| Career (Nazi Germany) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-14 |
| Ordered: | February 2, 1935 |
| Builder: | Deutsche Werke, Kiel |
| Yard number: | 249 |
| Laid down: | July 6, 1935 |
| Launched: | December 28, 1935 |
| Commissioned: | January 18, 1936 |
| Scuttled: | 2 May 1945 Wilhelmshaven |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | IIB |
| Service record | |
| Part of: | Kriegsmarine: 3rd U-boat Flotilla 22nd U-boat Flotilla 24th U-boat Flotilla |
| Identification codes: | M 28 451 |
| Commanders: | Victor Oehrn Horst Wellner Herbert Wohlfarth Gerhard Bigalk Hans Heidtmann Jürgen Könenkamp Hubertus Purkhold Klaus Petersen Walter Köhntopp Karl-Hermann Bortfeldt Hans-Joachim Dierks |
| Operations: | 6 |
| Victories: | 9 ships sunk for a total of 12,344 gross register tons (GRT) |
German submarine U-14 was a Type IIB U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II. It served with 3rd U-boat Flotilla from January 18, 1936 to October 31, 1939. U-14 completed six wartime patrols and sank nine ships totalling 12,344 Gross Register Tonnage.
Early in the war, on 3 September 1939, U-14 attacked a Polish submarine and claimed to have sunk it. In reality the Polish submarine, ORP Sęp, was not damaged as the torpedo launched by U-14 exploded prematurely.[1]
After serving six operational patrols, U-14 was used as a training boat, and transferred to U-boat training flotillas, serving with 23rd U-boat Flotilla and 24th U-boat Flotilla until the end of the war. Despite the high casualties suffered by the Unterseebootwaffen (German submarine arm), U-14 suffered no known casualties during the War. U-14 was scuttled on May 2, 1945 at Wilhelmshaven.
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