German submarine U-14 (1935)
| Career (Nazi Germany) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | U-14 |
| Ordered: | 2 February 1935 |
| Builder: | Deutsche Werke, Kiel |
| Yard number: | 249 |
| Laid down: | 6 July 1935 |
| Launched: | 28 December 1935 |
| Commissioned: | 18 January 1936 |
| Fate: | Scuttled on 2 May 1945 at Wilhelmshaven |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | IIB |
| Type: | Coastal submarine |
| Displacement: | 279 t (275 long tons) surfaced 328 t (323 long tons) submerged |
| Length: | 42.70 m (140 ft 1 in) |
| Beam: | 4.08 m (13 ft 5 in) |
| Draft: | 3.90 m (12 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × propeller shafts 2 × MWM four-stroke diesel engines, 700 shp (520 kW) 2 × Siemens-Schuckert electric motor, 360 shp (270 kW) |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) surfaced 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) submerged |
| Range: | 1,800 nautical miles (3,300 km; 2,100 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) surfaced 35–43 nmi (65–80 km; 40–49 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) submerged |
| Test depth: | 80 m (260 ft) |
| Complement: | 3 officers, 22 men |
| Armament: |
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| 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: | Six |
| Victories: | Nine ships sunk for a total of 12,344 GRT |
German submarine U-14 was a Type IIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. It served with 3rd U-boat Flotilla from 18 January 1936 to 31 October 1939. U-14 completed six wartime patrols and sank nine ships totalling 12,344 GRT.
Career
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.[2]
After serving on six operational patrols, U-14 was used as a training boat and transferred to U-boat training flotillas, serving with the 23rd and 24th U-boat Flotillas 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 2 May 1945 at Wilhelmshaven.
Summary of raiding career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 January 1940 | Biarritz |  Norway |
1,752 | Sunk |
| 15 February 1940 | Sliepner |  Denmark |
1,066 | Sunk |
| 16 February 1940 | Liana |  Sweden |
1,646 | Sunk |
| 16 February 1940 | Osmed | Sweden |
1,526 | Sunk |
| 16 February 1940 | Rhone | Denmark |
1,064 | Sunk |
| 7 March 1940 | Vecht |  Netherlands |
1,965 | Sunk |
| 9 March 1940 | Abbotsford |  United Kingdom |
1,585 | Sunk |
| 9 March 1940 | Akeld | United Kingdom |
643 | Sunk |
| 9 March 1940 | Borthwick | United Kingdom |
1,097 | Sunk |
References
- ↑ Gröner 1985, p. 67.
- ↑ "ORP Sęp - Operational History". www.polishnavy.pl. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit by U-14". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
Bibliography
- Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim (1999). Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945. Der U-Boot-Krieg (in German) IV (Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler). ISBN 3-8132-0514-2.
- Gröner, Erich (1985). U-Boote, Hilfskreuzer, Minenschiffe, Netzleger, Sperrbrecher. Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945 (in German) III (Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe). ISBN 3-7637-4802-4.
- Bishop, Chris (2006). Kriegsmarine U-Boats, 1939-45. London: Amber Books. ISBN 978-1-904687-96-2.
External links
- Hofmann, Markus. "U 14". Deutsche U-Boote 1935-1945 - u-boot-archiv.de (in German). Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- Helgason, Guðmundur. "The Type IIB boat U-14". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ubootwaffe.net webpage about U-14
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