HMS L14
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS L14 |
| Builder: | Vickers Limited, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 19 January 1917 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, May 1934 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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 to John Cashmore Ltd in May 1934 for scrapping at 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.
Publications
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- 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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