Broad Fourteens

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The Broad Fourteens is an area of the southern North Sea that is fairly consistently fourteen fathoms (26 meters) deep (thus, on a nautical chart with depths given in fathoms, a broad area with many "14" notations). It is located off the coast of the Netherlands and south of the Dogger Bank, roughly between longitude 3°E and 4°30′E and latitude 52°30′N and 53°30′N. Compare to the Long Forties.

During World War I, U-9 singlehandedly sank the three Cressy class cruisers of the "Live Bait Squadron" there.