HMS L14

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Career

Name:	HMS L14
Builder:	Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness
Laid down:	19 January 1917
Fate:	Sold for scrapping, May 1934
General characteristics
Class & type:	L class submarine
Displacement:	890 long tons (904 t) surfaced 1,074 long tons (1,091 t) submerged^[1]
Length:	228 ft (69 m)
Beam:	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) surfaced 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) submerged
Range:	2,800 nmi (5,200 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) surfaced^[1]
Complement:	38
Armament:	• 4 × 21 in (533 mm) bow torpedo tubes • 16 × mines • 1 × 4-inch gun^[1]

HMS L14 was a British L class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow. She was laid down on 19 January 1917 and was commissioned on an unknown date.

HMS L14 was one of the several Group Two L class submarines to be built as a minelayer, carrying 16 mines. This meant that the two beam torpedo tubes were removed.

HMS L14 was sold in May 1934 in Newport.

The periscope from L14 is preserved at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport. It may be the only surviving example of a World War I periscope. It was manufactured by Grubb & Co. in 1918.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "L Class Submarines". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2010.

Hutchinson, Robert (2001). Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-710558-8. OCLC 53783010.

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L9 class	L9 L10 L11 L12 L14 L15 L16 L17 L18 L19 L20 L21 L22 L23 L24 L25 L26 L27 L33

L50 class	L52 L53 L54 L55 L56 L69 L71

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