German submarine U-14 (1935)
| History | |
|---|---|
 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 | |
| Type | IIB |
| Displacement | list error: <br /> list (help) Surfaced 279 Tons Submerged 329 Tons |
| Length | 42.7m (140.2Ft) |
| Beam | 4.1m (13.5Ft) |
| Speed | list error: <br /> list (help) Surfaced:13 Knots Submerged:7 Knots |
| Endurance | list error: <br /> list (help) Surfaced 1,800 Miles at 12 Knots Submerged 43 Miles at 4 Knots |
| Crew | 25 |
| Armament | Three fore torpedo tubes with 6 x 21 inch Torpedos and 1 x 20mm AA gun on fore-deck |
| Service record | |
| Part of: |
list error: <br /> list (help) Kriegsmarine: 3rd U-boat Flotilla 22nd U-boat Flotilla 24th U-boat Flotilla |
| Identification codes: | M 28 451 |
| Commanders: |
list error: <br /> list (help) 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 GRT uses unsupported parameter (help) |
German submarine U-14 was a Type IIB U-boat of the German 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 Gross Register Tonnage.
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.[1]
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 history
| Date | Name | Nationality | Tonnage (GRT) |
Fate[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- Notes
- ^ "ORP Sęp - Operational History". www.polishnavy.pl. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
- ^ http://uboat.net/boats/successes/u14/html
- Bibliography
- Bishop, C. Kriegsmarine U-Boats, 1939-45. Amber Books, 2006.
- uboat.net webpage about U-14
- ubootwaffe.net webpage about U-14
See also