![]() U-14
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Name | U-14 |
Ordered | 23 February 1909 |
Builder | Kaiserliche Werft Danzig |
Cost | 2,101,000 Goldmark |
Yard number | 9 |
Launched | 11 July 1911 |
Commissioned | 24 April 1912 |
Fate | 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 on 5 June 1915 |
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Class and type | German Type U 13 submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 57.88 m (189 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 6 m (19 ft 8 in) |
Draught | 3.44 m (11 ft 3 in) |
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Test depth | 50 m (160 ft) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 1 dinghy |
Complement | 4 officers, 25 men |
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Service record | |
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Operations: | 1 patrol |
Victories: |
2 merchant ships sunk (3,907 GRT) |
SM U-14[Note 1] 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.[4]
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.[5][6]
Date | Ship Name | Nationality | Tonnage[Note 2] | Fate[7] |
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2 June 1915 | Cyrus | ![]() |
1,669 | Sunk |
3 June 1915 | Lappland | ![]() |
2,238 | Sunk |
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