HMS G14

Career (UK)
Name: HMS G14
Builder: Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down: 1 December 1914
Launched: 17 May 1917
Commissioned: 31 August 1917
Fate: Sold 11 March 1923 to Stanlee, Dover
General characteristics
Displacement:Surfaced / Submerged: 703 tons / 837 tons
Length:57.5 m
Beam:6.92 m
Draught:4.15 m
Propulsion:Twin-shaft, 2 x 800 bhp Vickers diesel, 2 x 840 shp electric motors
Speed:Surfaced / Submerged: 14.5 knots (27 km/h) / 10.0 knots
Range:44.14 tons of fuel oil giving 3,160 nm surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h). 95 nm submerged, at 3 knots (6 km/h).
Complement:31
Armament:Torpedoes: 2 x 18" bow tubes, 2 x 18" beam tubes, 1 x 21" stern tube. 10 torpedoes in total. Guns: 1 x 3" 10 cwt. Mk.1 Elswick Quick Fire High Angle {QFHA}, forward. 1 x 12 pdr. 8 cwt. Mk. 1 gun HA mounting, aft.

HMS G14 was a British G class submarine of the Royal Navy from World War I.

War service

Like the rest of her class, G14's role was to patrol the North Sea in search of German U-boats.

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