SM UC-14
For other ships of the same name, see German submarine U-14.
| Career (German Empire) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | UC-14 |
| Ordered: | 23 November 1914[1] |
| Builder: | AG Weser, Bremen[2] |
| Yard number: | 228[1] |
| Laid down: | 28 January 1915[1] |
| Launched: | 13 May 1915[1] |
| Commissioned: | 5 June 1915[1] |
| Fate: | sunk by mine, 3 October 1917[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | German Type UC I submarine |
| Displacement: | 168 t (185 short tons), surfaced[2] 182 t (201 short tons), submerged |
| Length: | 111 ft 6 in (33.99 m)[3] |
| Beam: | 10 ft 4 in (3.15 m)[3] |
| Draft: | 10 ft (3 m)[3] |
| Propulsion: | 1 × propeller shaft 1 × Benz 6-cylinder, 4-stroke diesel engine, 90 bhp (67 kW)[3] 1 × electric motor, 175 shp (130 kW)[3] |
| Speed: | 6.49 knots (12.02 km/h), surfaced[2] 5.67 knots (10.50 km/h), submerged |
| Endurance: | 910 nautical miles at 5 knots, surfaced[3] (1,690 km at 9.3 km/h) 50 nautical miles at 4 knots, submerged[3] (93 km at 7.4 km/h) |
| Test depth: | 50 m (160 ft)[3] |
| Complement: | 14[3] |
| Armament: | 6 × 100 cm (39 in) mine tubes[3] 12 × UC 120 mines 1 × 8 mm (0.31 in) machine gun[2] |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Part of: |
Pola Flotilla 5 Jun 1915 - 9 Oct 1916 Flandern Flotilla 11 Jan 1917 - 3 Oct 1917 |
| Commanders: |
Oblt Cäsar Bauer[4] 5 Jun 1915 - 6 Jan 1916 Oblt Franz Becker[5] 7 Jan 1916 - 30 Jun 1916 Oblt Alfred Klatt[6] 1 Jul 1916 - 9 Oct 1916 Oblt Ulrich Pilzecker[7] 11 Jan 1917 - 6 Jul 1917 Oblt Helmut Lorenz[8] 7 Jul 1917 - 13 Sep 1917 Oblt Adolf Feddersen[9] 14 Sep 1917 - 3 Oct 1917 |
| Operations: | 38 patrols |
| Victories: |
3 merchant ships sunk (3,063 GRT) 13 warships sunk (19,001 tons) |
SM UC-14 was a German Type UC I minelayer submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 23 November 1914, laid down on 28 January 1915, and was launched on 13 May 1915. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 5 June 1915 as SM UC-14.[Note 1] Mines laid by UC-14 in her 38 patrols were credited with sinking 20 ships, one of which was the Italian pre-dreadnought battleship Regina Margherita,[10] which at 13,427 metric tons (13,215 long tons) displacement was one of the largest ships sunk by U-boats during the war.[11] UC-14 was mined and sunk on 3 October 1917.[1]
Summary of Raiding Career
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[12] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 December 1915 | Intrepido | _crowned.svg.png){kind=small} Regia Marina |
680 | Sunk |
| 4 December 1915 | Re Umberto | Kingdom of Italy |
2,952 | Sunk |
| 8 January 1916 | Citta Di Palermo | Regia Marina |
3,415 | Sunk |
| 8 January 1916 | HMD Freuchny |  Royal Navy |
84 | Sunk |
| 8 January 1916 | HMD Morning Star | Royal Navy |
97 | Sunk |
| 20 February 1916 | HMD Gavenwood | Royal Navy |
88 | Sunk |
| 20 March 1916 | Ginette |  French Navy |
272 | Sunk |
| 26 November 1916 | HMD Finross | Royal Navy |
78 | Sunk |
| 26 November 1916 | HMD Michaelmas Daisy | Royal Navy |
99 | Sunk |
| 12 December 1916 | Regina Margherita | Regia Marina |
13,427 | Sunk |
| 30 March 1917 | HMT Christopher | Royal Navy |
316 | Sunk |
| 9 April 1917 | HMT Orthos | Royal Navy |
218 | Sunk |
| 23 May 1917 | HMT Tettenhall | Royal Navy |
227 | Sunk |
| 10 September 1917 | HMT Loch Ard | Royal Navy |
225 | Sunk |
| 2 October 1917 | Willing Boys |  United Kingdom |
51 | Sunk |
| 7 October 1917 | Reliance | United Kingdom |
60 | Sunk |
Notes
- ↑ "SM" stands for "Seiner Majestät" (English: His Majesty's) and combined with the U for Unterseeboot would be translated as His Majesty's Submarine.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Helgason, Guðmundur. "WWI U-boats: UC-14". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tarrant, p. 173.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Gardiner, p. 181.
- ↑ "Cäsar Bauer". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Franz Becker (Royal House Order of Hohenzollern)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Alfred Klatt". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Ulrich Pilzecker". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Helmut Lorenz". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Adolf Feddersen". Uboat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit during WWI: Regina Margherita". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Ships hit during WWI: Ships over 10.000 tons hit by U-boat during WWI". U-Boat War in World War I. Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
- ↑ "SM UC-14 successes". UBoat.net. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
Bibliography
- Bendert, Harald (2001). Die UC-Boote der Kaiserlichen Marine 1914-1918. Minenkrieg mit U-Booten (in German). Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn: Mittler. ISBN 3-8132-0758-7.
- Gardiner, Robert, ed. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906–1921. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8. OCLC 12119866.
- Tarrant, V. E. (1989). The U-Boat Offensive: 1914–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-764-7. OCLC 20338385.
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