) submerged
Range:	1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) 45 nmi (83 km; 52 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph)
Test depth:	50 metres (160 ft)
Complement:	14
Armament:	2 × 45 cm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tubes 2 × torpedoes 1 × 8 mm (0.31 in) machine gun
Notes:	33-second diving time

SM UB-14 was a German Type UB I submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The submarine was also known by the Austro-Hungarian Navy designation of SM U-26.

UB-14 was ordered in October 1914 and was laid down at the AG Weser shipyard in Bremen in November. UB-14 was a little under 28 metres (92 ft) in length and displaced between 127 and 141 tonnes (125 and 139 long tons), depending on whether surfaced or submerged. She carried two torpedoes for her two bow torpedo tubes and was also armed with a deck-mounted machine gun. UB-14 was broken into sections and shipped by rail to the Austrian port Pola for reassembly. She was launched and commissioned in March 1915 as SM UB-14 in the German Imperial Navy under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Heino von Heimburg.

Because Germany and Italy were not yet at war when UB-14 entered service, she was transferred in name only to the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The submarine retained her German captain and crew, and remained under German command as a part of the Kaiserliche Marine's Pola Flotilla. During her first patrol in the Adriatic, UB-14 torpedoed and sank the Italian armored cruiser Amalfi. While traveling to Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) to join the Constantinople Flotilla, UB-14 attacked two British troopships, sinking Royal Edward with heavy loss of life, and seriously damaging Southland. All three of UB-14's first victims were among the largest ships attacked by U-boats during the war.

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